But what I didn’t expect back then — I was so young and naive! — was that I was not the world’s only kinky Lovecraft freak who also dug Nick Cave and the Dead Kennedys. In fact, the Stooges songs and Christian Death fashion statements I’d long been obsessing over had germinated in my fellow postadolescent geekazoid malcontents, creating a sub-generation of freaks who loved some combination of horror movies, body piercing, The Day The Earth Stood Still, video games, porn, William Gibson, punk rock, Jarboe, German Expressionism, occult tattoos, Das Ich, bondage, conical bras, Blade Runner, Einsturzende Neubauten, Thulsa Doom, sex parties, Sandman, spanking, and Boone’s Apple Wine. This, for me, was Heaven, or a Hell worth dying for.

Those heady years were early ’90s, when The Matrix was something your roommate had stolen from the Sonoma State computer lab and used to print ASCII porn at 3am while high on nitrous, and you bitched him out because you had to be at your fuckin’ temp job at 9am so you could make money to get Social D tickets before they sold out. How life’s changed since then! Whole new generations have grown up in a world where sci-fi movies, Harry Potter, video games and “alternative music” are de rigueur in popular culture, and you don’t have to be a freak to read comic books.

But in the beginning, Blue Blood magazine, then in print, was one of the O.G.’s giving voice to the weird sex possible on the fringes of reality, and exploring the collision of genre media, alternative culture and sex. So it’s with great pleasure that I got to check out their new site, EroticFandom.com, which proves that the alt-geek crossbreed has lost none of its creative fertility.

Erotic Fandom features such morsels as Lenka as a pirate girl, Nikki 666 experiencing bondage in a futuristic wasteland, Zuzana at an Eastern Bloc haunted house, Kayla and Iveta as chain mail clad warrior princesses, and Gia Paloma getting explicitly crazed with a bunny. If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for this ever since the first time one of your D&D characters ever put the moves on a Drow princess in thigh boots!