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Slash fiction

Not to be confused withSlasher film.

Slash fiction(also known as "m/m slash" orslashfic) is a genre offan fictionthat focuses onromanticorsexual relationshipsbetween fictional characters of the same sex.[1][2]While the term "slash" originally referred only to stories in which male characters are involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary plot element, it is now also used to refer to any fan story containing a romantic pairing between same-sex characters. Many fans distinguish slash with female characters as a separate genre, commonly referred to asfemslash(also known as "f/f slash" or "femmeslash" ).

The symbolic slash, used to separate the two names in a romantic pairing, from which slash fiction takes its name.

These fan-written stories are not often accepted in a work'scanon,and the characters are usually not engaged in such relationships in their respective fictional universes.[3]

History

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It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1960s, within theStar Trek: The Original Seriesfan fictionfandom,starting with "Kirk/Spock"stories generally authored by female fans of the series and distributed privately among friends.[4][1][5] The name arises from the use of theslash symbol(/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic [and often sexual] relationship), as compared to theampersand(&) conventionally used for K&S or Kirk and Spockfriendshipfiction. For a time, bothslashandK/S(for "Kirk/Spock" ) were used interchangeably. Slash later spread to other fan groups, firstStarsky and Hutch,Blake's 7,andThe Professionals,[3]then many others, eventually creating a fandom based on the concept of slash.[6][7]Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a "hero dyad", or "One True Pairing", such as Kirk/Spock or Starsky/Hutch; conversely, a classic pairing betweenfoilswas that ofBlake/AvonfromBlake's 7.[8]

The first K/S stories were not immediately accepted by allStar Trekfans.[9]Later, authors such asJoanna Russstudied and reviewed the phenomenon in essays and gave the genre some academic respectability.[10][11]Greater subsequent tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality and increased frustration with the portrayal of gay relationships in mainstream media fed a growing desire in authors to explore the subjects on their own terms, using established media characters.Star Trekslash fiction remained important to fans, while new slash fiction grew up 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.[12]

Slash sources

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From its earliest days, slash fiction has been particularly inspired by popularspeculative fictionfranchises,[13][14]possibly because speculative fiction may lack well-developed female characters or because the speculative elements allow greater freedom to reinterpret canonical characters. However, other large bodies of slash fiction, such asStarsky and HutchorThe Professionals,are based on non-speculative sources.

Slash fiction follows popular media, and new stories are constantly produced. There is some correlation between the popularity and activity of each variety of slash fiction and those of the source of the material. Some slash fiction readers and writers tend to adhere closely to the canonical source of their fiction, while other participants may follow the slash content without being fans of the original source material itself.[15]

Slash on the Internet

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Until the Internet became accessible to the general public in the early 1990s, slash was hard to find. It was published only in fan-edited non-profitfanzines(often called only "zines" ), which were usually priced just high enough to recoup printing costs,[3]and were sold via adzines or at conventions. With the advent of the Internet, slash fiction writers createdmailing listswhich gradually took the place ofamateur press associations(APA), and websites such asFanFiction.Net[14](which gradually started taking the place of zines).

Forum boards and message boards were active during the first half of the first decade of the millennium, and sites such asAngelfire,Geocities,andProBoardswere quite successful. Other venues in which slash was, and still is, published areFacebookand private groups. Much later cameArchive of Our Own.As slash publishing gradually moved to the Internet, the field opened to more writers, and a greater quantity of material was published.

