Newsweek: Thanks for Showcasing Our Worst!

[Elessar]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195963

Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Although, I do have to say, if you read the entire article, it's pretty amazing that like, this one author got showcased. Talk about a lucky break. You could measure the movement of the stars by the next time Star Trek fanfiction has a mainstream media headline .

Plus it's kinda cool that she's marrying a woman she met through the Kirk/Spock fandom.

Still, this is like 20 yrs ago when they wrote articles about all the crazy obsessed social outcasts going to Cons. "Oh yeah, by the way, that's not all of them!"

We have a perfectly normal Star Trek 'ship fandom right here!

[Linda]

From this article, I get a laugh out of Roddenberry possibly thinking Spock was asexual. Would that be sort of like a mule being asexual because it is a product of two different species and unable to reproduce?

Of course, if Vulcans (full Vulcan or mixed species) are not supposed to be sexual....there goes half my fan fiction down the tubes.

[Alelou]

Eh, fanfic gets attention paid every once in awhile. One of my friends who writes Justice League fanfic got mentioned in an article in Penthouse last year -- probably in a tie-in to Batman or whatever, I don't remember. She was fairly horrified about how to heck to get her hands on a copy and what it might do to her elementary teaching career, but as far as I know there haven't been any repercussions.

I just don't get into slash -- I like canon-friendly stuff, after all -- but if I WERE into slash, Kirk & Spock would definitely be the most likely pair. Well, other than Reed and Hayes... those two had chemistry.

[Linda]

Actually I do not write slash, LOL, I was just thinking heterosexual sexuality as applied to Vulcans - and more just romance than the underlying sexuality which drives it.

Reed and Hayes? Really? Hmm, never considered that the tension between them could be sexual. But now that you mention it...

[Asso]

Human mind is really full of unexpected surprises.

[justTripn]

Actually I do not write slash, LOL, I was just thinking heterosexual sexuality as applied to Vulcans - and more just romance than the underlying sexuality which drives it.

Reed and Hayes? Really? Hmm, never considered that the tension between them could be sexual. But now that you mention it...

Linda, remember when you wrote a perfectly innocent story about Soval and Admiral Forrest playing racketball? And how they had been planning to take a trip together before Forrest died? And it ended with Soval regretting that they'd never been able to explore each other's "secret places" or something . . .

To the pure, all things are pure . . .

[justTripn]

Sorry, or maybe there is some other explanation, since you've written some hot stories (and I haven't )

[JadziaKathryn]

the mind reels at what slash writers might make of virile, 20-something Kirk and Spock as played by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto

Oi, this is true.

[Aikiweezie]

Oh, dear.

Can't read or write Slash stuff. Just not for me.

Anyway, as far as people thinking sci-fi "geeks" or trekkies are weird, that just goes with the territory, I guess. Whenever I "out myself," people are surprised by my interests. I don't know what they are expecting as far as their stereotype of trekkies & sci-fi "geeks" are, but I guess I don't fit. I mean I'm so excited by the new movie I can hardly contain myself!!!!!!!!! Some of my closest friends really don't get it.

[Alelou]

I'm often surprised by who's a Trekkie and who doesn't get it at all. But I err on the side of assuming they won't get it at all unless someone is wearing a Superman t-shirt or something equally out there.

X-Files was easier to be 'out' over, though I still thought it was really kind of freaky when I met some of my online XF pals in NY to see The House of Mirth at the NY Film Festival because Gillian Anderson was in it, and the crowd was absolutely FULL of women with short red bobs wearing stylish black jackets like the one she wore in the movie. All those would-be Scully's ... mixed in with a bunch of Edith Wharton groupies and general film snobs ... it was pretty wild watching them all eyeing each other outside the theater.

[Aikiweezie]

Come to think of it, none and I do mean NONE of my friends understand my involvement in the martial arts either, ! Besides, I'm the ONLY female training in my art in the entire midwest and one a very few in the country for that matter. Maybe I am weird!

[CX]

Am I the only one who found Laurie Holden way hotter than Gillian Anderson?