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Jan. 3rd, 2004 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doyleWhile I'm wary of anything calling attention to fandom, I love the article
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While I'm wary of anything calling attention to fandom, I love the article <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/01/03/do0306.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=134677"">here</a>. It was published in the Telegraph and chronicles the journalist's foray into fanfic writing. He (I think) seems to have rather enjoyed himself, particularly his exploration of Gimli/Legolas slash.
I'm a bit disappointed there's no entertaining politics speculation this time, though. Last time a British newspaper covered fanfic, it was an article in The Times about slash, and it pointed out that politicians should think about the untapped well of voters. A little hint of slashy subtext between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, they suggested, and the next election would be a walkover for the Labour party. The journalist, getting into the spirit of things, included some Blair/Brown RPS which they'd written (the satirical magazine Private Eye has done this before too, with their short story 'Born to be Queenie' about Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson).
I'm a bit disappointed there's no entertaining politics speculation this time, though. Last time a British newspaper covered fanfic, it was an article in The Times about slash, and it pointed out that politicians should think about the untapped well of voters. A little hint of slashy subtext between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, they suggested, and the next election would be a walkover for the Labour party. The journalist, getting into the spirit of things, included some Blair/Brown RPS which they'd written (the satirical magazine Private Eye has done this before too, with their short story 'Born to be Queenie' about Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson).