bandslash

English

Etymology

band +‎ slash

Noun

bandslash (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) Slash fan fiction which pairs real musicians, especially ones belonging to the same group.
   • 2002 August 10, LadyCyrrh [username], “[ART] The Annex Reviews, 8/10/02”, in alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     It's an archive of bandslash about the rock group Orgy, who are best known for their hard-hitting remake of New Order's early 80s chestnut "Blue Monday."

   • 2006 October 26, Kitty Empire, “Pop idols trade licks”, in The Observer:

     Even more amusing is that those doing the wishful humping in bandslash aren't your usual pin-ups. Bandslash has gone indie. This is a shadowy world where the boys in Franz Ferdinand are each others' fetish objects, and former Libertines Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, lovers.

   • 2008 July 15, Keith Goetzman, “Is Fan Fiction Flouting the Law?”, in Utne Reader:

     Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.

Hypernyms

• real person fiction