Strange Bedfellows (APA)/Issue 009

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Strange Bedfellows 9 was published in May 1995 and contains about 105 pages.
 
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==Mystery Solved==
The previous issue contains 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.
 
It was reprinted in #9 with the title: "Two Heads reprise (should have been in #7)," as well as this note from the OE: 
This means that some fans are seeing the rant for the first time, while others read it many months ago.
A fan in #9 commented: 
==From the OE==
==Some Topics Discussed in "Strange Tongues" ==
* comments about Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who: "Congratulations on the new book, however awful the cover. I'll look for it here."
* nude photography, children, Sally Mann
* X-Files zine editors and stipulations
* Music RPF, Led Zeppelin, viability and real life choices
* Eroica and how it compares to other slash fandoms
* comments on books by Diane Duane
* Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover books
* an essay, Once More, With or Without Feeling You, OR: Running QL Into the Ground
* "Agree with you about S&H, who are ugly, even if some interesting fanfic has been done on them."
* comments about The Catch Trap, see that page
* review of Becoming Human by Valerie J. Freireich. Roc, Penguin Books, 1995
===Excerpts from "Strange Tongues" ===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "Darkling Zine: And then Came the Flies..." ==
* gay porn
===Excerpts from "Darkling Zine: And then Came the Flies..."===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Vice Files" ==
* Oklahoma City bombing
* The X-Files
* figure skating
* comments about JMS's interaction with fans
* Babylon 5, Jeffrey Sinclair
* this fan's father wrote for science fiction zines using the pseud "Joan Carr"
* science fiction fans who write for zines: "I suspect, though, that many of them are either commentary on various things, or for people who are working on becoming pro writers, instead of those of us who are willing to remain fans."
===Excerpts from "Vice Files"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Ghost Speaker" ==
* commentary on Mary Sues
* comments on The Land-Bridge Saga
* "I don't know whether Janette oozes lesbian sex - but she could bit my neck anytime.. Sigh."
* comment about Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who
===Excerpts from "Ghost Speaker"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Yamibutoh" ==
* the recent earthquake
* Sailor Moon
* Julie, a Japanese star
* children and nudity in Japan
===Excerpts from "Yamibutoh"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Mardi Gras Favors" ==
* a fan read Flesh and Steel and did a lot of reading about witch hunts in England between 1400-1700
* comments about RevelCon
==Some Topics Discussed in "Desert Blooms" ==
* owns too many zines to remember
* young fans' views of the various Treks
* talking to a tie-in novel writer
* Lois McMaster Bujold's books and the character, Bothari 
* acquiring and offering others copies of bootleg concert recordings
* comments about Queer Punk, Pansy Division 
* m/f slash and the X-Files
* coming to terms and accepting Real Person Slash
* U2 slash fan fic
* trying to like Star Trek: Voyager
* comments about the cleverness of JMS
* comments about Henry Jenkin's Scrooge/Marley story, Golden Idol, see that page
===Excerpts from "Desert Blooms"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "With Friends Like These..." ==
* maybe being a minority gives her a bigger interest in slash and equality?
* comments about Judith Seaman's fiction
* vidding
* Avon, Cally, and Tarrant's treatment of Vila in Blake's 7
* comments about The Left Hand of Darkness
* comments about The X-Files and the hope that Mulder and Scully don't begin a sexual relationship
* this fan quotes another fan from an unknown source (likely On the Wing): "from my perspective Tarrant getting angsty over "Ohmigod, I'm in love with a man" is less interesting than Tarrant getting angsty about "Ohmigod, I'm in love with Avon.""
===Excerpts from "With Friends Like These... "===
 
==Some Topics Discussed in "From the Bottom of a Dark Barrel" ==
* "The x-files.creative group is also proving to be pretty obsessive."
* MOOs, MUDs, and MUSHs
===Excerpts from "From the Bottom of a Dark Barrel"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (NB) (originally meant for #7)== 
* comments on Lawrence of Arabia, Historical RPF
* misogyny in slash writing, addresses some comments by a fan in #6
* her dislike of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, her admiration for Babylon 5
* wish to see Winters/Ivanova, both in the show, and in fiction
===Excerpts from "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (NB) (originally meant for #7)===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (M F G) (originally meant for #7) ==
* this trib contains the trib that was originally meant for the seventh issue. It contains a massive rant about slash and takes two other fans to task. 
* U2 slash
* comments on Babylon 5
* comments on Science Friction, see that page
* being tired of being analyzed 
===Excerpts from "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (M F G) (originally meant for #7)===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (M F G) ==
The entire trib starts with a brief apology and then an explanation of the rant by writing another very long one. 
===Excerpts from "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (M F G)===
==Some Topics Discussed in "When Correctly Viewed" ==
* comments about Bittersweet and The Pilot's Tail, two Blake's 7 stories 
* addresses the rant by [M F G]
* male friendship and emotions
* comments on some vids
===Excerpts from "When Correctly Viewed"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "To Be Announced by T H" ==
* an essay called "ABSOLUTE FILTH: An A to Z of Sex by Julie Burchill
* figure skating comments
* about the lack of Wizards and Warriors fiction
===Excerpts from "To Be Announced by T H"===
==Some Topics Discussed in "Delusions of Gender" ==
The entirety of this trib is an essay called "HOW TO SUCK COCK - A 14 LESSON TUTORIAL WITH TECHNIQUES FROM SOME OF THE EXPERTS."
==References==
Category:Slash Zines