History Main / SlashFic

Slash is often also used to pair up HeterosexualLifePartners. Of course, some canonical works, especially BoysLove and those with a CastFullOfPrettyBoys, invite such reading by playing the ambiguity for all it's worth. It's also common to (sexually) [[FoeYayShipping pair characters who are nemeses in the source material]], in FanFic's own version of SlapSlapKiss, FoeYay and TheMasochismTango.

* There is an ''[[http://www.cheesecakearchive.info/ entire website]]'' dedicated to Music/{{Radiohead}} slash.
* Proving that the internet does indeed have everything, there exists slash... [[http://www.ficwad.com/category/434 involving Slash.]]
** Guns N' Roses fandom is absolutely full of it, most of it being Izzy Stradlin/Axl Rose, Duff [=McKagan=]/Slash, or [[FoeYay Slash/Axl]].
* Every BoyBand ever, more or less. The Music/OneDirection fandom is particularly (in)famous for it, but the late 90s/early 2000s popslash fandom (revolving around the Music/BackstreetBoys and [[Music/{{Nsync}} N*SYNC]], but mostly N*SYNC) was huge, and played a big role in bringing [[RealPersonFic RPF]] into the fandom mainstream.

** ''Fanfic/SurfaceTension'' is a Zelda/Ruto one-shot fanfic. It's also a rare example of a Sheik fic where Sheik is [[SweetPollyOliver Zelda in disguise]], not a [[DecompositeCharacter separate (male) character]]. The fic also makes reference to Zelda having a crush on Malon, which later appeared in a [[Fanfic/SanctuaryTLOZ separate (most likely AU) fic by the author]].

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->''The archtypal slash pairing is based on the existence of a clear contrast coupled with a close emotional bond. Given that the standard example is Kirk and Spock, this almost doesn't even need elucidation. He's impulsive and rash, he's cold and logical, and yet despite that something glues them together. What could it possibly be? Clearly their need to rip each other's uniforms off and shag like bunnies.''

See also {{Lemon}}, PornWithoutPlot, CastFullOfGay, HetIsEw, YaoiGuys, YaoiFangirl and MostFanficWritersAreGirls. Not to be confused with fics about the guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses (they can overlap if you look, however). Also, Slash Fic [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has absolutely nothing to do with]] {{Slasher Movie}}s; if you are looking for ''that'' kind of Fanfic then you should probably check out DarkFic.

** Dorothy/Ozma is the most common ship in ''Land of Oz'' fanfics, riffing off their RomanticTwoGirlFriendship. For example, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/142192 The Royal Wedding of Oz]]'' is a oneshot where a now ([[OlderThanTheyLook physically at least]]) roughly-eighteen year old Dorothy and Ozma get married to one another.

** ''Fanfic/BestFriends'' deconstructs the "[[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Best Friend system]]" from ''Harvest Moon DS Cute''. Claire and Keira are a couple, but their neighbors are too backwater to accept it.

->''The archtypal slash pairing is based on the existence of a clear contrast coupled with a close emotional bond. Given that the standard example is Kirk and Spock, this almost doesn't even need elucidation. [[RedOniBlueOni He's impulsive and rash, he's cold and logical]], and yet despite that [[UptightLovesWild something glues them together.]] What could it possibly be? Clearly their need to rip each other's uniforms off and shag like bunnies.''

See also {{Lemon}}, PornWithoutPlot, EveryoneIsGay, HetIsEw, YaoiGuys, YaoiFangirl and MostFanficWritersAreGirls. Not to be confused with fics about the guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses (they can overlap if you look, however). Also, Slash Fic [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has absolutely nothing to do with]] {{Slasher Movie}}s; if you are looking for ''that'' kind of Fanfic then you should probably check out DarkFic.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': This [[http://cantatedomino24.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Yaoi-Overload-257767815 comic]] by [[http://www.cantatedomino24.deviantart.com CantateDomino24]] sums up the [[EveryoneIsGay DN fandom quite nicely... ]]

** ''Fanfic/MirrorsTLOZ'' is a Link/Sheik twist however, unlike others, Sheik is Zelda. Specifically, Zelda is {{transgender}} and "Sheik" is his preferred name. The fic focuses on the transition as well as his feelings for Link.

