Slash will soon be fifty years old!

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 It occured to me today that the genre proudly known as slash fiction must be approaching it's SAGAhood, as in it will be fifty years old in the next couple of years.
Last year I saw someone talking about slash fiction being about two decades old. I restrained myself from replying; imagining the sage individuals who wrote those first K/S fics

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Carol Hart

[beer_good_foamy]

At first I thought you meant Slash of Guns 'n Roses and figured "Yeah, sounds about right." (He apparently just turned 50 a few months ago, turns out.) :)

I did a search for "The Ring of Soshern", but apparently no one's put it online. Let's hope someone does that in time for the 50th anniversary, I guess fandom owes those early K/Sers a lot.

[kerkevik_2014]

That would be pretty cool.

Got a couple more noms (rwsa this time0; aslo wrote a Jessica Jones fic #1 for 2016 *hint, hint*

re: rock stars think Faith could be sicc'd on The Grim Reaper? Slow him down a bit...

kerk

[red_satin_doll]

Congratulations on the nominations!

I've only seen the first five eps of Jennifer Jones can I read your fic or would it be spoiler-y for other eps? I do not want to be spoiled I am enjoying it way too much.

I have a rather strange and uncomfortable relationship to the term slash: I know it's history back to K/S fic, but I don't like the continued use of the term. I don't like that some fan fiction awards have separate categories for "slash" and "hetero". Much less the fact that no one uses the term "slash" or femslash to describe anything outside of fan fiction (but "straight" or hetero is still called straight or hetero.

I'm probably not explaining myself very well, sorry.

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Maybe wait