http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm

Creepy! No way am I actually going to CLICK on any of those story links. Eeeeew.

Hmm. Guess it's good that it was blocked by my draconian proxy at work.

Very ... David Lynch.

Actually, the stories would only barely creep from G into PG-13. Go ahead and read them... they're all very quick reads (on the order of a minute each). That's part of the bizarreness of the stories.

Weird, really friggin' weird...
I really want to read the unlinked "Slash Fiction" of Kiki Dee/Kajagoogoo entry in the Interesting Links section, though... Time to go googling...

According to my wife, slash fiction is gay erotica fan fiction. Which is not to say that it might not be about the lead guitarist from GnR, which is what I assume you assume it is, but caveat lector.

slash fiction is gay erotica fan fiction

Yes, with the origin of the term coming from the slash symbol in "K/S", which was where the first of these kinds of stories originated (Kirk/Spock).

These are the things you learn when you attend a lot of cons.

Anyone ever hear the hilarious edits where they string together a bunch of soundbites from the TV series to make it sort of an "audio" K/S story?

Dude, I pointed out that my wife told me this.

What's your excuse?

Oh ... that ... uh ... Tony just has a "friend" who likes Star Trek fan fiction....

According to my wife, slash fiction is gay erotica fan fiction.

I don't think it technically needs to be gay, but I haven't really sampled much (any, actually) of the "literature" beyond reading the titles. I heard about it as a passing mention on Slashdot. I have no wife.

What's your excuse?

Like I said, these are the things you learn when you go to a lot of cons. You can't hang out at a con without meeting strange people and seeing/hearing strange things. They actually have panels on slash fiction. I haven't been to any of those particular panels, but they're listed in the program guide.

Funny thing is, the panels on slash fiction are some of the more tame ones.

A quick scan through the program from last year's Worldcon reveals some of the following topics for panels...

- "Buffy/Spike. Consensual sexual Violence. Is it ever OK?"

- "The Theory and Art of Flirting"

- "Costume or Fetishwear? Drawing the line, and crossing it"

- "Why does SF erotica tend toward the dark side?"

- "Alien Sex: Presentation by Patricia MacEwen"

I'm not making these up. Of course, there are the normal types of panels you would expect, such as "Religion and Fandom", "Genetics and future societies", "New astronomy, astrophysics, and astrobiology science discoveries", and "Getting past writer's block". There's also some that sound really fun, like the "Dr. Destructo" panels.

By the way, that was from a scan through one day's worth of programming of a five-day con... Admittedly, it was WorldCon, the big one, but you get the idea.