yourlibrarian ([info]yourlibrarian) wrote in [info]fanthropology,
2007-04-24 13:07:00
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Celebrities who want to be slashed

In Henry Jenkins latest blog post he mentions that Jonathan Lethem "may well be the first celebrity in my memory who has publicly campaigned to be the subject of a slash story.". He also brings up Stephen Colbert's vid challenge. "Colbert is encouraging you to re-edit and recontextualize incriminating statements from his show."

It seemed to me I remembered members of a British pop group who did encourage their fans to write slash about them. I just wondered, is Jenkins right? Does anyone else recall celebrities encouraging slash?

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[info]sixteenbynine

April 24 2007, 19:26:05 UTC 5 years ago

I'm terribly tempted to say the group in question was Spandau Ballet.

[info]keelieinblack

April 24 2007, 19:26:29 UTC 5 years ago

That band would be Franz Ferdinand, I think--the article about their reaction to slash fiction is here, and is from 2004.

[info]molotov_bitch

April 24 2007, 19:38:33 UTC 5 years ago

They didn't encourage it though- they just said they didn't mind.

Deathstars on the other hand.... they snog each other onstage basically to get female fans, but I don't think they actually know what slash is.

[info]yourlibrarian

April 24 2007, 19:47:39 UTC 5 years ago

I think you're right, that's who I was thinking of.

[info]treelines

April 24 2007, 20:27:16 UTC 5 years ago

Gah. Letham's a good writer, but his ego pretty much turns me off from most things he does (like, you know, write, speak, and breath).

He'd be the Gary Stu in any story.

[info]yourlibrarian

April 24 2007, 21:48:08 UTC 5 years ago

Heh, wonder if he's familiar with that convention.

[info]kali_kali

April 24 2007, 20:27:41 UTC 5 years ago

I don't know about encouraging slash in words, but there are quite a few actors out there who will engage in various on-set antics (often seen in blooper reels) that seem to encourage slashiness. The blooper reel I'm thinking of specifically is that of season 2 Lost.

[info]yourlibrarian

April 24 2007, 21:49:40 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, that seems to go back forever. Which makes the whole issue of subtext even more interesting.

[info]emily_shore

April 25 2007, 08:02:46 UTC 5 years ago

There are some quite slashy X-Files blooper reels too...

[info]saikogrrl

May 29 2007, 07:49:24 UTC 5 years ago

Or the blooper reel of Serenity, where Nathan Fillion gleefully points out a "Space Hickey" on Sean Maher's neck, and Sean gets incredibly embarassed. XDXD

[info]darksylvia

April 24 2007, 20:50:30 UTC 5 years ago

I'm not sure about the band, but Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are definitely in the know. Colbert even has slash (albeit obviously mocking) on his site.

And damn, Jon's George Clooney interview was the slashiest thing I've ever seen :D

[info]yourlibrarian

April 24 2007, 21:46:45 UTC 5 years ago

Not to mention his Oscars spot :>

[info]artslave

April 24 2007, 21:25:48 UTC 5 years ago

Duran Duran doesn't encourage it -- they try to keep a good distance from the subject of fanfic in general -- but they've known about it for years and don't discourage it either. The keyboardist had a subscription to one of the major ficzines at one point.

And yes, some of their antics onstage seem to be taken in full knowledge of the "hoyay" fans in the audience....

[info]yourlibrarian

April 24 2007, 21:44:51 UTC 5 years ago

Agreed.

[info]amazon_syren

April 25 2007, 00:28:12 UTC 5 years ago

I think the guys who played Julian and, oh blast, what was his name... The guy in the Obsidian Order who was a tailor?

The actors knew about the slash written about their characters and, allegedly, at least, tried to slant their playing of said characters to allow for more believable slashy canon.

(Gods, did that even make any sense?)

[info]yourlibrarian

April 25 2007, 00:33:58 UTC 5 years ago

Yes :> I think as in some of the above examples there are definitely people who have played to the slashers once they knew about it. Of course, I don't know as an actor would be as free to suggest he (or she) should be slashed.

[info]laisserais

April 25 2007, 01:31:05 UTC 5 years ago

haha! that's really neat. i've never read any lethem, but i'd heard that he was really chummy with chabon, whom i admire.

annalee newitz (the woman who interviewed him) is another of my heroes. do you read her blog?

[info]yourlibrarian

April 25 2007, 01:54:27 UTC 5 years ago

No, I hadn't heard of her before, though it sounds like she does fun interviews ;>

[info]blackjackrocket

April 25 2007, 05:07:40 UTC 5 years ago

Wasn't "encouraging (femme)slash" the main hook behind tATu? I know they're still making music, are they still into the overtones?

[info]mystery_sock

April 29 2007, 22:41:34 UTC 5 years ago

I'd slash the hell out of Lethem - hmm, maybe with Will Self. That could get twisty. :D

Ditto the Duran Duran comment, unfortunately by the time I had something ready to send to them, the magazine folded. (I still have most of my back issues, because they are amazing fandom documents and some of the work is really great).

[info]yourlibrarian

April 30 2007, 02:34:57 UTC 5 years ago

Yes, they were very well put together.
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