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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.
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.
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Date: 2004-04-23 10:22 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-04-24 03:28 am (UTC)