buddyslash

== English == === Etymology === From buddy +‎ slash. === Noun === buddyslash (uncountable) (fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between friends. 2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 124: Slash about Harry and Draco, who are enemies in canon, complicates academic theories of slash that are predicated upon the Kirk/Spock “buddyslash” model. 2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 67: Although the pairing of Harry and Ron may seem as a typical example of buddyslash, one has to consider the presence of Hermione Granger as Harry's second sidekick. 2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10: It is most commonly noted that the first famous pairing of Kirk/Spock, or Spirk, falls under the category of buddyslash. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:buddyslash. ==== Antonyms ==== enemyslash