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[dumbspock]

[signupto-deactivated20190923]

Friendship illustrations by Rob Bailey.

[sosooley]

I like big butts and I cannot lie ©

a dragon seeking warmth

ПЯТОЧКА

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

[catbountry]

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

[cylonqueen]

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

[strike-team-delta]

I miss my Commodore 64

[stoplookingup]

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever  know.

[athelind]

Reblogged for that last comment.

[gokuma]

respect your elders

[ohfreckle]

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

[berlynn-wohl]

It’s been said before, but the fact that this fic begins with the dialogue assertion “We’re by no means setting a precedent” is endlessly amusing to me.

Diane Marchant changed all our lives. May she rest in peace.

[prokopetz]

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

[ralfmaximus]

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

[georgiedoodles]

T'hy'la

[kuv8sh5]

captain and his princess

[s4ltedcod]

lunch date!

[pien-art]

Kira and Dax being cozyyyyyy. As a little treat

Prints available here :p

[trektrack]

[tomatopine]

[schn-tgai-saavik]

In context too

[palpablestupor]

Went to my first Trek-specific con and won third place in the costume contest :)) ft Nicole De Boer giving me the trophy, Terry Farrell complimenting the fit and Garak's Risa look for the afterparty

[pien-art]

thinking about little Nerys on this fine saturday night ;-;

[shigeoreum]

first one down 😼 this was so crazy to draw LOLLL this rlly would be so fire tho wow. imagine a starship crew made up of only lesbians.

[jelliedlimes]

A starship crew made up of only lesbians...

[egonkula]

cannot get over this lighting

[android-and-ale]

TOS lighting is one of the things that I sincerely love about the show. It was made to sell fancy brand new color TV's, but it also had to look dramatic on existing black and white sets. They do incredible things with contrast in order to keep it looking crisp and exciting on both types of screens. But it's also clear that the lighting directors were having fun. The goal was to "make it pop" and make people feel transported. You don't see anything else like it.

[starfleetshrimps]

TV lighting at this point was also at a sort of crossroads, the only reference they had for entertainment lighting was live theater, and they use a TON of live theater effects in the show--they're very obviously using metaphorical emotionalism in the designs in a lot of ways which you don't see shows doing now! they use gobos, (see: Lights of Zetar for the most obvious examples) intense shutter cuts (that thing where they frame kirk's eyes (see: Charlie X), dramatic color that I'm SURE they used thick gels for, ugh i just love it. It's theater lighting in TV at its FINEST. makes my lighting designer self very very happy :)

[kugelfische]

dont fall in love

[emilinqa]

spock scrap

[cleevitus]

They r like octopuses like STOPPP

[errmist]

closer…