Hmm. I know there was a Buffy fic archive that used "conventional" (canon) vs "unconventional" (non-canon) to describe pairings, whether straight or gay. But of course such categories are messy to deal with when you've got an open canon (eg comic books).
I understand truepenny's argument is prescriptive rather than descriptive... I guess I just don't mind too much that "slash" is being used differently these days.
Perhaps instead of using the term "slash" (which I very much doubt could ever be reclaimed to only mean "opposed to canon, not to heterosexual") what we should do is simply list our pairings, or label fic with "m/f, f/f, f/f/m, etc," thus avoiding terms with any particular connotations.
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Date: 2006-12-19 10:32 pm (UTC)I understand
Perhaps instead of using the term "slash" (which I very much doubt could ever be reclaimed to only mean "opposed to canon, not to heterosexual") what we should do is simply list our pairings, or label fic with "m/f, f/f, f/f/m, etc," thus avoiding terms with any particular connotations.