Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 02:19:46 -0400
From: locicero
Subject: quick intro., x-over recs.

Hi, everybody!

I have no idea how many people on here are also subscribed to the 
z3 list, so sorry for the repeat info. to those who are.  I'm 
really psyched to have found _this particular list_!!

I've always loved S & H, in spite of my parents' assertion that 
it was a violent and therefore dangerous show -- I watched it 
when it first aired, but only on the sly, meaning I didn't get to 
see most of the eps. until TNT started running them.  I only 
found organized fandom a little over a year ago, too.  Thank 
GOD!!   (I feel as though I'd been ready to be plugged in for my 
entire life, but it wasn't until then that I managed to find the 
outlet! )

I hope it was here that someone wrote asking about good x-over 
stories in multi-media zines.  My suggestions:  There's a 
_wonderful_ SH/FK series called L.A. Knights in Good Guys Wear 
Fangs.  Also, Dark Fantasies has an AU SH/BD x-over involving 
them in WWII (H. is a pilot, S. a chemist (?!)) The first story 
is excellent;  the second one adds a FN element that taxes ye 
olde "suspension of disbelief"... (or it may be that after the LA 
Knights saga, nothing could possibly compare.). Still, they're 
both well written.

I also feel as though I've finally found my own creative medium 
in S/H. I'm addicted to zines (as a friend of mine says, "Drugs 
would be cheaper!") and I'm starting to write, as well.  I've got 
story ideas up the wazoo. I've written one that'll be in the next 
BEaBJ and I'm working on some others.  This is all so exciting to 
me that I can hardly stand it!!

OK, I'm getting punchy.  It's way later than it should be for me, 
having stayed up with other S/H fans till nearly six a.m. last 
night (that was really fun, guys!!), so I guess I'll post this 
now.  Bye!

Lisa


Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:57:21 -0500
From: locicero
Subject: [VP] introduction


Hi, everyone!  I'm one of the "older tenants" here (amazing how 
the rent's never been raised!) that Mama Bird's been pestering to 
re-introduce themselves -- better late than never, I guess.   
(And I mean pestering in a good way, Mom, so don't get your 
feathers all ruffled :)

Uh...I'm Lisa.  I'm thirty-something, happily married to someone 
who knows all about slash and thinks it's weird, but he is still 
supportive of my fannish activities, even as he reserves the 
right to tease me about them (he's not completely uninitiated in 
the ways of fandom, though -- he's a science-fiction nut from way 
back when).  Anyway, we have an old house (aka: work in 
progress), three cats and a dog, and we're working on kids. I 
teach high school Spanish and love it, and I have fannish stuff 
(SH, Star Trek, X-Files, Buffy) in my classroom, so the kids know 
about everything except the slash.  They think it's geeky, but 
kinda cool, too.

I've been a "fan" for my entire life, long before I knew anything 
about "fandom."  I always did "missing scenes" from TV shows and 
movies and books, and I was always drawn to male partner bonding 
(my earliest ones were from mythology and the Bible -- Roland and 
Oliver, David and Jonathan, etc.; later it was (don't laugh!!) 
Batman and Robin (OK, laugh), Holmes and Watson, Miller and 
Dietrich (Barney Miller), etc.  I did a lot of h/c stuff in my 
head, too (MASH was great for that...).  Start Trek was my first 
big fandom, and I read all the books and learned about zines and 
cons, but I never figured out how to get to any.  The first 
fanfiction I wrote was Dr. Who (I recently found the notebooks 
I'd saved for all these years -- hysterical!!).

I was a kid when SH was first aired, and even though I 
desperately loved it my parents, swayed by the "it's a violent 
show" arguments, wouldn't allow me to watch it. So I taped it 
whenever I could get away with it safely with a little cheap 
Panasonic tape recorder set up right by the TV in the den, the 
volume turned down low, staring at the clock and counting down 
the minutes 'til the mad dash for the mid-point tape flip and 
sweating that I wouldn't get caught (I didn't). I bought all the 
books, too :)  And I remember that Sweet Revenge drove me crazy!!  
I'd seen the previews, and couldn't help sneaking in every once 
in a while to see what was going on...those random images haunted 
me for YEARS.  I even wrote about them in a journal!

A few years ago I caught that TNT was re-running SH. I'd been 
waiting for that moment for my entire adult life -- finally, no 
mom or dad to tell me I couldn't watch it!! -- and dove in 
headfirst. By that time I'd been involved with another organized 
fandom (BATB) and knew my way around the net a little, so I 
searched for organized SH fandom and FOUND IT!!  I felt like a 
plug that had =finally= found the proper outlet!  I started out 
reading everything I could find, which was gen, and thinking that 
=anything= SH was golden, even though it wasn't all that good. 
But then a gen fan I'd "met" online mentioned S/H fiction to me, 
and gave me an address, and  I ordered Code 7 v.1 and THAT was 
IT. A monster was created. I soon met another S/H fan at a BATB 
con and we talked SH the whole weekend. Later I even met a couple 
in my own backyard (the best!!). I made my way to a Z-Con, made a 
point to find all the authors and zines I could, and the rest 
is...well, the rest. I've written a little under the pseud.  
Isabel Ortiz, and I'm slowly working on more (as I wave 
sheepishly to my ultra-patient editors), and also planning the 
follow up to Cold Pizza.

OK, I've been rambling, as usual when I get started.  Did my 
first intro go on like this?  I don't remember...  Anyway, I 
don't post too much anymore, but I do enjoy reading everyone 
else's posts and popping in every once in a while.


