# Things I still don't get ...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 17, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925 "2011-01-17T09:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/201 "2011-01-24T18:25:32Z")

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Radiohead, and how anyone can listen to that god-awful wailing without wanting to do violence to whatever is outputting the sound.

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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-still-dont-get/567925/202 "2011-01-24T23:14:34Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Slash fiction is gay fan fiction erotica, as in male character/other male character \<–see the slash?  
> Het is heterosexual erotica.  
> Ship, or Shipping, is imagining two characters in an established show, book, or film as being in a relationship, even if that was not the author’s planned intention.
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> For example, there is a _lot_ of fan fiction based around Harry Potter, Snape, Malfoy, etc in various homosexual escapades.

Nitpick: neither slash nor het need to be erotic. It’s just a matter of whether it’s homosexual or heterosexual. (At least in my fandoms.)

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