How did you get into slash?
Apologies if this topic has already been discussed in the past - I've only managed to work my way through to the Nov 2008 postings so far - real life does insist on getting in the way with things like work and such-like! I was curious as to how people discovered slash in general, and got into Chuck/Casey slash in particular.
In the hopes of getting the ball rolling, I'll begin. I go thru obsessive phases with TV shows. Back in the late '90s I discovered Blake's 7, and got *utterly* hooked - Avon being my fave char (I like bad boys - hence Casey). I trawled thru used video stores etc (Although I live in Scotland now I'm from Canada originally, so I didn't see it when it first aired.) and gradually managed to watch every ep, but occasionally there were long stretches b/w finding the next tape. (No download culture back then.) While trawling the Internet looking for B7-related stuff to tide me over b/w videos, I discovered the wonderful world of fan fiction. That led me *very* quickly to the world of slash fic.
When S1 of Chuck aired last year in the UK I watched it and found it passably entertaining, but it wasn't a "must see". I didn't even bother recording the 1st few eps of S2 when it started a couple of months ago. But while hunting around online recently trying to find any slash stories for Eli Stone (my previous televisual obsession) on a great site called Kinkfest! I found the one-and-only Eli/Jordan fic that seems to have been written. And to pass the time I read a Chuck/Casey story (don't remember which one, now), and I was *hooked*. So much so that I ordered the S1 boxed set and have been watching them excessively ever since, (likewise the 8 S2 eps that have aired here), and reading loads of fantastic C/C stories on this wonderful site. (For those who may not have discovered them yet, check out imkalena's stories.)
I like to think that I'm not entirely alone in being so obsessive when it comes to TV programmes. Does anyone else go thru phases like this?
In the hopes of getting the ball rolling, I'll begin. I go thru obsessive phases with TV shows. Back in the late '90s I discovered Blake's 7, and got *utterly* hooked - Avon being my fave char (I like bad boys - hence Casey). I trawled thru used video stores etc (Although I live in Scotland now I'm from Canada originally, so I didn't see it when it first aired.) and gradually managed to watch every ep, but occasionally there were long stretches b/w finding the next tape. (No download culture back then.) While trawling the Internet looking for B7-related stuff to tide me over b/w videos, I discovered the wonderful world of fan fiction. That led me *very* quickly to the world of slash fic.
When S1 of Chuck aired last year in the UK I watched it and found it passably entertaining, but it wasn't a "must see". I didn't even bother recording the 1st few eps of S2 when it started a couple of months ago. But while hunting around online recently trying to find any slash stories for Eli Stone (my previous televisual obsession) on a great site called Kinkfest! I found the one-and-only Eli/Jordan fic that seems to have been written. And to pass the time I read a Chuck/Casey story (don't remember which one, now), and I was *hooked*. So much so that I ordered the S1 boxed set and have been watching them excessively ever since, (likewise the 8 S2 eps that have aired here), and reading loads of fantastic C/C stories on this wonderful site. (For those who may not have discovered them yet, check out imkalena's stories.)
I like to think that I'm not entirely alone in being so obsessive when it comes to TV programmes. Does anyone else go thru phases like this?