one member of your otp dies and the other one lives for 94 years without them and doesn’t even get to say goodbye to them and carries around a birthday message from them in all their travels while knowing all the while that their first, best destinies were to be by each other’s side
Fanfic, and slash fiction in particular, is a huge part of SF fandom history – and its overlapping communities have mostly been built and shared by women.
Diane Marchant is generally regarded as the writer of the first published fic featuring Kirk/Spock – the ship which popularised slashfic as a fan phenonenon. And she was Australian, to boot!
You’re welcome, rest of the world.
The story, “A Fragment Out of Time,” published in Grup #3 in 1974, contained a steamy sex scene but named no names (and played the pronoun game, so it wasn’t even clearly marked out as a m/m relationship).
Still, the piece was illustrated with a Kirk & Spock picture drawn by Diane, making her intentions fairly obvious, and a cartoon underneath the final page of the story shows Bones saying to Kirk: “Impossible….. No, Jim. I warned you about messing with aliens…….. especially Vulcans.” (The look on Kirk’s face in the cartoon implies he has just been told about the existence of slash fiction. Oh, sweetie.)
I have no idea if you're still taking art requests, but I absolutely adore your blog and your art style makes me feel warm and fuzzy. :3 You're such a gem in the fandom!! Could you draw Kirk and Spock doing the cute forehead touch thing? Thank you so much, never stop drawing!
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thank you very much!! it’s cool to know that i’m a part of the fandom now hehe also here you go!
