Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 011

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Strange Bedfellows 11 was published in November 1995 and contains about 102 pages. 
There were 35 members sharing 24 subscriptions. 
==From the OE==
==Some Topics Discussed in "Notes from Tomorrow" ==
* just enough to avoid "getting a little bomb next to my name," the warning for lack of participation
* very small amount of fannish comments
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* comments on zines at ZebraCon
* comments about Susan/Talia
* much about vampires in past fiction, Forever Knight slash, why it appeals to some and not others
* alien/alien and f/f fiction
* descriptions of pro book "paperback slash": "Matter of Oaths" by Helen Wright, "Ammonite" by Nicola Griffiths, "Uplink," "Ground Ties," and "Harmonies of the Net" by Jane Fancher, the Wraeththu trilogy, comics by Donna Barr, Alison Bechtel, Roberta Gregory
* why no Interview with a Vampire zines?
* June, manga
* Mary Sue, Jane Austen, pro Trek novels
* much about Batman/Robin
* stage personas and rock stars
* a long essay on hurt/comfort, focus on Erotica and hurting Dorian Red Gloria
* thoughts on AUs in Eroica, other manga
* X-Files, slash, a possible sexual relationship between Mulder and Scully, gender roles
* discussion about Marion Zimmer Bradley's book, "World Wreckers"
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Hide Your Men, Women, and Children!" ==
* language and how it changes
* what is slash
===Excerpts from "Hide Your Men, Women, and Children!"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Menage a Deux by C J" ==
* the film, "Strange Days"
* much about Georgette Heyer
* comments about The X-Files, being not sufficiently paranoid to enjoy
* comments about Babylon 5
* a long description of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode about Kira, Gul Dukat, and Dukat's daughter, which this fan found to be "deeply and profoundly offensive"
===Excerpts from "Menage a Deux by C J"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Vice Files" ==
* The Viacom Crackdown, mention of an unnamed pro writer who charges fans a buck to write fanfiction
* comments about Talia/Susan, fan speculation about another Babylon 5 character's canon sexuality
===Excerpts from "Vice Files"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Yamibutoh" ==
* slash zines in Japan based on computer games
* the popularity of slash ("original June") zines in Japan
* underage characters and slash in Japan, Patalliro!
* comments about some songvids by Carol McCoy, see that page
===Excerpts from "Yamibutoh"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors" ==
* comments on JMS's warnings to fans about Babylon 5 tape trading/selling
* comments on specific stories and zines
===Excerpts from "Mardi Gras Favors"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Desert Blooms" ==
* attending ZebraCon for the first time
* unhappiness with the direction Forever Knight is going
* Babylon 5, U2, Music RPF
* the Viacom Crackdown and Paramount throwing its weight around
===Excerpts from "Desert Blooms"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemas? " ==
* a fan has fallen for Mulder/Krycek and X-Files
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemas? "===
==Some Topics Discussed in "D is for Done" ==
* finishing up a Bodie/Doyle fic, The Greatest Treason for the zine D-Notice
===Excerpts from "D is for Done"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Running All the Way" ==
* f/f fiction, why there isn't more of it
* some quotes from an Anne Rice mailing list 
* how slash has changed this fan's life
* a quick mention of working on the Pros novel, Angel in the Dark
* inclusion of a short essay, "What Is Art" by Leo Tolstoy (1897) Part XV
===Excerpts from "Running All the Way"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by M G" ==
* Babylon 5
* The Tick, a comic book and Fox network cartoon
* much about fan fiction, canon, and character height differences
===Excerpts from "Untitled by M G"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads are Better than One" (NB) ==
This is the first trib where [N B] is alone, no [M F G]: "I'm sure she'll come back biting everyone's kneecaps in the next issue. I hope everybody has written something to get her all riled up. It's wonderful to see her climb onto her soapbox at times like those."
* this fan has become a convert of Garak/Bashir, and of the shows Lois and Clark, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
* Babylon 5, a mention of a fan who is sharing "uncredited" Talia/Susan stories
===Excerpts from "Two Heads are Better than One" (NB)===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Lavender Lilies" ==
* what is slash
* The Crying Game
* the soap opera, All My Children and a gay character
* Odo/Quark and other alien/alien slash pairings
* this fan describes her story, which started off as a Bodie/Doyle "become women" story, but then was changed to original slash in the Alyson Press book "Swords of the Rainbow" (a collection of gay/lesbian sword and sorcery stories)
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the new character Jadzia Dax, comments about Garak/Bashir, and of Worf
===Excerpts from "Lavender Lilies"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by N F-G" and "Wonderlust"==
* includes this fan's July 1992 trib to Terra Nostra Underground
* much about Data and Geordie in Star Trek: TNG
* not trusting the showrunners of Babylon 5 not to mess things up
* the Sinclair/Sheridan/Garibaldi relationship
* a successful letter campaign for Quantum Leap, and the reward, plus a commercial called "Mr. Little" Commercial
* Star Wars Letters, and George Lucas' attempt to control fandom in the early 1980s
===Excerpts from "Untitled by N F-G" and "Wonderlust"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* attending Worldcon in Glasgow
* the formation of the Space City Mailing List
* Mary Sues, types, some examples
* academic discussion of ancient Japan and homosexuality 
* Height Rule in slash fiction
* "old-fashioned" slash
* the use of the word "queer" - this fan HATES it
* too much self-awareness
* writing your own kink
* pro science fiction authors and some speculative tuckerization and Blake's 7 Avatars
* black Vulcans
* the loneliness of writing, the motivation for writing
* the possibility that Del Tarrant's unpopularity was perhaps related to teasing remarks by Paul Darrow et al at cons, which were then balanced out by Steven Pacey's appearance at the con, Visions '91 
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "The World is Hollow..." ==
* Babylon 5 and appeal of characters
* people in the UK don't use their mobile phones in public
* f/f stories
* Arthurian Legend slash
* the film, Waterworld
* the use and acceptance of the term queer: "My sense is that the word "queer" is actualy limited to academic and queer-activist circles, or those familiar with their language and methods."
===Excerpts from "The World is Hollow..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced by T H" ==
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced by T H"===
==References==
Category:Slash Zines