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<pre>Subject: New one
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 12:51:19 -0500
From: Virginia Call</pre>

<pre>Hey guys,
	Just a test message and a note to let you all know I'm now 
on Veniceplace. </pre>

<pre>	I write under the name Virginia Call, and most of you have 
probably seen my ramblings on Z3.  I'm a 34 year old housewife 
with two young children who are *finally* in school, so I have my 
life back. : )</pre>

<pre>	Really like slash, but for myself, I do consider it AU, as I 
don't see it happening in the series.  But hey, love it anyway!  
Can't have *too* much love, can we?! Plus, the thought of more 
than one universe with the guys in it is just too much fun.</pre>

<pre>TTYL,
Virginia
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<pre>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:26:57 -0400
From: Virginia Call 
Subject: [VP] That project thingy....
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<pre>Okay, better do it now, before I forget again!</pre>

<pre>I write under the name Virginia Call, I'm 36 years old, married 
15 years at the end of this month to a guy a couple of years 
younger than I am. I grabbed him while he was young, and can 
honestly say that I am the first and last person my husband ever 
dated. Computer nerds don't get out much.  :  ) I have two 
children, a boy age 11 and a girl age 9. I'm a stay-at-home Mom 
who is trapped for the summer with no transportation and two kids 
who's sole purpose in life is to give me gray hair. For various 
reasons, hubby doesn't know about slash, and he's pretty sure he 
actually doesn't *want* to know what I read. He embarrasses 
incredibly easy.</pre>

<pre>When &quot;Starsky &amp; Hutch&quot; came on I was in eighth grade in Reno, 
Nevada. (I actually lived on a part of that burning map at the 
start of 'Bonanza'.) Didn't see the &quot;Starsky &amp; Hutch&quot; pilot, but 
got to see one of the eps.  and fell in love. I've always been 
pretty much into partnerships, which started with books like &quot;The 
Hardy Boys&quot; and worked it's way up to &quot;Sherlock Holmes&quot;. Since I 
was/still am a voracious reader, I've always been pretty much a 
loner. S&amp;H was the first show I could really get into with a 
group of friends! We'd talk about every episode until we were 
blue in the face.</pre>

<pre>Moved a few times the next few years, and until TNT had it's 
reruns, didn't realize there were four episodes I had never 
actually seen!  Now I can't remember which ones they were. My 
other favorite shows are/were Star Trek, which I've lost interest 
in it seems, The Sentinel, which I love dearly, Hardcastle and 
McCormick while it was on, and I think &quot;Alias Smith and Jones&quot;, 
but I don't remember too much of it now. One of these days I'm 
planning on reading &quot;The Professionals&quot; fanfic, and seeing what 
that's all about when I get more time. And maybe I'll give Miami 
Vice a try, since I never got to see much of that one either. 
After spending three years in Japan, where I pretty much gave up 
on the base library and started reading fiction in the &quot;A&quot; 
section because I was getting desperate, I'm enjoying hoarding 
the net fanfic even if I don't have the time right now. I'm gonna 
*need* it some day!!</pre>

<pre>I've got various pages up right now, my main web page, the S&amp;H 
Character guide, my S&amp;H Collectors Page, All my S&amp;H dolls dressed 
up in Action Jackson outfits, (It's one of those things, you just 
had to be there.  :  ), The Sentinel Character Guide and my other 
doll collection. I've written some Gen, which I've retired for 
awhile, and some slash, (which is *hard work* BTW!) but haven't 
had the energy or time this winter to do any writing. Got 
massively stalled with RL and my son's school problems and found 
my concentration shot all to hell.</pre>

<pre>Other than that, I'm a pretty boring person, I like to organize 
things and am into Genealogy for a whole county in Missouri. 
Which goes perfectly with the fact that I'm incredibly bad at 
remembering names and spelling. Self torture.  :  )</pre>

<pre>Virginia Call
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<pre>Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:52:35 -0500
From: Virginia Call
Subject: Re: [VP] Re: and how did YOU get into slash?</pre>

<pre>Hey, guys!</pre>

<pre>&lt; It's great to meet everyone and find out how they got into S&amp;H, 
but now
&gt; it's time to dish the dirt.  How did YOU get into slash?</pre>

