Question for all and sundry

[perpetual_motion]

What fandom/pairing made you see the slash?

For me, like so many other impressionable youth, it was The Sentinel. I was home sick one day and Sci-Fi channel was running a mini-marathon. I came in around the middle of the first season, and I spent the rest of the day trying to decide if the two guys were just roommates, or if they were sleeping together. In the very first episode I watched, Blair made dinner, lectured Jim about eating more leafy greens, and there was hugging. And touching. And more touching. I maintain that anyone who watches The Sentinel and doesn't yell "GAY!" is a moron.

Comments

[mcee.livejournal.com]

i'd been into x-files for a couple years but deeply into the het; it's, of all things, a due south fic that made me see the slash. i remember it to this day, even though i never got into the fandom.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

You may be the only slasher from the 90s who didn't get into DS. I feel like I should give you a prize.

[mcee.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised myself. i liked the shows, i liked the actors, and i liked the few fics i read.

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a fandom that made me see the slash, but a story. It was a comedic orgy with every male character from every fannish show on the air in 1997. I can't remember the name or author, but I laughed myself silly and then said, "Slash. Huh. I should look into that."

Being heavily into Highlander at the time, with side trips into X-Files, my first slash pairings were Duncan/Methos and Mulder/Krycek.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...Methoss. He is the man who made me love the narrow face with the big nose. And oversized sweaters.

[amazonqueenkate.livejournal.com]

Actually, Bug and Nigel made me see the slash.

Well, sort of.

I'd been an anime fangirl for a long, long time, but tended to stick to the canon of the shows I wrote for (which were basically, and don't laugh, Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon). I had friends that slashed the Gundam Wing boys, and I tried it out, but it never really worked for me. I liked canon. I liked it a lot.

Junior year of college, I slowly started to fall out of anime. A friend of mine kept telling me to watch CJ, and I was like, "Eh. Maybe." Well, CJ was on after the only TV show I watched at that time - L&O: CI - so I was like, "Okay. I'll try it out." And it wasn't bad. So I started watching it more regularly, and there was some episode - I don't even remember which one, but it was some episode last season - that made me go, "OMG. Are those guys (Bug and Nigel) TOGETHER?" And I stared and was all, "Oh my God, they are. They have to be. I WANT FIC WITH THEM IN IT." And when I couldn't find it, I started writing it.

I started watching more TV, and seeing more and more slash. But it was Bug and Nigel that started me down that slippery slope.

I owe them. ;)

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I remember sitting with my mother watching the infamous scene with Nigel, Trey, and the motorcycle, and when it was over, I just kind of stared at the floor and tried not to jump for joy. Canonically bent hadn't happened ever in my televisin viewing, and that scene still makes me grin like an idiot.

[amazonqueenkate.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe, that is a great scene. When I first saw that episode, I was one of eight people left in my dorm building and I was lounging on the couch in the TV lounge and trying not to squeal because the whole of the residential life staff for my building was standing about twenty feet away, talking, and really, I didn't want to be a total giddy dumbass. Hee.

[butterbuns.livejournal.com]

Totally Bug and Nigel. Though...at the time, it did nothing more than sqick me out.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

And now you've been turned to the gay side!

The homosexual agenda is coming to fruition!!!

::manaical laughter::

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

Gundam Wing, actually. *shame* But seriously, it was so much with the gay! All the boys were having much sex with all the other boys on this sort of rotating schedule, while the girls ran everything and cast each other lascivious glances. My first real slash experience was Mulder/Krycek, though, with Sentinel a close second, of course.

anyone who watches The Sentinel and doesn't yell "GAY!" is a moron.

We should put that on a bumper sticker, for it is SO TRUE.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that most people from the mid-ninties seem to have found slash through either anime or The Sentinel or Due South. Certain things were just really...open to interpretation then.

I would put that bumper sticker on my car.

[vkai.livejournal.com]

This is rich. . . quite frankly I had never even heard of/considered slash until Bug/Nigel. AND at first, I was actually a fan of Bug/Lily *hangs head in shame* and looking for fic when I found miriam_heddy's website with about three B/N fics on it at the time and I said, "what the Hell, I'll read one of these." And As I was reading it, I thought "how on Earth did I not see this before???" And then I was hooked. I guess you could say I'm still a "slash novice." From then on I've been much more observant of all shows I watch and now I see it all over the place.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I was amazed at how much subtext I saw after finding out about slash. Everything I turned on, I could find something. There was a moment during "Celebrity Mole" that was entirely too scary for its own good.

[kienie-darkside.livejournal.com]

For me it was Snarry (Snape/Harry) that first attracted me to the world of slash. Before that it was strictly HP het (mainly Snape/Hermione). Hell, I was 13, what did I know? I think I did a Google search for more Snape-full fics and came upon the Fuh-Q-quest (or something like that.) There I was also introduced to multiple pairings, Snarry amongst them. I now avoid the entire fandom like the plague. Heh.

[dragonessasmith.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter was my gateway fandom, all the way. It got me into fanfic, got me on the internet, got me into slash...it's crazy over there. Still love it. <3