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: It    may be [completely forgotten], or certainly no more than a footnote, but given the way media fandom is becoming more and more known and more and more widely-spread, I think it will simply be yet another segment of an increasingly segregating fan base.

: It    may be [completely forgotten], or certainly no more than a footnote, but given the way media fandom is becoming more and more known and more and more widely-spread, I think it will simply be yet another segment of an increasingly segregating fan base.

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:  As for professionally published slash: I think there's more out there than we know. I wish I could remember the title/author, but there's a gay novel published by Plume where the author did an interview saying that basically, the two characters were inspired by and based on watching two of his favourite actors in a film together. So, it's in that grey area of not being slash, but sharing certain slashy elements.        Sometimes, though, I think slash is out there, we just haven't been given enough info to label it.

:  As for professionally published slash: I think there's more out there than we know. I wish I could remember the title/author, but there's a gay novel published by Plume where the author did an interview saying that basically, the two characters were inspired by and based on watching two of his favourite actors in a film together. So, it's in that grey area of not being slash, but sharing certain slashy elements.        Sometimes, though, I think slash is out there, we just haven't been given enough info to label it.