[ SECRET POST #2669 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2669 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. I love the "ancient oath of silence." That perfectly describes the moral outage, the betrayed emotions and the bewilderment when they find/see fans talking about slash - Their Slash! - in all the wrong places. Without their permission! How dare they!!!!!

But my favorite personal quote came from K/S fandom. This is from the K/S Press a letterzine that started around 1996, near the dawn of net fandom. The person wrote this in 1999.

"There has been some recent discussion in The K/S Press about K/S stories on the Internet. Well, due to a recent job change, I was required to purchase a personal computer. I’m not on the net and of course the first thing I did was to go to the Star Trek sites. I was very amazed and shocked to find out how easy it was to locate “slash” and K/S pages on the web. I did not realize how easy it was for anyone, and I mean anyone, to find out about K/S by simply typing in Star Trek on the search page and going to all the sites. And while I admit that it was a benefit to me, since I downloaded many of the stories to my PC, I was more than a bit dismayed that it was on the web so openly. It left a rather bad taste in my mouth...fact that it is now so openly displayed on the web, for anyone to see, will only add fuel to their fire and perhaps threaten our special fandom....I think that if K/S is to survive, it must remain underground...We don’t need any more nails in the coffin. K/S is not for everyone, so it shouldn’t be available to everyone. But it is and I think that is cause for worry."*

Read more: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_and_the_Underground

I love the part where she un-ironically mentions how she immediately downloaded all the pron while in the same breath saying we need to stop all the online pron from falling in the wrong hands. And how slash needs to be "Kept Away from Everybody: Except Me and My Friends aka the "Right People"

[(Anonymous)]

Ahahahaha that quote is the best thing ever. SHAMMMMMMME ON EVERYONE WHO POSTED ALL THIS AWESOME PR0NZ I TOTES JUST DOWNLOADED. SHAAAAMMMMMMMEEE.

Also, extra-hot jalepeno chimichangas are "not for everyone" either, but if only those who had been previously inducted into the Extra Hot Jalepeno Chimichanga Fanclub were allowed to eat them, how would anyone develop a taste for them? The logic of these people makes no sense, which is unsurprising since it's just vague attempts to justify their desire to be part of a speshal sooper sekrit club.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the part where she un-ironically mentions how she immediately downloaded all the pron while in the same breath saying we need to stop all the online pron from falling in the wrong hands. And how slash needs to be "Kept Away from Everybody: Except Me and My Friends aka the "Right People"

I think, though, that you're not taking into context the time that this was written in. There was a real fear in fandom circles that you could be subject to legal action. Not so different in some ways from current affairs, except that fanfiction is actually more widely tolerated than before, and there's a lot more discussions about fair use and other possible legal defenses, if it came to that. At the time, though, if the lawyers picked you to come down upon, then it could effectively shut down your wing of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

SA. Oh I totally took into account the time this was written (1999). It stood out even then when we read it in our copies of K/S Press and shook our heads in amusement. Mainly because she raced to download the pron even while criticizing the ability to download the pron. Such delicious hypocrisy. Plus, this was K/S - a fandom that had weathered many a "OMG they're coming to take us awaaaaay!" panics. If you were still a K/Ser by 2000 you had seen it all, done it all, and were going to do it all again and again. We were (and still are) a hardy folk.