However, other large bodies of slash fiction, such as Starsky and Hutch or The Professionals, are based on non-speculative sources. Slash sources įrom its earliest days, slash fiction has been particularly inspired by popular speculative fiction franchises, possibly because speculative fiction may lack well-developed female characters or because the speculative elements allow greater freedom to reinterpret canon characters. Star Trek slash fiction remained important to fans, while new slash fiction grew up around other television shows, movies, and books with sci-fi or action-adventure roots.Įarly slash fans in England feared that they would be arrested, because slash violated the obscenity laws there at the time. Greater subsequent tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality and increased frustration with the portrayal of gay relationships in mainstream media fed a growing desire in authors to explore the subjects on their own terms, using established media characters. Later, authors such as Joanna Russ studied and reviewed the phenomenon in essays and gave the genre some academic respectability. The first K/S stories were not immediately accepted by all Star Trek fans. Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a "hero dyad", or "One True Pairing", such as Kirk/Spock or Starsky/Hutch conversely, a classic pairing between foils was that of Blake/ Avon from Blake's 7. Slash later spread to other fan groups, first Starsky and Hutch, Blake's 7, and The Professionals, then many others, eventually creating a fandom based on the concept of slash. For a time, both slash and K/S (for "Kirk/Spock") were used interchangeably. The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic relationship), as compared to the ampersand (&) conventionally used for K&S or Kirk and Spock friendship fiction.
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