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I think when RJ exempted "[[Lust Over Pendle]]" from the slash genre she meant it in this sense - not that the story wasn't about a non-canon homosexual relationship, but that it wasn't about contradicting [[canon]] for its own sake. It was not about ''being slashy''. I haven't read it so I can't say for sure.

I think when RJ exempted "[[Lust Over Pendle]]" from the slash genre she meant it in this sense - not that the story wasn't about a non-canon homosexual relationship, but that it wasn't about contradicting [[canon]] for its own sake. It was not about ''being slashy''. I haven't read it so I can't say for sure.

There are other subcommunities of fandom that are just as self-congratulatory and anti-canonical as slash is - [[J/C]] fandom comes to mind immediately - but most of them don't assert or assume a literary superiority over other fans. It is entirely possible that slashers are better writers, overall, than non-slashers, but that's a matter of statistics which does not make slashfic better in principle than other kinds of fic. ''Being slashy'' is not a ''literary'' good in and of itself, and no amount of claiming it is will make it so. <Ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20030228130249/http://jemimap.freeshell.org/moveabletype/2003_01.html The Morality of Reading] by Jemima at "Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt" (January 29, 2003) </ref>}}

There are other subcommunities of fandom that are just as self-congratulatory and anti-canonical as slash is - [[Janeway/Chakotay|J/C]] fandom comes to mind immediately - but most of them don't assert or assume a literary superiority over other fans. It is entirely possible that slashers are better writers, overall, than non-slashers, but that's a matter of statistics which does not make slashfic better in principle than other kinds of fic. ''Being slashy'' is not a ''literary'' good in and of itself, and no amount of claiming it is will make it so. <Ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20030228130249/http://jemimap.freeshell.org/moveabletype/2003_01.html The Morality of Reading] by Jemima at "Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt" (January 29, 2003) </ref>}}

==Why Slash?==

==Why Slash?==