Grissom/Sara
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[edit] Introduction
Grissom/Sara is a het pairing of Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle for CSI. It is one of the most popular ships in the fandom. It is commonly referred to as GSR, borrowing the pairing code convention from the X-Files fandom.
[edit] Terminology
Below is a partial list of CSI Grissom/Sara fandom specific terminology.
- Geek Love is a pairing name for Grissom/Sara. [1]
- GSR stands for Grissom/Sara Romance. This term has been used in the CSI fandom since the show first aired.
[edit] Timeline of events
Below is a partial list of events for the Grissom/Sara part of the CSI fandom.
[edit] 2002
- On March 2, 2002, the Grissom/Sara mailing list CSI-GrissomSara was created. [2]
- On July 31, 2002, the forum YourTaxDollarsAtWork was created.[3]
[edit] 2003
- On September 10, 2003, grissomandsara was founded on LiveJournal. It is a community dedicated to the Grissom/Sara pairing. [4]
[edit] 2004
- On July 15, 2004, the mailing list ItalianGrissom-Sara was created for Italian fans of the Grissom/Sara pairing. [5]
- On December 27, 2004, the LiveJournal group geekfiction was created for the posting of all CSI related fan fiction. [6] One of the more popular pairings on this community is Grissom/Sara.
[edit] 2005
- On January 18, 2005, lonersinlove was founded on LiveJournal. It is a community dedicated to the Grissom/Sara pairing. [7]
- On March 12, 2005, the LiveJournal community, butterflied__ was created. [8]
- On November 30, 2005, the mailing list GRISSARATALK was founded for the discussion of and posting of fan fiction related to the CSI pairing of Grissom/Sara. [9]
[edit] 2006
- On April 12, 2006, the Your Tax Dollars At Work LiveJournal community was created, allowing members to receive information during the boards occasional server issues. [10]
- On July 16, 2006, the LiveJournal community bestkeptprivate was created and dedicated to Grissom/Sara fan fiction and discussion. [11]
- On October 14, 2006, the LiveJournal community betogether was created and dedicated to Grissom/Sara fan fiction and discussion. [12]
- On November 15, 2006, the Grissom/Sara fan fiction mailing list GSR_FANFICTALK was created. [13]
- As season 7 started, division continued in the fandom over the Grissom/Sara relationship. Producers for the show had said that fans seemed to be evenly split in their view of the pairing with half supporting and half not. This split was manifested on the official CSI message board and the csi LiveJournal community.
- In light of spoilers and new episodes, during December 2006 and January 2007, many Grissom/Sara fan fiction writers write stories dealing with Gil Grissom taking a sabbatical due to burn out and how this impacts his relationship with Sara Sidle.
- On December 16, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum SaraAndGrissLove was created. [14]
[edit] 2007
- In light of spoilers and new episodes, during December 2006 and January 2007, many Grissom/Sara fan fiction writers write stories dealing with Gil Grissom taking a sabbatical due to burn out and how this impacts his relationship with Sara Sidle.
- During January 2007, some Grissom/Sara fan fiction writers write stories featuring Sara Sidle pregnant because of a scene where it looks like Sara/Jorja Fox has put on weight, making her appear to be pregnant.
- During January and February 2007, many CSI fan fiction writers wrote stories dealing with Gil Grissom's sabbatical. Many of these featured how Sara Sidle reacted to Gil Grissom's departure and what that meant to their relationship.
- On March 29, 2007, the CSI episode Empty Eyes aired. It fueled more GSR related fan fiction and additional speculation that Sara Sidle/Jorja Fox is pregnant despite no spoilers that suggest this and important Jorja Fox fansites like Pure Jorja saying quite clearly that Jorja Fox is not pregnant. It helped cause additional tension in the Grissom/Sara pairing. Some of this spilled out on like jorjaallaround.
