Small Fandom Gen

[kerravonsen]

Points here: smfandom_genfic. Join. You know you want to.

Comments

*hugs*

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Kat! You're the best! :)

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Cooool! *goes to join*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've joined, but I'm not sure I can write more fics than I am already (I'm neglecting my WIP). Maybe I'll cross-post there from b7friday though I'm not sure what the point would be as the B7 fans there would have already read them. But hey, it's a good idea for a community.

Re: *hugs*

[kerravonsen]

Shucks folks, I'm speechless.

[kerravonsen]

True. I probably won't cross-post my b7friday or sentinel_thurs stuff because I already cross-post those to my own journal and put them on my fiction page, so that's about as much as I can keep up with. But it's nice to know that there's a place where I can post/announce my more obscure stuff when I write it, instead of just being limited to my two major fandoms.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I might put my Farscape story there. I really only have B7 but if I feel the urge to write something else, it can go there.

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

This has haunted me for quite a while, but what is 'gen'? Is it basically just the opposite of 'slash'? And if so, what is 'gen' short for?

[kerravonsen]

Well, "gen" is short for GENeral, but it doesn't mean "rated G".
As for what it does mean, it depends who you ask. This is my working definition, but it's not the definition being used in the smfandom_genfic community, which is using something more like the Stargate-fandom definition. One really needs a Venn diagram to keep it all straight. If one considers the set of all fanfic, there are at least three different overlapping sets of stories that different groups call "gen".

1a) the set of stories which are not slash and not "adult" (where "adult" is defined as "pornographic")
1b) the set of stories which are not slash and not "adult" (where "adult" is defined as "anything rated for adults only")
2) in some parts of Sentinel fandom, the set of all stories which are not slash (possibly because there are so many more slash stories than adult stories that people forget that the adult stories exist)
3) in Stargate fandom, the set of stories of any rating which are not slash and do not include romance of any sort.

So, there are stories that everyone will agree are "gen" stories, and other stories where one will get an argument. The intersection of all definitions is: stories which are not slash and have no romance and are suitable for children and mature teenagers.