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With her as well, there were several external as well as internal
factors: She liked the first one, and it evoked very deep emotions in her, but
moreover she narrates needing a distraction at that point in time, and that need
was reason enough to continue reading. In terms of the internal, Red explains
that she cannot remember which fic she read first, but that “it was hot in [her]
mind and the characters were old and hot [i.e. not too young in the fanfic].”
That first feeling was that fanfic was new and different from anything Red had
read before, and that it was by far more interesting than the Harry Potter
books, because that fic was not a piece for children. Red laughed as she said
that this had happened after having watched the movie Steam or Hamam
(1997), a Turkish-Italian co-production, and that it made sense at the time,
because she could picture the story and the characters as well as the
homoerotic interactions very well. I was confused at this point as there is only
one homoerotic kiss in Hamam, but I understood that the fics she reads are
rather explicit, and so I asked Red how she could have pictured the fic with
the little footage Hamam had given her. She maintained that it had given her
more of a base to picture things than she had had before, and that in Hamam
both male protagonists were very attractive as well, “so there was a parallel,
too.”
That timeline Red drew between first watching Hamam and now
reading Harry Potter slash on a daily basis is interesting to me: We had
watched the movie together at the very beginning of this project, not as part of
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