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Posted in full at: http://bit.ly/2Sm4t3k on February 03, 2019 at 09:14AM

I Read the Gayest Star Trek Novel:

We have loads more into on Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Killing_Time_(Star_Trek_tie-in_novel)

“There’s conflicting accounts of the official reaction of Pocket Books; some say they tried to recall all the copies of the first edition, some say they simply destroyed what had yet to ship. What is true is that later additions include over fifty significant changes to the novel. The more gay parts are removed, all physical affection between Kirk and Spock, even platonic, is removed. But the first edition can still be found, and a book that first retailed for $3.50 is being sold for $50 to $80 on eBay.

It’s a fascinating little slice of a history that underpins fandom as we know it today. Many fans around today could tell you the history of slash stories in the early 2000s, how some archives wouldn’t allow LGBT stories at all, how some would rate them NC-17–and how every fanfiction writer was terrified of lawyers coming after them for dabbling in copyrighted worlds. But before the internet, before fandom became a dominant market force, the interaction between fandom and the establishment was much more fluid. And while LGBT content was ultimately taboo, it was also popular with those who wanted to carry the torch, and the Star Trek fandom was in many ways a more tolerant place than the rest of the world; after all, homosexuality was medically classified as a mental disorder right up until 1987, a full two years after this book came out.

While no one intended for this incredibly gay Star Trek book to make it to stores, the fact remained that it did, and it exists as evidence of this complex time in fandom history, with benefits we’ve lost over time and restrictions we couldn’t imagine in this relatively taboo-free era of fanfiction. If you can manage to find a copy of the first edition, it’s worth a read.”

Tags:fandom history, star trek, fanzines, kirk/spock, DWCrosspost

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This July someone posted about fandom history on Tumblr and it ended up pulling together some very sweet memories of minotaur

You can read the original post here

And I've organized all the comments to date on Fanlore here.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1609247.html

"Paul Michael Glaser discusses working with David Soul on Starsky and Hutch - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG" (Watch on YouTube)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANi4QUokO4s)

For those who don’t know much about the 1970s TV series Starsky & Hutch, it was noted for 3 things: tackling social issues and topics considered taboo on Prime Time TV, its levels of violence and the amazing chemistry between the two actors. In the pilot, the two characters are battling not just crime but also corruption within the police force and say (onscreen) to one another: “Out there, it is just Me and Thee.” A perfect recipe for both slash and RPS.

The amount of touching, hand holding and on screen caressing between the two actors was unusual and did raise some eyebrows. Because slash was still in its infancy in the 1970s,slash writers in SH fandom were deeply underground. RPF/RPS was so off the radar that when I came into the fandom in the 1990s, I did not know there had ever been any SH RPS until the late 2000s. No one wanted to talk about it.

In this video excerpt actor Paul Glaser talks about how he and his co-actor David Soul had intense feelings for one another, but were not comfortable with acknowledging them until much later in life. They essentially poured all their emotion into their characters on screen.

He also talks about how when real life parallels art (in this case what was happening on the TV screen), you create…. synergy.

If I had been into slash fandom in the 1970s and if RPS had not been such a taboo, I would have been all over that….synergy. It was not until Supernatural that I started reading RPS (”Supernatural: where RPS is the moral high ground.”) And Wincest. And wingfic. And MPREG. And A/B/O fic. And….

Ahem, I digress. Anyhow, I raise a glass to Starsky & Hutch. In a few days they will start their 2015 Advent Calendar.

Tags:starsky & hutch, early rpf, slash, DWCrosspost

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1L51tsu at November 08, 2015 at 01:21PM

the-cimmerians:

stephrc79:
teawithsgtbarnes:
mamalaz:
astolat:
mamalaz:
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (deleted scene)
Seriously though, this scene. WHY DID THEY DELETE THIS SCENE?
And as they went away with Luke letting Han’s hand trail out of his, I thought, “…as though millions of Han/Luke shipper voices suddenly cried out and were silenced.”
In all my days I’ve never shipped this till…
Welp, if I didn’t ship it before…
True story from ancient fandom corner: people did ship it, and that shit was stomped on harder than any slash has ever been stomped on. There were lawsuits. SW slash went WAY underground–even in the days when all slash was underground. There were ‘zines, but they were precious as carbuncles and basically if you had one or wrote in one you were like a fucking badass slash bandit.

As far as we know, no one was sued for publishing a Star wars slash zine or fiction. The reason that Star Wars slash zine fandom went dark, had to do with two het stories published in 1981: the Swedish zine The Dark Lord and then later Slow Boat To Bespin. This led to Lucasfilm issuing a series of protocols requiring the publication of family friendly material. These protocols put a damper on Star Wars zine publishing overall because they were subjective and arbitrary.

Of course given the homophobia of the times that classified any gay material, even G rated, as adult, this meant that published slash in Star Wars fandom pretty much dried up until the late 1990s, when brave slash fans resumed publishing Han/Luke slash. Interestingly, even at the height of the Lucas anti-sexuality crusade, two slash writers were able to obtain permission to publish a slash story using original characters. It took some effort to get permission, including a letter of protest written directly to Lucasfilm.

One good thing that came out of the Star Wars fanzine crackdown - before the crackdown, Lucas had demanded that fans submit a copy of their zines to his offices. Eventually he grew tired of them and the collection was given to Ming Wathne, who added thousands of other fanzines from other fandoms and ran the Fanzine Archives, a fanzine lending library. In 2008, she donated the collection to the University of Iowa and is open to the public.

You can still read some of the late 1990s Han/Luke fic online.

(cover of Elusive Lover 1, artwork by Zyene)

Tags:fandom history, fandom meta, star wars, slash history, han/luke, DWCrosspost, fanzine archives, fanzine history, university of iowa

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1Q4VHiA at November 03, 2015 at 10:38PM

wyntereyez:

…..Then I went to “The Evolution of Fanfic,” which interested me since I caught the end of the era where fan fic was something found in fanzines and sharing them was a very private, under the table thing. I remember that I didn’t get into fandom until college, when I finally had internet access. This panel felt very academic, and was interesting. The very first slash story, for example, was a Kirk/Spock story that started as a writing exercise in which the writer didn’t identify the characters or their sexes, though the author said in her notes that’s who she was writing about. Apparently, it’s online somewhere, and now I have to find it…. Anyway, the gist of this panel is that we all have it easy these days…

meedee:
The Star Trek story is called “A Fragment Out of Time”. You can read more about its history at Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom.

Tags:fandom history, star trek history, slash history, destielcon, fanlore, DWCrosspost

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1NckOK9 at November 03, 2015 at 04:14PM

spirkian:

The cake.

Star Trek K/S fans held their annual Kiscon convention in Seattle this weekend. This is the celebratory cake, festooned with artwork from Courts of Honor. Courts of Honor was written by Syn Ferguson who was the guest of Honor.

