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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i googled smaug big dick and first hit is a smaug / biblo fan fiction
    *bookmarks*

    If it's a written story involving established characters, it's fan fiction. If it's a drawing it's … slash fiction? Or are they both slash fiction?

    "Rule 34" is the general term for drawing porn of someone else's characters.

    Rule 34 is "there is porn of everything."

    That is true - but if you search for "<character name> rule 34", you will find porn of that character. It has been adopted as the term for unauthorized pornification.

    No, it's just, "there is porn of everything." Of course you're finding porn of something when you search it and rule 34, because rule 34 is "there is porn of everything".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(Internet_meme)

    That's the origin of the phrase, sure.
    If artists specifically tag their pieces as "rule 34" to denote that it's unauthorized pornification, and end users use that term to search for it, then the phrase "rule 34" has gained an additional definition, no? Language evolves.

    Nah, rule 34 still means what it's always meant and labeling, like, disney porn as rule 34 falls under the traditional definition. It hasn't gotten more narrow. You can still find anthropomorphic jet planes fucking under rule 34, for example.

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    HounHoun Registered User regular
    What I'm saying is, I'd watch that movie.

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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    And now the xmen cartoon theme is in my head

    Bananana NAAAAH na na
    Bananana NAAAAH na NA
    Bananana NAAAAH na na
    NA NA
    (Dooo wee)

    Banana nanana nanana nanana NANANA NANANA NAAAAAAAAAAA

    Nanny Ogg never knew when to stop spelling banana either.

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    IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Wikipedia says same-sex and that is all the effort I'm willing to put into it.

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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i'm no connoisseur but i've never heard of slash fiction only referring to same-sex pairings

    the game done changed, old man

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i'm no connoisseur but i've never heard of slash fiction only referring to same-sex pairings

    the game done changed, old man

    this is entirely possible

    anyone got any ascii nudes?

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    P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i'm no connoisseur but i've never heard of slash fiction only referring to same-sex pairings

    the game done changed, old man

    this is entirely possible

    anyone got any ascii nudes?
    (.)(.)

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    IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Ascii? poor guy. *sends ROM of nes bubble porn game*

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    (_)_)

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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I refused to believe that an insurance company would stop using their mascot character because of Rule 34. Surely they dropped it because it was stupid and failed in terms of marketing.

    That's why Geico stopped with the cave men?

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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i'm now browsing slash fiction archives to confirm that all of the pairings are same sex

    doing god's work

    I can save you some time, P10. Naruto slash Sakura.
    That's just fan fiction! It's not slash!
    Naruto/Sakura isn't even represented here! It's all Naruto/Sasuke! I'm not a crazy person! !!!

    I think that recommendation engine might only have gay stories in it.
    Right, because it's for slash fiction. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

    This website is alleging that slash is gay-only, but right there says that heterosexual stories use the same symbol and title format. That seems a really strange claim to make and one that isn't supported by other definitions around the web (or common sense).

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i googled smaug big dick and first hit is a smaug / biblo fan fiction
    *bookmarks*

    If it's a written story involving established characters, it's fan fiction. If it's a drawing it's … slash fiction? Or are they both slash fiction?

    "Rule 34" is the general term for drawing porn of someone else's characters.

    Rule 34 is "there is porn of everything."

    That is true - but if you search for "<character name> rule 34", you will find porn of that character. It has been adopted as the term for unauthorized pornification.

    No, it's just, "there is porn of everything." Of course you're finding porn of something when you search it and rule 34, because rule 34 is "there is porn of everything".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(Internet_meme)

    That's the origin of the phrase, sure.
    If artists specifically tag their pieces as "rule 34" to denote that it's unauthorized pornification, and end users use that term to search for it, then the phrase "rule 34" has gained an additional definition, no? Language evolves.

    No, they tag it rule 34 because it's now porn of something that wasn't porn. It has nothing to do with it being authorized or unauthorized. It has to do with it being porn. If I say "Scrubbing Bubbles rule 34" nobody thinks "ooooh he committed copyright infringement against the Dow Chemical Company and turned their mascots into porn without permission" they think "What the fuck, Scrubbing Bubbles porn?"

    And yeah, there is, obviously.

    And Mr. Bubble.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove.

    And the Arby's mitt.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove with the Arby's mitt.

    And Mr. Bubble with the Scrubbing Bubbles.

