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[lotesse]

Ugh. I somehow - don't ask me how - ended up in the Sherlock Holmes section of ff.n, where I found a disturbing quantity of fic marked "bromance." I've never seen that term applied to fanwork before; I earnestly hope to never do so again. Bromance!

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[aiffe]

*shrug* If it wasn't before, it is now.

Stuff like this makes me squee. I'm not going to stop squeeing because somewhere, somewhen, someone might have used the word and at the same time been uncomfortable with homoromanticism.

I would be genuinely surprised if fen meant it in an anti-queer way.

[lotesse]

It makes me squee too :) And I agree with you that fans likely don't mean harm by it - it just strikes me as a rather worrying incidence of lexical drift.