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Slash fiction

Index Slash fiction

Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction that focuses on interpersonal attraction and sexual relationships between fictional characters of the same sex. [1]

103 relations: A Hole in the World, Adobe Photoshop, AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com, Alt.sex, Amateur press association, Ampersand, Anime, Anita Blake, BDSM, Beta reader, Blake's 7, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Canon (fiction), Cease and desist, Characters of Blake's 7, Children in Need, Cream Lemon, Cultural studies, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Due South, Dungeons & Dragons, Fan fiction, Fandom, FanFiction.Net, Fanzine, Femslash, Foil (literature), Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, Hentai, Heterosexuality, How to Suppress Women's Writing, Illyria (Angel), Incest, Intellectual property, Interpersonal attraction, Intersex, J. K. Rowling, Jack Harkness, Japanese honorifics, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Joanna Russ, John Simm, Joss Whedon, Kirk/Spock, Lesbian, LGBT, Life on Mars (UK TV series), ..., LiveJournal, Lucasfilm, Male pregnancy, Manga, Meta, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Naruto, Organization for Transformative Works, Paul Haggis, Portmanteau, Power Play (Angel), Queer as Folk (UK TV series), Queer theory, Rape, Real person fiction, Renaissance Pictures, Russell T Davies, Sam Tyler, Scanlation, Semiotic democracy, Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, Sexual attraction, Sexual fantasy, Shotacon, Slash (punctuation), Smallville, Speculative fiction, Star Trek: The Original Series, Stargate, Starsky & Hutch, Supernatural, Supernatural (U.S. TV series), Tara Maclay, The Lord of the Rings, The Professionals (TV series), The X-Files, Torchwood, Torture, Transformative Works and Cultures, Transgender, Transsexual, Tumblr, University of Southampton, Usenet newsgroup, Vidding, Virginia Commonwealth University, Visual arts, Western Folklore, Willow Rosenberg, World of Warcraft, Xena: Warrior Princess (season 6), Yaoi, Yuri (genre). Expand index (53 more) »

A Hole in the World

"A Hole in the World" is episode 15 of season 5 in the television show Angel.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

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AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com

AfterEllen.com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media.

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Alt.sex

alt.sex is a Usenet newsgroup – a discussion group within the Usenet network – relating to human sexual activity.

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Amateur press association

An amateur press association (APA) is a group of people who produce individual pages or magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all members of the group.

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Ampersand

The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and".

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Anita Blake

Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

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BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.

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Beta reader

A beta reader is a test reader of an unreleased work of literature or other writing (similar to beta testing in software), giving feedback with the angle of an average reader to the author about remaining issues.

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Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions, with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson, David Fury, David Greenwalt, Doug Petrie, Marti Noxon, and David Solomon.

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Canon (fiction)

In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in the fictional universe of that story.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to stop purportedly illegal activity ("cease") and not to restart it ("desist").

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Characters of Blake's 7

This is a list of characters from Blake's 7, a media franchise created by Terry Nation.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant Mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Cream Lemon

is an early hentai series.

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Cultural studies

Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dragon Age

Dragon Age is a Canadian dark fantasy role-playing video game series created by BioWare.

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Due South

Due South is a Canadian crime series with elements of comedy.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Fan fiction

Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or ff) is fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator.

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Fandom

Fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.

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FanFiction.Net

FanFiction.Net (often abbreviated as FF.net or FFN) is an automated fan fiction archive site.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Femslash

Femslash (also known as "f/f slash", "femmeslash", "altfic" and "saffic") is a subgenre of slash fan fiction which focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female fictional characters.

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Foil (literature)

In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins III (born June 4, 1958) is an American media scholar and Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Hentai

Outside of Japan, (lit. "pervert") is anime and manga pornography.

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Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender.

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How to Suppress Women's Writing

How to Suppress Women's Writing is a book by Joanna Russ, published in 1983.

