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3 Feb 2010

If you have fans, they probably want you to have a gay love affair



Yes, there are an enormous amount of stories about Kirk and Spock's gay relationship, and there have been for years. Everything that gets sufficiently popular gets it's own cabinet of horrors where horrible writers try to mangle maxims and end up indulging whatever perverse desire they have. It's only because of the internet that everyone can see it. Also surprising is how much of it isn't terrible, a handful for each franchise, but still. That's pretty amazing if you consider that the only requisite is a medium command of a language and a familiarity with the franchise. There is one profoundly weird thing in all this, aside from the wildly varying levels of quality, most fanfiction writers are women. The theories range from higher female interest in motivations, doubts, etc. to men's more visual thought processes, leading to fanvideos, etc. But I think it's because women are just much more perverse, and that's what it takes to make it.

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