: Bounce! (partly_bouncy) wrote in slashphilosophy,
2005-05-15 14:08:00

History of slash fan fiction

Developing timelines... And I thought this might be of interest to people in the community... This is a partial list of some of the dates I am aware of...

1974

"A Fragment Out Of Time" is the first known Star Trek slash to be published in fanzine. The author was Diane Marchant. The vignette was published in Grup #3. The language was highly coded and didn't refer to Spock and Kirk by name but rather referred to them as he and him.(Curtin, ksboyd@sfu.ca, Verba )

1975

"Ring of Shoshern," a Kirk/Slash story, is circulated privately in Great Britain. It will not be published until 1987. (http://www.beyonddreamspress.com/history.htm )

In "Halkan Council," D. Marchant published an essay about Star Trek Kirk/Spock slash. The first public discussion of this essay occurred in the Star Trek letterzine, ""Grup" #4." as a reaction to the essay written by D. Marchant. (ksboyd@sfu.ca, Langley )

Star Trek Lives!, editted and written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston, was published. This book contained a chapter at the end of the book which examines Star Trek fan fiction and the Kirk/Spock relationship in fan fiction. This book is important because that last chapter helped formed a lot of the modern thought on slash fan fiction communities. Scholars still cite this source today.

1976

According to the National Library of Australia, the Star Trek Action Committee was formed as a Star Trek Club. This Star Trek Club held its first meeting in April. Members included Susan Clarke, Julie Townsend and Edwina Harvey. This fanclub would publish the Star Trek adult fanzine, containing both het and slash, Beyond Antares. (http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/startrek.html )

In June, "Alternative: Epilog to Orion" is written by G. Downes and published in a fanzine. It was the second piece of Kirk/Spock slash to appear.

Leslie Fish's Shelter is one of the first fully-developed K/S short stories that is published. It was published in Warped Space 20. (http://www.beyonddreamspress.com/history.htm )

1978

Between January and March, "Thrust" is the first Star Trek fanzine published to contain only Kirk/Spock slash in the early part of this year.

1980

1980 was an interesting years. More and more fan fiction communities were coming into existence as new, different shows and movies attracted different audiences. Communities that were in existence were being revitalized and attracting new audiences as new things were created in those universes. Oh and slashyness abounds.

The Starsky and Hutch community in England veers into the land of slash. This happened when “Forever Autumn” was published in March. “Forever Autumn” was the first piece of slash to be written in this community. According to Langley and ksboyd@sfu.ca, this caused a disruption in the community as members worried about the reaction of the actors, networks and producers to this material. They feared that those parties would attain these materials and begin a crackdown to prevent the proliferation of this material.

The Professionals community starts up and starts up as a primarily slash based community.

1981

The Professionals fan fiction community starts out as a primarily slash oriented community. (Sharon Brondos on FCA-L )

1982

The Professionals fan fiction community starts out as a primarily slash oriented community. (Sharon Brondos on FCA-L )

1983

The Professionals fan fiction community starts out as a primarily slash oriented community. (Sharon Brondos on FCA-L )

1984

The Professionals fan fiction community starts out as a primarily slash oriented community. (Sharon Brondos on FCA-L )

1985

Slash: A subgenre of fan fiction featuring canonically heterosexual characters in homosexual relationships. Origins: 1985, "Night Tonight Spock“ earliest?, Star Trek.

Duran Duran fen were writing slash and distributing it amongst themselves. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/halegirl/370787.html?replyto=576099)

1988

Actors and American fans of Blake's 7 began interaction at conventions. This some times led to correspondences, personal phone calls, and general chit chat. In the midst of an unrelated fannish argument, some fans showed the actors slash fanzine based on Blake's 7 as a form of punishment for things in other parts of fandom. The actors were upset because they did not view their characters as homosexuals and they saw slash as a violation of trust with their fans. One of the actors tried to ban slash authors and slash from the Blake's 7 fandom. Eventually, this died down and the Blake 7's fandom went on. (ksboyd@sfu.ca, Langley )

1989

Duran Duran slash and het fic circulated in fanzines. According to Sidewinder, Duran Duran zine people said that Duran Duran were aware of the fan fiction. Sidewinder also notes that the RPF people at the time did not seem to come from the same community as "traditional fan fiction fans" were coming from. (Sidewinder: http://www.livejournal.com/users/halegirl/370787.html?thread=544099#t544099 )

1991

Seven slash stories were posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

In May, the first slash story posted to the Intenet involving Mulder was "Pleasant Dreams" by Laura Cooksey. It featured Mulder and an original male character. ( Rosalita: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

In October, the first Mulder/Skinner story was written. It was "Authority" by Laura Cooksey. It would set the tone for future Mulder/Skinny fan fiction. ( Rosalita: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

1996

Fifty slash stories were posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative. ( Rosalita: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

Between October and December, the Mulder/Krycek Romantics Association was created.