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i will also accept swimsuit models with kelly kapowski's head photoshopped onto them

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    11119759_10204489698390655_8201345908305669974_n.jpg?oh=b8c7cc1229c497133e27e1c977ea2a2d&oe=55E634E1

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    vanguard all i know is mlk jr advocated riots p much non stop

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    p10 would you say it's the crazy pills that led you to slash fiction or that they are trying to cure it

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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i googled smaug big dick and first hit is a smaug / biblo fan fiction
    *bookmarks*

    If it's a written story involving established characters, it's fan fiction. If it's a drawing it's … slash fiction? Or are they both slash fiction?

    "Rule 34" is the general term for drawing porn of someone else's characters.

    Rule 34 is "there is porn of everything."

    That is true - but if you search for "<character name> rule 34", you will find porn of that character. It has been adopted as the term for unauthorized pornification.

    No, it's just, "there is porn of everything." Of course you're finding porn of something when you search it and rule 34, because rule 34 is "there is porn of everything".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(Internet_meme)

    That's the origin of the phrase, sure.
    If artists specifically tag their pieces as "rule 34" to denote that it's unauthorized pornification, and end users use that term to search for it, then the phrase "rule 34" has gained an additional definition, no? Language evolves.

    No, they tag it rule 34 because it's now porn of something that wasn't porn. It has nothing to do with it being authorized or unauthorized. It has to do with it being porn. If I say "Scrubbing Bubbles rule 34" nobody thinks "ooooh he committed copyright infringement against the Dow Chemical Company and turned their mascots into porn without permission" they think "What the fuck, Scrubbing Bubbles porn?"

    And yeah, there is, obviously.

    And Mr. Bubble.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove.

    And the Arby's mitt.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove with the Arby's mitt.

    And Mr. Bubble with the Scrubbing Bubbles.

    throw in a doughy dad watching instead of doing chores for his domineering wife and it's the only way emnmnme can get off anymore

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »
    therapy dogs really make you happier
    but unfortunately i just want to play with dogs the rest of the day and not do any actual work.

    I'm very excited about the prospect of therapy dogs in my life soon. My girlfriend is a therapist.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
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    BethrynBethryn Unhappiness is Mandatory Registered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »
    therapy dogs really make you happier
    but unfortunately i just want to play with dogs the rest of the day and not do any actual work.
    Gotta get a job doing puppy training.

    ...and of course, as always, Kill Hitler.
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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    (_)x(_)

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i'm now browsing slash fiction archives to confirm that all of the pairings are same sex

    doing god's work

    I can save you some time, P10. Naruto slash Sakura.
    That's just fan fiction! It's not slash!
    Naruto/Sakura isn't even represented here! It's all Naruto/Sasuke! I'm not a crazy person! !!!

    I think that recommendation engine might only have gay stories in it.
    Right, because it's for slash fiction. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

    This website is alleging that slash is gay-only, but right there says that heterosexual stories use the same symbol and title format. That seems a really strange claim to make and one that isn't supported by other definitions around the web (or common sense).
    i'm going to quote the relevant passage because of the first line
    According to fandom historian Klangley56:
    The virgule, or slash mark ("/"), has been in use from the earliest days of fandom, including being used to designate relationships--both friendship pairings and romantic/sexual pairings. For example, Kirk/Spock often was used as a shorthand designation for the friendship between Kirk and Spock and Spock/McCoy for that friendship. Romantic opposite-sex pairings also might be referred to this way, e.g., Spock/Christine and Kirk/Uhura. But no one referred to any of these types of pairings, either verbally or in writing, as slash stories.[11]
    When "those" stories about Kirk and Spock starting appearing in publication, fans referred to them in many different ways ("Kirk/Spock erotic love stories," "Kirk-Spock homo stories," The Premise, etc.).[12] Gradually, as a way to distinguish them from the Kirk/Spock friendship stories, the fans adopted "K/S" and made it the term to refer to the romantic/sexual premise--although the first printed use of the term “K/S” was in gen zines edited and published by Nancy Kippax and Bev Volker (The Mirage, November 1976, and Contact #3 and #4 in 1977), and it was used to refer to the friendship premise. Some confusion continued for a few years, with K/S and Kirk/Spock being used interchangeably--by some to mean the friendship stories and by others to mean the sexual/romantic premise.


