Okay, so have always had a thing about pirates. And yesterday, I was reminded of where my pirate fetish came from. I was flipping through the guide channel on TV and found an old favorite I hadn’t seen in many years — Captain Blood. Oh, Errol Flynn was so amazing.

I was also amazed to realize you could SOOOOO slash that picture! When Jeremy (the navigator) looks at Peter Blood, it is very clear that he adores him. The look is pure love. And he even is tortured to keep the secret of their plan. Then Peter Blood comes to help him and defies the slaver for him. Oh, my god. I will have to get a copy of that! I may have to write some Peter/Jeremy slash!

In the meantime, if you want to read the classic book the movie was based on and other traditional pirate fiction, there is a site that lists recommendations:
http://www.sonic.net/~press/fiction.html

The other genre of Errol Flynn movie that my earliest adventure and sexual fantasy stories was, of course, Robin Hood! Sigh, all those “merry men.” Fans self. I had lots of fantasies about being Robin’s favorite.

Comments by had me thinking about my earliest exposure to fan fiction.

I sort of grew up a fan. I watched the premiere of Star Trek in 1966 with my mom. I was four. I avidly watched any television or movies that were science fiction or fantasy. Not so many back then. I began writing my own science fiction (some of it fan fiction) by the time I was eleven. I wrote my first novel at twelve. At thirteen, I discovered Star Trek clubs and science fiction conventions. At fourteen, I started my own Star Trek club. I was the only girl in that midwestern club, but I was the Captain and wore the male Star Trek uniform. In my teens, I traveled all over the midwest and some eastern states to attend conventions.

Fanzines. Before there was the internet, before there was email, before desktop computers — when computers still took up entire rooms in big buildings — we had fanzines. We typed our stories with a typewriter and mailed them to each other in evelopes with stamps. Then folks would collect those into memographed or xeroxed books, staple them together and sell them to each other.

Some of my early fiction was published in fanzines. I even ran and edited my own semi-prozine in the late 70s. I received my journalism scholarship to college in part because of that work and was later hired as a Managing Editor of a magazine because of it.

I have a box of 70s era fanzines in my attic and was amused to find that many of the ones I kept were the “adult” fanzines. Such collections as ” R&R” and “Delta Triad” had racey Star Trek and other adult science fiction stories. The early slash was primarily Kirk/Spock stories. I am amused to read the publication date of “R&R VI & VII” was 1976. That dates me at 14 when I bought it. 190 pages of stories and illustrations and a simple warning on the Table of Contents page that some of the material is “sexually explicit material, and may be offensive to some.” Spock non-con, alien sex and Kirk as sexy hero. Even McCoy gets laid.

I guess my sexuality and fandom have always been entwined. I read my first girl lover “Planet of the Apes” aloud. I met my first boy lovers at SF clubs & conventions. I met my two life-partners through fan related activity – D&D gaming and a SF club.

So it shouldn’t be too surprising that I am reading “adult” fan fiction now. Much easier to find now. I like the way technology has given us fans another way to express (and arouse) ourselves.