Somebody in my enclave of brilliant fannish pals has a theory about Mulder/Scully being a slash pairing. (Was it you, mayhap?) I buy this, because the best M/S fic went the extra mile to make it clear why they were together.
I didn't originate this idea, but I have a vague memory of encountering it toward the end of my in-person fannish involvement, which would have been around 1995 or 1996. In retrospect, I don't really buy it, and I think it was a byproduct of a view that women were only on TV shows to play love-interest, so relationships were either canon or slash. I find it simpler to use slash for same-sex and het for m/f, so that I don't have to come up for some other term for canon same-sex relationships. Then I can have canon and non-canon as my second set of reference points.
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Date: 2005-03-30 02:14 pm (UTC)I didn't originate this idea, but I have a vague memory of encountering it toward the end of my in-person fannish involvement, which would have been around 1995 or 1996. In retrospect, I don't really buy it, and I think it was a byproduct of a view that women were only on TV shows to play love-interest, so relationships were either canon or slash. I find it simpler to use slash for same-sex and het for m/f, so that I don't have to come up for some other term for canon same-sex relationships. Then I can have canon and non-canon as my second set of reference points.