Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 008

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Strange Bedfellows 8 was published in February 1995 and contains about 114 pages. 
There were 35 members sharing 23 subscriptions. 
==Mystery==
Issue #8 includes several fans' comments about a long rant by M. Fae Glasgow that was supposedly in issue #7. Glasgow's trib does not, however, appear in that table of contents, nor in all copies. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that all apas sent abroad went missing and had to be replaced, something that several fans commented upon.
 
This means that about four fans' tribs address, as they have read it previously. The fans who don't address it either didn't receive it, or chose not to engage in the discussion. The fans who hadn't read it yet were probably quite confused.
The missing trib was reprinted in #9 with the title: "Two Heads reprise (should have been in #7)," as well as this note: 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Notes from Tomorrow" ==
* falling hard for MUDS, MOOs, virtual fan spaces
===Excerpts from "Notes from Tomorrow"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* debating shows who have complex female characters and this effect on slash fanworks
* Vas/Dex
* a comment about a quote by Edi Bjorklund in the 1988 essay, Thinking About Slash/Thinking About Women
* Ai no Kusa, "a futuristic anime piece"
* complex female characters in the zines Night of the Twin Moons, Tales of Feldman, Valjiir, Games of Love and Duty, and Lois Welling's novels: The Displaced, Transition, and Continuum 
* are slash fen being actively misogynistic
* reports that another fan "reports that Net traffic on LedZep generally fails to acknowledge slash concepts entirely"
* "You (and everyone else who commented) are quite right that the no-touch condition has not slowed down slash fandom for QL, though it has created some twists."
* comments on Quantum Fire #5, see that page
* The X-Files and its "slashiness"
* the female characters in Blake's 7
* comments on transwomen
* "The Anti-Rant Rant," a very strongly-worded rebuttal to [M F G's] comments (missing in at least one copy) in the previous issue 
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Lions and Tigers and Trucks, Oh My! (Darkling Zine)" ==
* comments on Red Dwarf, Miami Vice, Interview with a Vampire, the televisions show "Salmonberries"
* comments about the movie on French television, "The Cavern of the Rose of Gold"
* French television: "We only have five channels around here. It can be increased with satellite and cable, but not incredibly so. So our TV programs don't look like phone books yet."
* comments about gay porn movies
* comments about monks, lesbians, and C.S. Lewis
* some Robin of Sherwood, Robin Hood meta
* lyrics to "Bend Over Greek Sailor" from the filk tape, Scaring the Sheep 
===Excerpts from "Lions and Tigers and Trucks, Oh My! (Darkling Zine)"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Menage a Deux: From H J" ==
* much about Star Trek: Voyager and the pairing possibilities
* describing the book, "Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who", and disowning the cover
===Excerpts from "Menage a Deux: From H J" ===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Menage a Deux: From C J" ==
* many comments about defining child pornography, nudity in photography
* comments about Quantum Leap
* writing female characters
* admiring other fan's fannish passions
===Excerpts from "Menage a Deux: From C J" ===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Vice Files" ==
This fan's trib is dated November 1994, and she admits it is quite late. 
* comments on figure skating
* comments about Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Forever Knight, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
* speculation on the new X-Files character, Krycek
* comments about the film, The Bullshitters II
* hate and love as two possibly equal motivations for two characters to begin an intimate relationship
* comments on a Babylon 5 drawerfic called "Taking Risks"
* "Al/Rimmer? Ack! Al would never stoop that low... Shudder!"
===Excerpts from "Vice Files"===
 
