Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 017

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Strange Bedfellows 17 was published in May 1997 and contains about 60 pages. 
There were 30 members sharing 22 subscriptions. There were 11 tribs to this issue.
 
==From the OE, and a Scolding Fan (Interest is Waning)==
Many fans' tribs are getting shorter, fans are opening their tribs with apologies for missing previous deadlines and for how short their replies are. 
The central mailer, Shoshanna, addressed this apathy:
A fan's trib (The Magic May Return) contained this scold for her fellow tribbers:
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* comments about Babylon 5
* analysis of Due South and magical realism
* sentimentalism and self-interest in fiction/characters
* about fairies, elves and homosexuals
* comments about The Same Everywhere, The Hand We Were Dealt, Winter's End, and Holes in the Ozone, see those pages
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Cat's Darkling Zone" ==
* nothing fannish
==Some Topics Discussed in "Love Without Mercy" ==
* some what ifs story scenarios
* Ares/Xena slash thoughts 
* Benton Fraser's inarticulateness
* analysis of Meg Thatcher
===Excerpts from "Love Without Mercy"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by E R" ==
* comments about Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Sabrina, and Millennium
* many reviews of for-profit books by Carol Davis, Mercedes Lackey, Alan Dean Foster, Barbara Hambly, Susan Matthews, Kevin Anderson, and many more
* a flyer for the proposed zine, What did you do in the War Invasion, Daddy? (which was to be a planned shared universe)
===Excerpts from "Untitled by E R"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker" ==
* speculation about some crossover fiction possibilities
* comments on The X-Files 
* a long story excerpt by this fan, "Immortal and Afraid" (a Forever Knight/Highlander/Quantum Leap crossover) with much analysis by the author: "Notes: I don't normally do this. I mean, show stories around before they're finished, to anyone except my core. And even then, usually on screen. But this story doesn't work, and isn't going to work. (If anyone can get it to work, they're welcome.)."
* comments about Samuel R. Delany
* a long, long description and analysis of a Picard/Q Star Trek: TNG story (unnamed here, but is His Beloved Pet); this essay was later posted on line as Q Who?
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors" ==
* comments on Winter's End, see that page
* a black and white photocopy of Scully holding Mulder in a dress, reprinted from "Us Magazine" (May 1997 issue)
===Excerpts from "Mardi Gras Favors"===
Image:scullylifingmulderphotocopy.jpg|the photocopy that's in this APA, an example of the almost always poor quality of things fans could share with each other when dependent on the technology of the time
Image:scullyliftingmulderoriginal.jpg|the original photo (NOT IN THIS APA)
==Some Topics Discussed in "The Magic May Return" ==
* this fan (relatively new to the APA) scolds the other fans on their short, boring, and lazy recent tribs In the last issue of this APA, this same fan states she doesn't really like slash anyway, and denigrates others' interests in it as well. This not unlike the Woody Allen joke about women complaining about a restaurant. Woman A: "The food here is terrible." Woman B: "Yes, and such small portions." 
* this fan insults fan interaction on the internet: there's no deep thought there, conversations are ephemeral and shallow, then precedes to dangle a net-published story (a Babylon 5 story called "Scavenger Hunt") in front of her fellow tribbers, calling it "brilliant and funny" and "one of the most satisfying B5 stories I've read yet"
* more on mixed messages: the "feather-headed fluff" she sees has made her intrigued enough to go to archives where the stories become "decently written"
* much about female characters, sexuality, Babylon 5
* comments on the story, Balance of Power, see that page
 
===Excerpts from "The Magic May Return"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These ..." ==
* darker fandoms, sweetness and domestic bliss
* the violent punk that is Mulder
* comments on pixel manipulation and fan art
* a reprint off the internet (with permission) of the X-Files story, A Kiss Is Just A Kiss by Jane Symons (Krycek/Mulder) 
* an early use of !
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These ..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Tales From the Obsessed" ==
* tension and angst in slash stories
* description of a Blake's 7 story written for a friend
* being a fan of Xena
===Excerpts from "Tales From the Obsessed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "For the World is Hollow..." ==
* pixel manipulation vs. fan art
* Marcus Cole from Babylon 5, acceptance of a black sex symbol on television
* how historical fiction and fanfiction are similar in terms of readers filling in the blanks
* Joanna Russ, and fan interpretation of male slash couples
* comments about early edits to Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking: Selections from The Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows
* some Bodie and Doyle avatars in pro fiction
* views on who the internet will change fandom
===Excerpts from "For the World is Hollow..."===
==References==
 
Category:Slash Zines