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Have you written anywhere about how your telepathic hanky panky trope became your favourite? When was the first fandom you wrote it?

Heh, I don't think I have! Honestly, I've been doing it so long that I don't know how or when it started. I've always been fascinated by characters with telepathy, telekinesis and other mind-powers. Less so psychic/mystical ones. That part goes right back to my obsessions with the original Star Wars trilogy, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, The Tomorrow People and other 1980s fandoms. I grabbed on pretty hard to that aspect of Spock and the vulcans in Star Trek, too.

I do know that Jean Lorrah's Sarek/Amanda fanzine fics were an early influence on my own fanfic writing. Those had an element of telepathic hanky-panky to them.

The fanfic I wrote about the short-lived Fox show VR.5 covered a lot of the same ground, although the mechanism of mind-to-mind contact was somewhat different there. More like a shared dreamscape thing. I suspect I first really developed my little niche writing in that fandom. So mid-1990s, just as fandom was starting to get online.

My fanfic wasn't always so smut-focused or even very 'shippy. At one time I actually wrote gen plots, and tended to focus on sibling or parent-child relationships, or on conflict within the team for ensemble canons. (I was always about the hurt/comfort and whump though!)

reading the vulcan academy murders by jean lorrah and leaving little drawins for my friend when i give her the book lol