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Slash fiction was the subject of several notable academic studies in the early 1990s, as part of the cultural studies movement 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 ...
The term "slash" predates the use of "shipping" by at least some 20 years. It was originally coined as a term to describe a pairing of Kirk and Spock of Star Trek, Kirk/Spock (or "K/S"; sometimes spoken "Kirk-slash-Spock", whence "slash") homosexual fan fiction. [52] [53] Other early slash pairings came from characters in Starsky & Hutch and ...
It has been suggested that heterosexual female slash authors generally do not write femslash, [6] and that it is rare to find a fandom with two sufficiently engaging female characters. [2] Janeway / Seven is the main Star Trek femslash pairing, as only they have "an on-screen relationship fraught with deep emotional connection and conflict". [ 8 ]
A wide range of types of writing have resulted, such as homoerotic slash fiction and several strands of feminist storytelling. Much fan fiction, including slash, is written by women. They often select as subjects Tolkien's minor female characters, where the limited detail provided affords them wide freedom to write as they please.
This scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) has been pointed to as supporting a homoerotic interpretation of Kirk and Spock's relationship. [1]Kirk/Spock, commonly abbreviated as K/S or Spirk [2] and referring to James T. Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, is a popular pair in slash fiction, possibly the first slash pairing, according to Henry Jenkins, an early slash fiction scholar. [3]
Both characters appear in all seven of the books and all eight of the films. Harry is a boy wizard who survived the killing curse from Lord Voldemort and Draco is the son of Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy. In the books, Harry first encounters Draco at Madam Malkin's. In the films, Harry first meets Draco in Hogwarts on their first day of school.
Pages in category "Slash fiction" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
According to Marion Gymnich, Denise Burkhard and Hanne Birk, both characters had already become popular in fan fiction by 2017, which they wrote was "presumably to a certain extent due to the fact that the presentation of these adolescent boys renders a queer reading possible, which ties in with the overall popularity of ‘slash’ fan fiction".