Tags:Star Trek convention, fandom history, fanzines, Kirk/Spock, space husbands, DWCrosspost

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Posted in full at tumblr at October 01, 2015 at 11:11AM

meeedeee:

ormondhsacker:
Since some people apparently misunderstood what I was trying to discuss - well it started as a rant, but turned into a discussion somewhere along the way - in this post, I shall try to make my point clearer and tag everyone who participated. Whether they want to continue the discussion then I leave up to them.
So in no particular order of appearance: meeedeee, ageorwizardry,doomhamster, bert-and-ernie-are-gay, centrumlumina,impostoradult, flourish
My rant was born of a frustration that every time anyone tries to discuss why F/F fics and female centred fic in general are ignored to the extent that they are, a common argument to shut it down is ‘well, fandom is dominated by straight women so what do you expect?’.
But there’s no evidence to support this claim and a good deal of circumstantial evidence that indicates the opposite might be true. Hence my rant about a reference for the straightness claim.
My interest is not and never was about women who read fanfic as a source of porn, there are problems in this kind of borderline fetishisation but it is not for this post nor did I intend the other post to go in the direction of discussing porn preferences. (Kindly don’t go there with this post. I know it’ll be difficult but please make another post and tag me in it. I’m sick of this discussion getting derailed into smut land). My focus was on all the rest of the fics, the relationship ones, the romantics, the angsty, the plot based action fics and so on, they too get ignored in a way they never would if it was an M/M or even just M/F fic, even when they’re not about people’s OTP.
But for some reason fandom is so obsessed with two white boys bonking that they’re incapable of seeing beyond the porn in fanfic, which raises the question why a space that is supposedly welcome to LGBTQIA people perpetuates the homophobic hypersexualisation of same gender pairing that the rest of society is so eager to do.
My interest in the sexuality of fandom is actually marginal. It could be an interesting thing to examine, but it is in no way high on my list. My one and only interest in it is insofar at this enforced heteronormativity of fandom is used as an argument to shut down discussion. And being of a particularly non-straight sexuality does not exempt a person from perpetuating this mindset - most whom I have seen use it have been identifying as bi or pan, but this is anecdotal evidence -
The reasons for reading and writing slash (and no, I don’t fucking mean smut I mean fics with same gender pairings that’s what the term slash means, it does in no way exclusively cover smut fics no matter how much homophobes would claim that jeeze) are multiple and varied and no single study could ever remotely cover everything and anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant of how academic research works or lying. But saying that there should be no protest, no questioning, no examination of why F/F fics are ignored, of why the supposed heteronormativity of fandom is used as an argument to shut a mere attempt at debate down, is further alienating and shoving under the bus those (female) fans who are uncomfortable with these mechanisms, because in doing so they’re being told, once again, that they’re unwelcome in fandom.
As usual, the topic threads are so complex that it is hard to track what is being said. I often feel like we are talking past one another (which, when you read the diverging threads you will understand that we often aretalking past one another)
Several questions have been posted and they don’t always intersect
1. Where did the myth start that fandom was comprised of straight women? (history question and answer)
2. Why does the myth still persist? Why are people relying on outdated research? (history and current research question)
3. Is there new research going on that will give us better data about the makeup of fans (current research question)
4. Are there methodological limits on what kinds of data we can obtain? (current research question)
5. Does the discussion of why women write slash run the risk of over emphasizing some aspects of our culture (gender politics) and de-emphasizing other aspects (female sexuality) (sociological /gender politics question)
6 Even assuming fandom is mainly queer/bi why does femmeslash constantly get sidelined in favor of male/male slash ?(sociological /gender politics question)
7. Does the continued discussion of fandom’s gender makeup or motivations for writing slash marginalize those who want to discuss why femmeslash is being ignored? (sociological)
I am certain there are some that I missed or that I oversimplified or linked to the wrong posts. But it may help further the discussion if we indicate what aspect that we’re focusing on.

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To answer #6 (so sorry about the numbering): Even if fandom was predominantly heterosexual, I don’t see how fans can rationally use this fact to shut down discussions about why there is a lack of femmeslash*

Just because one is heterosexual does not mean one would not be interested in femmeslash. Just as not all heterosexual women are interested in m/m slash. So to use the presence of heterosexuality to shut down discussions of femmeslash makes about as much sense (to me) as using Chinese grammar rules to shut down discussions of English grammar rules.

Keep in mind that I come from a slash (M/M) perspective and from a time where enjoyment of male/male slash placed you - whether you were heterosexual or gay - outside any norm. We might as well have been speaking Martian back then. (”So…you’re straight but you like to read about men bonking? Wait, you’re gay and you like to read about men boking? No, wait, you’re bi and you like to read about men bonking? Stop it! Just. Stop it!! What’s wrong with the lot of you!!!?”)

Back in 2013, when the AO3 census survey results were posted, there were similar discussions. And I found this one quote that pretty much summed it up for me:

“There are so many things that set us on our course of sexuality, and only a few of them are the things people mean when they talk in labels.”

*This is not to say fans are not shutting down discussions.
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More thoughts on #1:

other commentators have pointed out that historical data about the sexual preferences of slash readers has been incomplete. Not only were there no surveys, even if there had been, many of the participants who might have identified as gay or bi would not have answered truthfully. This has everything to do with the lack of acceptance and self awareness of being bi or gay in the US in the 1960s-1990s.

Anecdotally, some of the “formerly heterosexual fan pairs” that I met in slash fandom in the 1990s have now gone on to marry or become partners. So the outward expression of their sexual preferences has changed over time as our society has grown more accepting of the expression. This would skew any survey and statistical results - if there had been any. So the "slash readers are primarily heterosexual" statement is neither 100% correct nor 100% false - from a historical point of view. We can try to extrapolate backwards from today's data*, but we cannot know for sure.

*those who gathered the more recent data would also be the first to point out how limited their surveys were - both in terms of scope and methodology.

Tags:slash history, fandom history, fandom meta, femmeslash, DWCrosspost
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I know this was a US slash convention and was in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Links should take you to the full size version/.

edited:

Possible candidates (1998-2000)
*Connexions - one fan remembers this as being the 1998 program
*Eclecticon
*Friscon
*Mountain Media Con
*Revelcon

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1421215.html

The original of this drawing arrived in the mail today. I wish we could put together a traveling gallery of all the stunning K/S fan art to take to fan conventions. Until then, enjoy this low resolution version.

From Fanlore, the fan run, non-profit wiki about media fandom

Pieta back cover First Time #46, [artist: Shelly Butler]. The pose, which is an art classic, was used decades earlier in the drawing by Wendy Pearson accompanying the poem Pieta in Starbase M.T.L. #6. One comment on the work: "The image is a reflection of the glorious sculpture, Pieta. Here, a long-haired Spock lovingly holds an angelic Kirk on his lap. Notice Spock’s hand delicately and gently placed on a vulnerable Kirk’s belly. Kirk’s blissful, sublime expression relates to their intimate relationship, and a soft light seems to shine on him.”

Another fan wrote this: “The impression I get from Pieta is that Spock is preparing to infuse the man in his lap with something great, mysterious, and ultimately very powerful. Dare I call it by its name? Love.”

More art commentary is here.

The drawing won a STIFfie Award in 1997.

PS. I did contact a few of the fandom archives about displaying fan art - while they can preserve/archive fan art, they do not have space to display it. That is typical of most special collections.

PPS. How awesome is it that there are "a few...fandom archives" in the US?

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1399617.html

The MeetUp Group for Nothern California is here (note: it says East Bay, but there are events around the SF Bay):
http://www.meetup.com/Slash-Fandom-etc-Meetup-East-Bay/

The MeetUp Group for Southern California is here:
http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Slash-Fandom/

The Los Angeles group has also started a tumblr account here:
http://laslash.tumblr.com/

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1361370.html

published by the Des Moines register.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1348041.html

Just in case you were wondering how long it takes for RPF to become publishable...figure about 60 years for het and 100 years for slash (although I am dubious of the slashy claim of the second book, unless you consider it UST).

