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Dental Damnation

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:12 pm


I was just wondering if BL/Yaoi/Shonen-Ai could only apply to anime and manga.
Must every other type boy/boy fanfic be labeled "slash"?
Does the terminology matter that much?
I've just been wondering this because I've seen many "wars" about this kind of thing.

On a side note, is anime/manga your only source of boy/boy love?
Where else do you see boy/boy love? And yes, I allow you to count fanfic couples whee
PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:52 pm


hm...this might be completely wrong but slash to me means that it has to pair someones together while yaoi, etc, could be canon.
so i don't see how it has anything to do with whether something is anime/manga or not.

Slash came from I think the Star Trek verse and spread to comics, aka non Japanese manga, later, etc, so it's basically the american version of yaoi/BL/shounen-ai...almost.

Slash: I'm slashing so and so together. You don't really say I'm yaoi-ing so and so together.
The only difference for me between slash and yaoi, etc. is the slight diff. in definition (for me) so that slash can be used as a verb while yaoi, etc. are usually not.
Slash as a word has more similarities to 'ship than yaoi/BL/shounen-ai

Usually, I'd say, I'm slashing so and so therefore it is yaoi/BL/shounen-ai.
I'm slashing Neji and Naruto.
I'm a Neji/Naruto shipper.
I'm a Neji/Naruto slasher.
I ship Lily and Snape. <<I'm a Lily and Snape shipper.
I ship James and Remus.
I slash James and Remus?
etc.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:35 pm


They can be video games but that is it. I love Cloud/Sephiroth pairing, you should look into that yaoi.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:41 pm


Soul of Deflection
They can be video games but that is it. I love Cloud/Sephiroth pairing, you should look into that yaoi.

Honey, I already have xd

Dental Damnation

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