YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS

[brown_betty]

So, I had previously encountered Kirk and Spock go Ice Fishing, but I did not realize it arose within a usenet tradition of "rude person" stories. The best -- Okay, the first one I read, because seriously, how could I not? -- was The Dialectic of Pon Farr, by Marxist Person, which contains the phrase "hotsky to Trotsky" and "Kirk yields to the

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[__marcelo]

*reads The Dialectic of Pon Farr, dies*

Heavily influenced by the false consciousness of the patriarchal rural bourgeoisie, he does not believe he can achieve a libidinal cathexis through this particular praxis.

Maybe the best paragraph I've read all week.

[brown_betty]

I KNOW. And, seriously, she knows her Marx! She pulls in Gramsci!

[browngirl]

That story *must* make it into the Grand Debate Over Academic Fandom somehow.

[__marcelo]

*nods* Besides, it's K/S; it should be a minor convention that examples of particular fic styles should be K/S (except when not applicable) for historical reasons. Kirk and Spock could be for theoretical meta-fannishness what Alice and Bob are for cryptography.

[brown_betty]

Yessssssssss. They are the ur-slash.