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I was reading henryjenkins.org (because he is made of awesome) . One bit jumped out at me and grabbed me by the throat.

When I try to explain slash to non-fans , I often reference that moment in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan where Spock is dying and Kirk stands there, a wall of glass separating the two longtime buddies. Both of them are reaching out towards each other, their hands pressed hard against the glass, trying to establish physical contact. They both have so much they want to say and so little time to say it. Spock calls Kirk his friend, the fullest expression of their feelings anywhere in the series. Almost everyone who watches that scene feels the passion the two men share, the hunger for something more than what they are allowed. And, I tell my nonfan listeners, slash is what happens when you take away the glass.

Yes. This.

This is what I feel like but can never put into words, this is what I'm really trying to say when I have one of my big rants about fandom or slash or the fangirling experience.

This right there.

I only recently got into Trek fandom. I'd seen TNG before but never started on TOS, out of some misguided notion that surely I wasn't that much of a geek. I mean, sure, I'd translated poetry into Quenya and I've been to conventions and I may or may not have made a sculpey bust of Captain Picard, but that doesn't mean I'm the sort of geek who'd like TOS.

God, I fell for this fandom like a brick. Yeah, there's the lol-worthy side of the cheesy effects or the horrible gorn-costumes or the constant ripping of Kirk's shirt (not objecting, though. Rawr young!Shatner), but then you get Kirk's indulgent smile whenever Bones and Spock are bickering again, or Scotty's constant exaggerating of time-estimates, or just the plain and palpable love and respect between everyone on that bridge and it makes my fannish heart squeal with delight.

For many people K/S is what Sam/Frodo was (and is) to me, and I can see why this is the pairing that kickstarted slashdom. I can see why this is the pairing that is still going strong even after four decades.

What I cannot see is why I didn't see it before.

(Colour version. )

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I was reading henryjenkins.org (because he is made of awesome) . One bit jumped out at me and grabbed me by the throat.

When I try to explain slash to non-fans , I often reference that moment in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan where Spock is dying and Kirk stands there, a wall of glass separating the two longtime buddies. Both of them are reaching out towards each other, their hands pressed hard against the glass, trying to establish physical contact. They both have so much they want to say and so little time to say it. Spock calls Kirk his friend, the fullest expression of their feelings anywhere in the series. Almost everyone who watches that scene feels the passion the two men share, the hunger for something more than what they are allowed. And, I tell my nonfan listeners, slash is what happens when you take away the glass.

Yes. This.

This is what I feel like but can never put into words, this is what I'm really trying to say when I have one of my big rants about fandom or slash or the fangirling experience.

This right there.

I only recently got into Trek fandom. I'd seen TNG before but never started on TOS, out of some misguided notion that surely I wasn't that much of a geek. I mean, sure, I'd translated poetry into Quenya and I've been to conventions and I may or may not have made a sculpey bust of Captain Picard, but that doesn't mean I'm the sort of geek who'd like TOS.

God, I fell for this fandom like a brick. Yeah, there's the lol-worthy side of the cheesy effects or the horrible gorn-costumes or the constant ripping of Kirk's shirt (not objecting, though. Rawr young!Shatner), but then you get Kirk's indulgent smile whenever Bones and Spock are bickering again, or Scotty's constant exaggerating of time-estimates, or just the plain and palpable love and respect between everyone on that bridge and it makes my fannish heart squeal with delight.

For many people K/S is what Sam/Frodo was (and is) to me, and I can see why this is the pairing that kickstarted slashdom. I can see why this is the pairing that is still going strong even after four decades.

What I cannot see is why I didn't see it before.

(Colour version. )