From: Tela
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:00:29 -0500
Subject: Re: More rantings about (S&H's) sexuality 

Hi, I'm Telana.  I'm new to the list, not new to slash, but 
fairly new to S/H.  I was a fan of S&H all thru the 70's and , 
like I heard someone else say, I didn't really figure out exactly 
what it was that appealed to me so much until recently.  (Takes 
me a little longer than most I suppose.)  <G>

About the experimentation.  I don't believe that either of the 
guys would  experiment with other men.  I've been married for 24 
years and while I can admire the physical form of other men, I 
would not ever go to bed with one.  It would be destroy something 
very precious in the communion of souls that I share with my 
hubby.   Not to mention a little thing called Trust.  (And about 
the 70's, I got married in '72, so I lived thru that Do It If IT 
Feels Good era.  Not everyone was screwing around.)

I like to believe that it's the love affair between their souls 
that brought Starsky and Hutch together to share physically.  
There is more than the physical.  It's just the icing on the 
cake.  A relationship like that would be so satisfying, that I 
can't see either looking elsewhere.  Besides, in my stories, they 
simply don't have time (or energy) for anyone else.

A poser that I have no background to answer:  Sometimes a gay man 
will marry so that he can have a family of his own.  He has 
deliberately changed sexuality so that he can satisfy this woman 
who hopefully he now loves.  She's not his ideal in a physical 
sense but she is his partner in life.   Granted, he might stray 
with another man because that is his natural inclination.  But 
would he ever sleep with another woman.  I don't think so.

Okay, now apply that to S&H:  If they were both hetero before 
falling in love, they might still be attracted to women, and only 
their faith and trust in each other would keep them faithful.  
But I don't see them ever going to bed with other men, who would 
not be the type to physically attract them.

Of course, some writers have them with gay tendencies or affairs 
before they find each other, but I don't see it. And it all boils 
down to: if their love is strong enough, they won't experiment 
with other partners.  In my S/H universe, there is no question.  
They are in an eternal monogamous relationship.

Is any of this making sense?  If not, ignore it.  It's too early 
on a Sat.

Looking forward to more discussions.

Tela


From: Tela
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:37:14 -0500
Subject: Intro

So now you are all gonna know my deep dark secret *I have no 
brain*.  I was doing an intro for another list I'm on and I 
couldn't remember if I'd ever done an intro for this one.  So, if 
I have already, then you don't have to read this.  <G>
 
I'm 45 years old, married for almost a quarter of a century, 
mother of three, and a school teacher (can you believe that?)

I began being interested in slash long before I knew what it was 
and certainly long before I understood the mechanics of it.  I 
was probably in junior high school when I began writing "buddy" 
stories from my favorite TV shows.  Like some others have 
expressed, I blithely went along not understanding the attraction 
until somehow, and I don't remember exactly where or when, I got 
my hands on my first K/S zine.  Like the others have expressed, 
the little light went on above my head.  "So THAT's what it's all 
about!"

My first fandom was K/S, just like a lot of you.  I wrote a 
couple of stories for First Time, the K/S zines put out by 
MerryMen Press, but that was several years ago.  I kind of fell 
away from writing for a while.  (Someone hurt my feelings really 
bad with their negative comments on one of my stories.  Please, 
criticize the work of other authors if you have to, but do it 
with kindness and a light hand.  I know of a couple of other 
potentially good authors who will not submit their stuff because 
of some unthinking lout.)

My chief fandom right now is Starsky and Hutch and I should have 
several stories coming out in the Fall in a couple of different 
zines.  Fair warning, I'm an incurable romantic.  No rape scenes, 
no death scenes, and always a happy ending!

There are many other fandoms that I enjoy reading, but do not 
write.  At least not yet.  I like Due South, MUNCLE, Riptide, and 
Hardcastle and McCormick.  Probably a couple of others that I 
can't remember right now.  Oh, yeah, Space: Above and Beyond.

Those of you that have access to AOL, why don't you come join our 
slash chats?  We meet a couple of times a week.  On Tuesdays, we 
have a chat that is sort of a screening process for the *real* 
chat on another night.  E me if you are interested.  One night we 
had 16 slash fans in a chat room together.  Oh, BTW, this is 
primarily S/H, but lately we've embraced other fandoms as well.

Can't think of anything else to say about me.

Telana 


Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:53:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tela
Subject: Re: [VP] New Intros (WAS A brand new project)

I can't remember if I've ever done an intro, so here goes:

I am a 47 year old school teacher.  I've been married to the same 
man for 26 years and we have three grown children.  Some of you 
know me by another name because I live in a really repressive 
community where I could lose my job if a slash zine was even 
found in my possession.  This is my pen name under which I have 
written both K/S and S/H, however, not for a very long time.  I 
look forward to my retirement in 7 years when I can come out of 
my slash closet and thumb my nose at those who *just don't get 
it*.  : )

I really enjoy the friendships I have made in slashdom and in S/H 
particularly.  I travel so much more now because I now have 
friends all over this country.

I am one of many who came into the fandom through Star Trek, 
although as I think back on it, I must have been born a slash 
fan.  All of my early fandoms were buddy shows with lots of h/c.  
My early writing always had the two main male characters ending 
up in bed together but I was too young and naive to know why I 
had them there.  I still have those old spiral notebooks from Jr 
and Sr High.  The stories are pretty pitiful but I can't bring 
myself to throw them out.  As a matter of fact I have every zine 
I have ever bought also. Can't get rid of anything, I guess.

I enjoy many fandoms, but S & H is home.  My excursions often 
take me into The Sentinel and, most recently, I have rediscovered 
Garrison's Gorillas.  But I always come home to S & H.

I am on several lists, but VenicePlace is the most friendly and 
comfortable.  The humor is wonderful!

Telana 

