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.

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.

Fandom also has many small, unique genres such as anthropomorfic, and many fandom-specific genres such as Muldertorture.