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Fan
Name: DVS
Alias(es): Vivian Gates, Carol Hedge, Carolyn Hedge, Mary Sue Donym, Caroline Hedge, DVS, Tazy, OldDVS, Tara Tory
Type: fanwriter
Fandoms: Man from UNCLE, Blake's 7, Star Trek: DS9, Professionals, Star Trek: TOS, Original Fiction, Patalliro!, Miami Vice, Hardcastle and McCormick, Beauty and the Beast (TV), Doctor Who, Star Wars, Starsky and Hutch, Harry and Johnny, Sherlock (TV series), From Eroica with Love
Communities:
Other:
URL: OldDVS at AO3
Her fan fiction at the KS Archive
My Tara Tory (LJ)
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DVS is a prolific long-time writer and artist in many fandoms.

front cover of the Star Wars zine, The Lighter Side Strikes Back (1983), the illo is by Bonnie Reitz, portrays the editors (Caro Hedge and Susan Crites) "Bonnie Reitz is also responsible for our front cover, titled "The Clone Warriors". Why? Because it is an excellent likeness of Ye Eds, (Caro likes the slimming effect of the uniform — thanks, Bonnie!) and as you can no doubt see, we are practically indistinguishable from each other."

She was also a zine editor, and as "Caro Hedge" was an artist (mainly borders) in print zines

Pseuds

  • Mary Sue Donym
  • Vivian Gates
  • DVS
  • Caro Hedge
  • Tara Tory
  • Tazy
  • OldDVS

In 2021, DVS connected her pseuds at AO3:

I'm slowly collecting my stories from the last 40 years or so of various fandoms, and if possible will put them here. Newest first. This may take awhile. I did my Trek under DVS and Vivian Gates, but as someone here already has DVS, I have chosen OldDVS. The Professionals stories were written under DVS, Harry Potter was under Tara Tory, Sentinel under Tazy. There were more, not quite a different name for every archive/fandom. I try not to think about it. [1]

Comments by DVS

2005

Why do you slash Harry and Snape? What is it about the two of them?

Tara: I bet I don't know the answer to this, except that they just happen to fit the types which push my buttons. It could be that I like misfits winning for once. I like it when characters finally see beyond the surface to the real person underneath. I like cheering for the underdogs (the gay thing works in with that, too).

One of the Things I Have Learned as I have gotten older is that Life is Not Fair. However, I fell prey to the optimism party line as a child and still unfortunately believe that things *should* be fair. Sometimes I think that I write just to whack things into place so that if it is not fair in real life, I can at least have things come out happy ever after in my stories. I tend to have happy ever after endings, if you've noticed. So life is not always fair, but maybe you can give things to the characters that at least compensate. Love and a happy life being one of them.

I also have this negative reaction to the stereotypes that JKR has in her stories. On the whole, she makes her nasty people ugly. Then she defines ugly in a way that I don't agree with. I wonder if she knows how much harm she does? I'm not saying she should make everybody beautiful, but does she worry about what overweight kids feel when part of Dudley's bad character is described in terms of weight? Goyle and Crabbe, too. (Not sure where Hagrid fits in here). The short squat Umbridge and the occasional round references to Fudge sort of make a pattern that leaves me uncomfortable.

Snape, too, is described as ugly. Her description of a man with a large nose, black eyes, yellow teeth, and terrible hair as unattractive is her judgment call, of course. Hey, I thought Spock was sexy, I'm sort of imprinted on the nose, here. Except for the teeth, which a wizard ought to be able to fix with a flick of a wand, ditto the greasy hair, what makes him ugly? Did she make him ugly to represent the bad things in his past? I dunno. Why is Harry's wild hair cute and Snape's lank greasy hair a sign of something bad? If Snape looks as he does, what is the reason for it?

[...]

Anyway, I like the contrasts between older and younger, innocent and jaded, Gryffindor and Slytherin. I also like two characters with a lot of unlucky Life is Not Fair finding a good place together. I think they combine into something more than the whole and I think they have enough in common (bad childhood, hatred of Voldemort, etc.) to give them common ground. Both are complex enough to keep each other interested. [2]

Well, I think I have been writing slash for 26 years and playing in various fannish pools for 31 years. Back when, there was only Trek, and regular science fiction fandom. Eventually I followed friends into Professionals, and then tried a bit of Muncle, Starsky and Hutch, a few others, and ended up in Sentinel for a few years before finding Harry Potter.

