By: Kestrel

I learned about the 'fruit machine' from, of all things, Due South fan fiction. I think what I learned of the Lavender Scare was cobbled together from mentions in a couple of internet articles and... probably more fan fiction. It's embarrassing, the amount of random knowledge I possess thanks to fandom. Not because it's from fan-made short stories that frequently get two hot people to fuck where fucking was not textually happening but because these are better-researched and more informative than nearly any original source material I've ever picked up in school. (I'm pretty sure Jean Grey and Emma Frost were my introduction to F/F sex education.)