Slog - Comments on "Every once in a while you'll stumble upon a forum or an online community that is so specific, so insane, so completely ridiculous that you are forced to conclude that you have reached the end of the Internet." http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon The eight weirdest communities on the Internet. (Via Chaos Theory.) No. 2: Slash Fan Fiction What it is When you're watching your favorite TV show, do you often find yourself wishing that the plot would be completely derailed by hardcore pornography? If the answer is yes (which you know it is), then the Slash Fan Fiction community might be just the place for you. Excerpt that Sums Up the Community In A Nutshell Spock was pleased that he was able to give his Jim so much pleasure. He knew it was an activity outside of the Vulcan culture, but inside... Copyright 2008 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:55:45 -0800 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:11:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Chris B I have far too many friends who are into slash and I, in true Seattle form, nod and smile as they go off about their epic Highlander/A-Team/Anchorman crossovers.

Is there a cure?

]]> Chris B http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793749 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:58:25 -0800 Comment by zzyzx The real problem with slash is when the actual creators think that that actually is their fanbase and start pandering to it. Buffy was victim to this.

]]> zzyzx http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793753 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:01:23 -0800 Comment by Gitai I can't read slash, but I've certainly masturbated to my fair share of yaoi.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793754 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793754 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:01:28 -0800 Comment by Rebecca Slash is always hardcore porn, which is something anyone with 5 seconds to spare on the internet can find out.

Why the hell is it second? Shouldn't, by rights, all fan fic be second? Yeah, slash writers spend 8,000 words writing stories about fictional characters getting their gay on, but there's just as much heterosexual fan fic. That isn't any less bizarre.

Really, did the person who made that list have any internet access at all? Try otakin. (Urban Dictionary it).

Porn is a lot less weird than thinking that you are the reincarnation of a fictional cartoon character.

]]> Rebecca http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793778 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:23:31 -0800 Comment by Curious zzyzx, where did Joss do that? I've only ever noticed a few throw-away lines that implied homosexuality. (Except for the gay characters, of course). Examples, please.

]]> Curious http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793780 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793780 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:25:39 -0800 Comment by Rebecca Slash is *not* always hardcore porn, that should read.

]]> Rebecca http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793781 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793781 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:26:15 -0800 Comment by G$ that one where kirk and spock were angels and were tying each other up with the belts from their angel robes, then having sex on the surface of sun - that one was kind of strange.

]]> G$ http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793790 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:34:16 -0800 Comment by yucca flower So what do you mean by weird, Erica C. Barnett? Doesn't everybody want to join the Ambiguously Gay Superheroes Club?

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793840 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793840 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:14:29 -0800 Comment by Gitai And the Furries Fur Christ site is way more disturbing than slash fic.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793878 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:42:23 -0800 Comment by Gloria The list was probably written by a straight guy. In my experience, straight guys are scared silly by fanfiction.

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793906 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:05:35 -0800 Comment by COMTE True Gloria, especially considering that most / fanfic (or at least "Star Trek" related K/S fanfic - which I only know about because, if you've been anywhere near ST fen in the past 30 years, it's pretty much unavoidable) seems to be written almost exclusively by straight females.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793964 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:45:27 -0800 Comment by --MC Old meme.

]]> --MC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c793966 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:45:40 -0800 Comment by inkweary When I went retro a few years ago and grew my hair out I was approached several times by some long-haired men at both The Cuff and The Eagle who gave me cards for a Seattle long-haired gay men's club. Each of them had such a high creep-factor that I began to question the wisdom of having such attractive hair. I told one of them that it wasn't his hair that made people dislike him it was him and he accused me of having Stockholm syndrome. They have a private web site that requires one to file a photo in order to be approved for joining. They also meet at Julia's once a month to work through all of the pain of being a long-haired gay man in a bigoted world. I wish I could remember the name of that club.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794015 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794015 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:27:32 -0800 Comment by tinydoc I've read harry potter slash fanfic featuring severus snape having wild furry sex with an hippogryff. It can't get werider than that.

Other than it, I find smallville/nip/tuck, etc etc fanfic pretty hot. And I am supposed to be a straight girl. So I agree with the theory that most fanfic is written by straight girls.

]]> tinydoc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794066 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794066 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:16:27 -0800 Comment by tinydoc I've read harry potter slash fanfic featuring severus snape having wild furry sex with an hippogryff. It can't get werider than that.

Other than it, I find smallville/nip/tuck, etc etc fanfic pretty hot. And I am supposed to be a straight girl. So I agree with the theory that most fanfic is written by straight girls.

]]> tinydoc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794067 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794067 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:16:40 -0800 Comment by tinydoc I've read harry potter slash fanfic featuring severus snape having wild furry sex with an hippogryff. It can't get werider than that.

Other than it, I find smallville/nip/tuck, etc etc fanfic pretty hot. And I am supposed to be a straight girl. So I agree with the theory that most fanfic is written by straight girls.

]]> tinydoc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794069 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:17:17 -0800 Comment by DHK Lots of straight men find two women together sexy; is it really that much of a surprise that lots of straight women find two men together sexy?

Look at it this way: isn't it hot that thousands of women are writing custom-made porn for each other?

]]> DHK http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794154 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794154 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:48:35 -0800 Comment by nucaligula haha, my girlfriend confessed she used to write harry potter themed slash fanfics.

i wanna know the rest of the list, and where the church that offers a nintendo wii for joining figures in to it.

]]> nucaligula http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794171 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:24:42 -0800 Comment by nucaligula oh. duh. so many links on slog...

]]> nucaligula http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794172 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:25:56 -0800 Comment by elenchos I always thought of the New Testament as Torah fanfic, and the Koran as a kind of New Testament slash fiction.

But yeah. I totally thought slash fic was the weridest thing ever. In 1993.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794180 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794180 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:44:59 -0800 Comment by zzyzx I was conflating slash with more generic shipping. It's the shippers that can really take over a fanbase.

]]> zzyzx http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794183 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:47:07 -0800 Comment by M/K I was reading the list and getting all annoyed at the slash being included. I was all ready to point out that it's some uptight straight guy's pov who obviously can't stand the fact that girl's like to write their own porn and doesn't he know that everyone reads it (even though they pretend they don't) and blah blah diddy blah.

Then I read the comments and felt all warm and fuzzy inside. I should have know Stranger readers would not be squicked by porn (bored by it maybe, but never squicked).

]]> M/K http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794184 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794184 What the Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:47:59 -0800 Comment by anonymous well at least 4chan got on the list

]]> anonymous http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/every_once_in_a_while_youll_stumble_upon#c794984 What the Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:11:34 -0800