Editing Slash fiction (section)

==Slash and the original media sources==
For many people, slash is a controversial subject. In addition to the legal issues associated with traditional fan fiction, some people believe that it tarnishes established media characters to portray them in a way which was never illustrated canonically.<ref>Hunter, Kendra. "Characterization Rape." ''The Best of Trek 2''. New York: New American Library, 1977.</ref> But official disapproval of slash, specifically, is hard to find. As early as 1981, [[Lucasfilm]] has issued legal notices to fans who wrote sexually explicit stories.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Jenkins | first1 = Henry | author-link1 = Henry Jenkins | contribution = Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture. | editor-last = Durham | editor-first = Meenakshi Gigi | editor2-last = Kellner | editor2-first = Douglas | editor-link1 = Meenakshi Gigi Durham | title = Media and cultural studies: keyworks | page = 558 | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | location = Malden | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780470658086 }}</ref> [[J. K. Rowling]]/[[Warner Brothers]] have sent [[cease and desist]] letters referencing "sexually explicit" writings on the web, though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry/Draco and Harry/Snape are non-canonical.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Some media creators seem downright slash friendly. In the ''Angel'' DVD commentary for "[[A Hole in the World (Angel episode)|A Hole in the World]]", [[Joss Whedon]], the creator of ''Angel'', said, "Spike and Angel...they were hanging out for years and years and years. They were all kinds of deviant. Are people thinking they never...? Come on, people! They're open-minded guys!" as well as Spike saying, "Angel and me have never been intimate. Except that one..." to [[Illyria (Angel)|Illyria]] in the episode "[[Power Play (Angel)|Power Play]]." Renaissance Pictures invited femslash author Melissa Good to pen scripts for ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess (season 6)|Xena: Warrior Princess]]''. Some people say they see similar evidence of such relationships in other shows such as ''[[Smallville]]'',<ref>[http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc48.2006/gaySmallville/index.html The Kryptonite closet: Silence and queer secrecy in ''Smallville'']. Ejumpcut.org. Retrieved on 17 October 2011.</ref> ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]''<ref>{{cite journal
| last        = Tosenberger
| first       = Catherine
| year        = 2008
| title       = "The epic love story of Sam and Dean": Supernatural, queer readings, and the romance of incestuous fan fiction
| journal     = Transformative Works and Cultures
| volume      = 1
| doi         = 10.3983/twc.2008.0030
| doi-access= free
}}
</ref> and ''[[Due South]].''<ref>{{cite book
  |last = Bury
  |first = Rhiannon
  |chapter = A Critical Eye for the Queer Text: Reading and Writing Slash Fiction on (The) Line
 |title = The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments
  |publisher = Springer Netherlands
  |year = 2006
  |doi = 10.1007/978-1-4020-3803-7_46
  |isbn = 978-1-4020-3803-7
|pages= 1151–1167
}}</ref>

''Due South's'' fandom was one of the first to go online, after the show debuted in 1994.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = due South - Fanlore| journal=Chicago Tribune | date=12 December 1995 |url = http://fanlore.org/wiki/Due_South|publisher=[[Fanlore]]|access-date = 2016-02-08| last1=Johnson | first1=Allan }}</ref> In 1999 ''Due South'' creator [[Paul Haggis]] participated in a question-and-answer panel with an online ''Due South'' newsgroup. The newsgroup asked Haggis if he had a problem with fans seeing the characters he created (Detective Ray Vecchio and Constable Benton Fraser) as being in love with each other and having a closeted relationship. Haggis replied, "Absolutely no problem at all. If ever two people loved each other, it's Ray and Fraser."<ref>{{Cite web|title = Paul Haggis QnA Session -- 1999|url = http://home.hiwaay.net/~warydbom/duesouth/interviews/haggischat.html|website = home.hiwaay.net|access-date = 2016-02-08|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305192158/http://home.hiwaay.net/~warydbom/duesouth/interviews/haggischat.html|archive-date = 2016-03-05}}</ref>

Furthermore, the YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester (Daniel Howell and amazingphil) are well known for being very accepting of slash fiction and even wrote some fanfiction about themselves, which was featured in their book ''The Amazing Book is Not on Fire''. In addition, their stage show, The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire, included a section called Fanfiction Live.

In the episode "[[The Monster at the End of This Book (Supernatural)|The Monster at the End of This Book]]" of the TV show ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]'', the main characters encounter fictional representations of themselves in a series of books. They find the online fandom, and comment about their activities including the writing of slash fanfiction. This is often referred to by fans of ''Supernatural'' as Wincest, based on the characters' surname (Winchester) and the fact that they are brothers (incest).

The revival of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' led by the openly gay writer [[Russell T Davies]] has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off ''[[Torchwood]]''. Many fans see exchanges between the Doctor and the Master (played in the new series by [[John Simm]], whose ''[[Life on Mars (UK TV series)|Life On Mars]]'' character [[Sam Tyler]] is also the subject of a lot of slash fiction) as indicative of a previous relationship, or current attraction. At one point the Master says to the Doctor "I like it when you use my name", and in [[Time Crash|a Children in Need special]], the Tenth Doctor tells the Fifth, after being asked whether the Master still has "that rubbish beard", "No, no beard this time. Well, a wife." – which fans point to as a reference to gay men marrying a woman for public respectability, the wife being referred to as "a beard". The term for shows that seem to be giving material for slash writers to use is "pre-slashed", sometimes "pre-slashed for your convenience".