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)]

I see porn as a subset of romance, since it's about the physical side of a relationship between people. If you write your gangbang as a crime that your detective has to solve, it's Gen, however.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Man, at this point I can't even figure out if you have a super weird definition of romance, a super weird definition of ship/gen fic, or if you're just trolling.

But if you seriously think something like snuff porn where the hero gets gangbanged by his enemies and is killed at the end is romance unless you bring in a detective to solve the murderer which then magically makes it gen, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm laughing, because LOL at the snuff porn romance, but also, I think part of the confusion stems from the fact that the gen fic/ship fic distinction simply doesn't neatly match onto literary genre terminology.

Romance doesn't equal ship fic, and case fic doesn't equal gen fic because those are different modes of distinction.

Ship fic is by definition about a ship, which implies romantic or sexual interaction/attraction, but it doesn't say anything about whether it's romance, tragedy, or straight-up porn.

Gen fic is *not* about ships, although I'd agree that fandom has always been divided on whether gen fic can have background ships or not. I don't have an strong opinion on this, but generally I'd expect gen fic to be about friendship, character development, worldbuilding, etc. But gen fic can also be a variety of literary genres: it can be tragedy, it can be comedy, it can be mystery ... it cannot be porn or romance, though, because [see above].

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes it's about the physical side of a relationship between an eldritch tentacle horror and a person.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Being stuffed with tentacles and eggs is something that can actually be so personal,

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

HDU mock their romance, coalie! >:(