    Sentinel Jim/Blair "/" zine with the virgule on the cover (2007)
    When Star Trek fandom opened up into Media fandom, other fandoms developed their own noncanonical same-sex pairings. They adopted the naming convention of K/S fandom: H/J for Harry and Johnny in Magnum Force, S/H for "Starsky and Hutch," B/D for Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals. With these and, still later, other pairings being published in fandom, fans started discussing this type of fan fiction as a whole. Needing a way to refer to all such pairings and the entire genre of writing, they referred to them and it as "/" (they typed the punctuation mark by itself--a stand-alone virgule, usually within quote marks, sometimes with none). This was in the early eighties.
    When verbalizing this punctuation mark in conversation (from the early eighties on), it was, of course, said out loud as "slash." Eventually (primarily in the mid- to late-eighties) the term itself ("slash") started appearing in print. That is, fans wrote or typed "slash" and not "/". The earliest printed reference I found using the word "slash" is in a LoC to the S&H Letterzine #18, (February 1981), but that was an extremely rare reference. It didn't become common in print for several more years.
    Today one can still find "/" used to refer to slash, but that's much less common. Also, nowadays a slash pairing is as likely to be designated as, for example, Jim/Blair and Jack/Daniel as it is to be called J/B and J/D. (Not to mention the much more recent mash-up naming convention that applies to both same-sex and opposite sex pairings, such as Clex for Clark/Lex and Spuffy for Spike/Buffy.)[13]

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    {.} = {.}

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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    IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    It is a really good thing this thread's gonna get recycled if this was gonna be the topic past page 100.

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    AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    ok.

    so while slashfic may have at one point, or still means, same-sex-only.

    That's a dumb distinction that is destined to be eroded.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Ilpala wrote: »
    Ascii? poor guy. *sends ROM of nes bubble porn game*

    That was a great game. It had really innovative puzzle mechanics!

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    HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    Jeez, what's up with all the porn? The entire page is NSFW!

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Haphazard wrote: »
    Jeez, what's up with all the porn? The entire page is NSFW!

    i thought you europeans were all forward-thinking about boobs

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2015
    Chanus wrote: »
    vanguard all i know is mlk jr advocated riots p much non stop

    it's the truth

    even now

    mlk is rioting in his grave

    wait

    Vanguard on
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    P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    p10 would you say it's the crazy pills that led you to slash fiction or that they are trying to cure it
    yes

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    ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    If I wanted to blow things up, can I just outright buy c4?

    Kinda. The laws around explosives are weird. If you wanted to buy C4 you'd need a FEL. But that is mostly going to cover storage and making sure you have a safe place to storage it. There are binary kits you can buy for mixing your own explosives, for instance people make tannerite that way.

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    HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    Haphazard wrote: »
    Jeez, what's up with all the porn? The entire page is NSFW!

    i thought you europeans were all forward-thinking about boobs
    Real boobs, yes.
    Not that filthy ascii stuff.

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    Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i'm no connoisseur but i've never heard of slash fiction only referring to same-sex pairings

    the game done changed, old man

    this is entirely possible

    anyone got any ascii nudes?
    (.)(.)

    *faps*

    Nintendo Switch friend code: 7305-5583-0420. Add me!
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    Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Haphazard wrote: »
    Jeez, what's up with all the porn? The entire page is NSFW!

    I feel like these abstract representations are more titillating than the real thing, which is always so disappointing

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i googled smaug big dick and first hit is a smaug / biblo fan fiction
    *bookmarks*

    If it's a written story involving established characters, it's fan fiction. If it's a drawing it's … slash fiction? Or are they both slash fiction?

    "Rule 34" is the general term for drawing porn of someone else's characters.

    Rule 34 is "there is porn of everything."

    That is true - but if you search for "<character name> rule 34", you will find porn of that character. It has been adopted as the term for unauthorized pornification.

    No, it's just, "there is porn of everything." Of course you're finding porn of something when you search it and rule 34, because rule 34 is "there is porn of everything".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(Internet_meme)

    That's the origin of the phrase, sure.
    If artists specifically tag their pieces as "rule 34" to denote that it's unauthorized pornification, and end users use that term to search for it, then the phrase "rule 34" has gained an additional definition, no? Language evolves.

    No, they tag it rule 34 because it's now porn of something that wasn't porn. It has nothing to do with it being authorized or unauthorized. It has to do with it being porn. If I say "Scrubbing Bubbles rule 34" nobody thinks "ooooh he committed copyright infringement against the Dow Chemical Company and turned their mascots into porn without permission" they think "What the fuck, Scrubbing Bubbles porn?"