The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr (1861)

Blennerhassett; or, The decrees of fate; a romance founded upon events in American history (1901)

So now you know.....

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1324995.html

TPTB on the British TV show Blake's 7 have had an adversarial relationship with slash fandom. One actor kept confusing his TV character with himself (reportedly saying: It's that fiction where my co-star is always raping me.") Needless to say it was one of the many reasons (but not the sole reason) that Blake's 7 fandom imploded in the late 1980s.

Enter a new set of "creators". These are ones who bought the TV show rights in the early 2000s. They've been pushing for a reboot and are in negotiations for a new series to be shown on XBox Live (recast with new actors, of course).

Sadly, their attitudes are still stuck back in the ~~70s~~ stone ages: "I think slash is distasteful. The actors that are represented do not appreciate it. And some produce this stuff on the web. I think it is bad taste. It has no reflection or bearing on what the show is and it is not a tribute to Terry Nation's legacy. I think it is an abomination. I think what is an abomination is the pornography. I have no problem with fan fiction, but I do have a problem with pornography." Asked what he planned to do, he said: "They will find out how I am going to clamp down on it. The moment you start doing something of an extremely dubious nature of the pornographic variety or for a commercial benefit without acquiring the rights, I and my partners will take a dim view of that."

Of course this was 10 years ago...perhaps they might have mellowed a smidge. But really, does anyone care? We didn't when the show was airing, I doubt we'll listen 20+ years later. Certainly not when TIIC call large swaths of potential fans purveyors of an abomination.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1321392.html

This week I scanned this zine for the authors and their families.

The zine, The Rack, was a response to the K/S premise by carrying forward the then current views about homosexuality into the Star Trek future with devastating consequences. It made quite an impact when it was published in 1980. And it, in turn, created more response fic.

As the authors explained: "We have stated that many readers were emotionally upset by the tragedy of THE RACK. Some expressed their feelings through Letters of Comment, while others were compelled to write their own stories, poems and vignettes, ideas inspired by the heartwrenching, difficult-to-accept ending... Other stories, published elsewhere, were also inspired by our novella. Mariann H, in TRIAL (NEXUS 1), delivers an alternate ending which had its own impact on fandom. While we don't agree with her premise, we know Mariann's story did satisfy those for whom the unhappy ending of THE RACK was difficult to handle....People have been compelled to analyze the story, write alternate endings for it and continue to request we reprint ALL THE KING'S HORSES. Working on THE RACK, its sequel and this 'zine has been a unique and important experience for us as writers. The stories have touched our lives, becoming part of us in a very personal way — we've learned a lot about people in general, fandom and the art of writing"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1318594.html

Because everyone looks fantastic in a Christmas sweater! I’ll even bet Mr. Spock has a matching one…

(The last image is a drawing by Vel Jaeger an excellent Star Trek fan artist from the days of fanzines, stone knives, bear skins, and knitting needles. You can see more of her art on Fanlore here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Vel_Jaeger)

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1315540.html

The Date: October 19, 1992 ("it was (almost) 20 21 years ago today")
The Poster:

sherrold*

Context: the first pan fandom slash mailing list, Virgule-L, was in its infancy. Safe spaces for women to talk about slash online were rare. And most fan fiction was distributed in print fanzines (which is why fanzine reviews like the one Sandy wrote were so important as a single fanzine cost $15-20 or around $25-35 today's dollars.) Fan run conventions were the only way to meet other groups of fans and mailed letters and phone calls were the tenuous tethers that strung these fan groups together. The mailing list - and the Internet - was about to change...everything.
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Well, welcome to my adventure in mailing! I hope to have this set up soon as a 'real' mailing list, with it's own address. Until then, I only know one way for one of you to write to everyone at once. Just reply to a letter from the list, and answer yes, when it asks, 'reply to all'.

So far there are 7 of us. I'll let everyone introduce themselves.

I am Sandy Hereld, I write as Alyx (often with a friend who used Alys) the pen name is *not* a secret. I started in "/" fandom in trek, moved to Pros, and now am very crazed about B7. I still love Pros, and like a lot of different fandoms, including Wiseguy, Starsky and Hutch, and Muncle.

I helped run a slash con here in town last week, Virgule, and hope to make Escapade this year (in February, in Santa Barbara--one of the list subscribers co- runs it--memberships still available), but not Revelcon. Maybe, if I get a new job, Media West. I've never been there, and I've always wanted to go.

I just finished a great Multi-media zine called Homosapiens Too. It has an interesting variety of fandoms and crossovers; even more important, there wasn't a single story that stunk (though I liked some better than others, of course.)

Page count is
Pros/Booker 18pgs (Bodie/Booker)
Erioca/Muncle 5pgs (Erioca/Illya)
Batman 4 (Batman/street punk)
Nightflyers 6+ (cartoon, from the movie)
TNG 5pgs (Beverly/symbiote)
B7/TOS trek 5pgs (Blake/Spock)
Dangerous Liaisons 7pgs (Valmont/Danceny)
Damiano 2pgs (from the R.A. McAvoy books)
MUNCLE 2pgs the usual
Star Wars 4 (cartoon, original characters)
Pros 4pgs the usual
B7 50pgs (Blake/Avon)
Perhaps I should mention at the there was a contest for most outrageous crossover pairing.

My favorites were:

The Right Place To Be (Bodie/Booker) by Arcane Annie & Stew--Bodie quits in a huff after an Operation Suzie, and is too embarrassed to go back; Booker has quit somewhat similarly. Seeing how stupid the other's foolish pride looks, they both learn things about playing roles and 'what really matters.' They also have pretty good sex.

Do Blond's Really Have More Fun? (Erioca/Illya) by Barbara T. This definitely is set at a time when Solo and Kurykin are having some problems. The crossover is a fascinating one, and it works. (Anyone needing Erioca explained, just e-mail me. It is a pretty new/small fandom, but growing fast.)

Brand New Day (Spock/Blake) by Jane Carnell follows immediately after Blake's pod makes planetfall after Star One. A great Blake, and if not a totally convincing Spock, it's close. Worth it for this scene alone.
--Blake "What do you like?"
"Anal penetration,"
"Which way round?" Blake inquired.
"I am a telepath. It hardly matters. Whichever way pleases you."

Valmont (Valmont/Danceny) by Stew -is a romantic, but very plausible retelling of the movie Dangerous Liaisons, all from Danceny's POV. For any that have read the book, you know it is told solely in letters and diary entries, so this collection of Danceny's diaries is very faithful to the original feel. It is also an amazingly concise retelling, squeezing 2 hours into 6 1/2 pgs.

Submissive It Ain't (Pros) is basically just a sex story, but one firmly based in the very different personalities of Bodie and Doyle. Nice idea, beautiful sex, slightly weak ending.

Puppeteer (Blake/Avon) by Bryn Lantry is a convoluted but beautiful story where: the action is in the emotions, everyone has multiple motives, and no one truly knows their own minds, much less understands their crewmates. A bit alternate, set sometime in the months before Star One but after Blake has already got the idea in mind, this is a wonderful character study of Blake and Avon, with Vila and Cally in strong supporting roles. Not my favorite type of story -- I think I prefer something a bit more straightforward, but undeniably compelling and well written.