->'''Dean:''' There's Sam Girls and Dean Girls and... What's a slash fan?\\
'''Sam:''' As in Sam slash Dean. Together.\\
'''Dean:''' Like ''together'', together?\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah.\\
'''Dean:''' They do know we're brothers, right?\\
'''Sam:''' Doesn't seem to matter.\\
'''Dean:''' Oh, come on, that... that's just sick!
-->-- ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

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** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was the first fandom to share stories detailing an explicitly romantic relationship between two same-sex characters.[[note]]Holmes and Watson have been slashed for decades, and [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Dr. Fredric Wertham]] confirmed he'd interviewed gay men who took it for granted that [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce and Dick]] were intended as a gay couple. Creator/RobertCrumb's brother Charles used to create gay fantasy illustrations based on ''Film/TreasureIsland1950''. Such stories were likely written about [[Series/TheManFromUncle Napoleon and Ilya]] and [[Series/TheWildWildWest Artemus & James]], among others. but if so it was flying well under the radar, what's known as "drawerfic", at best mailed privately to a handful of friends.[[/note]] Kirk/Spock slash stories were the first to be circulated among fans in actual fanzines, starting in 1982. They were taking a huge risk by doing so, since homosexuality in fiction was considered pornographic in most states even if nothing explicit happened, and using the U.S. Mail to distribute pornography is still a federal crime. (As ''WebVideo/TheShipsCloset'' points out, the fact that slash emerged during such a homophobic era is quite telling and points to a tremendous amount of perceived {{Subtext}}). Of course, when you consider that Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself later invented the Vulcan word ''t'hy'la'', meaning "friend/brother/''lover''", it might be less about subtext and more about GettingCrapPastTheRadar -- until you discover that the Great Bird may have had his wing twisted on that subject by two fans who were a) highly influential in fandom at the time and b) deeply invested in promoting K/S slash to Ascended Fanon. Or had he? There are [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/David_Gerrold#Gerrold_and_Remarks_on_Slash many points of view]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Sturgeon_and_Fandom on what happened]] and [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Sondra_Marshak some background information]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Shatner:_Where_No_Man...#Gene_Roddenberry_on_Shatner.2C_.26_Kirk might be helpful.]]

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* ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' generated a ton of Merlin/Arthur slash.
* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'': Duncan and Methos get a lot of this, even though Duncan has always liked women in canon.
* ''{{Series/Due South}}'' had fans shipping Fraser with both of the Rays who were his partners.

[[folder: Theatre]]
* The ''Wicked'' fic ''Fanfic/PromisesKept'' starts off as Elphaba/Fiyero but quickly turns into Elphaba/Glinda. Elphaba returns to Glinda after finding out Fiyero fathered a a child with Glinda, but abandoned her to be with Elphaba.

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* ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'':
** In ''Fanfic/ByTheBook'', Apple White has taken it upon herself to properly court her OneTrueLove Apple Darling. Much to Apple's dismay, she begins studying ''The Art of Wooing'', by Darling's great-uncle Passion Charming.
** ''Fanfic/{{Girlfrenemies}}'' involves Apple and Raven faking being a couple. It soons turns into Apple realizing she wants to ''really'' be a couple with Raven.
** ''Fanfic/YouBuiltThisHouse'' is a ComingOutStory for Apple that ends in Apple/Darling.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' Strong Bad Email #188, [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail188.html fan club,]] has both Strong Sad writing Strong Bad FanFic and Strong Bad writing Strong Sad FanFiction (because he has plenty of time to say both syllables). ''Both'' of them include a hastily interrupted scene where they get slashed with Homestar Runner, Strong Sad having Strong Bad put on a bonnet and give Homestar a deep tissue massage, Strong Bad just having Homestar walk in "naked as a jaybird" and suggestively ask Strong Sad for Twizzlers. Naturally, you can't type in "Homestar Runner fanfic" on Google without ''some'' slash showing up. Just don't try it on deviantART, unless you enjoy your eyes melting out of your skull.
* In-universe fans of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' are apparently fond of these types of {{fanfic}} (heck, this kind of fanfic in general. [[RuleThirtyFour then again...]] In fact, it was the reading of a particularly disturbing Uriel Hunter/Jacob Starr fic (accidentally broadcast on the PA system to the students on the island) that got three of [[BigBad Danya's]] terrorists thrown into the game themselves.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. According to the archives, seven out of the ten most popular pairings are slash and there's almost twice as much slash stories than het.
** In ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', Donnie [=DuPre=] admits that he always wanted people to make a slash fic of him. Needless to say, this is TemptingFate. Especially given that [[Creator/DougWalker his actor]] is ''notorious'' for starring in slashfics.
* One of [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]] radio station interns sounds off about Cecil making her "copy edit his ''Jaws'' slash fic even though that wasn’t in the job description".

