Post by Holodoc on Jan 15, 2002 16:18:53 GMT -5
Listen to the question again carefully in its full form:
When did they start deeming "slash" fanfic as same sex?
It never used to. The explicit marking of letter-slash-letter denotes romantic involvement. It always meant that and no specialized prefs implied.
Look at ANY romantic fanfic: slash. THAT'S a work of slash!
We heard about slash books when me and my roommate attended Creation Conventions in the late 1980s. It was all very hush hush to ask for them, and Roberta the zine lady discretely brought them out from a box beneath the table. We went halves on one with a good pencil sketch cover. It was awful. I read the book at home and laughed myself sick. Clearly most of the (definitely had to be) women "writers" had never had sex before. Some things you really ought to experience first before describing in detail, and having sex is one of them.
But I digress...
Granted, the history of Trek slash started with K/S almost exclusively, with little deviant combos for those satellite fetishists (the typical ending had Dr McCoy as the approving mother hen doting: "I had a feeling about you two." They were a riot). But that was just the nature of the output. As soon as TNG debuted, the slash fanfic output of that show was 90% heterosexual, with Q/Picard stuff coming much later (for reasons beyond my comprehension. Then again, the justification for most Trek romantic fan fiction lies beyond my comprehension).
Somewhere during the 1990s, "slash" came to mean same sex, despite the fact that slashes are still used to denote one character getting sweet on another. When did this specific change in definition occur?
Any experts?
When did they start deeming "slash" fanfic as same sex?
It never used to. The explicit marking of letter-slash-letter denotes romantic involvement. It always meant that and no specialized prefs implied.
Look at ANY romantic fanfic: slash. THAT'S a work of slash!
We heard about slash books when me and my roommate attended Creation Conventions in the late 1980s. It was all very hush hush to ask for them, and Roberta the zine lady discretely brought them out from a box beneath the table. We went halves on one with a good pencil sketch cover. It was awful. I read the book at home and laughed myself sick. Clearly most of the (definitely had to be) women "writers" had never had sex before. Some things you really ought to experience first before describing in detail, and having sex is one of them.
But I digress...
Granted, the history of Trek slash started with K/S almost exclusively, with little deviant combos for those satellite fetishists (the typical ending had Dr McCoy as the approving mother hen doting: "I had a feeling about you two." They were a riot). But that was just the nature of the output. As soon as TNG debuted, the slash fanfic output of that show was 90% heterosexual, with Q/Picard stuff coming much later (for reasons beyond my comprehension. Then again, the justification for most Trek romantic fan fiction lies beyond my comprehension).
Somewhere during the 1990s, "slash" came to mean same sex, despite the fact that slashes are still used to denote one character getting sweet on another. When did this specific change in definition occur?
Any experts?
