ext_6897 ([identity profile] thelana.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alixtii 2007-03-29 10:37 am (UTC)

*shrug*

I guess to me slash/het/gen just aren't genres.

Adventure is a genre. SciFi is a genre. Character Drama is a genre. Action is a genre. Romance is a genre.

Het, Gen, Slash are just... stuff. Additional information. They don't tell me anything about what the story is about. They are attributes, not genres themselves.

And in that say I actually think it is much more forward than real life genres, because I like to think that one can have "Slash adventure" and group it under "adventure, attribute slash" rather than throw it under "Gay Interest (has some plot)". [but the genre is still Adventure and not Gen because to me Gen is another attribute, just like slash, not a genre]

It's kinda funny because warnings in fandom, at least for me, have the odd function that most of the time I don't use them to avoid, I use them to find. I'm the kind of person who frequently searches an archive for non-con or darkfic because they interest me more than love stories. Just like I would like it if a SciFi book that has some gay substory in it would be marked. Not so I can avoid it, but so I can find it, even if I think that it does belong in the SciFi section.

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