The other stories weren't dogs either...

The Muncle story, Hanging In Time, by Y.J. is a very disturbing portrayal of the hurt-comfort syndrome in Illya,

The Batman story will appeal to anyone who liked "The Dark Knight Returns"

With All My Symbiotes -Susan Douglas- has some nice female slash.

Why Couldn't It Be Me has gotten a certain amount of press as "Biblical slash." It does have two biblical characters in it, but it is just a vigniette, and has no overt slash content.

A few caveats: I disliked the art in the first story, and was indifferent to the rest. I had a hard time reading the 2 cartoon sections; I thought the penning needed to be clearer, and the xerox needed to be darker for those sections.

With those few quibbles in mind, I recommend the zine highly. It has an interesting collection of stories set in an amazing variety of universes. The editor is joining a growing number of publishers and putting the word count down -- 80,700, with 40,700 of it in Bryn's B7 story.

It is available from Manacles Press here in the U.S. at [address removed]. There is no U.S. price on the zine; it says to SASE Manacles Press, and I can't remember whether I paid $15 or $18 at the con.

From Australia, it is available from the publisher...[address removed] $12 within Aust, $20 posted overseas airmail. (I assume that's $Aus)

*reposted here and everywhere with permission

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Today, I looked at some K/S fan art: two guys sitting around having a drink and listening to some tunes, two guys simply catching a ride together (hey, you going my way?) and two guys having what looks like another gen wedding ala Wincest style.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1302067.html

And fans defy stereotypes. Here is a sweet little poem about K/S (written by someone with a male sounding name) and published in STAG, a gen UK newsletter (or N/L) sometime in the late 1980s. Hopefully if you click on it you'll be able to read it full size.

You can read more about the UK fanzine publishers ScotPress here on Fanlore. And they have posted some of their early Star Trek zines on their website here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1301337.html

Reposted from

movies_michelle: Today is Snady's birthday. "...One of the things I know Sandy loved most about fandom is less watching the shows (which she referred to sometimes as "homework") than the community of fandom. It was the interacting with other people about things she loved, stories she liked, bitching about the things that made her crazy, whatever.

So, can I ask this of everyone? Post a rec of something, anything, you enjoyed today, whether it was a story, vid, photo, meme, discussion, whatever. Whether it's new or old. If you've been meaning to go back and leave a comment on a story, go do it now, even if it's just to say "Love this!"

My rec contribution today:
The NightVale Twitter account which contains such quotes as:

"It is good to help children achieve their dreams, but dinosaurs are now becoming a real problem. So let's dial it back just a bit."

My comment contribution:
The incestuous courtship of the antichrist's bride by fleshflutter

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To give some context, when I started on the Internet (1994) no one talked about slash in any of the public forums. There were few websites and even fewer devoted to fanfic and none devoted to slash. There was no central search function (you found websites by clicking on links and then following them to other links. A true treasure hunt).

In 1995, when one fan posted a list of fanzine publishers to her website (under password protection) there was an outcry and she took it down. On one mailing list newsletter, there were requests that fans not mention author or publisher names when reviewing zines, even in private one-to-one e-mail. I was a member of a slash mailing list (the first one as far as we know) and in order to join we had to give our real names, affirm our gender and promise to never reveal the existence of the mailing list (its name was Virgule-L and boy if time travel existed would I be in trouble for just mentioning it. Shhh, don't tell anyone and maybe the mods won't notice).

By 1999, fandom had exploded messily all over the Internet and slash fanfic archives and mailing lists were popping up all over. LJ didn't gain traction in fandom until 2004, but in 1999 you could find a lot of slash on the Internet. By 1999 there even were a few search engines that offered up substantive slash results such as Alta Vista. Still, the concept of slash in the Internet was disconcerting for many fans. For more reading:
Internet Fans Controversy Du Jour (1997) by Sandy Herrold
Slash and the Arrival of the Internet

From a fan in 1999:
"Well, due to a recent job change, I was required to purchase a personal computer. I’m not on the net and of course the first thing I did was to go to the Star Trek sites. I was very amazed and shocked to find out how easy it was to locate “slash” and K/S pages on the web. I did not realize how easy it was for anyone, and I mean anyone, to find out about K/S by simply typing in Star Trek on the search page and going to all the sites. And while I admit that it was a benefit to me, since I downloaded many of the stories to my PC, I was more than a bit dismayed that it was on the web so openly. It left a rather bad taste in my mouth. It cannot be argued by anyone involved in this wonderful fandom that we are a unique group. And while everyone [here] finds nothing wrong with the idea of K/S, there are many, many people, including Star Trek fans, who do and they can be quite radical and vocal in their opinions on the subject. The fact that it is now so openly displayed on the web, for anyone to see, will only add fuel to their fire and perhaps threaten our special fandom. As someone who has been involved in K/S right from the very beginning, I have to say that the one thing that meant a lot to me about being involved in this fandom was the privacy I had when I ordered my zines. Except for the occasional lost zine, there was no chance that anyone else except the editor and myself would read the zine I ordered....And while there is a certain advantage to just screening up a web page and downloading a story instantly and for free, I think it is negated by the fact that it’s displayed so openly. When I was going through those web pages, I noticed that none of the main K/S editors and authors had contributed any stories or pictures on those pages. I think it’s bad enough that both Bill and Leonard have been questioned in public about the subject of K/S (certainly something that has to be uncomfortable for them, no matter how graciously they may handle such questions), but to give people who object strongly to our special fandom a chance to see it openly displayed with “no holds barred” on the net I think is just asking for trouble. K/S is a big part of my life (albeit a private one) and I would hate to see it end or have people involved in it feel ashamed because now due to new technology, it is literally available to anyone with a PC (just think of the number). I am sure that there is going to be a number of people who are going to disagree with me on this subject, but it is something that I feel very strongly about. I think that if K/S is to survive, it must remain underground. ...Can you imagine what Paramount might do if and when they find out about K/S being so openly displayed on the web? Especially since then they are already trying to shut down some Star Trek sites, because they feel it is a violation of their property rights to the series. I shudder to think what they might do if and when they find out about the “slash” sites. We don’t need any more nails in the coffin. K/S is not for everyone, so it shouldn’t be available to everyone. But it is and I think that is cause for worry."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1299638.html

Back in the olden days, fanzine publishers had to physically pick up their K/S fic and art and hand carry it to a local print shop. And then another. And then another. The tales of their journeys to find a print shop that would publish Captain Krik and Mr Spock in...intimate situations.....are epic, amusing and inspiring. All hail to our brave Foresmutters.

Here are a few of them

Publisher 1:
"Once I finished "T'hy'la" #1, I needed to get the zine in print and that would require finding a new printer. If I took "T'hy'la" to the printer I'd been using for my genzine, he'd have a heart attack....It was, I admit, a bit difficult to go in there for the first time. I was a bit...embarrassed. After all, I was asking them to print explicit art of naked men doing sexual things with each other...The people who owned the print shop were as cool as they could be....My printer really enjoyed printing my zines. By the time I'd done my 3rd or 4th issue, he told me the women in the bindery always looked forward to my zines. They'd post prints of the artwork on the bindery walls to keep them entertained while they worked."

Publisher 2:
"The manager, long inured to what she's been so faithfully producing for us, engaged me in a discussion about a Gayle F picture! The one where Kirk is straddling Spock in the grass, he is obviously being penetrated, Spock is raised up just a bit so he can twist Kirk's nipples, Kirk has Spock's cock in his hand, and our captain's head is thrown back in a fair imitation of ecstasy. I don't know if you can get more explicit that this picture.

"Oh, look at this," she said. That's really nice."

"Yes," I enthused." She's a terrific artist."

"No," the manager chided me. "I meant the quality. We caught most of the details."

Publisher 3:
"K/S Tale of Woe of the Month: So I was having [my K/S zine] printed a few weeks ago, along with some additional artwork reprints that I needed. Specifically, a computer-generated piece of art (CGA) that had been done..... It's a fabulous work of art, one of my absolute favorites, and if I ever get a K/S room of my own, it will be up on my wall. Anyway, this work is reproduced by using a disk and not an original on a piece of paper. I was picking my order up when I casually asked the manager if there had been any problems with reproduction. She replied that she and her trusty assistant (both of them women in their 60s who aren't too computer literate) hadn't been able to get the disk to work properly, so they had enlisted the aid of "Jeremy." I blanched. "Jeremy?" I asked. He is young and enthusiastic and has never impressed me as a reasoned thinker. "Did he, uh, give you any trouble with the content?" (The picture in question shows Spock in a white shirt sitting on the floor against the side of a bed, between Kirk's knees, as Kirk sits, naked, behind him on the bed. Yeah, I did say it was a favorite....) "Oh, don't worry about it," the manager reassured me. "By now, almost everybody around here has seen your pictures. If they have a problem with what you're doing, they keep it to themselves." Oh. Great. So now I know why occasionally I get some strange looks.... Why the fellow who carries most of my boxes out to the car seems intent on talking about God all the time, and why the women up front seem so friendly.... "

Publisher 4
"The fanzine is a little late. Some of this is in the nature of fanzines, which always seem to take longer than planned to produce. A good chunk of the delay may be laid at the door of my original color printer. This man managed to leaf through [my sample zines] Mirrors of Mind and Flesh, The Price and The Prize, Greater California K/S, and T'Hy'La without noticing anything explicit enough to bother him. He seemed bemused but accepting of the project. Then, when I brought in my color art, he announced he couldn't print it. Upsetting in the waste of time, and the additional expense, but who wants a blind printer?^"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1299134.html

"Feminists who are interested in erotica written by women for women should find themselves very able to "stomach" K/S. They should check out the rave review of K/S written by SF feminist author Joanna Russ in a fanzine named NOME, "Another Addict Raves about K/S." Naturally there is a spectrum of material--from mild to X-rated, from well-written to total trash. This material is widely circulated, but not "Published" in the ordinary, or profit-making sense, and is in fact underground material of great interest to the participants--the writers, readers and editors. Unfortunately, attention paid to K/S for its feminist importance, may be damaging to fandom as a whole, if Paramount gets too interested in it. Starsky/Hutch and Star Wars fandoms were severely restricted by paranoid producers. Joanna has refused to supply the names of K/S editors and writers to the editors of Penthouse FORUM--but FORUM is interested. As for the writers involved, writing fan material is wonderful fun, and may just provide the impetus for writers to break into publication, as a number of fan writers have. While it is true that REAL SF writers look askance at Trek as formula fiction, the first item of importance to most aspiring writers is GETTING PUBLISHED. Trek is a "hungry" market."

From Requested information on K/S post to net.startrek dated August 14, 1985. The info about K/S was offered in response to an inquiry by a net.starttrek fan after reading about K/S in a Kirkland, Washington area newspaper. See Star Trek erotica?!? dated August 6, 1985. Read a cautious follow-up reply here. Note: some of these links may require that you log into your gmail account.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1238025.html

Reposted here with permission. Please contact catalenamara directly if you can help (or know of someone who can help).

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From: http://catalenamara.livejournal.com/
Re: ksarchive project: Looking for stories to be photocopied

As part of the process of adding older fanzines stories to ksarchive.com,with the permission of the author, I need photocopies of the following stories.

Once the stories are photocopied, they will be scanned, and I will then have volunteers proof them and prepare them for the archive.

If anyone can photocopy any of these stories, please contact me. Thanks!

I’m doing this “by author”. I’ll be putting out these announcements over the coming weeks for works by specific authors. Today I’m looking for the following stories by Natasha Solten, Wendy Rathbone.

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All Forms Of Love by Solten, Natasha in As I Do Thee 3. While sunbathing on a beach during shore leave, Kirk confesses his love to Spock.

Dagger Of The Soul by Solten, Natasha in Act 5, Scene 1. Kirk is unable to deal with the after effects of the neuro neutralizer until Spock replaces the pain with his love

Hide And Seek by Solten, Natasha in First Time 6. What starts out as a lesson inmasturbation turns to shared passion after Kirk questions Spock on why he’s been avoiding him since his pon farr

I Gave At The Office by Solten, Natasha in Consort 3. When Spock is forced to donate sperm to the Vulcan genetics bank, he needs his bondmate’s help

In The Desert, I Learned Of Heat by Solten, Natasha in First Time 2. One year after leaving for Gol Spock goes into pon farr and mentally calls Kirk, who also feeling the effects, goes to him

Looking Outward Together by Solten, Natasha in First Time 4/Charisma 7. After Miramanee dies, Spock follows Kirk into the woods where he tries to console his friend and Captain

Memories and Pledges by Solten, Natasha in First Time 9. Kirk’s anger over Spock’s remark regarding their mission in Earth’s past brings about a confrontation

Notes On Burning by Solten, Natasha in As I Do Thee 6. A/U. Spock records in his log his feelings as pon farr approaches and he learns that T’Pring has died

Remember, Remember Me by Solten, Natasha in First Time 3. Kirk prays for Spock to remember their love after the fal tor pan

Rumor, The by Solten, Natasha in As I Do Thee 2. When they are summoned to Nogura’s office, Kirk and Spock are shocked to hear that Starfleet, and most everyone else, thinks they are lovers

Though Some May Wonder by Solten, Natasha in First Time 1. Kirk helps Spock deal with the harrassment of crewmembers regarding his sexuality

When The Skies Fill With Sand by Solten, Natasha in First Time 7. Spock takes 2 weeks leave on Vulcan, and when Kirk joins him he learns the reason for the leave is that Amanda has died

Friend, Brother...Lover by Rathbone, Wendy in Amazing Grace 1. Kirk feels that Spock is slipping away from him after V’Ger,but at the same time is picking up Spock’s mental calls to him as t’hy’la

Under Stars Scattered Like Autumn by Rathbone, Wendy in T'hy'la 6. Camping in the deserts of Vulcan, Spock finally asks of Kirk what he desperately needs. Prequel: Mirrors Donʼt Lie.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1224234.html

A Fanlore page has been created for The Generic Slash Defense Letter. In looking it over, what is needed is some history on how the letter was received by both the pro-slash and anti-slash communities and how the letter has been used over the years. More here
http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Generic_Slash_Defense_Letter

Also, the Blake's 7 page could use some more history.
Copy and paste into your browser fanlore.org/wiki/Blake's_7 (or go to Fanlore direct at http://fanlore.org and search for Blake's 7)

PS. I was amused to learn that the Slash Defense Letter has been on the web since 1996, that the URL has not changed in that time, and that it was the first website listed in Yahoo's "slash" index back in 1996.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1183012.html

The Courts of Honor, one of the early (and rare) Star Trek slash novels has been converted into multiple formats (pdf, web, kindle, ebook) and is now available online. Read about it here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1147802.html

After the Fire by datenshiblue& caelumi
Sam/Dean Slash
Summary: Sam comes back, 10 years after the end of the Apocalypse. Dean has kids. Maybe Sam can finally stop trying to pay for his sins and rest.

