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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.

happyfeet3351

Now I didn’t watch the Avatar movie leak but I am watching every single edit that comes across my TikTok

fipindustries

the problem is that a lot of people think that the evil of eugenics is "playing with forces of nature man was not meant to meddle with" and not the whole cohercion and killing and mutilation of people

jester-nonconforming

People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

decadent-trans-girl

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dollsonmain

darthmaulscatgirl

i love how this works no matter the result

only-cat-memes

cryptonature

I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.

That’s enough to keep me going.

phantomchick

@cryptonature Man do I have good news for you!

Also! Bonus frog!

and they are the bestest of friends

tentacleteapot

your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

charl0ttan

thats not how they told it

hunter-rodrigez

Source, Jan 15th 2026

common bandcamp win

truedomdaddy

ramshacklefey

dragon-in-a-fez

perfect new meme template just dropped

dragon-in-a-fez

example usage

dragon-in-a-fez

wait I'm not done

crabussy

man come on. it's colours

crabussy

THIS IS OUR RADIUM. you're absolutely right

keepcalmandcarriefischer

How it feels to use any tool, app, or website right now

baddywronglegs

Worse, it's our asbestos. It's being put into things we're going to have to keep using long after everyone has to finally accept it was a bad idea, in such a way it will be almost impossible to remove.

Radium suppositories and asbestos might both be in museums but the radium's in the exhibits, the asbestos is in the walls.