Hair Fandom
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Hair Fandom is a fandom that celebrates the long hair of canon characters.
A sort-of subset of this fandom is fans' discussion and fanwork creations that imagine long hair on characters that do not have long hair in canon.
Hair Fandoms tend to have a m/m slash focus.
Long Hair, and The Elf
Elf-ifying characters is often an opportunity for giving them non-canon long hair.
See Elf AUs.
Fan Comments
From a member of Media Cannibals, Wickedwords, who took the lead on some vids:
Hair: Hair was my baby, a multimedia metavid about hair fans. Yes, I am serious. Hair fandom is huge, and it can make or break a series (right, Felicity?) Not to mention that whole fuss in Sentinel fandom when fans heard rumors that Blair Sandburg would have to cut. his. hair. Or making Ronon Dex 's actor wear a wig when he cut off his dreadlocks during the Stargate Atlantis hiatus before season 5. Fortunately, we realized that we were in luck early on, as characters usually either had hair or did not, and we were able to use aliens for those that were inbetween.
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One of the other novel things about it was that Sandy and I deliberately included women as some of the objects of adoration, which was different from most multimedia slash vids of the era, which usually only showed men. But the women got play as sex-objects in our vid, since it was all about the hair; it made no sense to the two of us to exclude them, because, hey, women are sexy and heroic and all kinds of fun. Plus some women have really good hair [1]
Some Canon Hair Fandoms
- The Sentinel and what followed: Blair's Hair
- Led Zeppelin and its tangent, Tris/Alex
- From Eroica with Love and Dorian Red Gloria's hair
Some Fanon Hair Fandoms
- Long-Haired Spock and Long-Haired Kirk
- many, many Professionals fanworks, including the ever-popular Doyle-as-an-Elf fics and fanart
- Kiefer/Lou and Lou Diamond Phillip's hair
Some Fanworks
Fan Fiction
- In Of Plastic Sticks, Silky Curls and Lime Green Love by Zanz (Jim expounds on Blair's glorious hair: "And that hair. Those masses of rich brown curls that in the sunlight held highlights of gold and red and seemed almost to be alive in their sinuous movements. More than anything he wanted to turn up his sense of touch and run his hands through those curls, feel the caress of the silk sliding between his fingers.") (The Sentinel)
- In Dork by Francesca (Blair cuts off his hair and sends it in a box to a former girlfriend, telling Jim: "Well, I figured they could continue their relationship perfectly well without me.") (The Sentinel)
- Scissors by LRH Balzar (1997)
- Permanent Change by Jane Mailander (The Professionals) (1999)
Vids
- Hair by Media Cannibals -- VCR era, a meta vid for hair fans
- ...and The Ladies With Pretty Hair by hollywoodgrrl (2009) (Merlin/Legend of the Seeker)
- Sister Golden Hair by Mary Van Deusen (Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
Fan Art
from The Book of Strife (1989), artist is TSL, the subject is "Dee (Ray Doyle)"
from 852 Prospect #2 (1999), art by by TM Alexander, The Sentinel
from The Nowhere Man Affair (1986), art by Paulie (Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
from Fantazine #5 (1993), art by Karen Eaton, The Professionals
from Decorated for Death, art by Chris Ripley, Starsky & Hutch
from Dark Fantasies #2 (1994), artist is Suzan Lovett (The Professionals)
from IDIC #6 (1978), artist is Alice Jones, one of many examples of a Long-Haired Spock -- A fan in 2007: "The first major influence and the style I most wanted to emulate was Alice J.’s. She was the ultimate “realist” artist and that was my natural inclination anyway. I recently ran into a copy of IDIC 6 (1978) that has a slew of her artwork in it and saw a piece I had forgotten; one that had a huge impact on fandom at the time, a piece called “The Pride of the Clan” — a young, bare-chested Spock with long hair and a Star of David on his chest. I remember several conversations about that piece of art when I got into fandom (and that was seven years after it was published!)." [2]
