slash fiction

plural slash fictions

1. uncountableA genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).

   But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.

   2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169

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   They analyze slash fiction (stories about romantic and sexual relationships between two male characters, some of which involve graphic descriptions of sex), and argue that the similarities between romance novels and slash fiction prove gender differences exist.

   2009, Mark Bould, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge, page 208

   Over the years, slash writers have started dismissing as homophobic this trope of men having sex with men without identifying as homosexual or bisexual; nevertheless, much slash fiction retains the trope's underlying sentiment of true love and devotion transcending all external rules.

   2009, Robin Anne Reid, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 282

2. countableA work in the genre of slash fiction