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Slash fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The symbolic slash, used to separate the two names in a romantic pairing, from which slash fiction takes its name. Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction that focuses on interpersonal attraction and sexual relationships between fictional characters of the same sex. Many fans distinguish female- focused slash as a separate genre, commonly referred to as femslash (also known as . The characters are usually not engaged in such relationships in their respective fictional universes. For a time, both slash and K/S (for .
Slash later spread to other fandoms, first Starsky and Hutch, Blake's 7, and The Professionals. Star Trek remained an important slash fiction fandom, while new slash fandoms grew around other television shows, movies, and books with sci- fi or action adventure roots. Early slash fans in England feared that they would be arrested, because slash violated the obscenity laws there at the time.
However, other large fandoms, such as Starsky and Hutch or The Professionals, are based in non- speculative sources. Slash fiction follows popular media, and new stories are constantly produced. There is some correlation between the popularity and activity within each fandom and that of the source of the material.
Slash fiction readers and writers tend to adhere closely to the canonical source of their fiction, and create a fandom for that particular source. However, some participants follow the slash content created by a certain fandom without being fans of the original source material itself. With the advent of the internet, the slash fiction community of fans and writers created mailing lists (which gradually took the place of APAs), and websites such as fanfiction. As slash publishing gradually moved to the internet, the field became open to more writers, and a greater quantity of material was published. The internet allowed slash authors more freedom: stories could include branching storylines, links, collages, songmixes, and other innovations. The internet increased slash visibility, and the number of readers, who were now able to access the stories from their own home at a much lower cost (the price of zines vs.
The number of fandoms represented increased dramatically, especially those devoted to science fiction, fantasy, and police dramas. Websites and fanzines dedicated to fandoms such as X- Files, Stargate, Harry Potter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer became common, with tens of thousands of slash stories available.
Slashers have been configured as fans who resisted culture. Slash cannot be commercially distributed due to copyright, and up until the 1. Legal scholars promoting copyright reform sometimes use slash fiction as an example of semiotic democracy. Due to the lack of canonical homosexual relationships in source media at the time, some came to see slash fiction as being exclusively outside of canon. These people held that the term .
Femslash or femmeslash is a subgenre of slash fiction which focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female fictional characters. Typically, characters featured in femslash are heterosexual in the canon universe. Please search before requesting or posting. Check the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for uploaded Twilight fanfiction. In war casualties are bound to happen, there are always wounds to be had, but for Dean Winchester the battle lines become distorted when he's caught in an unexpected crossfire. What Brings Us Home by Ridley C.
Abiding by the aforementioned definition leaves such stories without a convenient label, so this distinction has not been widely adopted. As a result, the exact definition of the term has often been hotly debated within various slash fandoms. The strictest definition holds that only stories about relationships between two male partners ('M/M') are 'slash fiction', which has led to the evolution of the term femslash. Slash- like fiction is also written in various Japanese anime or manga fandoms, but is commonly referred to as sh. This has caused concern for other slash writers who believe that while it can be erotic, slash is not by definition so, and that defining all erotic fic as slash takes the word away from all- ages- suitable homo- romantic fan fiction. In addition, a number of journalists writing about the fan fiction phenomenon in general seem to believe that all fan fiction is slash, or at least erotic in character.
In addition to the legal issues associated with traditional fan fiction, some people believe that it tarnishes established media characters to portray them in a way which was never illustrated canonically. As early as 1. 98. Lucasfilm has issued legal notices to fans who wrote sexually- explicit stories. Rowling/Warner Brothers have sent cease and desist letters referencing .
In the Angel DVD commentary for . They were all kinds of deviant. Are people thinking they never..? They're open- minded guys! Some people say they see similar evidence of such relationships in other shows such as Smallville.
The newsgroup asked Haggis if he had a problem with fans seeing the characters he created (Detective Ray Vecchio and Constable Benton Fraser) as being in love with each other and having a closeted relationship. If ever two people loved each other, it's Ray and Fraser. They find the online fandom, and comment about their activities including the writing of slash fanfiction. This is often referred to by fans of Supernatural as Wincest, based on the characters' surname (Winchester) and the fact that they are brothers (incest).
The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin- off Torchwood. Many fans see exchanges between the Doctor and the Master (played in the new series by John Simm, whose Life On Mars character Sam Tyler is also the subject of a lot of slash fiction) as indicative a previous relationship, or current attraction.
At one point the Master says to the Doctor . The term for shows that seem to be giving material for slash writers to use is . Some sites require all stories to be rated and have warnings attached, often by using a beta reader. The term no lemon is sometimes used to indicate fan fiction stories without explicit sexual content.
Anything with explicit content, especially with erotic scenes without accompanying romantic scenes, may be labeled . The term lemon arose from the anime/yaoi fandoms, referring to a hentai anime series, Cream Lemon. The term squick is most often used as a warning to refer to a reader's possible negative reaction to scenes in the text (often sexual) that some might find offensive or distressing, such as those including incest, BDSM, rape, . The term originated in the Usenet newsgroupalt. The prefix chan most likely comes from the Japanese name suffix used as a term of endearment toward children or women.
Real person slash gained popularity with the 1. In the Supernatural fandom, slash fans who were uncomfortable with Wincest moved into writing and reading Jsquared/J2 fic (slash involving the lead actors Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles). This led to the phrase . In addition, the use of celebrities in fictional, sexual stories remains controversial.
Journals including RPS often include disclaimers that explain their true fictional nature. Henry Jenkins says that RPS may be . The term is believed to have originated when non- sexual fanfic based on the Anita Blake series began to circulate.
Can also be referred to as 'genfic', short for general fiction, wholly non- romantic in nature. These works are generally published online and use the same forms of rating, warnings and terminology that is commonly used by slash writers. Slash has a different sensibility to gay fiction, probably because most slash readers are female and in a closed community that shares their tastes, which makes most stories in the genre centered into emotional relationships, even as sex is very prominent. A different variety of homoerotic amateur fiction is original yaoi, from the manga/anime genre yaoi (boy- love), popularized in the West by subbers and scanlations. Both (original slash and original yaoi) are terms that are considered somewhat controversial by some slash fans since they feel that the term . Initially, slash art was mostly used in covers and interior pages of fanzines, and sold to other fans at media and slash conventions. Slash manips. When the manipulated photos depict real people instead of media characters, the creation of these images can be as contentious as RPS, and for many of the same reasons.
Slash vidding. When vidders started putting their videos online, their sites were routinely password protected, etc. Today, there are thousands of vids, and vid- like projects, available on You.
Tube and other video sites. The previous secrecy of vidding fans has come to seem unnecessary, but there is still a community ethos of not freely giving out a vidder's URL. Slash roleplay. There are slash roleplaying based on Dungeons and Dragons, Supernatural, Naruto, World of Warcraft and Dragon Age, among others. There are many mediums used to approach the act of internet roleplaying including message boards, AIM, IRC and specially created chatrooms on servers. Some roleplay is very strict and requires players to be able to type a paragraph or two per each turn, some use strict guidelines involving roleplay dice and some are combinations of all of the above. Not every roleplay community accepts slash, however, and some people specifically disallow the use of it in their community as not being canon or simply the operators do not care for slash. See also. Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations.
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