Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 014

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Strange Bedfellows 14 was published in August 1996 and contains about 111 pages. 
There were 33 members sharing 22 subscriptions. 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* visual slash vs textual slash, Pros circuit stories and fans who'd never seen the show
* much about Babylon 5
* do comedic and campy shows (Xena and UNCLE) produce less slash than angsty ones?
* are words/darkfic dangerous?
* speculation on the Fraser/Victoria pairing
* pairings and Forever Knight
* Western fans and Japanese fans and differing mindsets regarding writing and From Eroica with Love 
* lack of Highlander and Forever Knight slash fiction
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Cat's Darkling Zine" ==
* Benton Fraser's manipulative behavior, why is he so screwed up? 
* racism in Star Trek, Babylon 5
* slash and black characters
* authorial intent and control
* much about Randall and Hopkirk
* Highlander, Twin Peaks
* Ralph Fiennes
* comments on The Same River, see that page
* Scully's clothes
* the character, Geordi La Forge
* figure skating
===Excerpts from "Cat's Darkling Zine"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Twinbear" ==
* Olympics, admiring athletes' bodies
* the unreality of the physical appearance of humans in the media
* comments on her zine, Deuce Double
* the fourth Independence Day film
* the latest Mission Impossible film
* Sliders, Forever Knight
* comments about books by Michelle West, David Drake, Robin Bailey
===Excerpts from "Twinbear"===
 
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker " ==
* a series of letters between [J C] and Hestia, discussing the stories/zines Wednesday Morning, City of Byzantium, Step We Gaily, Look Through My Eyes, E-Man-Uelle, "touched", the vid Cuts Both Ways, the pairings Avon/Vila, Spock/McCoy, becoming a fan of specific shows, the first A/V stories written, comparing [J C's] style with M. Fae Glasgow's
* enticing others into slash fandom, calling them "fledglings"
* comments on several movies: Beautiful Thing, Mission Impossible, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Rock
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker "===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Weirdness on a Swan's Wing" ==
* being on several slash panels at cons
* Visibility, is slash gaining some respectability?
* keeping one's slash interests from family members, co-workers
* Violating the Fourth Wall
===Excerpts from "Weirdness on a Swan's Wing"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Yamibutoh" ==
* various doujinshi
* "Takarazuka fem fans"
* "Eroica has been written over a number of years and during the writing time, Aoike's attitude towards her characters seriously changed."
* much analysis about Japanese culture, sexuality
* The X-Files, Babylon 5, Due South
* the musical, "Dora, the Cat Who Lived a Million Times"
 
===Excerpts from "Yamibutoh"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors" ==
* discovering Gossamer, the X-Files archive
* Led Zeppelin
===Excerpts from "Mardi Gras Favors"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "The Magic May Return" ==
* attending MediaWest*Con, with a raging migraine headache
* this fan really, really dislikes the Eroica characters
* Babylon 5, Due South
* children as sexual creatures
===Excerpts from "The Magic May Return"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Desert Blooms" ==
* non-white characters in slash, a list
* Babylon 5, War of the Worlds, Due South, Forever Knight
* getting turned on by one's own sex scenes
* the poor quality of fiction on the internet
* disappointment in watching shows in which actors talk about their own shows
===Excerpts from "Desert Blooms"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These..." ==
* this is the first fan to use an emoticon in her trib
* why a lack of Scully/Skinner stories
* The X-Files, Scully
* Krycek isn't evil, just "... morally confused. The poor kid was probably recruited young by CM, and had no idea of what he was getting himself into. By the time he realized what kind of shop CM ran, it was too late to get out."
* "Nicholas Lea has suggested M/K himself! He's says that's the real reason Krycek is always sneaking around Mulder's house!☺"
* the film, "Jeffrey"
* the lack of War of the Worlds slash
* Due South has taken over slash discussion in many places
* comments on The Prince of Cups, see that page
* Hurt/Comfort
* a reprint (with a black and white photo manip) of "Slick," an X-Files story by Brenda Antrim: "Here, just to prove it can be done: a Mulder/Krycek with Mulder on the bottom. It's netfic, reprinted with the kind permission of the author. This is an alternate ending to the recent two-parter, "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha." Contains spoilers for third season episodes."
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (N B)==
* Due South vs. Wiseguy: What gives rise to a slash fandom?
* "Overt actions vs. sophisticated innuendo: FK goes out B7 style while Xena producers reject outright denial of f/f relationship"
* Dalziel/Pascoe 
* the internet and quality control regarding what this fan considers horrible, careless, and too numerous, Due South fanworks
* regarding writing for shows one is not familiar enough with: "When I [catch an error, I] am jarred out of my happy immersion in a story like that, I find I have a hard time trusting the author afterwards."
* thoughts on black characters in slashfic 
* MUCH about racism, much about black characters and pairing, some shows with black characters (Babylon 5 and Homicide: Life on the Street) don't have much fanfic due to their structure and the way the shows are written, other shows don't have much because they have limited audiences, the exception is Star Wars and one can blame George Lucas for that
* The X-Files has run long enough, wrap it up
===Excerpts from "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (N B)===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Lavender Lilies" ==
* this fan, after years of "gobbling up" slash fanworks, is losing interest, why isn't there more variety, more f/f, more things other than white guys and buddy/cop fandoms?
* the show, Street Justice, and the lack of fanworks for it, slash and otherwise
* rape as it is depicted in mainstream media and fandom
* Silent Lily Universe, Snowbound or the Tale of Two Situations
* a full-page flyer explaining that the third issue of On the Edge was postponed due to lack of submissions
===Excerpts from "Lavender Lilies"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by N F-G" ==
* has become a fan of Due South
* much Due South character analysis
* comments on Put Your Head on My Shoulder, see that page
===Excerpts from "Untitled by N F-G"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Something Rich and Strange: Tales From the Obsessed" ==
* becoming a slash fan after years of not being one
* Remington Steele, The Sandbaggers, Man from U.N.C.L.E.
* the difficulty in trying to convince someone to like a pair they do not, quotes (with permission) a long quote by Doris Egan from a private mailing list
* comments about Duty
* identifying with characters in a story
===Excerpts from "Something Rich and Strange: Tales From the Obsessed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Something Rich and Strange: Untitled" ==
===Excerpts from "Something Rich and Strange: Untitled"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* Japanese fiction and homosexuality
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "For the World is Hollow..." ==
* comments on Angel in the Dark
* comments about the straight UNCLE stories by C.W. Walker
* character analysis about Forever Knight and the agency and history of Janette, disliking her the first season, changing her mind in the second season
* being disappointed and jossed by canon, yet persevering in one's fiction
===Excerpts from "For the World is Hollow..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced by T H" ==
* book signings as a waste of celebrity time
* Closed vs. Open Canon
* Due South
* commenting and viewing shows that are aired out of order
* using an episode as an old friend, rewriting it for another fandom
* a three-page flyer for The Wrap Party
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced by T H"=== 
==References==
Category:Slash Zines