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[tree_and_leaf]

Gosh, there's a lot of rubbish reboot Trekfic on the AO3 these days. Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be inadvertently to blame for some of it, as there is the usual rash of badly-written Sherlock crossovers*, but even discounting that, the quality seems to have gone down dramatically.

Also, I wish people wouldn't tag slashfics with 'gay sex'.


* Stupid though Martin Crieff/ John Watson or Martin Crieff/ Moriarty is as a premise, it's surely topped by Khan Noonien Singh/ Molly Hooper?

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[tree_and_leaf]

On further reflection, I think Inept's right.

I have to disagree with you about the '/' (as opposed to 'slash' as a genre) - that's pretty much universally used for any romantic pairing these days, whether it's Spock/Kirk or Spock/Uhura.

[kerkevik_2014]

Realistically you are correct; it's just that as a term and a genre; slash started as exclusively for the K/S fandom, and by extension stories containing m/m pairings. It has become more widespread, but it was intended and used for stories about, or implying gay sex.

Oddly enough I had a similar conversation with a lesbian friend last month, who felt uncomfortable that slash as a term was only used for gay and lesbian relationships.

Those eho invented the term and the genre are dying off now, and I feel obliged to honour that generation by not letting the term's true origins and meaning to go off peacefully into that dark night.

My apologies if I appeared overly didactic about it, but I knew some of those people, and they were a lot very good people who would make modern fanfic writers blush.

kerk