slash fiction

American  

noun

Slang.

1. a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist.

   Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction.

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Etymology

Origin of slash fiction

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

And in popular science fiction magazines such as Cinefantastique, and fan-created zines and slash fiction up to the present day, fans of all backgrounds both revel in the imaginative universe and critique it by pointing out its omissions, even as they strive to expand its scope.

From Washington Post

The other is the drama of an eccentric, ambitious, and ambivalent mother-daughter pair, one so obsessed with Jung that she wrote slash fiction about him, and the other a best-selling mystery novelist who abandoned that career after writing only two books.

From Slate

Slash fiction, for example - stories about romantic attraction between male characters - have been a mainstay of fan fiction since its earliest days.

From BBC

The subgenre of slash fiction, which takes two presumably straight characters and imagines their homosexual love, exists for every popular franchise, too.

From Salon

Slash fiction has a particularly strong presence on the Internet, perhaps because LGBT+ people are still used to reading between the lines for their onscreen representation.

From Salon