That's called K/S, for "Kirk-Spock slash fiction." It goes back to early 1970s fanfic, long before the public Internet.
That's called K/S, for "Kirk-Spock slash fiction." It goes back to early 1970s fanfic, long before the public Internet.
Given the long list of female loves for both and the fact neither has shown any interest in men romantically, I'm going to say the internet is wrong. It should be possible for two guys to care about each other without it being romantic or sexual.
I know, but I was trying to express it delicately. I had in mind a woman I knew on Usenet once who slaughtered many electrons trying to "prove" that Kirk and Spock were lovers.
Were her initials LG? Because i remember someone like that as well and her single-mindedness on the subject was astounding. And she constantly changed her moniker to get around being kill-filed.
The first episode aired ManTrap had Uhura saying Kirk was Spock's only friend or something. It was great how the first lot of episodes established the characters especially ManTrap.
I don't think there's any combination of characters in Star Trek that hasn't been tried out in FanFiction.
Saying that wasn't Kirk Spock the first slash pairing or was it Homes and Watson?
Yes.
Spock and Kirk were more than best friends. They were t'hy'la.
Kirk/Spock was the first slash pairing to be called such. (Because of the slash between the names. The fic writers back then - or pioneers, as slash fic writer me likes to call them - inserted it to distinguish their fic from Kirk&Spock fic, which indicated friendship fic. So, they didn’t invent slash fic as such, but they did invent the NAME for it.)
"Would this be the time for a colorful metaphor?"
To me its seems there is nothing but slash fanfiction out there. Not just Kirk/Spock but every combination of characters. Its really hard to find just friendship/action adventure fics but you know TOS is over 50 years old so maybe no-ones interested in writing boring non-romantic stories any more.
To me there's too much het romance out there still... it's all a matter of perspective
(but yeah Kirk/Spock is THE pairing for TOS indeed)I will agree that gen fic is somewhat rarer than romantic (both het and slash) fic tho. I myself hardly ever write anything gen. It's not as... idk... interesting to me? I always say we had enough gen stuff on canonical Trek, I don't need to write about it in fan fic as well.
If it were up to me I'd say Action/Adventure or Friendship, no romance at all - Kirk is too much of a player for that.To me there's too much het romance out there still... it's all a matter of perspective
I will agree that gen fic is somewhat rarer than romantic (both het and slash) fic tho. I myself hardly ever write anything gen. It's not as... idk... interesting to me? I always say we had enough gen stuff on canonical Trek, I don't need to write about it in fan fic as well.
However as you say gen stuff on TV and in official books so when people want to use their artistic talents to show their passion and their takes on characters good on them. No one's forced to read slash if they don't want to. Except that there's never enough Star Trek stuff for me and fanfic is truly a delightful addition to my fandom.
When I troll the internet for talk of Star trek aside from talk of a "new movie" the main thing I see is Kirk Spock talk so I think it is a thing unto itself.
Something I wanted to include in my trolling the internet, nothing to do with Kirk and Spock friendship but perhaps with Star Trek friendship.
https://twitter.com/NatalieMarkin86/status/1497264426084405253/photo/1
Sorry still don't know how to post a picture.
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