The Sex Lives of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors
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| Title: | The Sex Lives of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors |
| Creator: | [email protected] with Katherine Villyard |
| Date(s): | October 1998 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | Xena: Warrior Princess |
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| External Links: | The Sex Lives Of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors, Archived version |
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The Sex Lives of Xena: Warrior Princess Alt Fan Fiction Authors is an essay about survey results by [email protected] with Katherine Villyard.
It was posted to Whoosh! #25 in 1998.
Topics
- Introduction
- Methodology
- The Numbers
- The Boring Numbers
- Slightly More Interesting Numbers About Sexual Orientation, With Pie Charts
- Titillating Facts And Figures About The Fanfic
- The Crux Of The Matter: The Writers' Own Lives
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Biography
Excerpts
They make us laugh. They make us cry. They make us glance nervously over our shoulders as we read their stories at work and try desperately to think of excuses for that flush creeping up our necks. They are the writers of Xena: Warrior Princess subtext fan fiction. But how much do we really know about any of them? As they boldly go where no bottom-line-driven scriptwriter has gone before, what experiences and fantasies drive their stories?
This researcher's intense curiosity and utter lack of a worthwhile hobby led her to develop an online survey of authors of Xena/Gabrielle slash fiction. The survey was designed to measure the degree to which the authors' work is informed by their own romantic and sexual experiences. Do their stories provide a forum for sexual autobiography? Or does this brand of fiction serve as a way for them to articulate fantasies about activities and relationship models they have never tried (and perhaps will never try)?
Based on the survey responses and the respondents' comments, writers of Xena/Gabrielle fanfic who responded are more likely to reflect their own lives in their stories than to use those stories as an outlet for activities in which they do not or would not engage.