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker" ==
* mentions about issues of this apa not arriving in Scotland and having to be resent
* many comments about AIDS, education and public awareness 
* comments about feminism
* comments about the zine series, E-man-uelle
* comments about the zine, Interface #5, see that page
* British and American Blake's 7, differences, evaluation
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Paradoxical Ramblings" ==
* the proposed zine, "Innuendo"
* Led Zeppelin
===Excerpts from "Paradoxical Ramblings"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" ==
* extensive comments on M. Fae Glasgow's story Wrong End of the Stick and Sebastian's story Perfect Day
* The X-Files, the future of slash, being against Scully and Mulder having a sexual relationship
* avoiding interviews with musicians as they tend to ruin her head canon 
===Excerpts from "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These..." ==
* a description of being newly-online 
* "I'm quite fond of The X-Files still, though its slash potential is practically nonexistent."
* a book review for "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition" by B.R. Burg
* Gilgamesh and Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh
* why all the Tarrant-bashing?
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Untitled by M G" ==
* one long comment addresses the rant by [M F G] only some fans saw in #7 (but was reprinted in #9)
* characters interacting with the holographic doctor in Star Trek: VOY as a person rather than a thing
* "Relax. Chris Carter has said no Scully-Mulder romance will happen, and he's in charge."
* ageism in fanworks
* comments about I Spy
===Excerpts from "Untitled by M G"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Lavender Lilies" ==
* figure skating
* a summary of some lesbian porn
* this fan addresses the rant by [M F G]
* Led Zeppelin and Music RPF
===Excerpts from "Lavender Lilies"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* comments on Judith Seaman and her zine, Ghost, see that page
* the differences between being a fan of the slash in a fandom, and of being a slash fan in general
* slash and slashy fiction
* misogyny and/or the absence of women in slash stories
* a long quote from Mimi Panitch's article on media fan fiction in "The New York Review of Science Fiction"
* some fans of both this apa and Virgule-L are forgetting where they said what and to who, and are diverting time and energy away from one (usually this apa) to the other (Virgule-L) 
* ageism and desire
* comments about fiction by Diana Gabaldon
* Gayle F's erotic K/S paper dolls
* constructed reality vids
* the term "PC" and its origins
* "[I have a copy] of that K/S story from 1974 that I think might be the first published slash."
* academics, casual fans, media fans, the schism between SF and media fans
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "T-Shirt Slogans Are Intellectual Discourse" ==
* explanation for low apa input
* extreme infatuation with Led Zeppelin
* closed fandoms and live fandoms
* differences between gay porn and slash
===Excerpts from "T-Shirt Slogans Are Intellectual Discourse"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "I put the fun into "dysfunctional"" ==
* attending the con, Who's 7, comments about a panel about slash
* cons and their sameness
===Excerpts from "I put the fun into "dysfunctional""===
==Some Topics Discussed in "For the World is Hollow..." ==
* losing one's self in the power of listening to rock music, loud
* Vas/Dex
* comments about anonymous sex and Never Let Me Down
* bestiality and boundaries
* comments on [M F G's] rant 
===Excerpts from "For the World is Hollow..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "The lure of the clambake proved their undoing" ==
* not seeing the appeal of Starsky & Hutch
* comments about The Catch Trap, see that page
* a con report for Who's 7, see that page
* a con report for Visions, see that page
* some slash analysis
* some Del Tarrant bashing
* quoting people in online discussions, JMS's frustrating style
===Excerpts from "The lure of the clambake proved their undoing"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced by T H" ==
* comments about figure skating
* comments on Who's 7, see that page
* comments on Cult TV, see that page
* comments about the first two seasons of Babylon 5 (Richard Arnold) showed them at Who's 7)
* regarding the errant copies of "Strange Bedfellows" #7: "Shoshanna sent me a replacement SBF on the 22nd November which arrived on the 28th November. On the 1st December the original copy arrived - 29 days to get here! - that is just ridiculous. It doesn't appear to have been opened but it has spent its time being kicked around a dusty floor. It appears that the PO had it in for all the overseas copies - Jane C didn't get hers either."
* different ways of being a fan, differences between media fans and SF fans
* comments about Sherlock Holmes and Forever Knight
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced by T H"===
==References==
Category:Slash Zines