No, it's not! That one bugs me a lot because it seems a fairly common assumption.
I used to read metafandom stuff and I remember seeing a discussion about that, where people felt that het was get and/or at least that het from the show was gen. Some people insisted that the word "gen" meant different things in different fandoms, but I don't really know about that. Every fandom that I've been in has defined gen as "no romance" except in places where people were anti-slash. *g* (I stumbled upon a Stargate fic site like that a long while ago. They were "gen only" but they allowed any het pairing.)
OTOH, I do think there can be exceptions. On Stargate, Jack was married to Sara and a reference to that in a story wouldn't mean the story wasn't gen, but a story about Jack and Sara would be het, IMHO. I feel the same about Daniel and Sha're. Him talking about his search for her could happen in a gen story, but a story about his love for her or about them together (pre-show or an AU) wouldn't be gen, IMHO.
OTOH, any story in which Jack/Sam was mentioned would be het to me--or I'd consider it to contain a het pairing, even if it just mentioned their feeeeeelings for each other in passing. *g*
I'm not sure if this all makes sense, but that's how I'd define it. hehe Perhaps I'm just making up my own rules. *g*
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Date: 2007-02-26 06:54 am (UTC)I used to read
OTOH, I do think there can be exceptions. On Stargate, Jack was married to Sara and a reference to that in a story wouldn't mean the story wasn't gen, but a story about Jack and Sara would be het, IMHO. I feel the same about Daniel and Sha're. Him talking about his search for her could happen in a gen story, but a story about his love for her or about them together (pre-show or an AU) wouldn't be gen, IMHO.
OTOH, any story in which Jack/Sam was mentioned would be het to me--or I'd consider it to contain a het pairing, even if it just mentioned their feeeeeelings for each other in passing. *g*
I'm not sure if this all makes sense, but that's how I'd define it. hehe Perhaps I'm just making up my own rules. *g*