I would like to say something like that. I was already really close to telling her to stop being the middleman and let me deal with them on my own unless I asked for her help. But now I'm afraid that responding in any way could go badly.

I think it might be wise to simply ask her to let this be between you and your parents.

Having done daycare for a psychiatric convention, it is ridiculously apparent that there is no magical medical parenting bullet there. Hoo boy.

Another work explores a romantic encounter between "Star Trek" characters Spock and James T. Kirk.

OK, that's kind of hilarious. What would you call that - slash art?

P-C, sorry to hear that they've got your sister taking sides. What everyone else said. That email was cruel, IMO.

What would you call that - slash art?

The general term for fan art is - surprise! fan art. Which, like fic, can then be endlessly and entertainingly broken down by fandom and pairing (if any) and level of explicitness (if any) etc. So in actual usage, you'd probably see something like "hey, $fan has been posting some brilliant/hot/disturbing/$adjective K/S fan art. Some of it's kinda NSFW."

(I've never heard "slash art" as its own term, but then again, "slash fic" as a phrase is kind of a big honking "I don't actually know anything about the stuff" sign.)

It didn't read as cruel to me. Just someone who is in a house where she sees crying and pain and she blames you. She is completely wrong to blame you, but she doesn't know that.

P-C, if you can, I advise you to take the high road as much as possible. Reframe the discussion so it's not about "sides" or being a bad son. I would tell them you love them unconditionally. "I love you, I respect you, but I just can't do this ONE thing in the way you want. That's all." Don't do a flounce or be drawn into their melodramatic view of the world. It'll be hard, but it;s part of being an adult. They see things as all or nothing. You don't have to.

"slash fic" as a phrase is kind of a big honking "I don't actually know anything about the stuff" sign

Huh? How else do you subdivide and identify it separately from het or gen fic? I see it all the time.

"hey, $fan has been posting some brilliant/hot/disturbing/$adjective K/S fan art. Some of it's kinda NSFW."

$fan as James Franco is still cracking me up.

Huh? How else do you subdivide and identify it separately from het or gen fic? I see it all the time.

I rarely see the word "slash" appended by "fic" in my circles.

The fic part is treated as understood. (Sometimes, I do see "slash vid" however.)

Is Guns and Roses fic called "Slash slash"?

The fic part is treated as understood. (Sometimes, I do see "slash vid" however.)

Hmm. In my head it's how it's separated from fanart and vids. I may be projecting, though. I have very little interest in slash fanart, so I do care about the subdivision.

Googling the term gets 161,000 hits, so it's not rare.

Hmm. I didn't explain well - I don't mean talking about slash, but about the particular phrasing. I see a lot of people with no knowledge of fic-producing fandom who use the whole phrase "slash fic" as a kind of freestanding thing. "OMG Y'all! Someone posted A SLASH FIC about Hardison and Eliot! Can you believe it? HAR!" Within fic communities (and I'm phrasing a little awkwardly to include the range of readers/writers/reccers etc), the tendency is to talk about fic as the thing, with slash/het/gen as markers, often among a pretty dizzying array of other subdivisions: "I'm having trouble finding good Leverage fic I haven't read; I'm mostly into slash or OT3s, gen is good too, but I'm kinda squicked by Nate/Eliot...." Slash is absolutely an essential part of the classification, but the particular phrasing in the first example (which I sadly hear a lot outside of my lovely pieces of internets) always sounds to me like someone who doesn't know the culture.