# The Greatest Slash Pairings of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 13, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870 "2009-09-13T00:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/41 "2009-09-13T08:50:51Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > One of my other favorites is Angel/Spike. Which _is_ canon (God bless Joss Whedon). Is it? From where? (Not doubting you, just want details). ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/42 "2009-09-13T12:24:50Z")
Hamlet/Horatio would be my pick. Better if the can get all brokeback in iambic pentameter ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/43 "2009-09-13T12:44:38Z")
I’ve never been into Kirk/Spock myself, since Shatner looks too much like my dad, but I have to honor the original K/S ladies for encouraging and popularizing this line of fanfiction back in the pre-internet days, and for giving us the “/”. Frodo/Sam is my pick, since that’s what I write these days. I also have to mention my other favorites, Garak/Bashir, and O’Brien/Bashir. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/44 "2009-09-13T13:09:18Z")
There is a serious shortage of good Lucy/Ethel slash, or Laverne/Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/45 "2009-09-13T13:38:43Z")
Godzilla/ Gamera 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/46 "2009-09-13T13:52:24Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Frodo/Sam. > > I kept annoying my friends when we were watching LotR by pointing out the homoeroticism in every other scene. The intriguing point is, while a sexual component is present only in slashfic, it is canon that they loved each other deeply – in a Platonic sort of way, according to Tolkien. (While Tolkien was intentionally writing an epic that did not focus on romantic matters, he was far from prudish in his depiction of human nature. The key to the tragedy of Turin was that he fell in love with and married his full sister. While such eroticism as existed in the major character hobbits is found in Sam and his feelings for Rosie, one wonders what exactly bachelor Frodo’s sex drive might have been.) ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/47 "2009-09-13T15:10:32Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Most men are slashed because they’re pretty. Many are slashed because, hell, they’re there. But, IMO, the best slash pairings come from characters who could not, and should not, live without the other. The men who treat one another like soulmates, and it’s supposedly totally platonic. > > My vote goes to Jeeves and Wooster from PG Wodehouse’s books. Sure, there’s Bertie going on about Jeeves’ “finely chiseled features,” and the fact that Jeeves belonged to a super-exclusive club called The Ganymede, but the real slash is found in quotes like this: > > So, fellow Doper/slashers, who makes the best couple? Femslash is always welcome, btw. On the Jeeves/Wooster note, the one of the finest pieces of cross-over fiction I’ve read was a cross-over between Jeeves & Wooster and the Lord Peter Wimsey universe. It totally subverted J&W canon by positing that the reason that Wooster buzzes around like a young fathead and never seems aware of the serious world events going on around him is on account of shell-shock from the War. While I think Wooster is a perfectly lovely character in canon, just as he is, this story handles it all with exquisite sensibility and gets both sets of characters down to a T. I don’t even remember if it was slash or not, just that it was That Good. Of course, I’m a bit of an angst junkie. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/48 "2009-09-13T17:04:39Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > On the Jeeves/Wooster note, the one of the finest pieces of cross-over fiction I’ve read was a cross-over between Jeeves & Wooster and the Lord Peter Wimsey universe. It totally subverted J&W canon by positing that the reason that Wooster buzzes around like a young fathead and never seems aware of the serious world events going on around him is on account of shell-shock from the War. While I think Wooster is a perfectly lovely character in canon, just as he is, this story handles it all with exquisite sensibility and gets both sets of characters down to a T. I don’t even remember if it was slash or not, just that it was That Good. > > Of course, I’m a bit of an angst junkie. I read that one - one of the best in the fandom. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/49 "2009-09-13T17:15:17Z")
> [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](#): > > Is it? From where? (Not doubting you, just want details). I don’t remember the episode number, but in S5, Spike says “Angel and I never! Well, except for that one…” (night? month? year? decade?) And then he was interrupted. In the commentary, Joss confirmed that the two of them absolutely had sex. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/50 "2009-09-13T17:15:23Z")
