I've just been operating under the assumption that a fic labeled "het" is going to contain some actual incidences of sexual behavior between a male and a female, a fic labeled "slash" is going to contain actual incidences of sexual behavior betweeen two males, and "femslash" for two females, and a fic labeled "gen" is a general fic in which people probably aren't going to actually be getting groiny with each other, but doing other things
But that would make sense and utilize Earth logic!
If while they are searching, Xander happens to have some romantic thought about the person, but there is no acting on it and the other person isn't aware of his feelings, does that make it not-gen? (Xander having romantic thoughts about Buffy is canon; his having romantic thoughts about Willow is
The idea that reasonable people could disagree on whether a pairing was canon is something that we just couldn't get our gracious interlocutors to see. Is Spike/Angel canon? (I think so.) Is Giles/Ethan? Mal/Inara? Simon/River? One response was that if there was any possible doubt at all, then it wasn't canon. (Bwah?) But this was the argument that frustrated cathexys and me the most I think--the way they kept conflating canon with their gen-goggled interpretation of it.
If what they're doing are general things, I always considered it gen. I may be wrong.
That's the definition I've been defending the last couple of weeks. I certainly don't intend to change the way I use it.
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Date: 2007-03-30 03:02 am (UTC)But that would make sense and utilize Earth logic!
If while they are searching, Xander happens to have some romantic thought about the person, but there is no acting on it and the other person isn't aware of his feelings, does that make it not-gen? (Xander having romantic thoughts about Buffy is canon; his having romantic thoughts about Willow is
The idea that reasonable people could disagree on whether a pairing was canon is something that we just couldn't get our gracious interlocutors to see. Is Spike/Angel canon? (I think so.) Is Giles/Ethan? Mal/Inara? Simon/River? One response was that if there was any possible doubt at all, then it wasn't canon. (Bwah?) But this was the argument that frustrated
If what they're doing are general things, I always considered it gen. I may be wrong.
That's the definition I've been defending the last couple of weeks. I certainly don't intend to change the way I use it.