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[lotesse]

Okay, got a computer again. Missed qualifying for Yuletide--damn it. Guess it wasn't meant to be.

Snicked from cesperanza: Five formative slash texts, before I even knew what it was

1. Frodo/Sam. I read the "comforted him with his arms and body" bit over and over again. I never quite understood what the squishy, squirmy thrill in my stomach was.

2. Luke/Han. Blanketfic on Hoth? OMGduh.

3. Legolas/Gimli. So doing it. I never wanted to know, but they so totally were.

4. Will/Bran. I never liked that damn ending, not as an eleven-year-old, not now.

5. Odysseus/Athena. Okay, yes, I was a classics geek as a kid. And it does count as slash. Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, beyotch!

Comments

[lotesse]

Oh, see, I'd never think of it as a warning. I mean, most m/m lists a pairing, so the word "slash" isn't needed to point out teh gay. We all know that Frodo/Sam means bonking, and that both Frodo and Sam are male.

Naw, I'm thinking in terms of identification, genre maybe. A signifier that designates a certain data set, something for use in conversation and analysis. A way of saying "That which includes both A and B and D, but not C."

In general, I'm coming at this from a very meta standpoint. I want to be able to talk about the behaviors of fandom, and from that standpoint Willow/Tara shippers and Frodo/Sam slashers seem to me to be more similar than, oh, the twelve-year-old with the gloopy, Disnefied Aragorn/Arwen--not to say that het is by necessity part of a different set than slash. Style rather than plumbing.

[hyel.livejournal.com]

A lot of people USE it to mean m/m - I know I do. M/m to me sort of sounds like it's necessarily going to be smutty. For instance! Frodo/Sam does not mean bonking necessarily - it could mean kissing, or just holding hands in a distincly non-hetero way.

*shakes head* I just don't think slash should be used to denote het. It's much too messy and confusing. Same as calling any old ficlet "drabble". Words shouldn't have multiple meanings.

[lotesse]

yes, yes, totally on the drabble thing. But there's "ficlet," which is a perfectly good word to describe something that is short but not 100 words.

At this point, yes slash means m/m. I'm just bonking around with all these things that don't have words for them. I'd be a lot happier if we could have stylistic groupings as well as biological ones. I'm not going to call Lily/James "slash", but I'm going to hang about moaning about how I don't have anything else to call it.

My use of slash in terms of this meme was tongue-in-cheek, because I'd seen it done on my flist.

[hyel.livejournal.com]

But Lily/James is canon. Can't you just call it romantic fanfiction? A pairing? Canon pairings, non-canon pairings? While I do NOT support in any way using slash to mean het, perhaps there could be a new slang term for pairing fic. If "pairing fic" won't do.

And okay. :D I'm just trying to convert you utterly and absolutely to the conventional use of the word slash.