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I agree on the slash and the m/m, because I tend to say variations on 'I read femslash and slash, but generally am not interested in het except in threesomes and moresomes'.

The more I think about it, the more I don't recall using the word 'ship'. Similarly, I shy away from using the term OTP - there is probably one couple I can think of where I would struggle to read anything that involved one of them with someone else, unless it was a specific threesome, and thus would use the term, but even in my early days of reading slash, when I was only reading fics if they were written or recommended by a specific McKay/Sheppard OTP writer, I believe that I was uncomfortable with the term. I think it comes from the really strong internal codes about making sexual choices for other people that made reading erotica very difficult to do, at least in the beginning (and the more plotty a story, the more likely I am to skip the sex scenes, for related reasons. And yet, PWP - no worries there at all)