Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:09:21 -0500 (EST)
From: MrMoJoRsn2 
Subject: [VP] Re: and how did YOU get into slash?

In a message dated 1/15/99 10:29:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
flamingoslim@delphi.com writes:

<< It's great to meet everyone and find out how they got into 
S&H, but now  it's time to dish the dirt.  How did YOU get into 
slash?  Why did it  appeal to you?  How do you deal with it?  Are 
in the closet about it?  What compels you to write it and read 
it?  >>

  Hello fellow VPers!

     How did I get into slash? Well, first I must say that I am 
only into S&H slash (and now "The Sentinel" thanks to Candy 
Apple's crossover S/H story with TS.) I was in other fandoms, 
like Forever Knight and X-Files and I saw and *deleted* the slash 
from the fic mailing lists I was on for those shows. Didn't like 
slash and didn't know many people who did.

     Can we say times have changed?<g> Now I am a slash junkie, a 
slash  slut...need I go on? I wait for the mailman everyday to 
bring me my S/H zine collection from various publishers. If I 
don't get it, I go into withdrawals. But, hey I digress.

    How did I get into it? Well, I was up late one night and 
watched  "The Psychic" on TNT since nothing else was on but S&H. 
I hadn't seen it  in years. Then at the very end, when Hutch is 
in the telephone booth  and Starsky runs up to him and holds his 
arm, my gaydar goes off  and I say to myself, no way, can they be 
gay? How come I didn't notice this as a child? I call another 
flight attendant friend, who just happens to be gay, and ask him 
to watch it the next morning. He does and calls  me back and 
says, "Yep, they are gay or I'm Queen Elizabeth." So, where does 
one go to find out if what I am thinking others are too? The 
Internet, of course. So, I found Alexis Rogers' web site and her 
fiction. Read "Cost of Love"  and was hooked and now totally 
obsessed with S/H fiction. Still don't read  slash in other 
fandoms, but I can see it in the S&H universe.

  Yes, I am basically in the closet. Most of my friends know (as 
I make them proofread my stories<g>) but my family doesn't and 
will never know. I've told my best friend that if I ever die 
(hopefully not for a LONG time),  she needs to get to my house 
and confiscate all my S/H zines and  my fiction disks, so my 
parents don't have a heart attack when they  clean out my 
room.<g> I can just image my religious mother reading about: 
"Hutch lovingly running his fingers up Starsky thigh!" She'd die. 
<g>
  
   What compels me to write or read slash? The love story of 
course. Having  read romance books for years, S&H is just an 
extension of that IMHO.  I value great writers anywhere and S&H 
fandom seems to have plenty of them.

  That's it for me. Next victim...I mean person.<g>

Laura
aka Lasha
MrMoJoRsn2
