The oblique stroke: renaming slash

[Dina Lerret]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at f...> wrote:

> labeled.  You will not know how many
> times I've clicked on what I thought
> was a Gen story and found het.  (sounds
> familiar, doesn't it....)

Err, no.  Joking. ;-)  Seriously, I tend to only read smut, which has
its ups and downs (no pun intended).  Unfortunately, I'm probably
shortchanging very good fanfic.  For me, it takes an interesting
summary, which a number of writers either can't or won't do (worry of
spoilers), to "jump 'ship". 


> I just don't find it fair, considering
> for most slash stories you can figure
> out that it's slash.  I mean, I don't
> think a subject containing "Draco and
> Harry meet years after Hogwarts and
> fall in love" would lead people to
> think it's something else...

You'd be surprised... or not because you've seen your share of fanfic.
{g}  Although, based on your wording and seeing some headache-inducing
legal jargon, you've left the option of Harry and Draco meeting up
again and falling in love with *different individuals* because the
summary didn't specify "fall in love *with each other*" or something
along that line.

Then again, this is also fandom where folks debated over 'to hyphen or
not to hyphen' the HBP. {g}  Sometimes, differing opinions can be
interesting as long as you keep things civil.

Dina