Bwah hah.

[ashinae]

Something interesting I read --

Kids shouldn't be reading or writing slash. And they are probably only
writing it because they've read it from some adult site or zine. I doubt
that they would have come up with the idea on there [sic] own.

*raises hand* Ooh! Ooh! I was writing Legolas/Gimli when I was twelve. Xena/Gabrielle when I was thirteen or fourteen. Fraser/Vecchio when I was seventeen. Of these -- only the Fraser/Vecchio after my awareness of the existence of slash online. And I would have written it ANYWAY.

So c'mon, people on my flist. Anybody else out there writing slash when they were underage and/or unaware of the existence of it as an actual "thing"? Tell, tell.

Comments

[lannamichaels]

I wrote Harry/Draco when I was sixteen.
If I ever get drunk enough, maybe I'll post it. *g*

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

I was writing original gay fiction when I was about 14. I didn't actually write fanfiction until I got out of high school, but i think that counts. ;)

[thisside.livejournal.com]

My sister and I did. We would write out little role plays between various characters and celebrities and our own "Mary Sue" type characters, but then the odd men out always ended up getting together with each other. *lol*

This got long. Sorry ;)

[empy.livejournal.com]

I found the wondrous world of slash at the tender age of fourteen. The year was 1995, the browser to use Netscape 3.0 beta, and bandwidth grew on trees. I stumbled onto alt.books.anne-rice, saw that some of the stories posted actually featured male/male couples, and was promptly hooked. Before that, I had thought I was really quirky for wanting to see actual explicit action between the male characters. Most of my peers didn't even want to read het romances of the Harlequin stock at that age.

The only trauma I carry because of that early find is that the early VampChron fandom was overrun by Mary Sues, and you really had to sift to find the slash. Hence I'm not blaming slash for anything ;) Except for eating my life.

I didn't post in that first fandom, but I certainly read, speculated and imagined. At great length, too. I had done so before, but there was always the nagging thought of "You can't imagine THAT!" (Legolas and Gimli were *the* couple of fantasy lit in my prepubescent mind, but you certainly couldn't talk about that to your friends. At least not to the few friends I had then.). I think I wrote my first fics at about fifteen or sixteen, stories now lost in the mists of history and broken floppies. I didn't talk about them, since the rule of Finnish junior high schools was that teh gay!fic never existed. Fanfic never existed. I didn't even meet another Finnish slasher until I was nineteen(!).

So yeah, I found slash on my own, and was into it long before I was legal. And I'm none the worse for it.

[thedevilchicken.livejournal.com]

Oh, me, me! I was writing terrible slashfic when I was about twelve... albeit as a juicy sidedish to abominable Mary Sues. Ohhh, and it was RPS too, and even scarier is that it was Formula One racing driver RPS. I didn't have a comp and I live miles from anything, let alone slashers, so trust me, I hadn't a clue about fanfic at the time.

Also, there's the Jack/Daniel Stargate fic I was writing when I was about 16, and the Fraser/RayK from when I as 17 (what can I say, I came to it late. *g*). I guess FPS didn't really occur to me before I saw it online, but the RPS? Oh yeah ;)

[loyaldreamer.livejournal.com]

I personally didn't start writing full slash til I was around 18, though I was writing erotic fiction when I was 15 or 16, started hinting at writing slash around then to.

[cinzia.livejournal.com]

O_o Bzuh?

I was writing yaoi and Iliad slash when I was 15, original gay fiction and RPS (soccer players and boyband slash omg) when I was 16. First slash fandom I found online was X-Files, when I was 23. So I'd say 'hahahah!' to whomever said that. *points to quote above* *mirth* ;)

[belenajake.livejournal.com]

I was slashing Kirk and Spock in my head when I was a wee pup, and lied on a release to buy my first K/S fanzine when I was 13...I remember being so thrilled to find out about them because other people actually *gasp* felt the same way I did! That was a looooooooong time ago, well before the internet and its easy access.

[missizzy]

When I was eight, I watched a TV series about Babar and his friends, including his two advisors, Cornelious and Pompadour. Thr latter was very aptly named, dressed in pink, and for the longest time, I was convinced he was a she, and that Pompadour and Cornelius should get married. Then I saw the episode "Friendly Agreement" and was devestated to hear Pompadour referred to as "he," because I had so wanted them to get married! But as I continued to watch through that particular episode(about their friendship, and my favourite episode because of that and because Isabelle played a very big role, and I loved her because she had my name), I wondered if perhaps they could get married anyway? I count that as my first slash moment.

[ichinoshi.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Been writing slash since I started writing like in the fifth grade. I started reading the Animorphs and thought Tobias/Jake was a much better pairing than Tobias/Rachel. I didn't know more people wrote slash until Gundam Wing. ^^()

[midnightmagics.livejournal.com]

Been writing slash since I was fifteen ^^

[sahari.livejournal.com]

I was considering doing some m/m incest slash (or hints thereof) when I was 13. I was, of course, too chicken-shit to do it because I knew my friends (who helped me with story ideas) would completely freak.

I got over it. :P

S

[as-i-am.livejournal.com]

OH yes. When I was 13, I was writing these secret little stories in my notebooks about the guys in Def Leppard. *cough* What? I was thirteen and lame!

I didn't discover it was called 'slash' until I got the internet in 2000, but I was certainly writing it before then, albeit secretly. ALWAYS secretly. Discovering that other people loved it was like finding paradise on Earth.

You know, you'll find that a lot of slashers loved slash at a young age and were predisposed to it from the get-go almost. I find that terribly fascinating. It's almost like another sexuality (like homosexuality or heterosexuality). Something you can't control, it's just who you ARE. I'd love to see a study done on it.

[sam42.livejournal.com]

I've been pairing guys up in my head since I was 8 or so.

[rubykate.livejournal.com]

When I was about eight I used to play Famous Five with my playmobil figures, with every single character mentioned in the books and as there's only about three girls compared to about eight boys, I decided the practical thing to do would be to turn some of the boys gay. And I can't remember a time before I shipped Frodo/Sam.

When I first told my mum about slash and fanfic she said, "Oh, if only the internet had been about when I was your age! I was always making up gay alternatives to my favourite books." Heheh.