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Slash or No Slash?
2007-02-12 07:29 pmSo I wanted to read some new slash fanfiction in order to relax after having spent a few hours learning for the Japanese history exam.
And all I found that was at least halfway acceptable (meaning no typos and weird grammar in the summary) in the slash category was Harry/Girl!Draco or Draco/Girl!Harry. Now, I don't feel the need to read stories like that, even though I remember reading some good a while back. I know some people like stories like that and I appreciate the possibilities a setting like that has. It's just not my cup of tea.
But it got me thinking: Is that really slash? I know there are people who think slash only refers to a homosexual pairing that is not canon (so Brian/Curt from Velvet Goldmine would not be slash), while others use it for any homosexual pairing. But I really don't know about these stories.
I am not only talking about stories where one of them temporarily turns into a girl, and after he turns back they are still a couple and there is lots of angst and insecurity. That is obviously slash (at least for the last part).
But what about stories in which, for example, Harry turns out to be a girl, and stays a girl? Where there is no switching back? No boy on boy action?
In my personal opinion, it can only be called slash when the two characters are definitely boys/girls. So the stories in which the two of them would be a heterosexual couple would not be slash. But I am not too sure that everyone else shares my opinion. Otherwise, I would not stumble upon these stories in the slash category.
And all I found that was at least halfway acceptable (meaning no typos and weird grammar in the summary) in the slash category was Harry/Girl!Draco or Draco/Girl!Harry. Now, I don't feel the need to read stories like that, even though I remember reading some good a while back. I know some people like stories like that and I appreciate the possibilities a setting like that has. It's just not my cup of tea.
But it got me thinking: Is that really slash? I know there are people who think slash only refers to a homosexual pairing that is not canon (so Brian/Curt from Velvet Goldmine would not be slash), while others use it for any homosexual pairing. But I really don't know about these stories.
I am not only talking about stories where one of them temporarily turns into a girl, and after he turns back they are still a couple and there is lots of angst and insecurity. That is obviously slash (at least for the last part).
But what about stories in which, for example, Harry turns out to be a girl, and stays a girl? Where there is no switching back? No boy on boy action?
In my personal opinion, it can only be called slash when the two characters are definitely boys/girls. So the stories in which the two of them would be a heterosexual couple would not be slash. But I am not too sure that everyone else shares my opinion. Otherwise, I would not stumble upon these stories in the slash category.
