My Slash Page
Warning: This page is about slash for those of you who don't
know, a lot of slash(Not all) is filled with adult situations
that you probably don't want your kids to read. Thus you have
been forewarned and can protect your kids by keeping them away
from this page.... For those kids who for some reason are here of
their own accord I would reccomend leaving cause you might get
into a lot of trouble from your parents if they caught you
here...
What is Slash?
What is slash? You might be asking yourself this if you have
never heard the word used outside of the verb form. Well to
describe slash you must first know about fan fiction, so lets
start there.
Fan fiction is when the fans of a particular television, comic,
movie, book, etc. series decides to write stories based on their
favorite universe using that already created universe as a
base.... All fanfiction is what we like to call non-canon meaning
that none of the stories that fan fiction writers write have any
affect on the world of the actual canon (I.E. Official) universe
that was originally created by the writers of said book, tv,
movie, comic, etc. series. This leaves a lot of things up to the
creative minds of the fan fiction writers, who many times will
change a lot of the official canon universe around to suit the
story they wish to tell. One big thing that is often changed by
fan fiction writers is the social/intimate relationships of the
characters of the particular universe that they are writing
about. Which brings us to slash...
Slash is a small subset of fan fiction that deals primarily with
relationships that never take place in the canon universe of the
subject series. Why is it called slash? Writers of slash fiction
tend to identify the story by pairing (I.E. Name/Name) the slash
symbol that seperates the two character names is where this type
of fan fiction gained its title from. The next important point is
that most (not all) slash fiction is written about characters of
the same sex. In fact I believe (Though am not 100% positive)
that the first slash fictions were written about Captain Kirk and
Mr. Spock(Kirk/Spock) from the original Star Trek series. There
is slash of het pairings of course but they are far less common
with male pairings taking the lead, followed closely by female
pairings, then het pairings and multiple pairings rounding
everything out... Another interesting fact is that most slash
(again not all) is written by heterosexual women.
Slash comes in many flavors from simple stories of love and
romance, to torrid sexually charged PWP (Plot What Plot) romps
that would make a sailor blush. Some is bitter and angsty and
some is light and fluffy.. There are two other conventions that
you might like to know about before you start reading some slash
yourself.. #1 is about AU slash.. AU (Alternate Universe)
fanfictions are ones that take fundamental things known about the
core universe and change them (I.E. lets take the Star Trek
example futher, lets say that the crew of the first Enterprise
turned thier backs on the Federation of Planets and became
fugitives.) That's one example of an AU that makes fundamental
changes to the universe there are many different possiblitlies
for AU stories that certainly can be entertaining and fun..
(Slash stories in themselves are technically all AU however a lot
of slash fiction tries to be complementary to the canon universe
and generally do not in themselves warrant an entire AU... ) #2
The dreaded Mary Sue, a "Mary Sue" is a character that
is added to a fanfic that is generally the writers
personification of themselves in the fanfiction universe they
tend to be goodlooking, smart, and able to win over many of the
male characters pretty easily Mary Sues are either used to get
two characters together or to play out the writers fantasy with
one or both of them... Love them or hate them "Mary
Sue" characters are part of the genre and some of them can
even be extremely well written... Well now that I have explained
it all to you on to the fun stuff...
My Favorite Slash...
My Favorite Pairings (in no real meaningful order)
Buffy: The
Vampire Slayer and Angel Universe
Xander/Angel
Xander/Angelus
Xander/Andrew (a.k.a. Xandrew fiction)
Xander/Oz
Xander/Xander
Xander/Spike
Xander/Wesley
Warren/Andrew
Warren/Jonathan
Andrew/Jonathan
Warren/Andrew/Jonathan
Wesley/Angel
Wesley/Doyle
Angel/Doyle
Angel/Spike
Benny/Pike (from the Buffy: the Vampire Slayer movie)
The DC comic universe
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)/ Green Arrow (Conner Hawke)
Superboy(Kon-El)/Robin(Tim Drake)
Nightwing/Tempest
Due South
RayK/Fraser
RayK/Turnbull
Other Misc. Pairings
Harry/Tom ( Star Trek Voyager)
Seifer/Zell (Final Fantasy 8)
Chandler/Joey (Friends)
Pete/Berg (Two Guys, A Girl, and A Pizza Place)
Iceman/Gambit (Marvel Comics)
Mulder/Krycek (X-files)
Tom Paris/Julian Bashir (Voyager/Deep Space Nine Crossover)
Iceman/Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) (Marvel/DC Crossover)
Merton/Tommy (Big Wolf on Campus)
Links to My favorite Slash
Sites
Viridian5 Fiction: The Green Room version 2.0 : One of my favorite Slash authors, she tends to write a lot of strange and interesting stuff, her Two Guys, A Girl, and A Pizza Place fics are to die for.
Desiderium Caritas v4.0: A fairly new to me slash site that I stumbled across in my search for bigger, better, faster slash.. There is a lot of good stuff on this page though my real affinity is for the Big Wolf on Campus, Tommy/Merton Slash, still I reccomend looking around the site at the other stuff cause its all good..
Inner Geekdom: This is a fan fiction group that is devoted to the cute coupling of Xander/Andrew.
Drawn to Darkness: Angel, Wesley, Spike, and Xander in various combinations, one of the sites I visit more often.
The Messenger and the Message: A page devoted to the hot pairing of the Irish half-demon and the original vampire with a soul.