Hmm who said RPS had to be all about sex? I don't have a problem if it is, but not all RPS is sex. I know a lot of RPS that doesn't even have sex in it whatsoever so that argument falls a little flat.
Well, go back to the beginning of this discussion thread. The general import then was that we are talking about sex stories here.
And if it doesn't have sex in it, is it really "slash"?
It's always good to be sure of your terms, so you don't talk past each other. The first explanation I was ever given about "slash" fiction was that it involved sex between two individuals who would not ordinarily be expected to have sex with each other. The example used was Capt. James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock. A more recent example might be a hot little story I read last year involving a sexual encounter between Michael Weatherly's character from
N.C.I.S. and David James Eliot's character from
JAG.If it's not about sex, I suppose I would just consider it fanfiction. You can conclude from that statement that I don't consider
Brokeback Mountain fanfiction "slash" because Ennis and Jack
do have sex with each other.
If you want to write a story, say, about Heath and Jake solving the murder of a grip on the set of
Brokeback Mountain, fine and dandy. To me that's just fanfiction. But if it ain't sex, it ain't slash, and my comments aren't about fiction that's not about sex.