The Internet allowed slash authors more freedom than print: stories could include branching story lines, links, collages, song mixes, and other innovations. The Internet increased slash visibility and the number of readers, as readers were now able to access the stories from their own home at a much lower cost, since zines cost more than an Internet connection. The number offandomsrepresented increased dramatically, especially those devoted to science fiction, fantasy, and police dramas.[3]The Internet also increased the level of reader interaction, making it easier for fans to comment on stories, give episode reviews, anddiscusscomment on trends in slash fandom itself. Websites and fanzines dedicated to fans ofThe X-Files,Stargate,Harry Potter,andBuffy the Vampire Slayerbecame common, with tens of thousands of slash stories available.[14]

Critical and queer attention

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Slash fiction has received more academic attention than other genres of fan fiction.[5]Slash fiction was the subject of several notableacademic studiesin the early 1990s, as part of thecultural studiesmovement within the humanities: most of these, as is characteristic of cultural studies, approach slash fiction from an ethnographic perspective and talk primarily about the writers of slash fiction and the communities that form around it. Slashers have been configured as fans who resisted culture.[16]Some studies – for example by Italian anthropologist Mirna Ciconi – focus on the textual analysis of slash fiction itself.

Slash fiction was often ignored byqueer theorists.[17]However, slash fiction has been described as important to theLGBTQcommunity and to the formation of queer identities, as it represents a resistance to the expectation of heterosexuality.[18]In a society in which heterosexuality is the norm and homosexuality is highly stigmatized, an online forum is sometimes the only space where young members of the LGBTQ community can be out. Young members of the community all go through a time in which they are still exploring their identity, labels, and pronouns. By writing slash fiction, queer youth can use their favorite characters and stories in order to create scenarios that allow them to explore their feelings, thoughts, and selves. Slash fiction, in this sense, offers queer youth a low-risk chance to explore who they are. They can stay anonymous while creating a world in which they can express themselves creatively and freely.[19]However, slash fiction has also been criticized as being unrepresentative of the gay community as a whole,[20]and as being used as a medium to express feminist frustration with popular and speculative fiction.[21]

The predominant demographic among slash fiction readers is female, the majority of whom identify as other than heterosexual.[citation needed]Science fiction writerJoanna Russ(herself a lesbian), author ofHow to Suppress Women's Writing,is one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.[22]In her essay "Pornography by Women for Women, with Love," Russ argues that, in regard to the Kirk/Spock relationship, slash fiction combines both masculine and feminine traits of emotional vulnerability. Such an equal relationship, she contends, negates the power imbalance typically seen in regular fan fiction.

Definition and ambiguity

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Slash fiction fandoms tend to be diverse and segregated, and each has its own rules of style, etiquette, history, and favorite stories and authors.

Slash cannot be commercially distributed due to copyright laws, and, until the 1990s, it was either undistributed or published inzines.[23]Today, slash fiction is most commonly published onTumblr,LiveJournalaccounts and other websites online, such asArchive Of Our Own.Legal scholars promoting copyright reform sometimes use slash fiction as an example ofsemiotic democracy.[24]

The termslash fictioncontains several ambiguities. Due to the lack of canonical homosexual relationships in source media at the time that slash fiction began to emerge, some came to see slash fiction stories as being exclusively outside their respective canons and held that the term "slash fiction" applies only when the characters' same-sex romantic or erotic relationship about which an author writes is not part of the source's canon and that fan fiction aboutcanonicalsame-sex relationships is therefore not slash.[8]The recent appearance on screen of openly gay and bisexual characters, such asWillowandTarain the television seriesBuffy the Vampire Slayer,the characters ofQueer as Folk,[8]Jack HarknessinDoctor Who,and numerous characters inTorchwood,has occasioned much additional discussion of this problem. Abiding by the aforementioned definition leaves such stories without a convenient label, so this distinction has not been widely adopted.[8]

Some slash authors also write slash fiction which containstransgenderthemes and transgender/transsexualorintersexcharacters. 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') constitute 'slash fiction', which has led to the evolution of the termfemslash.Slash-like fiction is also written in various Japaneseanimeormangafandoms but is commonly referred to asshōnen-aioryaoifor relationships between male characters, andshōjo-aioryuribetween female characters, respectively.