Between October and December, the Mulder/Skinner Slash Society was created.

On July 31, Brenda Antrim's "Krychek" was the first piece of Mulder/Krycek slash. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

Between August and October, Alternative (alt) fan fiction becomes standard in the Xena fandom.

Between August and October, Dax opens her fan fiction archive "Obsessions" which contains alt stories and quickly becomes a favorite site of Xena fans. ( Lunacy )

On April 16, Michael Demcio's "Rhyme and Reason," premieres as the first Rescue Ranger fan fiction on Usenet. It was the first novel-length Ranger story, and the first story to explore the possibilities of the Chip/Gadget relationship, the first to provide real character development for any of the characters. ( http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/indyranger/fanficinfo.html )

1997

In December, slash reaches a critical mass in the X-Files fan fiction community.

On August 13, the Sakura Lemon Fan-Fiction Archive was founded.

alt.fan.disney.afternoon discusses the merits of a Chip/Gadget relationship. This discussion leads to bitterness on both sides of the argument. ( http://www.juliestudio.com/rangers/history.html )

1998

Chick with a Dick: Male characters, often in slash, who are written as overly feminine while still retaining their male identity. Origins: 1998, God Awful Trek Fan Fic.

On March 12, Sofie Werkers founded the Rareslash mailing list.

Discussion wise, several fan fiction communities discuss slash and various defense of slash fan created articles begin to be created for distribution in the fannish community.

On ASCEM, related dialogue involves the issue of if slash and het need to be rated differently.

From October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FFN-Slashers-Unite/ )

WPAdmirer writers her Chicago series, an ER/X-Files cross over that was influential in ER slashy circles. (Cathy (huntersglenn@cox.net) on alt.tv.er.creative )

350 pieces of slash were posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative. ( Rosalita: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/45288.html?replyto=1119208 )

Tom Paris raped in prison fanon developed. The idea that Tom Paris was raped in prison first came from fen who had read it in a story by Brenda Antrim. The story worked this concept in so seamlessly that other people borrowed it for their own stories or assumed it was canon and referenced it in their own works. As more people did this, the idea perpetuated and perpetuated until there became honest debate within the fandom as to whether or not this idea was actually canon.

1999

WPAdmirer writers her Chicago series, an ER/X-Files cross over that was influential in ER slashy circles. (Cathy (huntersglenn@cox.net) on alt.tv.er.creative )

Letters over the Sea, one of the first pieces of Lord of the Rings slash published to the Internet and one of the more influential stories in the Lord of the Rings slash community, was published. It featured the Sam/Frodo pairing and was written by Gytha and Prembone. (Elke_Tanzer: http://www.livejournal.com/users/elke_tanzer/605084.html?replyto=3557020 , http://www.drawingoffthecream.net/LotR/letters.html)

In September, Least Expected, the first Lord of the Rings slash archive, was founded. ( Elance: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/47794.html?replyto=1059762 )

In September, tolkien_slash, first LOTR slash list, was founded. ( Elance: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/47794.html?replyto=1059762 )

Man from U.N.C.L.E., We have each other 3 was published in 1999. It contained mostly slash. It won a Huggy and a Stiffie award.

On October 1, the Basement, an X-Files slash fan fiction archive, was founded. ( http://basement.ditb.org/ )

On May 19, the Master and Apprentice archive was founded at http://www.sockiipress.org/ma/index.html . Currently, this archive is the largest archive of Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon on the Internet with over 2,400 stories archived. This archive was also important in that it seems to have set the trend of writing stories based on media BEFORE the media hits the public. ( fishgoat )

2000

Mailing lists were also at their shining and brightest thanks to the ease of use of services like Topica and EGroups. A number of influential lists that would influence the course of their fan fiction communities were founded. These include RS-X, Better Buffy Fics, Prospect-L, ER Realms of Slash, Fanthropology, and Harry Potter for Grown Ups.

