From: "Alison Page" alison@alisonpage.demon.co.uk

I don't think this kind of horrible effect ever happens with slash though, or with other explicit B7 material. I guess if slash did make a fan stalk

an

actor that would be an equivalent type of thing. And that would be really bad wouldn't it? I'm afraid I'm rather ignorant about whether this has ever happened, but I've never come across anything like that.

I haven't heard of any Mark Chapman-style stalking of the B7 actors :), but I have heard of a few cases of stalking which the actors found distressing if nothing else, and I've heard from a few independent sources about at least one of the B7 lead actors having been mailed slash art depicting himself and another of the actors, and also of him having been presented with some examples of these in autograph lines at cons. It sounds almost funny, writing it back-- except that it apparently wasn't funny for _him_, as he reportedly hit the roof. So in the case of consumers of slash art, anyway, there does seem to be a lunatic fringe.

Fiona

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