Meanings
- slanguncountablelifestyleSlash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.
Catherine Tosenberger suggests that the joy of an enemyslash pairing lies in watching the antagonists overcome their differences.
2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN2 more examples
As an intimatopic 'enemyslash' fic, Harry Potter and the Bound Prince centers on the development of intimacy as expressed through sex and eroticized comfort between two characters that are enemies in the series canon […]
2010, Darlene Rose Hampton, "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture", dissertation submitted to the University of Oregon, page 102As a result, Harry Potter fandom again denies well-known theories of slash, as its most popular pairing – Harry/Draco – belongs to the enemyslash category.
2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 65
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