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

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

oh, and inception has gone a little nuts with new fangirls lately. arthur/eames is the fave pairing. oh and the new bbc sherlock has brought out a heap of sherlock/holmes fics, as did the latest movie with downey and jude.

and a second on sga being v. popular

looks like the meaning of chan seems to have become more like just underage? when i entered fandom it was distinctly child/adult and not 16, 17, 18 child either, but more 12, 13, 14 child and sometimes pre-pub as well. hence the controversy.

also, are you going to bring yaoi into this?

oh, and the wiki seems to agree with my assessment of the term slash and states it much more clearly than i did, so this: While the term was originally restricted to stories in which male media characters were involved in an explicit adult relationship as a primary plot element, it is now often used to refer to any fan story containing a pairing between same-sex characters, although many fans distinguish the female-focused variety as a separate genre commonly referred to as femslash. The characters are usually not engaged in such relationships in their respective fictional universes.[3]

[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*]