Current Mood: calm
Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1076831.html

I'll be posting a few big bang recs in the next week. I loved this story - an original and alternative take on Dean that reads very authentic. Well written and well paced. Dean/OMC.Rated: R

The Accompanist by

gretazreta
Summary: Dean learned to play the piano at his mother’s knee. Now, fifteen years after her death, his talent for music is a secret he keeps from everybody, especially his father. Stuck in a small town for the rest of the school year, looking after a brother who’s growing apart from him and training for a future of hunting that he’s not sure that he wants, Dean finds an unlikely confidant in an elderly Jewish man who’s haunted by his own secrets. It’s a year of firsts, hunting alone and falling in love, but when a monster from the tragic past starts wreaking havoc on the people of the town, Dean must come to terms with his own fears and desires in order to save the people he cares about the most.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1029538.html

A new Supernatural writer. Her other two stories are really good, but this is the one that made me laugh.

Twist and Turn 'Til You've Got it Right - SPN, Slash, NC17
Sometimes it takes more than one try to get it right.

Sam huffs. “You’re not--hitting it right.”

Hold the phone. Dean Winchester had been told a lot of things by lays in his life. Heard whispered and fevered declarations of shit that embarrassed him even in the moment. But one thing he had, never, ever, been accused of was lacking in bed.

And what the hell did Sam know anyway? This was only the third time they’d fucked. The first that Sam let Dean fuck him.

Not that Dean was keeping a count.

Or that Sam was being very cooperative about it.

“Stop being such a pushy little bitch and let me do it!” Dean argues, like they’re fighting over the remote or something.

I seem to be a rec machine this week. I just finished

pandarus Dean!Girl! novella (Not Times Fool) and truly enjoyed it. I think mainly because the internal Dean voice is equal parts love, exasperation, loyalty and plain ole annoyance. The plot is not too unfamiliar -- Dean is cursed into being a girl and from there shenanigans ensue. The sex is hot and the pacing excellent. There is an amusing (to me) twist at the end. All in all, a nicely balanced story.

"This is making him see what he's been missing. This is forcing him to face the reality that a person can subsist on a diet of twinkies and potato chips, but it's not really living. It's just surviving. And there's a world of difference between a one-night stand with some disposable hottie, and fucking someone you love, and who loves you right back. Who gets you, really and truly gets you, warts and all, weaknesses and all, and loves you anyway. That – Jesus, that's just blowing Dean's mind. And scaring the crap out of him."

PS. my favorite comment on the story so far is this..."Although I never thought a wincest fic would make me wanna go find a bible...."

Story is here

Pre-Stanford slash stories in the Supernatural verse are a tricky read for me. Not only do we have issues of age of consent, but balancing the psychology of a 4 year age gap in the teenager years (a huge gap) can be difficult.

Which is why I enjoyed winterweatherd's Easy On The Clutch so much.

Dean wakes up to the sound of gunshots. He's still naked, and the side of the bed Sam was sleeping on is cool.

Dean pauses at the window on the way to the bathroom. Outside, Sam is shooting beer cans off the edge of the fence. He's a good shot: pow pow pow.

Dean gets this strange, unbidden image in his head of him and Sam, maybe five years from now, circling back-to-back and shooting out an army of zombies or werewolves or something. Pow pow pow, and they all go down one by one until Sam and Dean are the only ones left standing.

Dean finds his jeans and a wrinkled t-shirt and goes outside barefoot. He moves across the lawn quietly, waiting until Sam's finished his round before he steps up behind him and brushes his knuckles over the rise of Sam's shoulder blade.

The sun is bright on Sam's face when he turns around. He puts a hand against his forehead to shield his eyes. "Hey."

Dean squints back at him. He knows he probably looks ridiculous, one side of his face all squinched up against the light. "Hey. Gonna be late for school."

"Skipping," Sam says. He's probably waiting for Dean to give him shit for it, because Sam's never wanted to miss school in his life, but it's sunny and Dean is happy and he doesn't feel like pushing his luck. Sam holds out the gun. "You want to go a round?"

Dean shakes his head and steps back, shoving his hands into his pockets. Sam's gaze trips like a skipping stone over Dean's hips, the bare line where Dean is pulling his jeans away from his body. It makes Dean's chest hot, makes his toes curl against the dewy grass.

Be Awake by candle_beck
"Don't," Dean finally managed, sucking at air. "Fuckin'. Carry me."

Sam sat back on his heels, disbelief wiping his face for a second before his jaw tightened and his eyes flashed. He bent over Dean, baring his teeth and Dean flinched back but that was just a lizard brain thing, he was sure of it. He wasn't scared of Sam, for christ's sake.

"You passed out behind the wheel, you do not get a say."

Dean stared at him, appalled. "I would never."

A grab bag of recs

1.

rivkat wrote an excellent coda to Sex & Violence that captures Dean's state of mind. Short and should be read before next week's episode.
Steadfast - Gen - Dean’s still bleeding.

2. And speaking of

rivkat, she took a favorite trope of mine - amnesia - and gave it a twist, a turn and then several good screws. OK, bad puns aside, go forth and read
Only Sweeter - Slash -Dean gets amnesia; Sam tries to use it to fix him.

3. I may have mentioned this writer before -

rogue_clasique - but her I'd Drive All Night series is compelling and character driven. I've been devouring the series these past few weeks. Gen. Start with the first story here. She has written two sequels - all are completed. AU. John's missing, and Dean is hurt. Sam is trying to hold it together.

4. The Doors Of Time by

felisblanco. People have commented that this RPS AU story is original fic. And it is. The concept is both creative and fresh and the writing deft- RPS AU
It’s not like he doesn’t try to fit in and make friends, he really does. It just seems like nothing he does is good enough for them. If he smiles they blink. If he speaks they stare. And whenever they see him coming they get this panicked look in their eyes like they want to run away and they don’t even know why. Jensen knows why. It’s the same thing that makes his dad worry and his mom cry. That makes Nana tell his parents he’s going to Hell, not even caring that he can hear her. It’s what makes him ‘weird’.

5. RPS AU - Jared and Jensen as spies? Someone You Might Have Been by

fleshflutter
Jared's a secret agent, Jensen's his handler, eventually there will be angst, porn and plot. Right now, Jared is just a bad ass and Jensen is stubbornly unimpressed.

6.

candle_beck is one of my new favorites. I'd love to meet her/him and chat about the story lines and characterizations.

Impossible to Tell By Candle Beck - Slash (read the warnings)
Tonight Dean almost kills his brother. They're in this church. It's being ripped apart from the inside out, great seams opening in the stone walls and shattering the stained glass into pieces as small as rain. Their dad left them, telling them they'd be safe here. He might have used the word 'sanctuary.'

candle_beck's other Supernatural fic can be found here. I also love Eight Things You Should Know - funny, short and sweet.
The first thing you should know: Dean annoys the living hell out of Sam.

