good quote on slash

[janne_d]

From this month's SFX:

Dave Langford knows that no matter what bizarrely implausible slash-fiction pairing you imagine, someone will already have written it.

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[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Is there more on this topic? I really would like to know.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

It's just a tiny addition at the end of his column - the main bit is about snobby journalists and critics looking down on sci-fi and making stupid remarks, not slash. Though the bit at the end made me laugh:

"The phenomenon of slash fiction, in which (usually male) characters from SF and fantasy creations do naughty things together, has been going strong since a fanfiction author first paired off Captain Kirk and Mr Spock in 1974. Kirk/Spocking, or K/S, became an enduringly popular subgenre. So it was unexpected when in April 2008, at a panel on the future of the short story, UK mainstream author Toby Litt declared that : 'Nobody has ever written a story about Kirk and Spock having sex.' Poor dear, he's obviously never looked at this new-fangled internet thingy."

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*

Poor, misguided Toby Litt. Maybe people should send him some (and by some I mean lots).