Top Gun is proto-slash
Finally getting around to putting this in my own journal...I wrote this spoof of the Top Gun intro lines to try to entertain FabulaRasa who wrote Kings of the Air, the brilliant and much-called for slashing of Iceman/Maverick from Top Gun. I also wrote it to try to entertain chemm80 who podfic'ed it.
If you were alive for Top Gun to be the big deal that it was, and if you now find yourself a fangirl who slashes boys, then you may realize that Top Gun was one of those things that led you to where you are today, e.g., it was “proto-slash,” which is what FabulaRasa said to me, and I was thusly inspired:
**start electronic snare drum sounds here**
On May 16, 1986, Paramount Pictures portrayed an elite school for the top one percent of US Navy pilots. Its purpose was to teach the budding art of slash and to insure that the handful of fans who perceived it became the best fanfiction writers in the world.
They succeeded.
Today, the Navy calls it a pretty-good-marketing-idea-for-the-time.
The fangirls call it:
PROTO-SLASH