Meanings
- pluralplural of intimatopia
In intimatopias, the love between two persons of the same sex is characterized by the ultimate intimacy they share.
2007, Helena Štěpánová (2007), Slash fan fiction and the canon(PDF), BA thesis, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (retrieved 2017-11-30; from the original 2017-11-30), page 202 more examples
Homophobic or not, there are several reasons why writers of intimatopias may actively want to distance themselves from gay fictions and identities.
2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), page 103To borrow and adapt Elizabeth Woledge's terminology used in her chapter, it would have to chart a number of real world and fictional intimatopias and their intersections, and actively invite challenge and point to lacunae in its own narrative and analysis to be useful.
2008, parrot_knight [LiveJournal user] (19 April 2008), "Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet" [book review], LiveJournal (retrieved 2017-11-30; archived from the original 2017-11-30)
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intimatopias. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intimatopias
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