Two more slash questions

[thrihyrne]

I'm going to be revising my slash article and would like people's thoughts on a couple of things: One is the very definition of slash. Is it still slash if the characters canonically are already gay or bi? Say writing Queer As Folk fanfic. Is it slash or just fic about canonically gay characters?

The other is chan. Perhaps even more than incest, chan is controversial in the slash world. Thoughts?

Spread the word! I'd also like to put together a side bar of 'top slash pairings' in some large fandoms. The ones for HP are pretty obvious, but I'd also like to include Tolkien, Star Trek reboot, Merlin (though that's pretty much a one-hit wonder as far as I know)... Would people concur that the top three HP pairings are Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape and Remus/Sirius, as far as sheer fanfic volume over the past several years? What other fandoms are buzzing these days that have a high slash content?

Comments

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

LOL. You and I were both at wikipedia at the same time. And no, I'm not bringing yaoi in, just slash and just m/m slash at that. Anything else is going to be too in-depth for this one article.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

yes we were :D

but i first was just looking up chan without the wiki. when i looked at up the term via google lo those many years ago when i started this game, it only came up with definitions about child/adult sexual relationships. and referred to it as ch=child, a=adult, n=(implied)non-con. and that's what the term has meant to me. it didn't exist on the wiki or other reference places, just on fanfic definition places. now when i google, i only get an underage definition and being told it came from yaoi, even on some fanfic definitions pages, only they're on about it originating with starwars 1, which is just rubbish. i didn't find a single reference for it being child/adult.

i think the controversy around chanfic comes from the old definition, not the underage def. [*shrugs*]