![]() Tim was cut off by the robot pressing his face to Tim’s cheek, as if he was kissing him. The silence was broken as Moby beeped once more, showing off the box of chocolates. In fact, part of Tim wanted it to last forever. Or, was it boyfriend now? Nonetheless, Moby was holding Tim in a dipping pose that seemed to last forever. Suddenly, Tim, the clumsy teen he is, started to fall, only to be caught by his quick robot friend. “But still, there’s a ton of social media and fanfiction sites you can use to post your slash fics, as well as find ones other people have written.” “Okay, so maybe no one uses Livejournal anymore,” Tim admitted sheepishly. “Anyway,” Tim continued, “you can write and post them in a bunch of places on the internet like, Tumblr, Archive of our Own, Dreamwidth, and Livejournal!” “Yes, Shrek x Shadow the Hedgehog counts too,” Tim sighed. “Today, a lot of slash fics and femslash fics are popular, including ones for Drarry, Korrasami, Destiel, and Rupphire!” Tim went on, pictures of the pairings appearing on screen as he mentioned them. “Well technically slash can be used for any ships where both characters are the same gender, but generally it’s more used for two-guy ships,” Tim explained. “When a fanfic has a ship consisting of two female characters, we call that femslash,” Tim explained. ![]() The video cut to Cassie and Rita, who were holding hands and watching the sunset, before looking into each other’s eyes and finally sharing a deep romantic kiss. Soon after, slash became the term to use for ships with two male characters.” Where was I? Oh yeah! The first slash fics date back to the Star Trek fandom,” Tim continued as a picture of Kirk and Spock appeared on the screen, “when fans of the show would write romantic fanfiction of Kirk and Spock, which became known as Kirk slash Spock. Tim’s heart was beating so fast, he couldn’t take it anymore! He had to kiss Moby! He leaned in forward only to be stopped by a metal finger and a look that meant “Later…” I mean, if you were serious about all that before….” “Ah… well-er… yeah,” Tim started blushing. “When the fic has a ship of two male characters, it’s called slash fic!” “Well, the most popular genre of fanfic is romance,” Tim explained, “and often people come up with couples, or ships, that they like to put in their fanfics.” A picture of the kid from before drawing a heart around a couple was shown on screen. Moby took this time to give Tim an inquisitive beep. “Fanfic can be about anything, like a character in an alternate universe, or AU,” Tim explained as a picture of Bob the Rat working at a coffee shop appeared, “the writer putting themselves in the story, also known as a self-insert fic,” A picture of the kid from before and Moby fighting bears appeared next, “or just characters doing stuff they didn’t do in canon, or the original story.” A picture of Annie doing sick rollerskating tricks appeared right after that. “A fanfic is basically when a fan of a book, movie, tv series, or game, writes their own story about it.” As Tim explained fanfiction the screen cut to a kid writing a story on their computer. “But we can’t talk about slash fic without first discussing fanfiction, or fanfic.” “That’s a really good question Pearlnet!” Tim said. He closed his eyes, moving his lips towards Moby’s metallic mouth when he felt something pushed in his face. “I-um… Well I’ve sort of liked you for quite some time.” Moby took the chocolates and gave Tim a look of pleasant surprise before beeping once more. “I-I….” Tim stuttered, before pulling out a box of chocolates behind his back. Of course it was Tim, flustered as hell, wearing a white shirt with a slash on it, and holding something behind his back. ![]() The robot maintained his cool demeanor as he turned to the human calling his name.
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