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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.

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

manuciruja

hey staff what the fuck

villainessbian

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

shrodingers-catgirl

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

evaunit08

only americans will understand::

shirley temple DVD set infomercial

kluex-moved

eatbark

HAPPY 7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THE GOOD OMENS SHOW‼️‼️‼️

to the world 🥂

thedeepmiracleperfection

Finale got us so collectively fucked that no one is even acknowledging it's (TV) Good Omens's 7 year anniversary.

Anyways here's to a show that gave us one of the most heartfelt, moving, complicated, humanly flawed and hopeful queer love stories of the century. Here's to a show that brought so many people together. Here's to a show that motivated artists and writers to create some of the most beautiful works of art ever known to man. Here's to a show that celebrated being human. Here's to a show that so many queer folks saw themselves in and affirmed for them that being themselves is the most powerful act one can do. Here's to a show that taught us that our world is messy and complicated and awful and wonderful and worth saving and most of all that it can and should be saved. Here's to a show that taught us people are rarely good or bad but just people, and even though we make mistakes along the way we still deserve the opportunity to decide for ourselves who we will be. Here's to a show that at its core is about love and hope being the things that bind us together.

Here's to you all and all of us who are not going anywhere. Here's to the world.