Het vs Tm - What's the difference?
het | tm |
(countable, slang, ) A heterosexual person.
(uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction]] based on [[celebrity, celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
* 2005 , Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online , Peter Lang (2005), ISBN 0820471186,
* 2006 , Catherine Driscoll, "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409,
* 2010 , Rebecca Ward Black, "Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction", in Handbook of Research on New Literacies (eds. Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, & Donald J. Leu), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2010), ISBN 9780805856514,
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(dialect) (heat)
As a noun het
is a heterosexual person.As an adjective het
is heterosexual.As a verb het
is past tense of heat.As a symbol TM is
trademark.As an initialism TM is
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English
Etymology 1
.Noun
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- Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
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- The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
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- Other studies explore why some women write het'' , or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as ''Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).