-->“This isn’t another of those terrible romance novels you experimented with last year, is it?” the computer’s somewhat motherly voice complained. “I have to tell you that one scene was [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex anatomically impossible]]…”
* During the "Crystal Kingdom"-arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'', the BigBad of the arc (the GrimReaper, real name Kravitz) reveals his [[DemBones skeletal form]] while trying to get the Tres Horny Boys to come with him to the Astral Plane. Taako remarks that "if [Kravitz] wanted to lure [him] in there, [he] should've stayed handsome." This leads to the boys joking that all of the fan-artists will now have to change their Taako/Kravitz fanart to account for the skeleton form, culminating in Clint declaring that the ship name should be "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Taakitz]]." [[spoiler: Becomes HilariousInHindsight as Taako and Kravitz actually do start dating after the events of "The Eleventh Hour", and remain an OfficialCouple to this day, with "Taakitz" being the most commonly used shipping name by fans.]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863499/1/ Promise Ribbons]]'' is a retelling of the first three volumes with Weiss/Blake added in.
** In ''Fanfic/TheChampionAndTheSinger'', Pyrrha and Weiss didn't go to Beacon. They instead meet when Weiss' sister gets her back-stage passes to one of Pyrrha's shows. It turns out they mutually have {{Celeb Crush}}es on each other.
** ''Fanfic/RoadsideAssistance'' is an AlternateUniverseFic where Yang is an attractive mechanic who Weiss meets after her car breaks down.
** ''Fanfic/YouAndMeAndEveryoneInBetween'' is a domestic AU where single father James falls for his new neighbor Qrow, a man raising his two nieces.
** In ''Fanfic/SilverRingsAndGoldenHearts'', an ObliviousToLove Qrow is asked by his friend James to help him adopt a child. James needs a spouse to adopt the girl he wants, so he lied to the agency about Qrow being his husband. Qrow agrees and starts a fake relationship with James, that eventually becomes not-so-fake.
* ''Fanfic/HouseOfGold'' is a fanfic in which WebVideo/DrewGooden and WebVideo/DannyGonzalez fall in love.

See also {{Lemon}}, PornWithoutPlot, EveryoneIsGay, HetIsEw, YaoiGuys, YaoiFangirl and MostFanficWritersAreGirls. Not to be confused with fics about the guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses (they can overlap if you look, however). Also, Slash Fic has absolutely nothing to do with {{Slasher Movie}}s; if you are looking for ''that'' kind of Fanfic then you should probably check out DarkFic.

Some {{Slash Fic}}s are so low in erotic and romantic content that although they focus on the relationship between two same-sex characters, it's not obvious if they're slash or not; they're closer to HoYay themselves. Such fics are often called something like “Slash-if-you-squint”. Then there’s “[=PreSlash=]”, which is used to refer to a fic where the characters aren’t a couple yet, but the author’s intention is that they got together later, even if you don’t actually see it happen in a sequel.

The most common definition of Slash is a FanFic that [[{{Shipping}} pairs]] two (or more) characters of the same sex. Often, "slash" is used for male/male pairings only, while "femslash" or "femmeslash" are used to define a female/female pairing (using an "x" symbol between the names works too). In most cases, one or both halves of the pairing is heterosexual in the original work, and part of the allure is the normally-straight character(s) [[LGBTAwakening realizing]] their same-sex [[IfItsYouItsOkay attraction]].[[note]]Sometimes, it's implied that they've always been attracted to the other half of the ship and have been keeping it secret, even if it's never hinted at in canon.[[/note]] Or the story skips the "why" altogether and is just them [[PornWithoutPlot getting it on]].

Slash is often also used to pair up HeterosexualLifePartners. Of course, some canonical works, especially BoysLove and those with a CastFullOfPrettyBoys, invite such reading by playing the ambiguity for all it's worth. It's also common to (sexually) [[FoeYayShipping pair characters who are nemeses in the source material]], in FanFic's own version of SlapSlapKiss, FoeYay and TheMasochismTango. Some {{Slash Fic}}s are so low in erotic and romantic content that although they focus on the relationship between two same-sex characters, it's not obvious if they're slash or not; they're closer to HoYay themselves. Such fics are often called [=PreSlash=] or slash-if-you-squint.

The origin of the term predates the World Wide Web, going back to 1960s fanfic writers, specifically those interested in ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', who wrote "Kirk/Spock" fiction, pronounced "Kirk Slash Spock." In many communities, the ordering of the names is used to indicate a [[{{seme}} power]] [[{{uke}} relationship]], and who exactly is the dominant member.

