Yes, I must admit that "pairing" rather than "just" slash/het/gen is something I find more useful too - I don't do B/C or D/C unless I'm feeling really... odd, and Murphy pairings not at all!
in these days when sadly the / sign is being used by some people for a Gen story i.e. you have Genre: Gen. Pairing: X/Y What a bizarre thing to do! So the idea is that it's a gen story revolving around the characters with a slash between their name? I can see pointing it out with an "&", which is, I presume, the other side of your sentence there, but... I thought the "/" had integral meaning as m/m relationship! Is it younger/newer fans who started doing this then, or purely gen fandoms who don't slash in any case, or..? I'm so glad I don't do other fandoms - how do you cope with it all?!
And hee! for food/sex play! I'm not sure I've read any of those actually, but I suspect it'd have to be done in the right way to make me believe it... And yeah, I guess that's something that not even the search options can cover!
Hmmn - when you list "genre" there, are you meaning het/slash/gen rather than, say CI5 universe/science-fiction/American western etc I presume! Cos come to think of it, I do know people who say they won't read Pros sci-fi AUs, or ghost AUs too... So much to think about!
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in these days when sadly the / sign is being used by some people for a Gen story i.e. you have Genre: Gen. Pairing: X/Y
What a bizarre thing to do! So the idea is that it's a gen story revolving around the characters with a slash between their name? I can see pointing it out with an "&", which is, I presume, the other side of your sentence there, but... I thought the "/" had integral meaning as m/m relationship! Is it younger/newer fans who started doing this then, or purely gen fandoms who don't slash in any case, or..? I'm so glad I don't do other fandoms - how do you cope with it all?!
And hee! for food/sex play! I'm not sure I've read any of those actually, but I suspect it'd have to be done in the right way to make me believe it... And yeah, I guess that's something that not even the search options can cover!
Hmmn - when you list "genre" there, are you meaning het/slash/gen rather than, say CI5 universe/science-fiction/American western etc I presume! Cos come to think of it, I do know people who say they won't read Pros sci-fi AUs, or ghost AUs too... So much to think about!