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As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

and from my del.icio.us feed
Morgan Dawn's Supernatural Gen Fan Fiction Recs

Morgan Dawn's Supernatural Het Fan Fiction Recs

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works. )

From my private collection of recs from 2008. They range from humor to horror, slash to gen. (NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

1. Schmoop vid alert. "The epic love story of Sam and Dean."

2. Funny short J2 snippet.

3. Common Fate. (Sam/Dean), 10,000 words. Dean Winchester works in insurance: brought up in foster care, he’s never hunted, never fired a gun, and never owned a car. Then, one day, he meets a guy called Sam.

4. Misunderestimate (Sam/Dean), 3000 words. Maybe, just sometimes, violence is the answer. Or not.

5. Apocrypha (slash) ( Dean/*coff*Lucifer*coff*, R) In hell, Dean screams for his brother, and Sam comes to see him.
Dark with a twist.

6. Jumping-Off Point. (Sam/Dean), 7,500 words). Writer's take on Sam getting Dean out of the deal.
I liked the descriptions and the sense of place in this story.

7. Into His Hand. (J2 AU, RPS) 50,000 words. JR Ackles is a professional bullrider at the top of his game. He's got one thing on his mind: winning the championship belt buckle and the right to call himself the best in the world. His unwavering dedication and focus is finally put to the test in the form of JT Padalecki, an up-and-coming rider new to the professional ranks, who has his sights set on winning the PBR finals - and Jensen. Cowboys ride and get by on grit and tough determination - the question facing Jensen is if they have to do it alone.
As good - if not better - than most original fic.

8. Do I Seem Bulletproof To You? (J2 AU, RPS), 96,000 words. When he can't find any acting work, Jared takes a job as driver and bodyguard to Jensen, who is an extremely expensive prostitute with a bad habit of attracting crazy people.
One of the more interesting hookerfics I've read. A story about adults with adult reactions. One character stumble at the end, but satisfying.

9. Golden Lights Go Dark Tonight (Gen), 5000 words. In the beginning, Sam only wanted to save Dean. By the end, everything and nothing had changed.
I liked the pacing.

10. And All But He Departed, (Gen) 5,000 words. Sam’s first coherent thought was nguhhhh.
As a Terri Pratchett fan, I adored this story

11. thought I could let you go in grace. (Sam/Dean) short, Episode coda for Long Distance Call.

12. This Is The Sun Gone Down (Sam/Dean) The blood of a demon made Sam, but it can also save him. A story of one out of many, and the slow slide into love. AU.
New take on how demonic blood could lead to mental illness. as an fyi...a happy ending.

13. 13 Bound Avenue, Hamistagan ( NC-17, Dean/Jo, Dean/Jo/Sam, Dean/Sam.) Dean has a wife, a house, a steady job, a brand new ride and a charmed life. And he realizes he's not in control of any of it.
I don't want to spoil the premise but this story offers an innovative take on hell. The writing is a bit raw, but I liked the twists

14. SPN Pic spam. The many faces of Dean. The many faces of Sam.

Gen
Skimming Clouds & Breathing Fire - FIC: Tiger Boy 1/1 by

pdragon76
Dean’s favoring his left side. John sees when his son’s cutting back through the front bar from the bathroom. Probably wouldn’t have noticed if he wasn’t looking for it. But when Dean sits again, he’s canted slightly to the left, and John knows he’s copped it harder than he let on back at the room. And it serves him right. It really does. That’s what you get when you’re a cocky little shit who veers off track at the speed of light to circle round on a black dog. Like the sonuvabitch knew where it was gonna break cover before the goddamn mutt did.

Winsister
vaingirlfic: Fic: Fire Took My Baby Away (Dean/Girl!Sam) (possible WIP??)
Decades after his mother and baby sister died in a fire of demonic origin Dean Winchester picks up a hitchhiker off the interstate.

Slash
People Livin' In Competition by

ladyjaida
In Oasis Plains, Oklahoma, it’s not exactly the first time Dean’s slapped Sam’s ass. Hell, it’s not even the second. Dean thinks the first time mighta been on Sam’s first day of high school; anyway, Sam wasn’t able to get a date until they moved halfway through Sam’s junior year.

The Gay That It Is (Or: The Gayest Gen Story Ever) by

gekizetsu
Inappropriate crack. Dean gets another ‘idea’, and the cliches run rampant. Flamingly rampant. PG-13 for boykissing.

I’ll Have What He’s Having by

gekizetsu
The Harry Met Sally riff. Dean messes with Sam until Sam can’t take any more. Dean shouldn’t do that. Or maybe he should.

elise_509: Like a Rolling Thunder Chasing the Wind (Sam/Castiel)
The sound of the door slamming is a violent crash, shaking the ground underneath his feet. It makes him wince, makes him shudder.

4x01 Coda: Traded Your Worth for These Scars (Sam/Dean, NC-17) by

thenyxie
Dean wonders how he can be Chosen when he feels like this. When he feels like this about Sam. Burning up, bodies sweat slicked, sliding skin to skin, whispered words and moans, fingers twined tight into fists made of both their hands. God may have pulled him out of Hell, but Dean knows he wouldn’t last the day without Sam.

As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

A while back I made a cover for

killabeez's online Supernatural fan fiction. With her permission, I've formatted all of her Supernatural fic so it can be printed on letter sized paper. The file is in pdf form and is zipped - around 4MB total. You can print stories individually or as a whole.

The file can be found here (please right click and save to your hard drive): http://morgandawn.googlepages.com/killaformatted.zip

All of the fic can be found online at Killa's fan fic website

I was chatting about long plotty case stories in Supernatural fandom with cofax7 this weekend. So once again here are two such case stories that I have mentioned here before:

*Joshua Tree by cofax7 (The Winchesters take a break from demon-hunting to help solve the mysterious death of a rock-climber in Joshua Tree National Park.)

*Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart (Obviously, Dean and Sam have never made their way to Santa Cruz, California to put down rabid ghosts and stop up a hell mouth. We have a lot of ghost stories in the area, but as for actual ghosts? That depends on what you believe in.) *And then if you like both het and slash but are not into Wincest try this story that deals with Deans' life after Sam leaves for Staford. I think of this more as a character study with the sex supporting Dean's personal journey.

1300 Days by stele3 (GEN, includes both het/slash sex, but that isn't the story's focus. PG-13 to R for violence, sex, language, and drug use. Mentions of suicidal behavior) It hadn’t been four years, actually. Somewhere in the darkness of an Arizona back road, Sam piped up with a revelation: between that April day when he’d left them in the baking heat of the South Dakota Badlands, and the Halloween night when Dean had shown up unannounced at his door (through his door, actually), there had been exactly 1300 turns of the Earth. Dean grunted, and thanked every benevolent spirit he knew that the darkness of night hid his face. *If you want kickass original female characters,

stele3 has concluded her Amazing Incredible Adventures of Freakboy and Dykegirl (GEN - includes het/slash/femslash. PG-13 to NC-17 for language, sex, violence, drug use, bodyswap, genderswap, femslash, and dinosaurs.) This is not a 'het' or a slash story - although there is a lot of love between Dean and the OFC Kim. I really cannot classify it but it is one of the more original pieces of SPN fic.

