intimatopic

== English == === Etymology === From intimatopia +‎ -ic; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream" (2006), together with the parent term intimatopia, to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction. === Adjective === intimatopic (not comparable) Of or relating to intimatopia. 2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), →ISBN, page 104: Across all intimatopic literature, sex is almost always embedded in a plot, rather than included simply for its own sake. 2007, Helena Štěpánová (2007), Slash fan fiction and the canon(PDF), BA thesis, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (retrieved 2017-11-30; from the original 2017-11-30), page 21: The transition from one stage of the relationship to the other is less smooth and less fluid and, unlike intimatopic love, the romantic love is not a mere culmination of a close and complex relationship. 2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 15: Like war novels, medieval literature is also sexually ambiguous (see Appendix one for more on medieval queerness). An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.