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brightknightie) wrote2014-09-06 10:06 pm
brightknightie) wrote2014-09-06 10:06 pm
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Fannish Vocabulary Trivia
(aka What do you call a gen story that sets the stage for a future romance? Anything?)
Is "pre-slash" still a significant genre label, or has it been subsumed into the orientation-agnostic "UST" label? If "pre-slash" is still in wide, active use, did it ever develop a het-specific equivalent? The nuances would be wrong for a precisely mirror term, I realize, as "pre-slash" often applied when building realizations or admissions from subtext rather than text, and het rarely requires foundation-up construction from subtext, but the precise use of words always interests me, and I've seen "pre-relationship" popping up more, too. How similar and how different are all these terms in today's general expectations? Has the emphasis shifted in recent years? Is it still "pre-slash" when the slash is canon?
(I've been reading OuaT, mainly Mulan/Aurora and Hook/Emma, so the question is primarily f/f-inspired now, though past experience with the term was primarily m/m from the sidelines of assorted other fandoms. The term never had wide utility in FK.)
Just curious!
Is "pre-slash" still a significant genre label, or has it been subsumed into the orientation-agnostic "UST" label? If "pre-slash" is still in wide, active use, did it ever develop a het-specific equivalent? The nuances would be wrong for a precisely mirror term, I realize, as "pre-slash" often applied when building realizations or admissions from subtext rather than text, and het rarely requires foundation-up construction from subtext, but the precise use of words always interests me, and I've seen "pre-relationship" popping up more, too. How similar and how different are all these terms in today's general expectations? Has the emphasis shifted in recent years? Is it still "pre-slash" when the slash is canon?
(I've been reading OuaT, mainly Mulan/Aurora and Hook/Emma, so the question is primarily f/f-inspired now, though past experience with the term was primarily m/m from the sidelines of assorted other fandoms. The term never had wide utility in FK.)
Just curious!
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Ah! That makes perfect sense. Hero/Villain. I hadn't even thought of that, because it's so far from the norm in my own personal home fandoms.
(The UF is Hero/Villain, of course, but that's different. By present-day canon, there's nothing "pre-" about that relationship or "unresolved" about its tension, however we each choose to interpret the rest of it. ~grin~)
Below in this comment thread, Sholio makes an interesting observation that "UST" seems to be used more often to describe canon, while pre-slash and its spin-offs (apparently, pre-het and pre-OT3 do exist, although they're extremely rare; pre-relationship seems to be gaining more traction) are much more often applied to what the fanfiction is doing.