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Illyria (Angel)

Illyria is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Angel.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Interpersonal attraction

Interpersonal attraction is the attraction between people which leads to an relationships both platonic or romantic.

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Intersex

Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Jack Harkness

Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood.

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Japanese honorifics

The Japanese language makes use of honorific suffixes when referring to others in a conversation.

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Jared Padalecki

Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor, best known for his role as Sam Winchester on Supernatural.

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Jensen Ackles

Jensen Ross Ackles (born March 1, 1978) is an American actor and director.

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Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and radical feminist.

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John Simm

John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English stage and screen actor.

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Joss Whedon

Joseph Hill Whedon (born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer.

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Kirk/Spock

Kirk/Spock, commonly abbreviated as K/S and referring to James T. Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, is a pairing popular in slash fiction, possibly the first slash pairing, according to Henry Jenkins, an early slash fiction scholar.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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Life on Mars (UK TV series)

Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.

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LiveJournal

LiveJournal (Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian (originally American) social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.

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Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Male pregnancy

Male pregnancy is the incubation of one or more embryos or fetuses by male members of some species.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Meta

Meta (from the Greek preposition and prefix meta- (μετά-) meaning "after", or "beyond") is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Naruto

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.

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Organization for Transformative Works

The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit, fan activist organization.

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Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Power Play (Angel)

"Power Play" is episode 21 of season 5 in the television show Angel.

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Queer as Folk (UK TV series)

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street.

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Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

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Real person fiction

Real person fiction or real people fiction (RPF) is a genre of writing similar to fan fiction, but featuring celebrities or other real people.

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Renaissance Pictures

Renaissance Pictures is an American film production and television company.

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Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who, and the trilogy Cucumber, Tofu, and Banana.

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Sam Tyler

DCI/DI Sam Tyler is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars.

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Scanlation

Scanlation (also scanslation) is the fan-made scanning, translation, and editing of comics from a language into another language.

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Semiotic democracy

Semiotic democracy is a phrase first coined by John Fiske, a media studies professor, in his seminal media studies book Television Culture (1987).

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Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction

Sexual themes are frequently used in science fiction or related genres.

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Sexual attraction

Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest.

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Sexual fantasy

A sexual fantasy or erotic fantasy is a mental image or pattern of thought that stirs a person's sexuality and can create or enhance sexual arousal.

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Shotacon

, short for, is Japanese slang describing an attraction to young boys.

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Slash (punctuation)

The slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark.

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Smallville

Smallville is an American television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural and/or futuristic elements.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Stargate

Stargate is a science fiction media franchise based on the film written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

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Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch is an American action television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a Movie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)

Supernatural is an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke.

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Tara Maclay

Tara Maclay is a fictional character created for the action-horror/fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Professionals (TV series)

The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mark1 Productions for London Weekend Television (LWT) that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Torchwood

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.

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Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

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Transformative Works and Cultures

Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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Transsexual

Transsexual people experience a gender identity that is inconsistent with, or not culturally associated with, their assigned sex, and desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including hormone replacement therapy and other sex reassignment therapies) to help them align their body with their identified sex or gender.

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Tumblr

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

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University of Southampton

The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a research university located in Southampton, England.

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Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations using Internet.

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Vidding

Vidding is an artform: the fan labor practice in media fandom of creating music videos from the footage of one or more visual media sources, thereby exploring the source itself in a new way.

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

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Western Folklore

Western Folklore is a quarterly academic journal for the study of folklore published by the Western States Folklore Society (formerly the California Folklore Society).

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Willow Rosenberg

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).

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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Xena: Warrior Princess (season 6)

The sixth and final season of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess commenced airing in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2000 and concluded on June 18, 2001, and contained 22 episodes.

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Yaoi

Yaoi (やおい), primarily known as in Japan, is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female authors.

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Yuri (genre)

, also known by the wasei-eigo construction, is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving lesbian relationships in manga, anime, and related Japanese media.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction

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