[ SECRET POST #3526 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3526 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Feed The Birds, from Mary Poppins]


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03.
(Once Upon A Time)


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04.
[ Dota 2 esport ]


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05.
[Great British Bake Off, series 3]


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06. http://i.imgur.com/82bEEum.png
[The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness; linked for nudity/implied porn, illustrated]


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07.
[We Happy Few]


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08.
[Stranger Things]














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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

claiming it is genfic but really it is shipping

Wow, must be a {your fandom} thing. Tagging as genfic in my fandom guarantees almost no one will read it.

[(Anonymous)]

na

+1

in most of my fandoms, it's a lot more common for genfic writers to use pairing tags but not actually feature that pairing in the story in a romantic/sexual capacity (which is also kind of annoying)

[(Anonymous)]

da

That came to be a relatively common practice because there's an incredibly vocal and obnoxious subset of fandom that will completely flip their shit if there's any mention of a pairing whatsoever, even if there's no romantic or sexual focus.

It's annoying to deal with the screaming, so people started to tag a pairing if it gets even an offhand mention to explain why character X isn't around, or because there's a scene that takes place at a married couple's house.

[(Anonymous)]

I find Gen Purists just as annoying as extreme shippers.

Sure there are some shows out there (I'm thinking mostly procedurals) where the characters' personal relationships rarely get any mention. But if somebody is flipping their lid because of an offhand mention that Willow kissed Tara or that Martha and Mickey are married or that, heaven forfend, Dean flirted with a waitress, I kind of wonder how they actually watched the show to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

Tony flirting and trying to seal the deal with Ziva is fine. Tony and Gibbs in rough gay sex in MTAC is not. Yet I have seen the latter not tagged as shipping much more often than the former. Gen fic means accepting canon relationships at the same level as canon in fic.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

That's how I generally define it, but there are people out there who will flip out about including canon ships in gen.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it is important to note that Gen also means there has to be some plot that is in the vein of canon happening too. If it is just Tiva stuff happening and it is tagged gen then people would be right to feel misinformed. The Tiva happening during an investigation is gen fic, the Tiva being the sole focus of the fic and only the most token attempt at regular shenanigans or none at all, that is shipping and not gen.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Sorry to butt in. But I'm always a bit confused about what is and isn't gen. So would you say something like a plotless character study or an AU that is plot and not relationship focussed is not really gen?

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

It is not an AU, it is a character study. But it isn't Gen either. Gen is a fanfic that is basically using the same structure as canon. If it is a Genfic then, using NCIS as an example it would be focused on the team investigating a crime and the relationships and interactions of the characters would be pretty much the same as canon. If it is just McGee and Tony sitting in the breakroom having coffee and musing over character stuff then that is (a) a scene not a fic, and (b) if expanded enough to be a fic, it would be a character study fic.