Informal poll! Categorizing fanfic
Sep. 23rd, 2008 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaI've been posting my fics on my own website, Flammantia Moenia Mundi for some time now. I know that most people read the fics on my LJ, but I'm going to a convention and as long as I'm pimping, it would be easier to give out the website than to ask people to dig through my tags.
Tin Man is the first fandom in which I've written a significant amount of gen under the name Amedia; the gen TM stories are the only gen stories on the site. But right now the stories are categorized only by length: Stories (anything over 1000 words), Short-shorts, and Drabbles, to be precise.
I'm wondering whether I should separate out the gen pieces into their own category, so people who don't like slash can enjoy them more easily?
Part of the problem is that some of the stories, such as "Sipping Coffee" or "Continuity," could be read as gen but are still relationship-intensive and could also be read as pre-slash. If I put them in the gen category, then slashers who don't read gen would miss them, and I got feedback indicating that slashers did in fact enjoy them. On the other hand, "Complications" was supposed to be slash, but it was high praise indeed when a dedicated nonslasher read it as gen and enjoyed it that way, so I'm not sure what to do with that!
I suppose I could have three categories:
Slash
Shippy Gen
Indubitably Gen
And there's one heteroromantic story "Au Revoir" (Lavender Eyes/Ahamo). Back when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, I could have put that in the gen category. Can I still?
Or should I just leave the site the way it is?
Recommendations, discussion, brickbats, mobats, all welcome!
Tin Man is the first fandom in which I've written a significant amount of gen under the name Amedia; the gen TM stories are the only gen stories on the site. But right now the stories are categorized only by length: Stories (anything over 1000 words), Short-shorts, and Drabbles, to be precise.
I'm wondering whether I should separate out the gen pieces into their own category, so people who don't like slash can enjoy them more easily?
Part of the problem is that some of the stories, such as "Sipping Coffee" or "Continuity," could be read as gen but are still relationship-intensive and could also be read as pre-slash. If I put them in the gen category, then slashers who don't read gen would miss them, and I got feedback indicating that slashers did in fact enjoy them. On the other hand, "Complications" was supposed to be slash, but it was high praise indeed when a dedicated nonslasher read it as gen and enjoyed it that way, so I'm not sure what to do with that!
I suppose I could have three categories:
Slash
Shippy Gen
Indubitably Gen
And there's one heteroromantic story "Au Revoir" (Lavender Eyes/Ahamo). Back when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, I could have put that in the gen category. Can I still?
Or should I just leave the site the way it is?
Recommendations, discussion, brickbats, mobats, all welcome!
