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Oolon Colluphid says:
BillCorbett: Grateful for the positive reaction to my Voldemort / Flo the Progressive Girl slashfic. #art
can you guess what the 21613523434 responses to that were?
BeelzeBLT says:
i don't know what he even means, so no
Oolon Colluphid says:
Well, Voldemort/Flo the creepy girl from the progressive commercials != slash
BeelzeBLT says:
oh, is that her name?
and actually, while it's not slash in current usage which has come to mean exclusively "male-male", of course it's simply a (American) pronunciation of the character "/" and my understanding is that older usage included what we would now think of as "het" in slash, because it meant "pairing characters together which were not paired in the source material", regardless of their sexes/genders
just think, if star trek had been a british show, we might all be calling it "stroke" fiction
*snickers*
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Having said that, though, I wonder, am I right? Or have I got my fandom vocabulary history wrong?
(I need an icon for "hmmm, actually, I wonder..." I have a "confused" one, but as it's Trelawney with "WTF?" on it, it's rather stronger than the confusion/curiosity here, and in fact stronger than I often need to express...)
BillCorbett: Grateful for the positive reaction to my Voldemort / Flo the Progressive Girl slashfic. #art
can you guess what the 21613523434 responses to that were?
BeelzeBLT says:
i don't know what he even means, so no
Oolon Colluphid says:
Well, Voldemort/Flo the creepy girl from the progressive commercials != slash
BeelzeBLT says:
oh, is that her name?
and actually, while it's not slash in current usage which has come to mean exclusively "male-male", of course it's simply a (American) pronunciation of the character "/" and my understanding is that older usage included what we would now think of as "het" in slash, because it meant "pairing characters together which were not paired in the source material", regardless of their sexes/genders
just think, if star trek had been a british show, we might all be calling it "stroke" fiction
*snickers*
-----
Having said that, though, I wonder, am I right? Or have I got my fandom vocabulary history wrong?
(I need an icon for "hmmm, actually, I wonder..." I have a "confused" one, but as it's Trelawney with "WTF?" on it, it's rather stronger than the confusion/curiosity here, and in fact stronger than I often need to express...)
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Date: August 10th, 2011 10:37 pm (UTC)From: