Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 39
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The Foresmutters Project is a bibliography and collection of some stories from the very earliest days of recorded slash, principally Kirk/Spock from the mid-1970s. The archive contains several stories by Leslie Fish, including the famous "This Deadly Innocence, or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome."
In 1999, the project was described as "an anarchic effort to put material from the earliest days of slash on-line." When the project was initially proposed, some fans expressed misgivings about digital preservation of older print fanworks, and frustrations with "the burden of history" in fandom.
The Foresmutters Project was also the first site preserved by Open Doors.