*Speaking of original fic, I am enjoying

traveller's In That Bright Land (Jensen, Jared, AU, Texas panhandle, summer 1936.) Like cofax7's Joshua Tree it has a wonderful sense of time and place that feels very fresh and unique. It is a WIP. *And last, if you're into het, take a moment to peruse vinylroad's Supernatural fic - her het is complex with a tilt towards the sad. Like most het in this fandom it sometimes weaves in and out of Wincest, but it pulls off a difficult balance between porny and character building. Catch her writing here most of this fic is now locked. As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

Coming up with these themes is hard and frankly there are a number of writers who would fit this particular theme - the sweet (funny and tender) and the sour (dark and angsty). But here goes.

sevenfists fic has a lot of humor woven among the sweet. Great examples are
Art of Manly Hugging (Sometimes, you know, Dean just needs a goddamn hug.)
Green and Gamboge (Sam's halfway through his Crichton novel when Dean comes banging in, smeared with grease. "We've got gremlins," he says)

She writes slash, gen and het - an all rounder. She has also written one of the hottest Jared/Jensen/Sandy RPF stories (Geography For Beginners) - so she is what I call an "EOFW" (Equal Opportunity Fan Writer).

As for the sour (or more serious) try:
Swing Low (What's dead should stay dead)
Birds of America (After a certain point, you can't turn back) and
The Vagaries of Disbelief (Wishing for something didn't mean it was going to happen, though. There were a lot of things Dean wasn't sure about in life, but he knew that for dead certain.)

sevenfists uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

Next there is

sanyin.
Her funny edges towards crack (OK let's be honest - her funny walks deep into crack and then starts splashing about with abandon).
The Pleasures of Exile (The one with beauty, beast and the Empire State Building.) offers one of the most original RPS takes on the show. And did I mention it was funny?

and for the sour try
Tied You With Her Flaxen Hair (There are stories that wind around arms...) and
Easy Descent (Dark corridors and men that hang from trees. Sam wonders if he'll see his father here.)

for a blend of sweet and sour try Be Good (The gift of obedience is double edged.)

sanyin is another writer who touches on many themes and covers a lot of ground: slash, het, RPF and RPS. She uses uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

There has been way too little Supernatural content in this journal lately. But I am beta-ing a very intense SPN vid (oh Dean!) and it has fired me up again.

I thought I'd showcase a few of my favorite writers today. There are so many, so I am grabbing a few randomly. Today, two writers who challenge themselves, the readers, and their characters by asking: What if....? If you're looking for simple case stories or comfortable "Sam and Dean and the Impala and their epic love" tales, then these may not be writers for you (more on those later).

kroki_refur
Writes mainly gen with some slash tossed in for leavening. Her writing is solid, she takes time building both the world and the characters (very important when you deviate from canonical characterization or even conventionally accepted views of the characters). She also has written a few thoughtful AUs: among them: What if Sam grew up in a universe where Dean never existed? And then they meet? (There But For The Grace) What if Sam lives in two universes simultaneously? one in which Jess dies and one in which Jess lives? (Crow on the Cradle)

If you're not in the mood for something long, then try some of her shorter works: they are tight and well paced:
Lost and Found (Sam saves Dean -- but sometimes, things just aren't that simple.)
Blood and Wine Are Red (Eventually, one of those boys is going to get caught.)
Messing Around With Slim (You don't mess around Slim. It's really a bad idea.)

kroki_refur uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

BUT..... if there is on thing in her LJ to read, it is her Supernatural Ten Expressions. Every episode she picks the best expressions from the show and serves them up to us with hilarious captions. Go forth and laugh.

fleshflutter
Her fic tends towards more darker themes but is also well thought out and well written. I'll start, however, with a story that is not dark to illustrate her wide range:
The Firefly That Loved Metallica (Dean's soul tastes like candyfloss. It's like a little, warm cloud of spun sugar in Sam's mouth. ) it is sweet and poignant without sacrificing masculine characterization

In Nomine Patris Her Bobby/Dean story is not a pairing I'd necessarily read or believe: but the psychological exploration of Dean's character and his unresolved issues with self-worth and family roles really sells the story to me.

One of the best horror SPN stories I've ever read was written by

fleshflutter. It is The Old Gods Return (she has written a small coda to this story but I cannot seem to find it)

and last, if you thought you could never to read an 'end of the world story' and like it - I challenge you to read Starting From Home

fleshflutter also uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

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thanks to

bittermint, I found out that our cable on demand is offering a few NBC pilots. Bionic Woman and The Journeyman (both sci-fi). I watched Bionic Woman - it wasn't too terrible, just offering the hints of what mind be some interesting twists. It was like an old Witchblade-Firefly-BSG reunion with many of our favorite actors playing smaller (and some larger) parts.

We hope to watch The Journeyman tonight.

And last, in honor of

lyra_wing's rewrite of The Outsiders for the Supernatural universe (NC17, Wincest), I reread the book this week. It still makes me cry like a 16 year old girl. Considering a 16yr girl wrote it, I find this fitting.

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Big Bang Recs
Swear By All Flowers by

sweetestdrain (Sam/Dean, R)
With the Baba Yaga myth as a backdrop this is a Sam and Dean who are messy and vulnerable and human and true.

Hunger of Old Mouths by

plutogirl10 (Sam/Dean, R)
To quote

killabeez: "It's one of those slash-notslash stories, in that outside circumstances push the [slash] issue in a way that completely and totally works for me. It's like a have your cake and eat it too kind of story, and so satisfying in that regard, particularly for someone like me who loves the Wincest like burning, but also desperately needs to have it flow out of the characters as we see them on the show."

The Knuckles of Skinnybone Tree by

hansbekhart (Sam/Dean, NC17)
Summary: John Winchester walks the badlands, lost on the Path of the Dead, when he meets two mysterious men: a pair of hunters chasing the same ghost that he is, who tell him that he's wound up more than twenty years in the future. They promise to get him back to his own time - back to his young children - but refuse to tell him anything about themselves. The three men find themselves entangled with the warring spirits of the land, but John is pursued by nightmares and caught up between the two hunters, who are keeping secrets that John doesn't understand.

And a bonus RPS story that blew me away this evening:
Untitled Jared Padelecki Project (Jared/Jensen, R/NC17, RPS).
Well plotted, painful and very intense. I loved watching this story unfold.It was like origami.
Summary: After Supernatural, Jensen and Jared aren't talking. But a film's a film and Jensen could really use the money.

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In an effort to distract myself further from ongoing health issues, I have consumed vast quantities of paper and ink and printed several

spn_j2_bigbang stories to read while recovering. Here are two I'd recommend - alas I am not up to any significant comments or reviews just pointers. NOTE: These are same sex stories involving adult themes, among them consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

And the Devil Makes Three by

killabeez (Sam/Dean, Dean/OFC, NC-17)
The love Dean has for Sam is scary at times. And that fact is not lost on either Sam or Dean.

Exact Change by

dontyouwaitup (Sam/Dean) NC17
A fairly straight-forward first time story. The ending is what made the story special for me. Very senstively written.

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This may be a one off rec post, but if anyone else has any happy possession stories, I am all ears. this one made me ....howl....yes that's the word. (NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

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Sam looks up at him. The smile spreading across his face is the archetype of cat-with-cream smug.

Suddenly, Dean finds himself flipped into the bed with Sam sprawled over him nuzzling his neck.

"What're you doing?" he demands, squirming.

Sam pauses and looks up at him, slanted eyes lidded. "Marking you," he says, shifting so he can nuzzle behind Dean's ear.

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