powerslash

English

Etymology

power +‎ slash

Noun

powerslash (uncountable)

  1. (fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of unequal social status or rank.
    • 2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 67:
      The second most popular Potter slash pairing is Harry/Snape, which belongs to the powerslash category, and again defies findings of early fan fiction studies focusing on buddyslash.
    • 2011, Catherine Tosenberger, "Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction", in Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature (eds. Michelle Ann Abate & Kenneth B. Kidd), →ISBN, page 343:
      Order of the Phoenix featured Harry and Snape (a powerslash pairing par excellence) forced to become uncomfortably intimate with each other: Snape is teaching Harry how to prevent Voldemort from reading his thoughts by...reading Harry's thoughts; […]
    • 2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10:
      Although the second most popular pairing in Potter slash fandom, Snape/Harry (or Snarry), could be categorized as enemyslash, it is also a prime example of powerslash.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:powerslash.

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