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

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I think I'm not quite consistent on the background non-canon pairings. Seems to me that if one of the common non-canon pairings is there but in the background, convention is it counts as pairing fic: if Sam and Dean or Dean and Cas are a couple and it's mentioned and there's a quick goodbye kiss or something (though I don't really see either couple as into quick goodbye kisses), I'd probably still list it under Sam/Dean or Dean/Cas. On the other hand, characters/OCs where the romance isn't prominent I don't think would change the category for me if it's fairly casual, like the Dean and waitress example (and it wouldn't make a difference if it were Dean and a waiter, if Dean's sexuality were tangential to the story).

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I find I'm not consistent either, frankly. Yet another reason why I decided to make this poll.

I always considered "Take Me Home" to be gen, but there's at least one sex scene, interrupted early on and definitely played up for the comedic value, but it's nonetheless sex. Does that make it het? Some would argue it does, yet it's about 500 words in a 54K-word fic.

So, yeah. In short, I don't know. :)