From www.mckellan.com
SLASH
From: Saathi QueenB@trust-me.comQ: My fellow yahoogroup members and I all respect you, the cast, crew, and movie itself. Most of us indulge in a hobby called ‘fanfic.’ A great deal of us write (or read) ‘slash,’ and a few members write ‘RPS’ (Real Person Slash.) What are your thoughts on such things? Do you consider them slanderous to your good character and/or to the good character of any actor/movie/etc?
A: I am not well acquainted with slash but find nothing harmful in sharing fantasies about favourite characters or their interpreters. Within the context of such sites even Real Person stories seem unobjectionable as they are clearly fictional.
Hear That? Sir Ian McKellan says go right ahead. 🙂
Well, if Sir Ian says it’s okay, who am I to do differently.
When I read the title of your post, I thought that Ian had taken up with the ex-guitarist from Guns’n’Roses…*shudder*
What’s slash?
Sir Ian McKellan is so cool I just got frost on my hair. Wonder if her reads LoTR slash? Hmmmmm.
Slash is fan fiction that features relationships between same-sex characters from entertainment, started with Star Trek — for instance some one would write a Kirk/Spock story – “kirk slash spock,” hence “slash”
The ratings can be anywhere from G to X, though most heavily toward X.
oh wow! lol… ok, thanks for explaining!