"early" femslash texts

[tellitslant]

fox1013's excellent post here asks what people would consider "early femslash texts," and if they even existed. I skimmed through the comments and not a lot of people seem to be touching on that question, so I am throwing it out more widely in its own post because I am really curious.

Xena was the given (and, dude, I just noticed that brown_betty's fandom chart doesn't even have Xena on, which is odd as there's a very clear Xena to Buffy connection in my mind though I don't know about anyone else), and I came up with Voyager and quasiradiant with West Wing and the Wing Swing, but those are all 90s fandoms, and we know the m/m "We all started with Kirk/Spock" fanthropological statement. So. Cast your minds back, those of you who can (I, unfortunately, cannot). cdybedahl suggests that there was Uhura/Rand. Anyone else verify that? I'd be shocked if there wasn't a Charlie's Angels movement or something around Emma Peel, say. *g* Or, hell, Wonder Woman comics, if there was a comics "fandom" as such.

So. First femslash fandom you can think of. Go.

(all this femslash meta! It's like, my god, we do exist! *g* Loving it!)

Comments

[quasiradiant.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure you don't count in fandom as a sub-group until you have both meta and wank, so i think we're well on our way. and it's only 2006! fandom turtles are passing us, i think...

too young to answer your question. interestingly, my first fandom was st: tng (yeah, shut up) -- and i remember, even though i was practically a kid, i went looking for troi/crusher fic, and... you know, maybe i was doing it really badly, but i can't remember finding any. at all.

anyway, that wasn't really relevant.

but x-files, the big watershed for fandoms of all kinds? very little girlslash, very poorly regarded from within the fandom. may have been due to a dearth of girls to slash, but. that's never stopped me...

[tellitslant]

*nods* Yeah, I was in TNG too, and one of the only Troi/Crusher fics I remember at all was actually a threesome with Riker. Possibly there were more that i read that didn't make an impact, but I sure don't remember there being, sadly.

And I find the lack of X-Files slash disturbing. See, that's a show that's kind of comparable to Doctor Who in that the m/f partnership is the real driving force, Scully is a wonderfully strong character, so on. So I guess it just does go to show that femslash is so on the rise (better late than never) if a show like Who can get better at hitting it out of the park than XF did. Huh.

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

I think there were people who would have produced more XF femslash had there been another female on the show that wasn't one of Scully's relatives during the XF fanfic heyday. I probably would have written more than I did. Monica didn't show up until after I'd quit the fandom. :-(