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"Genfic" to me sort of implies "any shippiness is secondary to the main plot, hence teh sexxin' usually won't be a major feature and detailed kink is highly unlikely to appear".
That being the case, I do wonder when looking at the signups for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
springtime_gen (I suppose I'd better mention here that the cutoff date is the 21st?) why people are bothering to say they don't want to see (for example): Smut, scat, mpreg, watersports, sexual healing, rose petals on the bed, BDSM, graphic coupling ... and all points west.
*headdesk*
That's kind of a given, guys?
Or is it just that people think non-shipfic is so uncommon and kinkfic so common that it actually does need to be said even in a genfic exchange, perhaps because they don't trust all those other signupees to Get It? The only reason that using a term like "gen" to mean not "anywhere in the space of possible stories" but "everywhere outside one particular area of the space of possible stories" makes any sense at all is because that area is so heavily populated.
(For the record, while I think a fic can have shippy subplots that get quite a lot of screentime, and still be basically gen at heart -- hell, I've done that myself -- I think the more detailed and outré the shippiness gets, the less likely it is to stay a mere subplot. Especially in a short fic. I'm sure you could in theory include any of the things mentioned above in a genfic, but you'd have to be good.)
That being the case, I do wonder when looking at the signups for
springtime_gen (I suppose I'd better mention here that the cutoff date is the 21st?) why people are bothering to say they don't want to see (for example): Smut, scat, mpreg, watersports, sexual healing, rose petals on the bed, BDSM, graphic coupling ... and all points west.*headdesk*
That's kind of a given, guys?
Or is it just that people think non-shipfic is so uncommon and kinkfic so common that it actually does need to be said even in a genfic exchange, perhaps because they don't trust all those other signupees to Get It? The only reason that using a term like "gen" to mean not "anywhere in the space of possible stories" but "everywhere outside one particular area of the space of possible stories" makes any sense at all is because that area is so heavily populated.
(For the record, while I think a fic can have shippy subplots that get quite a lot of screentime, and still be basically gen at heart -- hell, I've done that myself -- I think the more detailed and outré the shippiness gets, the less likely it is to stay a mere subplot. Especially in a short fic. I'm sure you could in theory include any of the things mentioned above in a genfic, but you'd have to be good.)
