Who is a slasher? The article is not for the faint-hearted 18+

Sometimes the hobbies of a person can be extremely strange and incomprehensible to the rest of the people. Someone collects candy wrappers and stamps, someone designs ships from plastic bottles, but someone is addicted ... slash. An unfamiliar word? Well, let's deal with it.

Who is a slasher?

It is better to start, as they say, from afar. Have you ever noticed a desire to change the story in a book read or a movie you watched? For example, you did not really like that there is a happy ending in the "Lord of the Rings" - it would be much more interesting (in your opinion) if Sauron remained the ruler of the world. Or, for example, you clearly see that in the famous "Potteriana" Hermione is in fact in love with Harry, and not in Ron Weasley.

Surprisingly, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people experience such feelings with respect to certain works. Feeling the strength to write an alternative version of history - albeit not as voluminous and, to be honest, less talented - the girls (and sometimes the young men) take to the cause. Such fan stories are called fanfics, and the people who write them are fikraters. "But who is a slasher, and what does he have to do with it?" - you ask impatiently. To which you will receive the answer: "We are already close!"

Not always fantasy fikrayterov works in the standard direction. And instead of coming up with another nice story about Harry and Hermione finally getting married, they're giving out something incredible. In their opinion, Potter does not feel real feelings for Hermione, not for Ginny, or even for Chou Chang, but for ... Draco Malfoy. "They are both male!" - exclaim you. But fikrayery nothing stops: if they saw love between the two characters, they will do everything to those that were together - even in a fictional world!

Such kind of fanfics, in which there are romantic and sexual relations between people of the same sex, are called slash. Where did this name come from? Usually in the header (the description of the work) we indicate peyr (the pair whose relations will be described). It looks, for example, like this:

• Draco Malfoy / Harry Potter;
• Frodo Beggins / Legolas;
• Sawyer / Jack Shepard.

A slash is called a "slash". That's where the name came from.

So who is a slasher? First, they called people who write fanfics of this genre. A little later, when the wave of fan-creativity became more and more extensive, so simple readers, fans of slash began to call themselves. However, today such a title is awarded to anyone who is able to see the romance between two characters of the same sex in any work or film.

Slashers create art (drawings with images of favorite heroes), video clips, compose and sing songs - in general, devote their favorite couple almost all their free and not very free time.

Usually in the adequacy of such people, others have great doubts. Real slashers are able to see the "spark" even between characters that do not intersect in the original world of the work. Moreover, in the majority of adepts, as the love for homosexual fanfics and artamas grows ever more, there is an obsession that all the surrounding people are gay and lesbian, they are simply encrypted.

From the terms that are used by fikrayery, you can make a huge list. Slashers are not surprised by the catchwords like:

• Fandom - this is the name of the artistic world of the film / series / books / games on which the fanfics are written;
• Peyring - a pair of characters whose relationships are described in the fanfic;
• Disclaimer - the standard message that the work was created not for profit, and the characters belong to the original author;
• Sammari - short content without disclosing intrigue;
• Rating - age restriction;
• WARNING - warnings about certain elements that may be unacceptable for some people;
• Fem-slash - a kind of slash in which the main characters are female;
• AU - alternative universe / reality;
• OOC - the character of the characters does not coincide with the canonical one;
• RPS is a slash with real people. It can be punishable, but actors, as a rule, tolerate such manifestations of fan love.

And this is not all! There are a lot of such terms, and it's time for them to devote a separate article.

The community of slashers is growing by leaps and bounds. In social networks, there are many groups and public places for those who dream of the wedding of Dean Winchester with Castiel or the birth of several kids from Dr. House and James Wilson (mpreg - a man's pregnancy in fanfics - yet no one canceled).

A typical or atypical slasher - whatever you call it, they are one thing: they can not live a day without the thought that Vince and Howard from Mighty Boosh or Raskolnikov and Razumihin from Crime and Punishment are doing well. And they find that confirmation in the endless fanfiction, artach, video and their own dreams.

Now that you know who the slasher is, ask yourself: "Did I have a new hobby?"