Good question! That's come up above in phantomas's response too, and I have to say that I like her definitions. To save you looking amongst the concertina-d posts, she said:
Gen (in my interpretation) is the closest to Pros canon, which generally means possible het relationships (but not terribly important, let's say the girl of the week), and fades to black. I've read Gen that I could interpret as pre-slash (Kate Nuerberg series comes to mind - Bodie does offer, and Doyle...well, refuses, but in such an awkward, unsure way that you have to wonder!), but only inasmuch as it was my interpretation. *G*
Slash: homosexual take on the Lads, from the holding hands and choosing curtains to the fuckbuddies with ulcers to anything in between (and yes, for me slash doesn't equal gay, but that's an entry I wrote sometime ago *G*) there can be uncertainty on the way to get there, or they can be together right from the start, whatever...slash means, to me, that the focus of the story is about B and D's relationship with each other, in whatever way it goes.
NC17: for me, equals to explicit naming of parts and insertion of parts in tabs, graphically explained ;) written equivalent of a hard core p0rn film, basically, only with the proviso that hopefully the writer is good enough to go beyond that and make it significant in the context of the story - which PWPs can do, really ;)
Het (again, for me) means the Lads involved in a m/f relationship that is paramount for them, that is, Doyle is not the love of Bodie's life, Doyle's little sister is, or a series of pretty pub female customers or hostesses or what have you *G* whether an OC or a female character from the series, one or both the Lads are heterosexually inclined and do not consider each other in that sense at all, even if their working relationship and their friendship is not in question.
What d'you think?!
Searching for specific categories is a great thing - although I have had some odd results at Circuit, upon occasion! The Hatstand and ProsLib lists are fabulous, aren't they...
And ooh, AU and cross-over, yes also good labels to pull up! I tend not to like cross-overs unless I know the shows being crossed, so that'll confuse me upon occasion, when randoming at Circuit! But you can usually see those pretty quickly (unlike whether a story is building up to be B/D or het, for example) so I don't mind closing the window on those and trying again!
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Gen (in my interpretation) is the closest to Pros canon, which generally means possible het relationships (but not terribly important, let's say the girl of the week), and fades to black. I've read Gen that I could interpret as pre-slash (Kate Nuerberg series comes to mind - Bodie does offer, and Doyle...well, refuses, but in such an awkward, unsure way that you have to wonder!), but only inasmuch as it was my interpretation. *G*
Slash: homosexual take on the Lads, from the holding hands and choosing curtains to the fuckbuddies with ulcers to anything in between (and yes, for me slash doesn't equal gay, but that's an entry I wrote sometime ago *G*) there can be uncertainty on the way to get there, or they can be together right from the start, whatever...slash means, to me, that the focus of the story is about B and D's relationship with each other, in whatever way it goes.
NC17: for me, equals to explicit naming of parts and insertion of parts in tabs, graphically explained ;) written equivalent of a hard core p0rn film, basically, only with the proviso that hopefully the writer is good enough to go beyond that and make it significant in the context of the story - which PWPs can do, really ;)
Het (again, for me) means the Lads involved in a m/f relationship that is paramount for them, that is, Doyle is not the love of Bodie's life, Doyle's little sister is, or a series of pretty pub female customers or hostesses or what have you *G* whether an OC or a female character from the series, one or both the Lads are heterosexually inclined and do not consider each other in that sense at all, even if their working relationship and their friendship is not in question.
What d'you think?!
Searching for specific categories is a great thing - although I have had some odd results at Circuit, upon occasion! The Hatstand and ProsLib lists are fabulous, aren't they...
And ooh, AU and cross-over, yes also good labels to pull up! I tend not to like cross-overs unless I know the shows being crossed, so that'll confuse me upon occasion, when randoming at Circuit! But you can usually see those pretty quickly (unlike whether a story is building up to be B/D or het, for example) so I don't mind closing the window on those and trying again!