pre-slash

pre-slash

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ slash (“slash fiction”)

Noun

pre-slash (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) A subgenre of slash fiction in which a homosexual relationship between two characters has not yet developed or is only implied.
   • 2008, Gemma Corin, "From 'Ambiguously Gay Duos' To Homosexual Superheroes: The Implications For Media Fandom Practices", thesis submitted to the University of Waikato, page 53:

     The piece of work was a short pre-slash story around Hulkling and Wiccan from The Young Avengers, it was posted under the alias Confidenceiskey on 18 October, 2007.

   • 2012, Catherine Coker, "The Angry! Textual! Poacher! Is Angry!: Fan Works As Political Statements", in Fan Culture: Theory/Practice (ed. Katherine Larsen), page 95:

     The first, a lengthy Kirk/Spock pre-slash story “The Immovable Object,” appeared in the zine The Other Side of Paradise, no. 2.

   • 2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 38:

     Some pre-slash fan fiction does not develop into slash at all; other stories make it clear that slash may be a possible development in the future but they do not elaborate on it; yet other stories, or better series of stories, include pre-slash chapters or pre-slash stories (which function as one-shot stories and work on their own), but the following stories in the series are already slash.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pre-slash.