For Supernatural fans

[superbadgirl]

Or, rather, fans who like gen fic. ;)

This was probably posted elsewhere on LJ - have to admit I still find LJ/blogging rather uncomfortable for fandom, even if I only plan on staying on the outskirts. I don't know why, but I just can't get into it as much. Reading fic on LJ is just a lot of work, IMO, especially if it's long. Click for link, keep clicking for the next part, yadda. Anyway, here's a new Yahoo group for SPN gen fic. Looks like the primary genre will be H/C.

Thanks ldyanne for the head's up!

ETA: I'm taking back my recommendation. A suggestion that they might want to simply label their list as a romance-free area instead of specifically targeting slash and Wincest was summarily rejected. In a rather, IMO, stubborn and silly way, too. I got quoted the "treat others as you'd like to be treated" schtick...which doesn't fly with me, because there were ALREADY too many people stepping in to express not just appreciation for a gen site, but for being free from that "disgusting slash and Wincest"...which doesn't seem to follow that whole "treat others" thing, now does it? I certainly didn't think so, and yet the only person who's been modded is the one to stand up and protest the bashing.

Also, I was so excited to have a place to go for gen stuff...but it turns out het is welcome where slash is not. That is not okay with me. My definition of gen doesn't include het, and even if it did, it's not cool to say one kind of romance is okay and the other not.

I'm not simply removing this post because, well, I wanted to soapbox for a tiny bit. The whole thing's kind of upset me, and I don't really upset that easily about this stuff. Well, okay, I freak out about Wincest, but I, unlike so many, manage to be not okay with that but not go around all over the place calling it disgusting and lumping other slash in with it. Okay, I slip up sometimes, because it is a major squick.

Oh, and of the fic that I did read in my short stint there, much of it was riddled with grammatical errors and flat-out bad characterization, so I don't know that I would have lasted long anyway. Plus, I can't stick around when, because het is "cannon," it's considered gen. Cannon!? Really. God, I hate that error.

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[superbadgirl]

Honestly, I might have lurked around for a bit until all the intros stopped, just to see what it was going to really be like, but the response I got to a simple suggestion put me off totally.

And het still isn't gen, damnit! ;)

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

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*