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.
I did read some good Slash slash once.
Cereal:
Much like the epic Journey fic I was reading, I got to it by mistake.
