Gen Fic, for SCIENCE!

[ratherastory]

This is something of a follow-up to a conversation in my post about the hypothetical Gen Big Bang, in which I discovered to my shock and dismay that not everyone agrees on what constitutes gen fic!

Thus I am conducting a poll for SCIENCE!

Please spread the word, I am really curious to hear opinions on the subject.

[Poll #1666301]

Comments

[embroiderama]

To me, there's an issue of length. Like, a very long gen story can have moments of romance or out-of-sight sex because then the other 95% of the story can be focused on the gen elements. For a short or mid-length story, I think it's difficult for there to be any real romance without that becoming a focus of the story. I do tend to see canon pairings working best with gen--and in SPN I would say that original character pairings are as much canon as anything else. I can't really see any story with, say, Dean/Cas or Sam/Jo or whatever being gen.

Though, that said, I read a lot in all three categories so it's not a matter of to-read or not-to-read but just the slot I place it in, in my head.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

True. I hadn't considered length in the composition of my poll, nor did I consider the raging (G, PG, R, etc.). In retrospect, my poll is not at all comprehensive. Oops.