It's hard for me to compare what's going on in original slash with what's going on in other fandoms, since I've only participated in a few. Original slash writers come from a variety of fandoms, and we have no canon to unify us, so there isn't any single fandom tradition influencing us. The trend in original slash, during the time I've known it, has been to divide along the lines of subgenre - that is to say, the original darkfic writers would get together, or the original slavefic writers would get together, and they'd draw upon the traditions in the various fandoms they came from to create original stories within that subgenre. So, for example, at the time I came into slashdom, Juxian Tang (http://juxian.slashcity.net/) - one of the most noted original slash authors then - was heavily influenced by yaoi stories, whereas I was reading lots of Phantom Menace tales . . . but we both ended up writing original slash darkfic, flavored by what we were reading.
Until I read your post, I hadn't thought about the impact that this multifandom background would make on original slash, but yes, we have no equivalent of this (http://www.loose-id.com/detail.aspx?ID=748) in original slash - that is to say, a storyline that is so familiar within the fandom that, if you tried to file off the serial numbers, it would still be immediately obvious that the person writing it came from our particular fandom (as opposed to the fanfic community as a whole - that much would probably be obvious). However, if more stories like "The Slave Breakers" catch readers' interest, we may find certain, distinctive original slash storylines recurring.
By the way, being a compulsive links collector, I collected every single original slash and original yaoi site link I could find in 2003, and I also wrote up a "state of the fandom" post for the slash-writers list around that time. If you folks at Fanlore ever decide to expand your original fiction section, I could pass on that source material.
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Date: 2008-10-13 05:52 am (UTC)Until I read your post, I hadn't thought about the impact that this multifandom background would make on original slash, but yes, we have no equivalent of this (http://www.loose-id.com/detail.aspx?ID=748) in original slash - that is to say, a storyline that is so familiar within the fandom that, if you tried to file off the serial numbers, it would still be immediately obvious that the person writing it came from our particular fandom (as opposed to the fanfic community as a whole - that much would probably be obvious). However, if more stories like "The Slave Breakers" catch readers' interest, we may find certain, distinctive original slash storylines recurring.
By the way, being a compulsive links collector, I collected every single original slash and original yaoi site link I could find in 2003, and I also wrote up a "state of the fandom" post for the slash-writers list around that time. If you folks at Fanlore ever decide to expand your original fiction section, I could pass on that source material.