The Coalies & Other Stories

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I will not read them in a Canon-Divergent AU.
I will not read them in Third Point-of-View.
Not in a Crossover! Not in Genfic!
Not in Shipfic! You let me be!

I do not like them in Fanart.
I do not like them even in the Fic of My Heart.
I will not read them in fic of my NOTP.
I do not like them with my OTP.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like my DNWs!

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

it's sort of both? The plot is gen, but it contains a ship. And many people who would DNW gen would consider that insufficient, because they want to read something ship-focused.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

da

The plot is gen, but it contains a ship.

That's not how this works. A fic can't be both shipfic and genfic. Either it has no ships, then it has gen, or it has ships, then it's shipfic.

It's not brain surgery.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

And it's not a thing on which there's universal consensus.

I mean, if you consider a story where your ship is together but the plot isn't focused on their relationship to be shippy enough, that's great, because it's the kind of shipfic that a writer who mostly does gen is likely to be more confident writing for you. But you and I both know that that people do not agree on this. Gen is not only a rarefied thing where no one's in relationships ever.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

What? A fic having a ship isn't shipfic. Shipfic focuses on the ship (either getting together or the relationship progressing, etc.). A fic that has a ship in it but the ship isn't the point (e.g. a married couple solving a mystery together but the fic doesn't focus on them as a couple and the fact that they are a couple doesn't influence the fic) is not a shipfic.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

nobody thinks this

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody thinks which?

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

You are incorrect.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

The conclusion this thread is leading me to is that the "shipfic/genfic" dichotomy is fundamentally the wrong way to think about it.