Subject: [VP] Newbie!
Date: 06 Aug 1999
From: Birgitt

Hi all, my name is Birgitt and I'm new to this list!

Thanks, Flamingo, for inviting me. Here's a little info on me: I'm 32, living and working in Germany. I discovered the net and shortly after fanfiction about one year ago. And I became an addict, reading all the wonderful stuff that's around. I'm interested in too many fandoms - you might know what I'm talking about.

I started writing about four weeks ago, now I've finished 19 pieces (stories, challenge stories, drabbles, I even tried some poetry). All are due South so far, but I have plans for Star Wars and Robin of Sherwood. I'm just a lurker in the Starsky and Hutch fandom, because it's been ages since I've seen any ep of it. I saw the show in the seventies, and I was thrilled then. It's the first show setting off my fantasy. With my siblings and some friends we "played" S&H, pretending to work as police officers. We gave them a real family life. Maybe that was my personal beginning of fan fiction...

I can't really explain how I came to slash. It started with reading a slash story in the due South fandom. I'm a Ray Vecchio addict and wasn't satisfied with reading gen stories about him any longer. I "tasted" a slash story portraying him - and that was it: I even liked the story better than most of the gen stories I've read. I discovered that - for myself - categories and ratings were not important anymore, that I liked or disliked stories because of their quality (or the lack of it).

When I started writing, it was gen. But after discovering slash, most of my writings go slashy now. Even those that are gen are full of slashy moments and have at least the possibility (or should I say potential) to become slash. If anyone is interested in my writings, I will be happy to send them to you off-list.

Back to S&H, I do feel strongly that slash fits the show's atmosphere, as far as I can recall from my memory. I hope that I'll see a rerun in German TV shortly. Until then I feel not sure enough to write S&H fiction. But I will be happy to delurk for any discussion you'll have here, whenever I feel up to the subject.

Thanks for listening to my babbling!

Ciao, Birgitt