The oblique stroke: renaming slash

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <timregan at m...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> I was chatting with an old friend at the weekend. ... We've been 
> arguing about the creative merits of fan-fiction .... One thing I 
> mentioned was slash: erotic fanfiction based on the homosexual 
> pairing of characters. Slash fiction is called slash fiction because
>  of the oblique stroke written between the character's names, e.g. 
> Sirius/James. Wouldn't it have been better ... if it was called 
> "oblique stroke fiction" ...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad.


bboyminn:

Another way of referring to Slash is 'Lemon' or 'Lemony'. This is most
often used as a classification by Japanese Anime/Manga fan fiction
writer to  give advance notice to potential readers that the story
contain same sex pairings. I'm not an authority in this area, but I
know other /fruit/ designation are used. Like 'orange', for example,
as well as others, but I'm not sure what 'Orange' designates.

I also know that 'Yaoi' is often used to designate what we call Slash.

The Lemon/Lime/Orange designation are also used by others to indicate
the level of graphic sex in a story. Lemon being the most graphic.

Give a whole new meaning to 'Lemony Snicket'.

Here are a couple links for anyone seeking an overview of Fan Fiction,
and it's place in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Fiction

http://www.answers.com/topic/fan-fiction

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn