Your Naivety is Charming

[4thofeleven]

Talking to some RL friends yesterday, fanfiction came up. There’s something kind of cute about talking to otherwise wordly people and having to explain to them that, no, the authors tend to be female, that yes, it’s mainly slash (and then needing to explain what slash means), and that of course the majority of Star Trek fic is Kirk/Spock, why would you expec t anything else?

Of course, it does occur to me I might spend a little too much time online that it actually surprised me that there’s still people who didn’t know things like that. I’d have thought that sort of thing would have trickled into mainstream awareness by now…

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[nic]

I tend to forget that not everyone knows about fanfic/slash these days!

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

We need a terrible CSI episode to introduce the mainstream to it, like that awful one about furry fandom...