Due to the increasing popularity and prevalence of slash on the Internet in recent years, some useslashas a generic term for any erotic fan fiction, whether it depicts heterosexual or homosexual relationships. 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 fiction as slash makes such fiction unsuitable for potential underage readers ofhomoromanticfan fiction. In addition, a number of journalists writing about the fan fiction phenomenon in general seem to believe thatallfan fiction is slash, or at least erotic in character.[25][26][27]Such definitions fail to distinguish between erotic and romantic slash, and between slash, het (works focusing primarily on heterosexual relationships) and gen (works which do not include a romantic focus).

The slash mark itself (/), when put between character's names, has come to mean a shorthand label for a romantic relationship, regardless of whether the pairing is heterosexual or homosexual, romantic or erotic.[8]

Slash and the original media sources

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For many people, slash is a controversial subject. 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.[28]But official disapproval of slash, specifically, is hard to find. As early as 1981,Lucasfilmhas issued legal notices to fans who wrote sexually explicit stories.[29]J. K. Rowling/Warner Brothershave sentcease and desistletters referencing "sexually explicit" writings on the web, though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry/Draco and Harry/Snape are non-canonical.[citation needed]

Some media creators seem downright slash friendly. In theAngelDVD commentary for "A Hole in the World",Joss Whedon,the creator ofAngel,said, "Spike and Angel...they were hanging out for years and years and years. They were all kinds of deviant. Are people thinking they never...? Come on, people! They're open-minded guys!" as well as Spike saying, "Angel and me have never been intimate. Except that one..." toIllyriain the episode "Power Play."Renaissance Pictures invited femslash author Melissa Good to pen scripts forXena: Warrior Princess.Some people say they see similar evidence of such relationships in other shows such asSmallville,[30]Supernatural[31]andDue South.[32]

Due South'sfandom was one of the first to go online, after the show debuted in 1994.[33]In 1999Due SouthcreatorPaul Haggisparticipated in a question-and-answer panel with an onlineDue Southnewsgroup. 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. Haggis replied, "Absolutely no problem at all. If ever two people loved each other, it's Ray and Fraser."[34]

Furthermore, the YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester (Daniel Howell and amazingphil) are well known for being very accepting of slash fiction and even wrote some fanfiction about themselves, which was featured in their bookThe Amazing Book is Not on Fire.In addition, their stage show, The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire, included a section called Fanfiction Live.

In the episode "The Monster at the End of This Book"of the TV showSupernatural,the main characters encounter fictional representations of themselves in a series of books. They find the online fandom, and comment about their activities including the writing of slash fanfiction. This is often referred to by fans ofSupernaturalas Wincest, based on the characters' surname (Winchester) and the fact that they are brothers (incest).

The revival ofDoctor Wholed by the openly gay writerRussell T Davieshas also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-offTorchwood.Many fans see exchanges between the Doctor and the Master (played in the new series byJohn Simm,whoseLife On MarscharacterSam Tyleris also the subject of a lot of slash fiction) as indicative of a previous relationship, or current attraction. At one point the Master says to the Doctor "I like it when you use my name", and ina Children in Need special,the Tenth Doctor tells the Fifth, after being asked whether the Master still has "that rubbish beard", "No, no beard this time. Well, a wife." – which fans point to as a reference to gay men marrying a woman for public respectability, the wife being referred to as "a beard". The term for shows that seem to be giving material for slash writers to use is "pre-slashed", sometimes "pre-slashed for your convenience".