- In March 2007, nearly 70 geekfiction and YourTaxDollarsAtWork members donated over $1,100 to Bet Tzedek Legal Services to help slm4gsr earn a $10,000 matching grant from Kevin Bacon. slm4gsr did not qualify for the grant, but she was able to raise over $15,000 for Bet Tzedek. [15][16] [17]
- On June 30, 2006, the CSI LiveJournal Grissom/Sara, Grissom/Catherine community gcr_gsr was created. [18]
- In late June 2007 into late July 2007, it is discovered that TraceZBullet has continued posting other people's CSI stories, mostly Grissom/Sara fics, as her own on FanFiction.Net.[19] They note that TraceZBullet admitted to one of them that they would not have plagiarized the author if she had known how well known the author was. TraceZBullet admitted to continuing to plagiarize lesser known authors and saw no problems with it.
- During July and August, the MySpace CSI fandom continued to discuss Living Doll and what they wanted in the new season. A lot of this included Sara Sidle loving and Sara Sidle bashing. Both sides were very vocal in their positions. This same community, while actively discussion CSI tended to avoid all references to fan fiction.
- In early August the Grissom/Sara fandom located on the GoogleGroup GRISSOMSARATALK continued to hold discussing Jorja Fox's sexuality as off topic because Jorja Fox has not come out of the closet. To that extent, this meant that lesbian members of the group were not encouraged to discuss her in that manner, nor acknowledge that lesbian fans are one of the reasons why Sara Sidle is such a popular character on the show. At the same time, it was deemed acceptable to discuss the heterosexual female fans of William Peterson because William Peterson is out regarding is heterosexuality.
- In early August, the geekfiction summer ficathon entries were posted. Many well known authors participated, as well as several new authors, writing fanfiction for the first time.
- In early August, several fanfiction writers were made aware that their work was being linked at http://www.fanworksfinder.com/ and being flamed in the process.[20] The discovery motivates some to pull their work, while some are simply surprised to see they have been linked there.
[edit] Fan Art
[edit] Icons
There is a large and active Grissom/Sara icon making community on LiveJournal.
[edit] Influential fan art
[edit] Fan Fiction
[edit] Having babies
Almost any couple on CSI can have children, helped along because Catherine Willows is canonically a parent. mpreg is not as present in this fandom as other fandoms because the show is set in a context where that would not be realistic. Instead, if two male characters have a baby, it comes about through adoption or events in their past. This happens occassionally for pairings like Nick/Greg. The most popular pairings for babies to appear in are Grissom/Sara, Nick/Sara and Catherine/Warrick. Babies making an appearance in femslash is a rarity.
[edit] Influential stories
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[edit] Fanvids
There is a community of Grissom/Sara fanvidders that is found on YouTube.
[edit] Influential fanvids
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[edit] Kerfluffles
[edit] SpoilerGate
This kerfluffle involved unhappy Gil/Catherine shippers who were unhappy, based on spoilers, that their ship was not getting the airtime it deserved. They contacted TPTB about people affiliated with the show leaking spoilers in retaliation. Some of this retalation was aimed directly at Grissom/Sara shippers who were getting really good spoilers from posters like mystery on YourTaxDollarsAtWork.
[edit] Advocacy
[edit] Charity Work
The CSI fandom has groups of fans who have done a great deal of charity work. This charity work is frequently organized around a specific CSI fan group for the benefit of a charity related to CSI, CBS or an actor. Charity work is also done for charities affiliated with specific fans.
The LiveJournal community geekfiction has completed several charity related fund raisers. One was done in April 2007. By April 2 , 2007, geekfiction members have raised $15,000 for Bet Tzedek Legal Services. [21]
[edit] Fan Advocacy
Fans of the show have engaged in a number of advocacy projects in order to try to help the show, lobby for certain things to be done in fandom, or to help actors on the show.
During the writers strike, members of YourTaxDollarsAtWork and other CSI fansites sent the "moguls" boxes and boxes of pencils in support of the writers. They were also in contact with David Rambo and shared with him their plans to support the writers.
[edit] Shippers
See Grissom/Sara fans for an index of shippers.
