Basically, I had this discussion with a friend, and I firmly believe taht slash is slash, regardless of canon. Likewise, with a sexually explicit het story, even if it was a canonical couple, I'd still want the het warning.
I basically think of gen as friendship/adventure type fics without a main pairing. I think it's because of shifting value of canon. Anything that you see happen or mentioned on screen is definitely canon. However, there's other gen fics that are not strictly canonical. Certainly they don't *disagree* with canon, but they're not certainly canon either. Sorry, circular logic in use... *g*
For me, I consider sexual/romantic fics either het or slash (with the occasional threesome thrown in *winks*) and non-sexual/romantic fics either gen or AU. I'm a very simple gal at heart. *bg*
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Date: 2003-10-03 08:56 pm (UTC)Basically, I had this discussion with a friend, and I firmly believe taht slash is slash, regardless of canon. Likewise, with a sexually explicit het story, even if it was a canonical couple, I'd still want the het warning.
I basically think of gen as friendship/adventure type fics without a main pairing. I think it's because of shifting value of canon. Anything that you see happen or mentioned on screen is definitely canon. However, there's other gen fics that are not strictly canonical. Certainly they don't *disagree* with canon, but they're not certainly canon either. Sorry, circular logic in use... *g*
For me, I consider sexual/romantic fics either het or slash (with the occasional threesome thrown in *winks*) and non-sexual/romantic fics either gen or AU. I'm a very simple gal at heart. *bg*