Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to intimatopia.
Across all intimatopic literature, sex is almost always embedded in a plot, rather than included simply for its own sake.
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 1042 more examples
The transition from one stage of the relationship to the other is less smooth and less fluid and, unlike intimatopic love, the romantic love is not a mere culmination of a close and complex relationship.
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 21Like war novels, medieval literature is also sexually ambiguous (see Appendix one for more on medieval queerness). An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.
2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 15
Origin
From intimatopia + -ic; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream" (2006), together with the parent term intimatopia, to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction.
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