Doctor Who fans who are ignorant of the slashfic world are probably utterly unaware of what they do to my brain when they casually toss around phrases like "Troughton/Dalek".
Are people using slash when they mean bang (as in referring to the Daleks of the Troughton era as Troughton!Daleks)?
That would be a plausible usage, but where I've seen it most recently it was used more like a shorthand for "Troughton vs. the Daleks" or "a Troughton Dalek story". As in "I fancy a bit of Troughton/Dalek, so I've ordered the CD of 'Power of the Daleks'."
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Date: 2009-12-17 05:57 pm (UTC)Are people using slash when they mean bang (as in referring to the Daleks of the Troughton era as Troughton!Daleks)?
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:44 pm (UTC)That would be a plausible usage, but where I've seen it most recently it was used more like a shorthand for "Troughton vs. the Daleks" or "a Troughton Dalek story". As in "I fancy a bit of Troughton/Dalek, so I've ordered the CD of 'Power of the Daleks'."