Shhhh....

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

So... is it me, or is it very quiet around Pros right now?

Hmmmn.

*looks around*

So... what's everyone reading?

*g*

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[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm really not a "fan" as such.

I was steered to Pros by someone I met on a list who knew I was looking for MM romance. The concept was quite new to me -- all those stories by different writers, and different views by the same writers. I expected stories by one writer to be a consistent series at first, not (mostly) starting afresh each time.

So I got it from other fanfic and a few photos that were available, and the single transcript Stake-out that had been done at the time. The now-archived version was edited some time after the first posting, but the whole thing is not something I'd have written now, and probably not if I'd seen them on screen first -- or not quite the same way, anyhow.

Like many, I had been writing slash unaware during my teens for my own pleasure based on a favourite radio show (Journey Into Space) so I was fascinated to discover this whole world of other people doing the same thing. Wonderful internet -- I doubt I'd have encountered it the old-fashioned way.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, more interesting *g*

So what would be your definition of a "fan" then, as opposed to someone else who regularly writes slash fiction from a tv series?

I'm glad of the internet too, that's the only way I discovered slash - I've often wondered about the processes people went through to discover it pre-internet, friends of friends I guess, if you were lucky enough to have the right sort of friends! I was so ready for something like that when I was watching Pros originally, but there was not a whisper... And I have to admit that I was far too innocent to see the slash way back then anyway - just never occurred to me...