[Mulder/Krycek](http://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/xf/mk/slides/car.html). The linked picture is SFW but the [site itself](http://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/index.html) is full of pop culture slash art with numerous risqué images that may not be SFW. Thankfully, Star Trek is not included. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/51 "2009-09-13T17:55:35Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > I also have to mention my other favorites, Garak/Bashir, and O’Brien/Bashir. I came in here to mention O’Brien/Bashir. I watched a ton of DS9 over the summer, for the first time since I was a kid (at which time I was pretty exclusively a TNG fan and didn’t pay much attention to DS9), and I absolutely love them. For a while around season 4, I became pretty convinced that not only were Julian and Miles sleeping together, but Keiko knew about it and didn’t mind. Then O’Brien started having all this weird sexual tension with Kira when she was carrying Keiko’s baby, and Keiko seemed fine with that too. And to further complicate things, Alexander Siddig was the father of Nana Visitor’s real-life baby. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/52 "2009-09-13T17:59:39Z")
I tend to like the darker ones. In the _Harry Potter_verse, that’d be Snape/Lupin (oddly I find this more believable than Sirius/Remus, at least post-Prank), and to a much lesser degree Harry/Draco, although I’m not really into the lead characters as much. And I’ll second Garak/Bashir from _Deep Space Nine_ – that one writes itself, IMO! Edited to add: Oh! Forgot Picard/Q. I mean, come _on_. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/53 "2009-09-13T18:53:24Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > I came in here to mention O’Brien/Bashir. I watched a ton of DS9 over the summer, for the first time since I was a kid (at which time I was pretty exclusively a TNG fan and didn’t pay much attention to DS9), and I absolutely love them. > [@"That's so gay"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-gay/508358/128): > > And I’ll second Garak/Bashir from Deep Space Nine – that one writes itself, IMO! My pet theory on the Garak/Bashir/O’Brien triangle is that Julian was involved with Garak following that juicy pick-up scene in “Past Prologue,” and then switched to Miles at the end of the third season. I blame Garak’s torturing Odo in “The Die Is Cast” for this–obviously Julian couldn’t take it. The transition between the two relationships is abrupt. In “Improbable Cause,” Julian and Garak are exchanging gift chocolates; two episodes later, there’s Miles and Julian drunk off their asses, singing “Jerusalem,” and Miles just about telling Julian he loves him. I got a lot of fanfic mileage out of that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/54 "2009-09-13T18:56:06Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I read that one - one of the best in the fandom. Link? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/55 "2009-09-14T00:11:51Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > I nominate Skinner and Mulder as Kirk and Spock’s successors. Something about the show’s fanbase, the internet picking up steam and David Duchovny’s erotic past just made it all click. [This](http://basement.ditb.org/archive/6/ethannelsodennyscycl074301.shtml) was the first slash story I ever read, and it’s still one of my favorites. Doctor Who/Jack Harkness is another great pairing, as is Jack/Ianto. Does it still count as slash if the characters’ homosexual relationship is part of the show? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/56 "2009-09-14T00:18:41Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Edited to add: Oh! Forgot Picard/Q. I mean, come _on_. Yes! I also re-watched a lot of TNG this summer, and I was actually surprised that my eight-year-old self never picked up on this one, because it’s so blatant. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/57 "2009-09-14T00:59:17Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. I’m put off by Aubrey/Maturin, but I did rather like some Richard Sharpe/Duke of Wellington that I read once. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/58 "2009-09-14T01:45:04Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Link? [http://www.quillsandink.com/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=1048](http://www.quillsandink.com/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=1048) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/59 "2009-09-14T03:09:49Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Eric and Godric. For some reason this made me picture [Percy\_and\_Baldrick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blackadder_I_-_The_Queen_of_Spains_Beard.jpg) thus ruining the whole thread for me. . . [retch] ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/60 "2009-09-14T04:31:16Z")
Maybe not Percy/Baldrick, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Edmund and Lord Melchett had some hatesex going on. And of course, Flashheart seemed attracted to Baldrick, especially his beard – gives him something to hang on to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870.md?page=4)