/ is starting to irritate me

[roxy]

The thing that irritates me is this: Reading Dean/OMC--or whatever character of your choice followed by a slash in the header, only to find that the interaction between C and OMC was *rape*. Or the /Whoever was in the fic with the character for the blink of an eye. Yes, there's a difference between the short term character being a pivotal point of the story and just someone fucked in an alley.

I know, I know, I complain when I've done it myself but I'm coming to hate it. Because to me, the / means that a relationship with main Character is in the offing. It's an awful disappointment to me when I find the writer thinks / means so little. I'll click out of a story these days when that happens. It's probably just me, but it's becoming more and more an irritation. I'm thinking that newer writers don't know what the slash means? Or am I confusing what the slash means? Has this post descended into incomprehensibility?

Yeah, anyway, it's bugging me so knock it off.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I learned / formatting in Forever Knight, where people were really particular about whether a story was Nick-Lacroix or Nick/Lacroix. And I don't might seeing it for brief encounters in short stories or a brief-but-significant interlude in a longer story, but lately I've been seeing the / used to show who's in the story, and I wonder if there are perfectly good gen stories I've passed up because I wasn't into the "pairing".

--Jessica

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It's certainly a possibilty. I think that the meaning of / is soon going to be a lot different than when we first discovered it.