Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:56:53 +0000
From: Morgan 
Subject: [VP]: A New Neighbor Moves In

Greetings, Neighbors!

Although my Venice Place lease began a few days ago, I've been 
sitting  on the curb amid boxes and crates hoping that a couple 
of courteous gents might pass by and offer to help me move in.  
<G> It's a pain to sleep out here at night, but by day I'm 
getting a great tan, and I haven't given up hope of assistance as 
of yet...

By way of introduction, let me say that in RL I teach history at 
the university level (my PhD is in Native American intellectual 
history) and in fandom I read S/H, PROS, and UNCLE, and write 
TREK:VOYAGER.  I came to S&H as a youngster, when I fell for 
Hutch -- a departure for me, since I otherwise tend go for the 
dark partner (Napoleon in UNCLE and Bodie in PROS, for example).  
But don't get me wrong -- young crushes aside, I love both of the 
characters, and I don't think either would be whole without the 
other.  

Thanks to TREK, I had grown up with tv and fanfic simultaneously, 
so the leap to slash was a fairly effortless one.  Like some 
others who've mentioned this before, I saw S&H as slash almost 
from the very beginning (albeit in a rather PG way, probably 
because of my age).  

This is not true for other partnerships, however.  In some 
fandoms I read almost all gen, as I am not convinced the pairing 
is sexual.  In others, I read slash almost exclusively, because 
the couple's relationship seems so naturally slashy to me.  In 
other universes, I read both gen and slash, because given authors 
can convince me to read the characters differently.  So I am 
definitely a slash fan, but I don't see every pair as inherently 
slash-able.  

With these fellas, though, I believe it's love in every possible 
way! <G> Now if they'd just come by and lend a hand with some of 
this furniture...

Glad to be in your 'hood! 
Morgan

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  "Now then, Eeyore," Rabbit said.
  "Don't Bustle me," said Eeyore, getting
up slowly.  "Don't now-then me."
THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, A.A.  Milne
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  "Why, what's happened to your tail?"
Pooh said in surprise.
  "Somebody must have taken it," said 
Eeyore.  "How like Them," he added, after 
a long silence.
WINNIE-THE-POOH, A.A.  Milne

