Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 010

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Strange Bedfellows 10 was published in August 1995 and contains about 100 pages. 
There were 39 members sharing 27 subscriptions.
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* comments about Babylon 5, Interview with a Vampire
* "Thanks ever so for the B5 tapes. I hear the producer wants no fanfic, or wants it out of his way, the latter prohibition being one I can live with."
* lengthy comments on Regency romances, on Georgette Heyer
* comments about Science Fiction Fandom vs. Media Fandom, changing names for slash
* The X-Files and Mulder/Scully fiction
* Quantum Leap stories
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Menage a Deux by H J" ==
* detailed description of his month long lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand, many fannish encounters and comments
* watching "The Funky Squad" -- a pastiche of The Mod Squad and Starsky and Hutch played as camp but without overt jokes
* The Viacom Crackdowns in Australia
* lack of songvids in Australian fan culture
* Open Letter by Bjo Trimble to Doctor Who Fans and its response in Australia
* the use of the word "queer" in fan spaces
* a reprint from CCSTSG Enterprises #47 (June 1995) about the Viacom Crackdowns
* much about acafans, fan studies and visibility
===Excerpts from "Menage a Deux by H J"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker" ==
* many comments on the 53rd Worldcon 
* an essay, "Why I Want to Gay the Worldcon" by a Token Lesbian: its topic is a past Worldcon in Glasgow ("3 or 4 years ago"), of being the token gay person on a panel about AIDS and science fiction, how being a token anything is humiliating and no fun but necessary, comments at that panel by John Brunner about how AIDS will suppress sex drives and "have a stultifying effect on the arts," MUCH about AIDS and visibility and education
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Weirdness on a Swan's Wing" ==
* working hard on a zine that has a focus of this fan's fiction, trying to get it out in time for MediaWest*Con so it can be financially viable
* turning a fellow fan onto a new fandom
* comments about her zine, 98% Pure Murphy
===Excerpts from "Weirdness on a Swan's Wing"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Yamibutoh" ==
* comments on the film, Interview with a Vampire, and the plethora of the zines for this fandom available in Japan
* discussion on why stories where characters are "on vacation" and AUs are mostly not very interesting
* comments on Bujold characters
* what is slash?
* comments about I Spy
* addresses the past/current rants that began in issue #7
* further discussion of whether knowing actors were sexually involved with each other would affect one's enjoyment of slash stories about them
* comments and description about a new Japanese show called "Nighthead"
===Excerpts from "Yamibutoh"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "The Ghost in the Christine" ==
* this fan has been away from the apa for perhaps a year, has comments on #7, #8, #9, some of which address the various rants
* description of a private tour of the Houston Space Center
* comments about children, nudity, photography
* being glad about recent films, where women don't scream, and men cry
===Excerpts from "The Ghost in the Christine"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Paradoxical Ramblings" ==
* comments about Led Zeppelin, vids
* MOO, the internet
* Borderland by Will Shetterly and Teri Windling, fan stories, origins
* fandom police
* song reuse for vids
* addresses a fan about long rants
* Pros AUs
* Vas & Dex
===Excerpts from "Paradoxical Ramblings"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by K K" ==
* experiences and observations about being a German slash fan
* slash as a female white fandom
* poor German translations of books, Star Trek pro novels
* Mary Sues, IWIFs
* comments about characters being sexual extensions of the writer
* comments about slash authors being misogynistic 
===Excerpts from "Untitled by K K"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Desert Blooms" ==
* a review of the movie "First Knight," which the fan found terrible
* music used in slash stories
* shows that have not aged well, Starsky & Hutch
* comments about the Pros The Grievous Bodily Harm Series ("the catheter story"), see that page
* comments about the Pros story, Such a Day Tomorrow, see that page
===Excerpts from "Desert Blooms"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "WHIPS: Coming Up For Air" ==
* what is slash?
* discussion about the different meanings of author "identification" in fiction
* writing and self-awareness
===Excerpts from "WHIPS: Coming Up For Air"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "WHIPS: Evolution in Action" ==
* defining and categorizing slash stories
* due South
* comments about MediaWest*Con
* comments about Magnum Opus Con in Atlanta, Ga., see that page
===Excerpts from "WHIPS: Evolution in Action"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These..." ==
* joining online communities
* Mary Sues
* paranoia and visibility
* DOOM
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These..."===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads are Better Than One" ==
This trib is by [N B] and [M F G].
* [N B] "with a long, rambling paean to 'Batman Forever'"
* [N B]: comments on language, French vs English
* [N B]: comments about the movie "Jeffrey"
* [M F G's] "endless mailing comments including a lot of talk about Mary Sues and the lies writers tell."
* [M F G] "on classic Trek and current gay styles, F/F slash thoughts and pairings, and a plea never to take her comments personally as she's really just an argumentative bitch."
* [M F G]: long comments about the Star Trek: TOS episode, Mirror, Mirror
* [M F G]: why isn't there more f/f fiction?
* [M F G]: many, many more pages of comments on the comments on the rants and anti-rants, plus the disclaimer it's not meant to be personal
* [M F G]: comments about the Babylon 5 zine, Catalyst, see that page
* [M F G]: comments on Mary Sues
* clipping: "Old Debate: Super-Heroes, Sexuality," an article by Frank DeCaro from the LA Times, July 4, 1994
===Excerpts from "Two Heads are Better Than One"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* comments about Eroica/Led Zeppelin slash
* the ethics of having sex with "people" on the holodeck in Star Trek: TNG
* Blake's 7 and the possibility of slash
* the Japanese print artist (Utamaro)
* Dorothy Dunnett books
* comments on Mary Sues
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "The World is Hollow..." ==
* "Last issue was the first time since TNU #2 that I did not have an apazine in the apa. This makes me unhappy..."
* comments about the sexism in The X-Files
* the lack of non-white characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager
* sneaking into a Creation Con to see Paul Darrow's bald spot
* comments about MZB, Darkover, and slash
* comments about Mary Sues, the zine One Way Mirror
* race, class, and fandom
===Excerpts from "The World is Hollow..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Push the Button, Frank" ==
This fan is leaving the apa. 
===Excerpts from "Push the Button, Frank"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced by T H" ==
* comments on Babylon 5, due South
* not liking The X-Files any more due to the horror content
* a con report for Closet Con, see that page
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced by T H"===
==References==
Category:Slash Zines