<pre>I've always been drawn to partners, even when little.  My first 
love was the &quot;Hardy Boys&quot;.  I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes 
and Dr. Watson, and followed that to tv with Adam 12, Emergency!, 
Star Trek, S&amp;H, etc. etc.</pre>

<pre>The slash came later when I was looking at Star Trek fanfic and 
figured out what 'slash' meant.  Decided I'd take a look and 
liked a lot of the stories.</pre>

<pre>But I don't see every pair as a slash pair.  In fact, there are 
really only a few fandoms that I can see them that way, even if I 
really enjoy the Gen.</pre>

<pre>&gt;Why did it appeal to you?</pre>

<pre>I can only guess it was because, after all was said and done, 
that I could see that the *love* was there and having sex 
wouldn't have affected that basic, soul-deep attachment of two 
people who've met their soul mates.  And while most gen stories 
are about the guys ~working~ together, on cases and such, the 
slash stories have them delving very intimately into personal 
issues and feelings.</pre>

<pre>Of course, the sex is great! :  )</pre>

<pre>&gt;How do you deal with it?</pre>

<pre>I share when I feel comfortable and read as much as I can.</pre>

<pre> &gt;Are in the closet about it?</pre>

<pre>Yes.  I'm sure hubby has a good clue, but he's *not* really 
interested in knowing.  (In fact, he shies away when I get close 
to telling him just *exactly* what the X-rated material I read 
*is*.  He knows it's X-rated, he knows a lot of society wouldn't 
like it, and he knows I've written some of it.)</pre>

<pre>It would make him uncomfortable, and knowing he was uncomfortable 
would make me uncomfortable...</pre>

<pre>And, of course, if a 'mystery' story gets me all hot and 
bothered, he's ecstatic!  Why would he want to rock the boat? ;)</pre>

<pre>&gt; What compels you to write it and read it?  &gt;&gt;</pre>

<pre>I haven't felt compelled to write it, although I have, and am 
much more comfortable with Gen.  I think slash is *much* harder 
then Gen when it comes to emotions, locations, dialog, etc. etc.  
Then add in the sex scenes, and I find myself feeling totally out 
of my element. :  )</pre>

<pre>But I *love* reading it.  What gets me the most are the 'tender' 
moments between the guys.  Even if they don't have sex in the 
story, there is such freedom to express the love that the Gen 
stories don't usually allow without a major 'hurt' aspect.</pre>

<pre>Virginia Call
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by 
others.
--Andre Maurois</pre>

<pre>Subject: Re: [VP] Re: Did you find slash or slash find you?
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:45:14 -0400
From: Virginia Call
        
Georgia wrote...
&gt; &gt; I also wrote to
&gt; &gt; her privately, letting her know that while *I* wasn't keen on
Freddy Kruger
&gt; &gt; and Jason, if she wanted to write about people slashing each
other to bits,
&gt; &gt; she had my full support and I didn't think she was a pervert.
&gt;

And then Flamingo wrote...
&gt; She was almost
&gt; *relieved* when I explained, very embarrassed, what it really
did
&gt; involve.
&gt;

I really laughed when I read those, because the first thing I did
when trying to let my hubby know what I was getting into, was to
explain to him that slash wasn't about *that* kind of story.
Although he still doesn't know exactly what 'slash' is, other than
it is X-rated in most cases, I think he's pretty sure he doesn't
*want* to know.  I think he has a good idea, it's just not
someplace *he* wants to go, so he doesn't want any details.  But
as long as it encourages me to mature into a _dirty-old-broad_
he's all for it.  :  D

I have to say that I didn't see slash in S&amp;H when it was on the
air, but I was awful close to it.  I didn't discover slash until a
few years later, when I bought a K/S zine to see what it was all
about and found that it seemed like a natural thing for those two.
Didn't take much to go back to thinking about S&amp;H.  I felt then
that I had overlooked something pretty obvious! :  )

For me, it has to start with the relationship. There has to be
*something* between the two to make me feel that those two
characters need each other.  Being a slash fan hasn't stopped me
from being a gen fan too.  If the emotions and commitment are
there, I don't need the sex to be satisfied with a good story.
Although, I *do* enjoy the sex. :  )

There aren't many shows I follow this closely, enough to be a
'fan', although there may be quite a few shows I like.  But I'm a
sucker for a good buddy show, as long as the 'chemistry is there
for me.

Virginia Call


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