Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 019

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Strange Bedfellows 19 was published in November 1997 and contains about 85 pages. 
It was the final issue.
There were thirty-two members sharing twenty-three subscriptions. There were twelve tribs to this issue.
 
==From the OE==
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* entering the world of email for the first time
* Babylon 5 and the five-year plan by JMS: "JMS is at the stage of having to pull the threads together, and with so many in the weave, he's bound to drop some"
* real people and screen characters and labels
* comments about a Highlander story mentioned in the last issue 
* vampires: different kinds, some discussion of the Anita Blake series by Laurel Hamilton
* imagining a Xena/Buffy the Vampire Slayer story
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by B B" ==
* pushes back on a fan's previous comments about the evils of the internet
* a long essay: Mary Sue and Her Cousins
===Excerpts from "Untitled by B B"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Cat's Darkling Zine" ==
* disliking the process of writing
* becoming a new fan of Forever Knight, and of Kindred: The Embraced
* "I might get connected to the net myself around Christmas when I get a new computer my cousin is discarding because he's getting an upgraded one."
* some black and white screenshots from Kindred: The Embraced
* an illo of Bodie and Cowley
===Excerpts from "Cat's Darkling Zine"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by E R" ==
* goodbye
* frustration and sadness about the end of this apa, and of other fandom dead ends
* not impressed with The Sentinel
* comments on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and genderbending
* comments on the zine, Knight Fantasies, see that page
* changes in fandom whump-focus for Man from U.N.C.L.E.
* sticking up for Worf
* comments/reviews about several pro science fiction/fantasy books (one is the book with the Bodie and Doyle clones, another is the ghost-written recent Darkover book), several movies
* comments on the Ferengi, oppression, a story (by Joanna Russ!) called Unclassified Affections in The Plain and Simple Zine #10
===Excerpts from "Untitled by E R"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker" ==
* comments about the film, "The Singer Not the Song," should one slash a character who is a priest? 
* being able to write Highlander fiction now that she's realized Duncan MacLeod is an "arsehole"
* "Highlander" - "a brief and pointless essay on my pet hate in Duncan/Methos slash (my pet hate because I do seem to pick it up and cuddle it and make it purr even while assuring everyone that I hate it)." (comments on the episodes Revelations/Come A Horseman and how they make characters twist out-of-character)
* literary vampires, types and motives
* every show has a male slut
* comments about Lucifer Falling, see that page
* con report for WriteOn, see that page
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Kiken na Futari" ==
* a long essay on "Japanese slash" and what makes it different from "Western slash" (introspection/lack of, the influences of Christianity, cultural differences about conformity and imagination
* pages from a 1978 "Julie" Japanese fanwork 
* the challenges of alien genitalia 
===Excerpts from "Kiken na Futari"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors" ==
* has volunteered to take over apa, asks for name suggestions
* mentions an early Sentinel archive at http://www.jbx.com/~boethius/ (which is puzzling, as this was a Spike/Xander site)
* media attention, is slash still as secret?
* includes a two-page flyer "for the next incarnation of STRANGE BEDFELLOWS"
* a photocopy of What Xena did during her summer vacation
===Excerpts from "Mardi Gras Favors"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "The Magic May Return" ==
* this fan's entire trib consists of her telling her fellow tribbers WHAT SHE REALLY THINKS about slash, and she is glad to not have to subject herself to pretending anymore; it is a flounce that twists a hundred swords on her way out, See So I leave the genre, if not the APA, with no regrets to be going and a good deal of relief that I don't have to try to like this stuff any more..
 
===Excerpts from "The Magic May Return"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These..." ==
* anal intercourse in fan fic
* slash vids and the controversies at MediaWest*Con
* Kerr Avon's lack of respect for other people
* a reprint of "Rhythm" by Mick C. ("Here's another M/K story, culled off the net. It was, I believe, the winner of the "small spaces" story challenge, even though it didn't quite meet the all the specifications. This is possibly my favorite M/K story that's short enough to print here, even though there's no real smut in it."
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These..."===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* some possible futures for this apa, perhaps in electronic form
* Alison Bechdel, wings, personal journey, identification, physical attractiveness
* the growing importance of the internet and fandom
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Notes from Tomorrow"==
* origami
* personal challenges and fanac, apologies
===Excerpts from "Notes from Tomorrow"===
==References==
Category:Slash Zines