Taking time out from irritating paperwork to say that I agree with the idea in principle, but not necessarily about the punctuation mark itself. Ampersand is a great word but irritating to try and write (and yes I do sometimes go places without my Portable Word Processing Device. Plus I've sort of got used to using hyphens for platonic relationships between specific characters: makes it easy to write eg X/Y-Z.

But otherwise I'm all for encouraging the idea that there's more to fanfic than pairings and plenty of relationships that aren't about romance and/or sex.

Then again I'm not big on the way a lot of fen view ratings either. I can easily write a 15 or 18 classified story (going by BBFC rules anyway) that has no sex in it or a U or PG story that's all about a romantic relationship.

So go on, convince me why '&' is better than '-'

Gina