Slash fandom

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Conventions

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Several slash conventions run throughout the year and across the globe, mostly in the United States, including Escapade in California,[35]REVELcon in Texas,[36]Connexions in Maryland,[37]MediaWest*Con in Michigan,[38]CON.TXT in Washington, D.C.,[39]Con*Strict in Nevada,[40]Connotations in England,[41]Zebracon in Illinois,[42]Yaoi-Con in California,[43]Bascon in California,[44]and others.[45]

Terminology

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Slash fiction has created and appropriated words to denote peculiarities found within the fandom. "Gayfic" is sometimes used to refer to stories focusing on gay male relationships,[citation needed]and "femslash" or "f/f" used to indicate that a work features female characters in slash relationships.[citation needed]

Slash fiction, like other fan fiction, sometimes borrows theMPAA film rating systemto indicate the amount of sexual content in the story.[citation needed]Not all slash fiction has explicit sexual content – the interaction between two characters can be as innocent as holding hands or a chaste kiss, or even contain nothing but unfulfilled yearning; stories may be labeled "UST" for "unresolved sexual tension". Some sites require all stories to be rated and have warnings attached, often by using abeta reader.[citation needed]

The termno lemonis 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 "lemon". The termlemonarose from theanime/yaoifandoms, referring to ahentaianime series,Cream Lemon.[citation needed]The termsquickis 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 includingincest,BDSM,rape,"mpreg"(male pregnancy), gender swapping, andtorture.The term originated in theUsenet newsgroupalt.sex.bondagein 1991.[46][failed verification]Squicks are often listed as a warning in the header of a fanfiction story.[citation needed]

The term "slasher" is used for someone who creates slash fiction, and the term "slashy" is used to mean "homoerotic". "Slashy moments" are those events in the canonical storyline which slashers interpret as homoerotic, which in turn form the slashers' depiction of the characters in slash fiction.[16]

Subgenres

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Femslash

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Main article:Femslash

Femslash or femmeslash is a subgenre of slash fiction which focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female fictional characters.[47]Typically, characters featured in femslash areheterosexualin the canonical universe; however, similar fan fiction about lesbian characters are commonly labeled as femslash for convenience.[48]The term is generally applied only to fanworks based on Westernfandoms;the nearest anime/manga equivalents are more often calledyuri and shōjo-aifanfiction.[49]Femslash is also known as "f/f slash", "femmeslash", and "saffic",[50]the last term blending the wordsSapphicandfiction.[8]

There is less femslash than there is slash based on male couples – it has been suggested that heterosexual female slash authors generally do not write femslash,[51]and that it is rare to find a fandom with two sufficiently engaging female characters.[52]Janeway/Seven is the mainStar Trekfemslash pairing, as only they have "an on-screen relationship fraught with deep emotional connection and conflict".[53]Although it is debated whether fanfiction aboutcanonicallesbians such asWillowandTaraofBuffy the Vampire Slayercounts as "slash", their relationship storylines are more coy than heterosexual ones, which entices Willow/Tara femslash authors to fill in the gaps in the known relationship storyline.[54]It is "relatively recently" that male writers have begun writing femslash.[55]

Another suggestion in which there is less femslash is its lack of strong female characters in media. TV shows are heavily skewed toward the portrayal of men, with only two notable predominant female TV shows:Xena: Warrior PrincessandOrange is the New Black.[56]In these two cases, because there is an overwhelming number of strong female characters, femslash is much more popular. Otherwise, shows with a skew towards men are more popular, as women portrayed in these shows are weaker supporting characters.

Chanslash

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Chanslash is the portrayal of underage characters in sexual situations in slash fiction. The prefixchanmost likely comes from the Japanese name suffix used as a term of endearment toward children or women.[57]It may be a nod towardsyaoifandoms, in which underage pairings are more commonplace.[citation needed]Owners of theintellectual property rightsto characters in this type of slash are often unhappy with chanslash because of the potential legal ramifications and concern over negatively affecting the popularity of the character.[citation needed]Some studios owning the rights to slashed characters have issuedcease and desistorders in the past as a result of this type of slash.[citation needed]Chanslash is also calledshotacon(abbreviated as "shouta" or "shota" ) when dealing with anime fanfiction.