Some fandoms I mostly read, like Sentinel, and some I write and read. I'm serially monogamous. I usually have only one fandom I write at a time. I'm very linear. It's too confusing to switch about much and when I'm writing in a fandom I sort of have this drive to get the stories out. When the stories have all come out, then another fandom might catch my eye, but as long as the stories nag at me, that's what gets written. There are some things which will rather abruptly terminate my interest in a fandom, which has happened twice. When they kill off one half of your one true pairing, it sort of squashes things. I do hope She doesn't kill off Snape! I worry about him.

I came to HP the way a lot of us did, with the first Tea story. I got imprinted on Snarry there, instantly, and have a hard time trying to write other pairings. Except [Neville story]. That just sort of came out of left field one day.

In general, I don't like to come into a fandom that has the source material still being produced. I was happy to find Sentinel just after the show was canceled because you don't have that, "this episode has absolutely wiped out my story idea," moment where you have to decide if you continue it as an AU, or spend time seeing if you can adapt it, or leave it unfinished to die on the hard drive. I can't keep up. In the Potterverse, I find I am stuck in the universe created by the first two books, sometimes the first three. I have these two dozen unfinished stories which started at that point and I keep finishing them as if the following books did not exist, instead of going on and doing stories that incorporate the last three books. Insert heavy sigh here. I'm caught in a time warp which makes my stories increasingly AU. [3]

2007

I have been doing the fannish thing for, gods help me, more than 40 years. The slash thing I've done since...um. 1979? That sounds right. I started with K/S. Spock, you know, and I adored Spock for years before I found fandom. One of the canon/fanon words Spock used was "Indeed." A lot. Now the problem with this is, all of the sudden I am seeing 'indeed' come out of...Snape's mouth. Every time I read that, it smashes me right out of the story and into another universe. It's like being drop-kicked through a series of fannish goalposts that stretch back in time, right back to the first one. I drop right out of the narrative flow, stop, shake my head a few times to get the rocks of the past out, and then I climb back on the ficcish horse and ride on. Only the word is quite popular for some writers. There was a story recently where I had to climb back on more than a dozen times in one story. I still enjoyed the story, but I bet I would have liked it even more if I hadn't been jerked out of the story so often. (It doesn't help that both Snape and Spock are similar in appearance-- all that dark brooding mystique and noble nose-- and similar in name--five letters, strong, starts with S.) [4]

DVS

Zine Contributions

Sample Fanfiction

Fan Comments: DVS

[1995]:

I agree that DVS's Lovers zines and her writing in general is excellent. She always gives me the impression that she's writing a story, rather than writing out of sheer adoration for Kirk/Spock, Illya/Napoleon, or whoever, even when she does feature a standard slash couple." [5]

[1995]:

There was a Garak/Bashir zine from DVS, which had avowed TNG-haters sneaking hours of reading under the table. Having read other of DVS' zines, I can believe it's her writing and not a resurgence of TNG interest.[6]

Vivian Gates

As Vivian Gates, she wrote slash and het Star Trek: TOS fan writer, fanzine publisher, and fan poet.

Her work has appeared in numerous fanzines in the 1980s and 1990s and she several awards:

Zine Contributions

Sample Fanfiction

  • Hunter's Way ("On a trip to determine his future, the young tribesman James meet up with Spock, a traveler from the North looking for a mate.") (1981)
  • One Plus One ("A link is formed while Kirk and Spock are lying against each other while hiding from pursuers, a link that slowly turns into a bond.") (1983)
  • Of Stranger Consequence ("Kirk is rescued just as he and his fellow kidnappee are having sex, but only Spock witnesses them.") (1983)
  • Decision Point ("Trapped in a cave, Spock and Christine overhear a Vulcan/Human pair in mind meld.") (1983)
  • A Priori ("Spock experiments sexually with a scientist on the outpost he inspects in order to insure that, if he ever meets Kirk again, he will have the experience he needs to hold him.") (1984)
  • Truth is a Nail of Iron ("Spock asks Kirk if self-gratification helps remove mental stress after a stressful mission, so Kirk gives into a fantasy and shows him.") (1984)
  • From the Dark into the Light (won a 1985 K/Star Award) (1984)
  • The Hard Sell (won a 1986 K/Star Award for Best Humor Piece) (1985)
  • The Air is the Air ("When Kirk and Spock are captured by Klingons, Spock agrees to sex with them in order to protect Kirk, making Kirk aware of Spockʼs bisexuality and creating problems in their friendship.") (likely 1985)
  • In Paradise ("Ensign Kirk is stranded while on a survival course and is found by Spock, a cadet also stranded 5 years earlier.") (1985)
  • Out of the Airlock ("Kirk and Spock are suited up and thrown out of the shuttle after they are overpowered by the man they rescue.") (1985)
  • Of Human Kindness ("Spock begins to lactate after Kirk repeatedly suckles him during love making.") (1985)
  • From the Aftermath of Dreams ("After Kirk finds out that he had sex with a man while split by the transporter, he discovers that Spock is homosexual and decides to find out if they could be lovers by having another encounter with a man where he would be the submissive partner.") (1987)
  • From Choice (AU: "Just as Kirk is getting his doctorate, his servant Spockʼs time of indenture-ship is ending.") (1987)
  • A Human Thing to Do ("Kirk picks Spock up after Spock completes a mission where he had to pass as human, and spending the day together, Spock speaks of being seen and treated as a human-and the human things he would wish to do.") (1988)

Vivian Gates Signed Off

In 1986, due in part to disagreements over the unauthorized editing and printing of The Air is the Air in the zine, Alien Brothers, and her unpleasant tangles with Barbara P. Gordon, Vivian Gates printed copies of her story, and offered it to fandom, saying it was the "last Vivian Gates story."

Comments by Gates from the first page of The Air is the Air:

“The Air is the Air” is a little depressing there towards the end, but it was originally written as that the ending would be a spring-board for a sequel. Sort of a figure-out-how-to-get-Kirk-out-of-this challenge. I submitted to an editor I didn’t not know (never do that) from which I later withdrew the story. There isn’t time to go into the whole convoluted tale, but the upshot is, the editor refuses to release it. I feel I have a right to do what I want with my story. What I want to do with it now is to give it to fandom. This is free. Make any copies you want. Send it to other fans. Reprint it anywhere you want. Write sequels that get Kirk and Spock out of this situation. Pass it on or toss it in the trash. This is the last Vivian Gates story. – Vivian Gates, April 1986

In 1991, Gates wrote:

There are aspects of pseudonyms which you may not have considered, though. You can't help but have the editor know

your pen name AND your real name. The worst experience I had in fandom was with an editor who seemed to be using a "pen" name to edit under. I didn't know whoa I was dealing with. When I thought I did (and after waiting more than a year to see my story published) I withdrew my story. She refused, and in fact when I did not see things her way she sent letters to all the major letterzines in which she revealed both my name and my pen name. Four of five zines did not publish it, but as the fifth did, my pseudonym is probably the worst kept secret of fandom. [7]

In 1999, Vivian Gates returned for one more story. She wrote this introduction to a story Transfer of Affection, she'd written for Encore, a zine focused on BNF writers who'd left fandom or had not written for a long time:

K/S finally drove me crazy. Well, not K/S, exactly. Some of the readers found my stories where I used a third party or someone other that Kirk or Spock to illustrate some aspect of the K/S relationship rather — uh, odd. Then, some editorially bad moments happened one after another. Ever have an editor return a story to you — and she wasn't the editor you'd sent it to? And there was one who dabbled in blackmail, and another who kept a story for four years, and at that point I found a fandom which Didn't Have Editors At All. I, uh ... jumped ship. After almost 40 stories, I, who once scorned fans who left the one true fandom, went over the wall. I left behind one K/S story that had never been published. After the editor raked it over the coals — quite rightly, I must admit, although I went 'ouch! ouch!' at the time — had put it in the drawer to let it sit six months as the writer's manuals suggest. The poor thing was there over ten years, until the very kind Encore invitation arrived. So I dusted off the general idea and sat down to see if there was one more K/S story left in the old gal. It about killed me. After at this time. It turned out to be much harder to catch the voice' of the characters — and Kirk is harder than Spock. Fortunately, it turned out I had a good editor to help with the fiddly bits.

