All right, now I don't use 'pre-slash', since it seems just as easy to use the ship name or tag it 'slash', but why does 'pre-slash' get your ire up? Isn't it like saying "Eventual such-and-such"?
It bugs me because I feel like it's a disengenous attempt to get both slash and gen fans to read a fic - only if they click, the slash fans will likely end up disappointed and the gen fans (if they're like me and really don't like slash) will be braced for the two dudes to start kissing. Which they sometimes do and sometimes don't.
In reality, I actually think 'pre-slash turns more readers away than draws them in, but that could be my bias.
If there is no kissing, no sex, no romantic thoughts, just label your fic gen. If you're building to a relationship or there are romantic thoughts or the beginnings of romantic thoughts, be honest and label it slash.
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It bugs me because I feel like it's a disengenous attempt to get both slash and gen fans to read a fic - only if they click, the slash fans will likely end up disappointed and the gen fans (if they're like me and really don't like slash) will be braced for the two dudes to start kissing. Which they sometimes do and sometimes don't.
In reality, I actually think 'pre-slash turns more readers away than draws them in, but that could be my bias.
If there is no kissing, no sex, no romantic thoughts, just label your fic gen. If you're building to a relationship or there are romantic thoughts or the beginnings of romantic thoughts, be honest and label it slash.