pre-slash

== English == === Etymology === From pre- +‎ slash (“slash fiction”). === Noun === pre-slash (uncountable) (fandom slang) A subgenre of slash fiction in which a homosexual relationship between two characters has not yet developed or is only implied. 2008, Gemma Corin, "From 'Ambiguously Gay Duos' To Homosexual Superheroes: The Implications For Media Fandom Practices", thesis submitted to the University of Waikato, page 53: The piece of work was a short pre-slash story around Hulkling and Wiccan from The Young Avengers, it was posted under the alias Confidenceiskey on 18 October, 2007. 2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 38: Some pre-slash fan fiction does not develop into slash at all; other stories make it clear that slash may be a possible development in the future but they do not elaborate on it; yet other stories, or better series of stories, include pre-slash chapters or pre-slash stories (which function as one-shot stories and work on their own), but the following stories in the series are already slash. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pre-slash. === Anagrams === Sharples, harpless, splasher