The most common definition of Slash is a FanFic that [[{{Shipping}} pairs]] two (or more) characters of the same sex. Often, "slash" is used for male/male pairings only, with "femslash" or "femmeslash" are used to define a female/female pairing (using an "x" symbol between the names works too). In most cases, one or both halves of the pairing is heterosexual in the original work, and part of the allure is the normally-straight character(s) [[LGBTAwakening realizing]] their same-sex [[IfItsYouItsOkay attraction]].[[note]]Sometimes, it's implied that they've always been attracted to the other half of the ship and have been keeping it secret, even if it's never hinted at in canon.[[/note]] Or the story skips the "why" altogether and is just them [[PornWithoutPlot getting it on]].

The most common definition of Slash is a FanFic that [[{{Shipping}} pairs]] two (or more) characters of the same sex. Often, "slash" is used for male/male pairings only, with "femslash" or "femmeslash" are used to define a female/female pairing (using an "x" symbol between the names works too). In most cases, one or both halves of the pairing is heterosexual in the original work, and part of the allure is the normally-straight character(s) realizing their same-sex [[IfItsYouItsOkay attraction]].[[note]]Sometimes, it's implied that they've always been attracted to the other half of the ship and have been keeping it secret, even if it's never hinted at in canon.[[/note]] Or the story skips the "why" altogether and is just them [[PornWithoutPlot getting it on]].

The most common definition of Slash is a FanFic that [[{{Shipping}} pairs]] two (or more) characters of the same sex. Often, "slash" is used for male/male pairings only, with "femslash" or "femmeslash" are used to define a female/female pairing (using an "x" symbol between the names works too). In most cases, one or both halves of the pairing is heterosexual in the original work, and part of the allure is the normally-straight character(s) realizing their [[BiTheWay same-sex]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay attraction]].[[note]]Sometimes, it's implied that they've always been attracted to the other half of the ship and have been keeping it secret, even if it's never hinted at in canon.[[/note]] Or the story skips the "why" altogether and is just them [[PornWithoutPlot getting it on]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': Many Archive of Our Own authors preferably [[MartyrWithoutACause Alfred]] with the [[HoYay Male]] [[PlayerCharacter Hunter]] rather than the female one.

** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was the first fandom to share stories detailing an explicitly romantic relationship between two same-sex characters.[[note]]There's some evidence that ''Series/TheManFromUncle'' had a substantial media fandom before ST, which may have included slash, but if so it was flying well under the radar: likewise ''Series/TheWildWildWest''.[[/note]] (As ''WebVideo/TheShipsCloset'' points out, the fact that slash emerged during such a homophobic era is quite telling and points to a tremendous amount of subtext. Of course, when you consider that Gene Roddenberry himself later invented the Vulcan word ''t'hy'la'', meaning "friend/brother/''lover''", it might be less about {{Subtext}} and more about GettingCrapPastTheRadar) -- until you discover that the Great Bird may have had his wing twisted on that subject by fans. Or did he? There are [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/David_Gerrold#Gerrold_and_Remarks_on_Slash many points of view]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Sturgeon_and_Fandom on what happened]] and [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Sondra_Marshak some background information]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Shatner:_Where_No_Man...#Gene_Roddenberry_on_Shatner.2C_.26_Kirk might be helpful.]]
*** TV Guide's September 15, 1967 summarization of the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" reads "''Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk.''" Most fans at the time took this as a gag, but some speculate it could have inspired the idea.
*** The very, ''very'' first Trek slash story, [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Jennifer_Guttridge Jennifer Guttridge]]'s ''[[http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ring_of_Soshern The Ring of Soshern,]]'' has been dated to at least early 1968 and possibly late 1967 (it cannot be any earlier than September 1967 because it mentions ''pon farr''). Ms. Guttridge was British, and ''Star Trek'' didn't air in Great Britain until 1969 and "Amok Time" wasn't shown until November of ''1970''. But she may have attended Worldcon, where the episode was aired ''two weeks prior'' to its television debut. Or she had this episode, and/or the ''TV Guide'' summary, described to her by a fellow fan. Or she simply bought the script from Lincoln Enterprises.

* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'': Danny and Steve

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'':

** ''Fanfic/R9kElsaIsSuffering'' has Elsa as a {{NEET}} who is attracted to her estranged sister Anna. It also ships Elsa with [[spoiler:Jane from ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}''.]]

* The CrossoverShip of Amelia from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' and Jane from ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' was pretty much single-handedly created by fan-artist [=StrawberryLoveU=] on Deviantart. This has resulted in other fan-arts, [[WebVideo/{{Illuminated}} fan-videos]], and fanfics [[RecursiveFanfiction based on the fan-videos]].

** ''Fanfic/YouAndMeAndEveryoneInBetween''is a domestic AU where single father James falls for his new neighbor Qrow, a man raising his two nieces.