BadFic, a tradition which can be traced back to Paula Smith’s Mary Sue, became more main stream and critical, less kind approaches to critiquing fan fiction began to happen. This was evident across fan fiction communities with the rise of lists and websites like Better Buffy Fics, Citizens Against Bad Slash, the Wicked X Witches and God Awful Fan Fiction. It was also mirrored in the greater proliferation of MSTs of fan fiction.

WPAdmirer writers her Chicago series, an ER/X-Files cross over that was influential in ER slashy circles. (Cathy (huntersglenn@cox.net) on alt.tv.er.creative )

On October 21, ER Realm Of Slash, a mailing list dedicated to ER slash, was founded. (Kathy (huntersglenn@cox.net) on alt.tv.er.creative)

On June 28, Prospect-L, a Sentinel Discussion (Slash & Gen) mailing list, is founded.

beatlesfanfictionlist was founded on September 24, 2000.

On April 7, the Bindlestitch mailing list was created. (Marythefan: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/65512.html?replyto=1435112)

Fuh-Q became part of fannish terminology. The phrase was invented on alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated and originally used by jacquez, hafital, and ladykardasi. The word came from an in joke on the Usenet group. This fannish tradition was a result of a discussion about Spock only having sex once every seven years. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanspeak_help/3054.html)

2001

The Blink 182 slash fan fiction community based at FanFiction.Net was producing early and influential works in the community. Among these works are Advantages of Alcohol, Letters After Death, In my Room, Defying Gravity, and Deafening. (xcacophony: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fdnet_history/725.html?replyto=1749 )

Between December 2001 and December 2003, the Lord of the Rings slash fan fiction community began a massive expansion after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. ( Elance: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/47794.html?replyto=1059762 )

Between December 19 and December 28, the tolkien_slash mailing list on Yahoo discussed the slashy subtext between the actors in the movie. (Marythefan: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/65512.html?replyto=1435112)

On December 28, LOTR_RPS was created. It was one of the first or the first LotR RPF communities. (Marythefan: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/65512.html?replyto=1435112)

Between December 2001 and December 2003, the Lord of the Rings RPS fan fiction community began a massive expansion after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

On July 28, the BibleSlash mailing list was created.

Between June and November, FFN-Slashers-Unites discussed the ethical implications of Real Person Slash.

2002

Between December 2001 and December 2003, the Lord of the Rings RPS fan fiction community began a massive expansion after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

On May 15, slashpuppets was founded. It was one of the first, possibly the first, LotR RPS role playing community. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=slashpuppets&mode=full , redpanda: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanthropology/65512.html?replyto=1434344 )

On January 13, RestrictedSection, a Harry Potter fan fiction site, received a Cease and Desist. (http://www.chillingeffects.org/fanfic/notice.cgi?NoticeID=522)

2003

Between December 2001 and December 2003, the Lord of the Rings RPS fan fiction community began a massive expansion after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

On April 12, idolslash, one of the most influential American Idol fan fiction communities, was founded on LiveJournal. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=idolslash&mode=full , tisharrasofine on AIM)

On May 5, current_affairs, a LiveJournal community for political slash, was created. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=current_affairs&mode=full)

On July 23, AFI_Slash livejournal community was created. It claims to be the first and only community. It should be noted that this community is small and FanDomination.Net has most stories and authors than this community. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=afi_slash&mode=full)

www.psa.shadow-wrapped.net received a Cease and Desist for adult Harry Potter content. (Chilling Effects)

2004

Between July and November, political slash went main stream in the Real Person Fic community when John Kerry/John Edwards slash becomes all the rage.

On July 6, johnxjohn, the Kerry/Edwards RPF LiveJournal community, was created. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=johnxjohn&mode=full)

On February 2, Blink_Slash, a Live Journal Blink 182 slash community, was founded. ( http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=blink_slash, xcacophony: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fdnet_history/725.html?replyto=1749 )

On July 24, matag, a Live Journal Blink 182 slash community, was founded. (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=matag&mode=full, xcacophony: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fdnet_history/725.html?replyto=1749 )

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