2.19.11 Adam News & Info

I do it the long way, but it works. Click on photo you want to post here. Click view image info. It should automatically highlight the one you want. At top of reply box you will see a photo. Click on that, then paste the link between the brackets, with no spaces. You can also type the brackets with img inside first one, and /img inside one at end. You can check if it posted by using preview button at bottom of reply box. Photo should show up automatically.
I am, however, twit pic challenged. :(

According to Wiki the term shipping dates back at least to 1996 in x-files news groups but the entire idea of creating relationships between fictional characters began in the late 60's early 70's with Kirk/Spock stories in fan newsletters. This is the earliest fan fiction. Real People Fiction was initially totally verbotten and has only recently come out of the closet so to speak. When I first discovered fanfiction both Gen (non-sexual), Het(heterosexual) and Slash in the early 90's there was an extremely strong bias against RPF complete with posters being banned from sites and sites being shut down because of it. For that matter it was very hard to maintain sites for slash at that time because it was often shut down as porn.

As for those shippers who actually believe the relationships exist it is no different from the Role-play gamers who were delusional about their fantasy games. It is not the shipping that is the problem it is the fact that those people don't have a firm grasp on reality. No reason to condemn shipping in general just because of a few flakes. I've played RPG's since 1978 and there were cases of people taking it all too seriously but it is not the fault of the game. A delusional person can be delusional about just about anything. The vast majority of shippers are quite aware it is just for fun and a lot of the so called delusional people are just play acting at being serious about it. They actually take great delight in convincing people that they are serious. I can recall many times as a gamer when faced with people who were disapproving we often amped up our "this is real" act just to freak out the mundanes as we called them. If you weren't part of our crowd you would never really be allowed to know what we really thought.


My general rule of thumb is that until I have spent time with someone in person I don't presume to judge how crazy they are. It is entirely too easy to label people as crazy and judge them for their OTT behavior but if we learn anything from Adam I hope it is to not be so quick to put people in a box and to be willing to get to know them. Sometimes when I see conversations on the board about how cray cray so and so is I wonder if the posters have considered just how crazy they themselves might appear to others outside the fandom especially as many of us here have talked about how crazy our friends and family think we are.

Let me let you in on another little known fact. You can probably find ship material on just about any combination of fictional characters no matter or perhaps because of how unlikely the pairing. That probably also applies to celeb fic as well. Also pretty much every taboo is covered as well. Don't delve too deep unless you've got a pretty thick skin. Pretty much anything that can squick people out has been done.

Want to really blow your mind? The closest thing to actual officially published Slash are two books by Sondra Marshak and Myra Culbreath called "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix". Basically Spock forges a Vulcan Marraige bond with Kirk. In the published books it is just a psychic bond but Marshak and Culbreath were well known in the fan community as slash fanfic authors.

I have to admit, who would believe that cacti can actually be so beautiful?????!!!!!!

When I got home from work today and read through the thread, I so had to laugh to myself. Adam has over 800,000 stalkers, he accidentally tweets out the word Sauli and all hell breaks loose. I feel better knowing I am not the only one Did I understand this correctly, he was going to DM someone and accidentally tweeted to all his followers?
I hope when album #2 is released all of these followers are CD buyers!