Hoplites were heavy infantry, yes, and they were Greek.
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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Nutty - Mar 26, 2003 2:15:49 pm PST #4425 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Lyra Jane - Mar 26, 2003 2:32:18 pm PST #4426 of 10000
Up with the sun
I have a rec!
Impact, by Silver. It's a time-travel story about Cordelia, set in AtS S1 and S4. Great characterization, Cordy has her snark on, and it has a sniffly-happy ending.
esse - Mar 27, 2003 9:19:49 am PST #4427 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Mosca rec'ed me.
Nutty - Mar 27, 2003 9:35:54 am PST #4428 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Linguistic update: I have found print sources from 1984 (Leslie Fish, and a couple of others), so it may be possible to "chain" backwards through their citations to find an earlier print use of the word "slash". Less luck with the "K/S", although I found evidence that "Kirk/Spock" was in use in 1975, as used in a fanzine essay quoted by Camille Bacon-Smith. (I'll have page refs when I get home; they're all marked, but I didn't bring the books to work with me.)
I also found that the coining of "Mary Sue" as a noun was very soon after the first Mary Sue story was widely published. By 1974 the term was well-known and seemed to need no explanation.
I love this stuff. It's so cool.
You know what? Michele, you might have your linguist friend try contacting Camille Bacon-Smith directly. I know she's online and still in fandom (I've been on some listservs with her) and I bet she probably still has a lot of the old-style contacts who (a) were actually into K/S in the 70s and (b) still have print fanzines lying around in collections.
Me, I've never even seen a print fanzine.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 27, 2003 9:48:56 am PST #4429 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Go SA! That's cool!
Go Nutty! That's cool stuff!
Go Fandom. Fandom is cool.
Signed, everything is so cool today I think I may have sucked one too many icecubes.
Connie Neil - Mar 27, 2003 9:52:54 am PST #4430 of 10000
brillig
Me, I've never even seen a print fanzine.
Hubby has an old one with some Kirk/Uhura plus a "McCoy goes home on shoreleave and meets up with old flame while dealing with assorted shenanigans" plus a fun but truly silly "incredibly sexy female ambassador/entire male command staff on sucessive nights." Kirk gives it the trademark Starfleet try, Spock fakes her out with a nerve pinch and post-hypnotic type suggestion, McCoy goes all Southern gentleman, Chekhov is just grateful as hell, and Scotty is thinking, "Finally! My turn! Let me show you what a Starfleet engineer can do!" Truly, truly silly, not explicit, but funny.
askye - Mar 27, 2003 3:41:12 pm PST #4431 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
SA and Am-Chou, I found y'all both rec'ed at Blue Laces it's in the 22. For Fastlane and MASH.
esse - Mar 27, 2003 4:04:28 pm PST #4432 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Coolness. Thanks for pointing it out.
askye - Mar 27, 2003 4:30:42 pm PST #4433 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Always happy to point out where people have been recced.
Connie Neil - Mar 27, 2003 4:37:00 pm PST #4434 of 10000
brillig
Am-Chau got recced! Yay, Am-Chau!
And SA, too, of course. But I feel proprietary for Am, because I got a theological toaster for converting her.