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.

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[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.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I'm quite envious of the fact that you obviously come from an open-minded environment! While it was never drilled into my head when I was young that gay = bad, and my parents DID let me make up my mind about almost everything, they'd certainly not be approving of my slashy interests. But it does seem that for a fair number slashers, when we were young, it just sort of came naturally -- though of course others, like a friend of mine, certainly had to be introduced to it from an outside source. I'm very intrigued :)

[rubykate.livejournal.com]

Since I told my mum about slash she's forever nagging me to write a pornographic novel for easy money, ignoring the fact I'm far too disorganised to write an actual novel. :/ But I'm glad really that she's so open-minded about the whole thing. Her best friend is gay and he's always been a bit of an uncle figure to us so for me homosexuality was never really a mysterious thing like it is for some kids, I think.

What I find interesting is that me and my sister (my only sibling) have both turned out to be bisexual, and known so from a fairly young age - sometimes I wonder if its because we grew up in such an open minded enviroment, just seems kind of too much of a coincedence, in a way.