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<pre><font face="Times New Roman">Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:55:36 -0500
From: Hyacinth
Subject: Re: [VP] That introduction thing
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<pre><font face="Times New Roman">Can't find my original post, but here's me again ... I'm 45 years 
old, married to a guy who beta-reads my slash stories, have four 
children -- oldest daughter is in the Air Force, #2 daughter is 
in high school (plans to be a forest ranger), 9 year old boy/girl 
twins (he wants to be a ballet dancer and she wants to be a Spice 
Girl).  &lt;g&gt; We own a multimedia computer business.   My hobbies 
(other than reading/writing slash) are ...  genealogy, gardening, 
and co-editing a zine in the Robin of Sherwood fandom.   I have a 
Masters degree in history from Samford U.  in Birmingham, AL 
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<pre><font face="Times New Roman">Other than &quot;our boys&quot;, I also like TS &amp; Pros.   My put me onto 
this list, otherwise I'm fairly new to net-fandom.   I'm the web-
mistress of our gen and slash archives, and keeper of the Crotch 
Page.   &lt;g&gt;</font></pre>

<pre><font face="Times New Roman">Love to all,</font></pre>

<pre><font face="Times New Roman">Georgia</font></pre>

<p><font face="Times New Roman">Subject: Re: [VP] Re: Did you find slash or slash find
you?<br>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:34:44 -0500<br>
From: Hyacinth<br>
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At 10:40 PM 9/1/99 -0400, flamingoslim@delphi.com wrote:<br>
&gt;Slash found me. It found me, chased me around the room, knocked me<br>
&gt;down, sat on me, and forced me to read it. No lie. <br>
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Slash found me too. Back before the Net, I forget what year it was but I<br>
think Coolidge was President ... anyway, I was participating in a letterzine<br>
(pre-e-mail mode of communication among fans that involved writing Actual<br>
Letters) and the subject of slash came up. But not very descriptively. One<br>
member spontaneously combusted on the subject with no explanation of what it<br>
was. Just a paragraph about perverts and their &quot;slash stories&quot;. The next<br>
month, another member whom I really liked admitted that she wrote these<br>
dreaded &quot;slash stories&quot; and found it &quot;liberating&quot;. Since I liked her
and I'm<br>
in favor of The Right to Write, I defended her in the next issue -- not<br>
really knowing what I was defending, although I had an idea. But if she<br>
wanted to write &quot;slash stories&quot;, by golly it was OK with me. I also wrote to<br>
her privately, letting her know that while *I* wasn't keen on Freddy Kruger<br>
and Jason, if she wanted to write about people slashing each other to bits,<br>
she had my full support and I didn't think she was a pervert. Bless her<br>
heart, she sent me a K/S zine, with a full color Gayle F. cover. I took one<br>
look at that Vulcan cock and said &quot;Ayyyyy, yeah.&quot; The first slash story I<br>
read was Kirk/Spock/McCoy (and I'm still partial to threesomes). Unlike many<br>
fans, the romance, the &quot;relationship&quot; and all that, is secondary to me. What<br>
I really like is the sexual adventure, the opportunity to explore strange<br>
new worlds and conquer them, taking many captives for my harem.<br>
S/H was the first slash fandom I found on the Net, and I still think of it<br>
as my &quot;first time&quot;, because my first slash story was S/H. The first one I<br>
actually committed to paper, that is. I don't watch enough TV to get into<br>
many of the popular fandoms -- so many shows I've never seen. I love period<br>
fiction, so I'm more like to slash characters from movies and novels. <br>
I still haven't gotten over my initial conception of slash. When I start a<br>
new story, I always picture myself holding a chain saw.<br>
<br>
Georgia<br>
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