    And yeah, there is, obviously.

    And Mr. Bubble.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove.

    And the Arby's mitt.

    And the Hamburger Helper glove with the Arby's mitt.

    And Mr. Bubble with the Scrubbing Bubbles.

    throw in a doughy dad watching instead of doing chores for his domineering wife and it's the only way emnmnme can get off anymore

    Unf.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cAxRX3aDg

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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i'm now browsing slash fiction archives to confirm that all of the pairings are same sex

    doing god's work

    I can save you some time, P10. Naruto slash Sakura.
    That's just fan fiction! It's not slash!
    Naruto/Sakura isn't even represented here! It's all Naruto/Sasuke! I'm not a crazy person! !!!

    I think that recommendation engine might only have gay stories in it.
    Right, because it's for slash fiction. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

    This website is alleging that slash is gay-only, but right there says that heterosexual stories use the same symbol and title format. That seems a really strange claim to make and one that isn't supported by other definitions around the web (or common sense).
    i'm going to quote the relevant passage because of the first line
    According to fandom historian Klangley56:
    The virgule, or slash mark ("/"), has been in use from the earliest days of fandom, including being used to designate relationships--both friendship pairings and romantic/sexual pairings. For example, Kirk/Spock often was used as a shorthand designation for the friendship between Kirk and Spock and Spock/McCoy for that friendship. Romantic opposite-sex pairings also might be referred to this way, e.g., Spock/Christine and Kirk/Uhura. But no one referred to any of these types of pairings, either verbally or in writing, as slash stories.[11]
    When "those" stories about Kirk and Spock starting appearing in publication, fans referred to them in many different ways ("Kirk/Spock erotic love stories," "Kirk-Spock homo stories," The Premise, etc.).[12] Gradually, as a way to distinguish them from the Kirk/Spock friendship stories, the fans adopted "K/S" and made it the term to refer to the romantic/sexual premise--although the first printed use of the term “K/S” was in gen zines edited and published by Nancy Kippax and Bev Volker (The Mirage, November 1976, and Contact #3 and #4 in 1977), and it was used to refer to the friendship premise. Some confusion continued for a few years, with K/S and Kirk/Spock being used interchangeably--by some to mean the friendship stories and by others to mean the sexual/romantic premise.


    Sentinel Jim/Blair "/" zine with the virgule on the cover (2007)
    When Star Trek fandom opened up into Media fandom, other fandoms developed their own noncanonical same-sex pairings. They adopted the naming convention of K/S fandom: H/J for Harry and Johnny in Magnum Force, S/H for "Starsky and Hutch," B/D for Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals. With these and, still later, other pairings being published in fandom, fans started discussing this type of fan fiction as a whole. Needing a way to refer to all such pairings and the entire genre of writing, they referred to them and it as "/" (they typed the punctuation mark by itself--a stand-alone virgule, usually within quote marks, sometimes with none). This was in the early eighties.
    When verbalizing this punctuation mark in conversation (from the early eighties on), it was, of course, said out loud as "slash." Eventually (primarily in the mid- to late-eighties) the term itself ("slash") started appearing in print. That is, fans wrote or typed "slash" and not "/". The earliest printed reference I found using the word "slash" is in a LoC to the S&H Letterzine #18, (February 1981), but that was an extremely rare reference. It didn't become common in print for several more years.
    Today one can still find "/" used to refer to slash, but that's much less common. Also, nowadays a slash pairing is as likely to be designated as, for example, Jim/Blair and Jack/Daniel as it is to be called J/B and J/D. (Not to mention the much more recent mash-up naming convention that applies to both same-sex and opposite sex pairings, such as Clex for Clark/Lex and Spuffy for Spike/Buffy.)[13]

    Yeah, I read that when you linked it. That's the origin. Look at the last parenthetical though. Shit has changed since nerds were writing out their K/S stories in the 80s and calling into a bbs to post them. It's been 35 years.

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    tit

    hehehhe

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    ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    11119759_10204489698390655_8201345908305669974_n.jpg?oh=b8c7cc1229c497133e27e1c977ea2a2d&oe=55E634E1

    I wish Letter from a Birmingham Jail was required reading.

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    P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    i'm now browsing slash fiction archives to confirm that all of the pairings are same sex

    doing god's work

    I can save you some time, P10. Naruto slash Sakura.
    That's just fan fiction! It's not slash!
    Naruto/Sakura isn't even represented here! It's all Naruto/Sasuke! I'm not a crazy person! !!!

