Fountain of Sorrow
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Fountain of Sorrow |
| Author(s): | Eileen Roy |
| Date(s): | May 1983 |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
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Fountain of Sorrow is a slash Starsky & Hutch vignette by Eileen Roy.
It was printed in Pushin' the Odds with the summary: "("another version of the Infamous Brass Bed Story.")
A Rebuttal Fic
It was written as a response fic to Surrender, a highly controversial partner rape story.
From a fan in 1985:
Something slightly unusual about S&H lit is the relative commonness of prequels, sequels, and remakes or "missing scenes" for other S&H stories and the original episodes. Possibly this is because there are fewer stories to be told about two men in one city than about, say, a shipful of folks in a galaxy. The best known example of a story and its spinoffs maybe "The Brass Bed" by Billie Fowler, which inspired both Donna Mcintosh's "I Read It in the National Enquirer" (unpublished) and my own "Surrender" which in turn inspired Eileen Roy's "Fountain of Sorrow" and Cath A. Rine's "Right Between the Eyes"; three other unpublished stories on the same theme are "The Bound Blintz", "Revenge of the Bound Blintz" and "Bound Blintz: The Motion Picture", by an anonymous author. In the holocaust department, Roy Smith's "A Brother Helped Is a Strong City" was parodied in Sue Doughnym's "He Ain't Heavy, He's My City", and extrapolated into Jill Ripley's Decorated for Death (which Jody Lynn Nye and I parodied in "Demonstrated to Death".) Teri White followed Hopscotch with My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys and [S. Soliste] continued the characters in her three Vermont Avenue stories. [Jean C.'s] "Buried Treasure" brought about Jody Nye's "Up the Amazon", and after [Rosemary C] wrote "What's a Partner For?" Pam Rose joined her in "A Virgin in These Woods". [1]
Reactions and Reviews
1983
1984
I personally do abhor the "/" idea, but certainly haven't dropped out of S/H fandom. Being part of a minority doesn't matter to me. Who cares who's minority and who's majority, it's what the individual really feels. There are people who aren't so open-minded, unlike yourself for example, therefore the idea of S/H is of no embarrassment. The other element, like myself, find words like 'sex' and 'sexual' embarrassing, therefore it is no fun reading sexual, suggestive stories which we find in our fave fandom of S&H. Why spoil a good thing?
The worst S/H I ever read were two stories in PUSHIN' THE ODDS fanzine, called..."Fall With Lucifer" and "Fountain of Sorrow." Fortunately, they were on red paper and almost unreadable!! Both were utterly disgusting and anyone liking those kind of stories must have a warped mind. Don't get me wrong, I'm not stopping anyone from reading what they want to read or fantasise with. We, as the non-S/H-ers, are supposed to respect others, so let's have a bit more understanding in our direction for a change! [3]
2004
That 'Surrender' story was sounding kinda interesting, and how could a emotional H/C lover like me *not* want to read something called 'Fountain of Sorrow'. [4]
References
- ^ A Short, Spotty History of S&H Fan Literature
- ^ review by Paula Smith in Between Friends #2, the same review is also in Warped Space #49
- ^ comments by Sandra J. Ferriday in Shootout #7 (November 1984)
- ^ comment at The Pits Mailing List, quoted anonymously (February 13, 2004)