Genre
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| See also: | Story Tropes, Gen, Het, Slash, Femslash | |
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Genre is commonly used in many fandoms to indicate whether a fanwork is gen or focuses on one or more het, slash, or femslash romantic or sexual pairings. It can also refer to other sexual, relationship or character-based elements beyond pairing. Works focused on Polyamory, threesomes, kink or BDSM or transfic are often considered their own genre.
Genre may also be used, particularly in archives, to refer to literary genres or types of fan fiction such as humor, romance, PWP, kidfic or angst.[1]
Fandom may also make genre distinctions based on an aspect of the source text, such as litfic or Britfic. RPF is considered a separate genre, distinct from FPF, by many fans.
Fandom also has many genres rare outside fanworks such as anthropomorfic or Mpreg, and many fandom-specific genres such as Muldertorture.
References
- ↑ Skyhawke archives Harry Potter story listing, with menu to sort by genre, accessed 6 October 2008
