According to the userinfo of the LiveJournal community Saffic, saffic includes: Femmeslash (or yuri and shoujo-ai) and erotica, as gen stories that focus on other strong female bonds such as friendship, sister, rival and mother-daughter relationships. Saffic, a portmanteauish pun on sapphic fiction, is used by a few fans. For instance, the Harry Potter fansite Sapphic HP, like the term " sapphic", references the association of the Greek poet Sappho with contemporary lesbian relationships and culture. Sapphic Fiction Some fans use words or phrases associated with the mainstream lesbian community.
The mailing list simply offered femslash fans a place where they could connect, share their f/f fanfiction, and discuss the f/f subtext of their favorite shows. Despite a Lady Slash WebRing that was created in 1999, a Lady Slash Site, and a LadySlash zine, the word "ladyslash" didn't impact the f/f slash terminology. Whether intentional or not, "ladyslash" wasn't so much a new term as it was an umbrella for all those FemaleCharacterNameSlash f/f stories in all those different fandoms. The term femslash probably existed but was first mentioned on the Ladyslash mailing list half a year after it was created on April 4, 1999, and the first mention of femmeslash was more than a year after creation. There were other character specific terms (the rare Highlander f/f story was usually AmandaSlash) but these depended on the fandom. ScullySlash was the term used in X-Files fandom and the stories were usually either Scully/OFC or Scully/f crossovers that paired Scully with female characters from other shows, like for example Scully/Miss Parker in Hth's Pretender crossover Thank You For Not Smoking.
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The dominant term for female/female fanfic in TV based fandoms was f/f slash in media fandom and alt or altfic in the Xenaverse. Ladyslash Ladyslash was used for a while in the late 90s. Can be used interchangeably with yuri, but it is more likely to be used by publishers than fans themselves. GL Girls' Love, or GL, is the femslash equivalent of the term BL and is used - primarily in Japan - to denote attraction between women in anime and manga. Sometimes fans will request 'womanslash' as a specific contrast to 'girlslash', especially in fandoms in which the majority of the female characters are teenagers or young girls, as in the Harry Potter fandom. Usually it is accompanied by the m/m equivalent boyslash in an attempt to denormalize the assumption that all slash is m/m. Girlslash Girlslash is used by some fans, as in the name of the Harry Potter community hp girlslash. Some fans would prefer to exclude such fic from femslash filters or exchanges. This genre has been used to explore issues of sexism, gender issues in general, and sometimes just for fun. Sometimes cis women who were always women, became women by supernatural means, or are trans women. They can become women in a variety of ways. Genderswap Genderswap is sometimes considered in discussions of femslash, where an M/M pairing is written with both characters as women. Others dislike it because it brings up Butch/Femme connotations they perceive the term as reinforcing those stereotypes. Femmeslash Femmeslash is an alternate spelling that some people prefer for its visual appeal. It was the dominant term for female/female fanfic in the slash lands of media fandom before femslash and femmeslash appeared in common usage in the late 1990s. F/F Slash F/F Slash is used by some fans to indicate the continuity between f/f and m/m slash and probably is the oldest of the media fannish terms for this type of fiction. For a variety of reasons alt didn't catch on and femslash became the dominant term for f/f fiction.
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In 2000 one of the oldest multifandom f/f sites, The Pink Rabbit Consortium, moved its archive to. When some XWP bards started writing Janeway/Seven, Willow/Tara and other f/f fiction, the term followed these authors to Star Trek: Voyager and BtVS fandom where it coexisted with other terminology such as femslash and femmeslash.
The term (and the fandom) developed independently of slash fandom and its history. Terminology Alt Alt or Altfic, short for 'alternative fiction', originated in the 1990s in the the Xenaverse where it is the preferred term for Xena/Gabrielle fiction. In English, it is the most common media fandom term for homosexual relationships between female characters. Femslash is derived from 'female slash', and refers to a genre of fan fiction featuring female characters involved in a romantic or sexual relationship.
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