Real person slash

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Real person slash (RPS), also a subgenre ofreal person fiction,involves taking a celebrity's public image and creating slash stories with them. Real person slash gained popularity with the 1990s rise of boy bands in the pop music industry.[58]In theSupernaturalfandom, slash fans who were uncomfortable with shipping the two main brother characters moved into writing and reading Jsquared/J2 fic (slash involving the lead actorsJared PadaleckiandJensen Ackles).[59]This led to the phrase "Supernatural fandom – where RPS is the moral high ground".[citation needed]Though increasingly common, RPS is considered a potential "squick" for slash readers. 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 "troubling" to the old guard of slash.[60]Fans of real person slash state that the personas presented by the common figures of RPS such as boy bands, celebrities, athletes and pro wrestlers are "largely manufactured" for the pleasure of female fans, "so why not just run with them?"[51]

Reverse slash

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Reverse slash is a term used for fanfic without any sexual content, or very little sexual content, compared to thecanon.The term is believed to have originated when non-sexual fanfic based on theAnita Blakeseries began to circulate.[citation needed]Fanfic without sexual content can also be referred to as 'genfic', short for general fiction, non-romantic in nature.[61]

Original slash

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Original slash stories are those that contain male/male content, based on perceived homoerotic subtext between fictitious characters.[62]This can be sourced from a variety of media content, such as manga, TV shows, movies and books amongst others. These works are now generally published online[63]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.[citation needed]

A different variety of homoerotic amateur fiction is original yaoi, from themanga/animegenreyaoi(boy-love), popularized in the West by subbers andscanlations.

Both (original slash and original yaoi) are terms that are considered somewhat controversial by some slash fans since they feel that the term 'slash' can only refer to works of fan fiction and not original works.[citation needed]

Omegaverse

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Main article:Omegaverse

Omegaverseis a subgenre ofspeculativeerotic fictionthat originated as a subgenre of slash fiction. In Omegaverse works, humans are either dominant "alphas", neutral "betas" or submissive "omegas", and they exhibit sexual traits and behaviors based on those of wolves or other wild animals.[64]The first Omegaverse slash fiction was written about the TV seriesSupernaturalin the 2010s. The subgenre has become so popular that it evolved into a genre of original erotic fiction in its own right, independent from its roots in fan fiction.[65]The earliest commercial publication using omegaverse tropes isWith Cautionby J.L. Langley.[66]The trope gained rapid popularity in Japan in the mid-2010s through fandōjinshiand has become a subgenre ofyaoiworks.[67]In Japanese works, Omegaverse also introduces acastesystem, where Alphas are depicted as the upper class elites while Omegas are at the bottom tier and face discrimination. Omegas can get pregnant in spite of being male.[67]

Other slash fanworks

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Slash art

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In addition to fiction, fans also createartworkdepicting media characters in same-sex relationship contexts. 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

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In recent years, more slash artwork has used widespread availability of imaging software, likeAdobe Photoshop,to manipulate photographs of their subjects to produce romantic or erotic images (often referred to asslash manips[68][69][70]) which imply a homosexual relationship, either as static pictures or animated GIFs. When the manipulated photos depict real people instead of media characters, the creation of these images can be as contentious as real person slash, and for many of the same reasons.

Slash vidding

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Viddinghas existed in media fandom since the 1980s, and slash vidding is still a popular movement within vidding.[71]Slash vidders take clips of characters (generally ones not written as gay, or in a relationship together), and through juxtaposition, song choice, and other techniques, portray a slash relationship on screen.[72]Vidding used to be very guarded within the slash community, among other reasons, because the songs used in videos are copyrighted. 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 YouTube and other video sites.[73]Many of these vids are made by slash (and gen) fans, but enormous numbers of them are made by people who have never heard of media fandom. 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

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Sometimes referred to asyaoi(male/male) oryuri(female/female), roleplay involving same-sex characters in relationships can be either withcanonicalor original character creations. There are slash roleplaying based onDungeons & Dragons,Supernatural,Naruto,World of WarcraftandDragon 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 canonical or simply the operators do not care for slash.

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