Fan Comments: Vivian Gates

I love the concise, powerful way Vivian Gates writes, but I also wish she didn't write so many a/u themes. However, the a/u story "From Choice" (GREATER CALIFORNIA K/S) is one of my favorite of that genre. I also think Truth's A Nail of Iron" (NOME 7) is particularly memorable, and her most recent story, "A Human Thing to Do" (KSX II), may have been her best ever. [8]

I have a number of favorite writers, for a number of different reasons, and Vivian Gates is right up there at the top of my list. This is not to say that I like all of her stories-- I hate "Jealousy" and several others have not fit my preferred view of K/S (Kirk and Spock happily loving each other). But all of her stories are well written, and the characters in them are always believable. She's written K&S from many different points of view, all of which have validity. Best of all, her K&S are always very masculine, yet show intense feeling for each other. And she writes great erotic scenes, too! Thank you, Vivian, for many hours of reading pleasure. [9]

Vivian Gates was one of those cases of a fresh new voice perking up a fandom. Her stuff was very controversial, much of it harder-edged than the general run of K/S, but I always loved it. She got into B&B, of all things (given her darker sensibility). [10]

Caro Hedge

As Caro Hedge, she was a gen and slash artist.

She volunteered on the Star Trek adzine Forum.

Zine Contributions

Examples of Caro Hedge's Art

Hedge's art was in the form of graphics and borders.

Fan Comments: Caro Hedge

Tazy

Sample Fanfiction

Fan Comments: Tazy

I love the facets of Blair's character that are exposed in this story. This fascinating story has Blair as the wise officer to an energetic rookie cop. He is called in to make up for past favors and transport a suspicious cargo through a slow speed chase instead of working on the all the paperwork accumulated through good detective work. As a result of all of the tumult, Sandburg and Ellison are blessed with a way to fix the paperwork problem. [11]

Tara Tory

Sample Fanfiction

Fan Comments: Tara Tory

[mid-20002]:

In the span of two weeks Tara posted around nine new stories on ISF, each better than the other. With one exception it's all Snarry (the exception being a Snape/Neville that is good!). Her Snape is nicer than we're probably used to, but no less entertaining. She has a wonderrful eye for detail (magical background &c), and a number of nice long fics to curl up with. Her stories can be found on ISF, and another two on Walking the Plank. [12]

[2010]:

Draco manages to botch a love potion, which ends up affecting Harry and Severus instead (natch). Some surprisingly (but very welcome) realistic romance ensues.

How do I love Loving Potions

this fic? Let me count the ways: I love that the lust component of the love potion faded before any actual sex occured (because I really do prefer my smut to be consensual). I love that Snape refuses to have sex with Harry while they are still teacher and student (and I also love the choices he makes that doesn't require them to wait till Harry graduates). I love that Snape explicitly states that he would find a submissive Harry to be boring and that Harry and Severus's relationship is emphatically one of equals. I love how confident Harry is in Snape's love for him (even if Severus still has a way to go in that department). I love that Snape his his usual sarcastic bastard self, and yet his love for Harry is perfectly clear. I love the fact that the focus of the story isn't on Harry and Severus falling in love, but instead on how they'll actually manage to make a life together work. I love that sleeping in the same bed doesn't come naturally to either of them. I love Tara's wizarding world, with its layers and realities that most authors ignore. Heck, I even love that she doesn't tie up all of the loose ends at the end of the fic, leaving just a few tantalizing threads to encourage us to wonder what will happen next. Clearly, I love just about everything in this fic. It's well-written, with solid characterizations, and an interesting (if unusual for HP fic) plot. Just a great story all around. [13]

References

  1. ^ OldDVS Profile
  2. ^ Essential Snarry Reader Interview with Tara Tory (January 8, 2005)
  3. ^ speaking as Tara Tory, Essential Snarry Reader Interview with Tara Tory (January 8, 2005)
  4. ^ speaking as Tara Tory, from Indeed, (April 14, 2007)
  5. ^ from Strange Bedfellows #8 (February 1995)
  6. ^ from Strange Bedfellows #11 (November 1995)
  7. ^ from The LOC Connection #26 (1991)
  8. ^ from On the Double #11
  9. ^ from Not Tonight Spock! #11
  10. ^ Gayle F, quoted from Virgule-L with permission (June 24, 1994)
  11. ^ from Crack Van (2012)
  12. ^ comments at Undercurrents (Harry Potter website)
  13. ^ from Epic Recs (February 1, 2010)
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