slash fiction

noun

, Slang.

1. a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist:

   Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slash fiction¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

And in popular science fiction magazines such as Cinefantastique, and fan-created zines and slash fiction up to the present day, fans of all backgrounds both revel in the imaginative universe and critique it by pointing out its omissions, even as they strive to expand its scope.

From Washington Post

Sherlock fandom persists today, thanks to the BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, whose admirers, sometimes known as the Cumberbitches, have swarmed location shoots in London and filled the Internet with Sherlock-Watson slash fiction.

From The New Yorker

The result was a topsy-turvy blogosphere of slash fiction, erotic art, and niche sexual preference communities, coexisting alongside non-adult content of fan pages, personal diaries, and teen snark.

From The Guardian

The phenomenon brought about a vibrant and creative community, producing fan-fiction and art – including romantic “slash” fiction, pairing various characters in relationships – inspired by Meyer’s world.

From The Guardian

The other is the drama of an eccentric, ambitious, and ambivalent mother-daughter pair, one so obsessed with Jung that she wrote slash fiction about him, and the other a best-selling mystery novelist who abandoned that career after writing only two books.

From Slate