While it’s fun to think that Victorian era readers might have shipped Holmes and Watson, there is no way of knowing. More than a few decades ago, it would not have been possible to disseminate due to censorship laws. The rise of slash has, with good reason, corresponded with increasingly widespread acceptance of homosexuality and the broader LGBT community. Some other early slash pairings came from Starsky and Hutch and Dirty Harry. In a way, creators sowed the seeds of this pairing by consciously centering the show on the friendship between Kirk and Spock. Romantic and slash fiction most often came from the second wave of Star Trek fans, who were drawn in by the buddy aspect of the show rather than it’s scifi roots and starting placing the characters in other settings or AUs. Whatever the cause, women dominated the fan scene and continue to do so today.įan fiction at the time was distributed via zines. Renowned superfan Joan Winston (founder of the first Trekker convention) did not go to college because her father preferred to fund her brother’s education. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why it spawned such a fan culture, but one factor could be a spike in women’s interest in space and scifi fueled by the space race among women who were still denied actual careers or studies in the field. It took a confluence of specific historical and cultural moments to produce Star Trek’s enduring popularity and fandom. The first documented slash story, by Diane Marchant, published in 1974. Here is a break down by tumblr user Destinationtoast: M/F is also common and F/F or femslash represents a surprisingly small percentage. M/M (male/male) is overwhelmingly the majority demographic of slash pairings. It is not always explicit, choosing just as often to focus on romance, although erotic slash frequently explores BDSM and other kinks. Slash is a major subset of fanfiction, with its own subgenres, tropes and conventions. Get it? Nowadays, pairings are often denoted with a portmanteau of the characters’ names, such as Destiel or Johnlock. Kirk & Spock is bromance, Kirk/Spock is romance. The term comes from the “/“ used to differentiate an romantic or erotic fic from a platonic one, when posted online. Pairings exist in just about any fandom you can think of, and a fair few that you never imagined. Slash fiction is a fandom phenomenon that focuses on romantic and often sexual relationships between characters of the same sex. From the original Space Husbands to #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend, slash is here, it’s queer, and it’s not going anywhere.
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