    I think that recommendation engine might only have gay stories in it.
    Right, because it's for slash fiction. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

    This website is alleging that slash is gay-only, but right there says that heterosexual stories use the same symbol and title format. That seems a really strange claim to make and one that isn't supported by other definitions around the web (or common sense).
    i'm going to quote the relevant passage because of the first line
    According to fandom historian Klangley56:
    The virgule, or slash mark ("/"), has been in use from the earliest days of fandom, including being used to designate relationships--both friendship pairings and romantic/sexual pairings. For example, Kirk/Spock often was used as a shorthand designation for the friendship between Kirk and Spock and Spock/McCoy for that friendship. Romantic opposite-sex pairings also might be referred to this way, e.g., Spock/Christine and Kirk/Uhura. But no one referred to any of these types of pairings, either verbally or in writing, as slash stories.[11]
    When "those" stories about Kirk and Spock starting appearing in publication, fans referred to them in many different ways ("Kirk/Spock erotic love stories," "Kirk-Spock homo stories," The Premise, etc.).[12] Gradually, as a way to distinguish them from the Kirk/Spock friendship stories, the fans adopted "K/S" and made it the term to refer to the romantic/sexual premise--although the first printed use of the term “K/S” was in gen zines edited and published by Nancy Kippax and Bev Volker (The Mirage, November 1976, and Contact #3 and #4 in 1977), and it was used to refer to the friendship premise. Some confusion continued for a few years, with K/S and Kirk/Spock being used interchangeably--by some to mean the friendship stories and by others to mean the sexual/romantic premise.


    Sentinel Jim/Blair "/" zine with the virgule on the cover (2007)
    When Star Trek fandom opened up into Media fandom, other fandoms developed their own noncanonical same-sex pairings. They adopted the naming convention of K/S fandom: H/J for Harry and Johnny in Magnum Force, S/H for "Starsky and Hutch," B/D for Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals. With these and, still later, other pairings being published in fandom, fans started discussing this type of fan fiction as a whole. Needing a way to refer to all such pairings and the entire genre of writing, they referred to them and it as "/" (they typed the punctuation mark by itself--a stand-alone virgule, usually within quote marks, sometimes with none). This was in the early eighties.
    When verbalizing this punctuation mark in conversation (from the early eighties on), it was, of course, said out loud as "slash." Eventually (primarily in the mid- to late-eighties) the term itself ("slash") started appearing in print. That is, fans wrote or typed "slash" and not "/". The earliest printed reference I found using the word "slash" is in a LoC to the S&H Letterzine #18, (February 1981), but that was an extremely rare reference. It didn't become common in print for several more years.
    Today one can still find "/" used to refer to slash, but that's much less common. Also, nowadays a slash pairing is as likely to be designated as, for example, Jim/Blair and Jack/Daniel as it is to be called J/B and J/D. (Not to mention the much more recent mash-up naming convention that applies to both same-sex and opposite sex pairings, such as Clex for Clark/Lex and Spuffy for Spike/Buffy.)[13]

    Yeah, I read that when you linked it. That's the origin. Look at the last parenthetical though. Shit has changed since nerds were writing out their K/S stories in the 80s and calling into a bbs to post them. It's been 35 years.
    That refers to how its designated when written (i.e: a pairing is designated as Person A / Person B, generally). But the genre is still called slash fiction.

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    Eddy wrote: »
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    Jeez, what's up with all the porn? The entire page is NSFW!

    I feel like these abstract representations are more titillating than the real thing, which is always so disappointing
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    Im glad I'm not you.

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    BronzeKoopaBronzeKoopa Registered User regular
    Early Esurance commercials were animated featuring a pink-haired female spy named Erin Esurance, who posed as an auto-insurance agent. The goal was to juxtapose a widely disliked business, insurance, with a popular superhero archetype. In her first three years, the character was used in over 30 commercials.[15] The character was also used on an episode of Who Wants to be a Superhero?.[16] Esurance stopped prominently using the character in its advertising in June 2010 because the character was unpopular in surveys compared to the average for other corporate mascots such as Microsoft's Clippy, with the exception of her top score in the "sexiness" category.[17] Despite the unpopularity, in an example of Rule 34, pornographic fan art of the character—"some with a remarkable degree of verisimilitude to the real thing", according to CBS News—appeared frequently in results for Internet searches of "Erin Esurance", also likely contributing to the decision.[18]

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