[ SECRET POST #3860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3860 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I hate when people hear/read love and only think romantic.

Also, gen fics CAN HAVE PAIRINGS. THEY'RE JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOCUS.

[(Anonymous)]

All of this. Plus if the focus was two friends, the Doctor and Clara hashing out an issue between them, that is more than in the spirit of the fest.

Where was this fest anyway?

[(Anonymous)]

That's not a universal definition of "gen" though. When I was first on the internet, "no romance/pairings at all" was how gen was described to me.

Common usage now tends to be "fics where the focus is on something that's not a romantic or sexual relationship."

There's also a third definition of gen that I've heard, which defines gen as being "like an episode of the show." Which is an interesting guideline for the inclusion or exclusion of background romance, but only covers a small segment of gen. There are a lot of genres, such as hurt/comfort, slice of life, and future fics, that don't actually look like an episode of the show.

What it sounds like to me is that the mod was using definition 1 and the OP was using definition 2, and both of them were assuming that they agreed on a definition.

The only gen fic exchange I'm familiar with (Supernatural Summer Gen) has the definition of "gen" that they are using in the info page, which prevents this kind of confusion.

[meredith44]

I've always gone with something like the third definition of gen kinda. The story had to not focus on any romance or pairings at all, and the only ships that could be mentioned in the background were canon ones. So if there were a gen NCIS fic set in the season where Tony was dating Jeanne, then it would focus on the case but could mention Tony/Jeanne. That way it was at a level of the show and no one could go in there expecting a gen fic and be surprised by, say, Tony/Ziva or Tony/Gibbs mentions. As some people have "anti" pairs and wouldn't want to see a mention of them in a fic they were expecting to be gen.