McShep Match Team Romance 2007 Interview with telesilla

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Title:	Team Romance McShep Match Interview with telesilla
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	telesilla
Date(s):	August 8, 2007
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Stargate Atlantis
External Links:	online here, Archived version
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telesilla was interviewed in 2007 for McShep Romance.

It is part of this project: Team Angst and Romance McShep Match Interview Series.

Excerpts

I've been writing it in my head since I could read; I'm utterly grateful there were no internets when I was a teenager because, oh God, the me/Han Solo Mary Sue fics I'd have written would have been awful. I only started writing stuff down once I had access to a computer -- writing long hand is impossible for me--and discovered an online audience. That would be in January of 1995 and the place was a little newsgroup we liked to call alt.sex.fetish.startrek. Doing the math puts me at twelve and a half years at this.

I've been seriously involved Star Trek (I've written for every incarnation with the exception of Enterprise and modded the newsgroup for a couple of years), Star Wars:TPM (yes it sucked as a movie but OMG there was Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor and I'm nothing if not shallow), random RPS (I started the kinky RPS RPG The Establishment for the purpose of pairing people who haven't even met in real life), Lotrips (really, RPS is totally a slippery slope of crack, your first pairing is free, kids!) and now SGA. I also dabbled in the Xena-Herc verse, Buffy-Angel fandom, Velvet Goldmine (where the boys are glittery and the m/m is canon), Batman Begins, Equilibrium (Best. Bad. Movie. Evah.), Prison Break (it's all about William Fichtner in a cage, baby) and Harry Potter.

First of all, [SGA is] Science Fiction, which, along with Fantasy, has been my genre of choice since I was in fourth grade. After many years away from writing in an SF fandom, it's been great to come back to it and play with all the great clichés I've known and exploited in the past. I also love that these guys are totally dorky--whoever it was who compared John to your slacker ex-boyfriend and Rodney to that guy in the debate club and OMG we're depending on THEM to save the universe?! was spot on. I also like the feeling you get that everyone in Atlantis is, in one way or another, an outcast or a loner who has finally found a home and a cause worth fighting and dying for. My life both as a geek (seriously before it was online fan fiction fandom and MMORPGS, I was in the SCA for over ten years--my geek creds, let me show you them) and as a lesbian has taught me that few things are better than suddenly finding out that yes, there are other people out there who feel the way you do about things.