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- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale from the television series Teen Wolf.
Even a nascent fandom will begin to develop its own tropes. You could see it, for instance, in the popular Sterek pairing in the Teen Wolf fandom as it took off.
2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN2 more examples
Some shows have released official promos that play up the fans' favorite slash couples to court fans, most recently Hawaii Five-O and Teen Wolf, whose showrunner began to write the show itself in a slashy direction when he became aware of the popularity of “Sterek,” the slash pairing of sidekick Stiles and alpha wolf Derek.
2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 101"Teen Wolf 'Sterek' fans, we've read your (hundreds and hundreds of) comments and admire your passion," EW.com responded. "The reason Sterek didn't make the category is because it's not an acknowledged will-they-or-won't-they storyline." This controversy led the gay entertainment news site AfterElton.com to start an annual "slash madness" tournament. Sterek won the first.
2013 October 31, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Slash Fiction: A Fantasy World in Which Male TV Characters Find Romance — With Each Other”, in LA Weekly
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Sterek. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sterek
“Sterek.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sterek. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sterek,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sterek.
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