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[twincityhacker]

Updated the website with some icons and Spangly Blue Notes. Made mst3kslash S2, and added tags, with figuring out memories situation later.

Now, I should actually work on actual slash stuff, but I don't have any workable slash at the forefront.

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Speaking of slash, I was thinking that while there was a word for one who does gen (a generalist) and a person who does slash (a slasher) theres no word for a het person. So, hetador?

I mean, since slash has become to mean "non-cannoncialy male/male pairing" instead of "any pairing that isn't cannon," I'm at a loss to call pairings that are male/female and non-cannoncial. And since you can't have non-cannon pairings in gen works - or at least I think you can't - there's no words to describe it.

Of course, this is comming from an unrepentent slasher who is also cannon-hugger and I'm still not sure if that's possible.

Mood: working

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[raynebowe.livejournal.com]

*head explodes*

A Noncanhetter? Hetnocan? Canhetnon? Hetnocannonites! XD No clue. It's a hard question! >_

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I know! It's an evil thing, knowing what to label stories.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen...
- Relationshipper or 'Shipper is starting to morph into term for het writers.
- Slasher is for m/m writers,
- Femmeslasher is for f/f writers.

Note this is coming mostly from my sister, so it's leaning towards crime dramas and anime. Select pairings sometimes have their own name for writers as well. There's really no break between non-canon and canon in the terms. The fic is what it is.

I take gen as "any story where pairings aren't the point", not limiting it to canon or fanon pairings. You can have non-canon pairings in gen fic, given that they aren't the focus. Anonymity is gen, although it probably will have references to pairings at are not canon in the original fandoms. "Gen" is also becoming interchangeable with "plot fic" in some fandoms, which makes me very sad.

And "generalist"? That's a really, really stupid term. I prefer "gen ficcer" over that, and that's not the most creative name ever either.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

"Generalist" is the first thing that came to mind for that that even sounded vaugly right, mostly because I thought there was a one word name for the idea - same with hetador.

I was more looking for a term to call a story that was in no way gen, like a Buffy story with a Buffy/Giles pairing as the focus. Not that I'm wrtting such a thing, but it's fustrating not knowing what to call it.

But you're right about non-cannon parings able to exist in a gen story.

But 'Shipper? Seriously? But if that's the way the anime fandoms is drifting, I can see it happening.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Relationshipper is an not-quite-old-but-not-new-either term. Originally, it was used for someone that looked at fandoms for people of any sex to pair up. This is much like the original use of slash, which was the slash between the two paired characters' names, no matter if the pairing was het or otherwise. It's also a term thrown around in the Harry Potter fandom, and we all know that that's a driving force now.

Buffy/Giles focus in a fic? That would make the fic het, plain and simple.

If you're looking at what to call the author, I'd just call them an author/writer and not tie them down to a set term. While there are certain people that refer to themselves as "slashers" or whatnot, it would be rude to throw that kind of term on an author at random. If an author gives him or herself a "name", go for it. Otherwise, just don't.

Many of these titles are comparable to the term "Otaku" in the anime fandom. While there are people that wear that term with pride, there are others that object to the term because of the negative connotations that come with it. The same could be said for terms like "'Shipper" or "Slasher", as pairing wars now are vicious and fans are freakin' militant, taking OTP as an oath. There might be a writer than enjoys writing about two guys screwing around, but doesn't wish to be connected to the subculture that comes with it. Frankly, a lot of the hardcore side of pairings is just messed. Look at the fandoms for Harry Potter pairings; they went batshit after the last book.