Genre Tables

[capn_mactastic]

These are the Genre Tables. You can swap out any three prompts for a word of you choice, the important thing is that the Crack!Fic Table is filled full of Crack!Fic, and the Angst!Fic Table is filled full of Angst!Fic and so forth, please don’t let me find a Crack!Fic in your Angst/Hurt-Comfort Table.

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[holy_cockroach]

I has a question.

(and it might be because I have terrible organizational skills, and this is all so very confusing to me... :/)

If we were to do the taster table, and we have to do 2 genre tables, doesn't that mean at least one of our prompts will be repeated?

[capn_mactastic]

Hi

you can repeat it if you want, same prompt, different story, but for the genre tables you're allowed to swap out three words. So for the taster table you have to pick an existing prompt, but when you then do the main table you can pick a word to replace the one you've used :D

[keldjinfae_moon]

Er... by het-slash, do you mean hetero pairings? Because slash means homosexual pairings, so this is a little confusing...

[capn_mactastic]

yeah, tat's exactly what I mean. Is there a term for heterosexual pairings that don't necessarily exist in the show? Because I thought Het-Slash was the right wording...

[keldjinfae_moon]

Slash means gay pairings. For het, you just write het. In the realm of fanficiton, there is slash, femme slash, het, and gen. And this was not meant to be "know-it-all-y" in any way whatsoever, since I love you for this community. I've been writing like crazy! Yay!

[capn_mactastic]

Okay, in the Star Trek fandom (where Slash began) Slash means any non-canon pairing, hetero/homo or otherwise. This tendency to use it for exclusively gay pairings is a fairly recent happenstance in the grand scheme of things.

Therefore, I think I'm going to leave it as it is. Most people have taken it to mean what I meant it to mean. Maybe I'll come back to it later, but the language is still evolving for the time being, so while there's multiple definitions, I'll use the 'non-canon pairing' one, with the added 'het' so people know I don't want f/f and m/m in that table.

[acresofhope]

I saw that we can write three separate fics per crossover 'verse. Does this also apply to AUs?

[capn_mactastic]

With the AUs you are actually allowed to write all 10 stories in the same AU, provided it's a significantly different AU (ie, if I say to ten random readers 'is this AU or fanon' and they reply "AU, definitely"' then you're good). If you're only making tiny changes then use the three per AU rule.

does that help?

[acresofhope]

Gotcha. So if I turned a male character female or vice versa, that would be a huge AU. Or would that be putting crack in the AU table?

[capn_mactastic]

Exactly, if that's not something that regularly happens in the fanon (I'm just putting that in as a disclaimer, because I've seen things that definitely aren't canon become almost the norm in the fanon). Of course I'd be happiest with it as an AU if it genuinely makes a difference, rather than being a 'BTW, ***** is a girl/boy'. Because I know from RL, other people treat you differently depending on if you're a girl or a boy (not a scary x-dressing story, I have an almost identical cousin who's female, and it's a bugbear for both of us)

Don't worry about it being cracky, tables which are more type based, like AU, X-Over, Biography, Macro and Meta are open as far as the overall feel of the fic are concerned. So you can write an cracky AU or an angsty x-over or a PWP graphic story. Equally, the more feel based ones are open to type, so I don't mind finding a cracky AU in the crack table either, as long as it's cracky.

[harrysexmagick]

I have another ? Please, what is 'Crack.' I know it's not the drug I'm not that pathetic LOL

[capn_mactastic]

Wikipedia is your friend :)

A form of fan fiction in which characters are put in very random, nonsensical situations, and most often are all OOC[citation needed]. Its name, derived from the drugs, uses the irrationality from the drug high as an example of what to expect in the piece. Generally these are humor pieces.

"Crack!fic" should not be confused with "crack" being used as prefix (e.g. "crack pairing"). When used in this sense, the story may not be nonsensical or written with "OOC" characters at all, rather, it indicates that what is described with "crack" is not a commonly accepted or perhaps even thought-of element by fan fiction authors, or that the story may well be a work of parody.

[harrysexmagick]

LOL I Love you 'Wikipedia is your friend :)"

Yes it is I've used her/him/it before. Thanks so much.
*HUGGLES*

[harrysexmagick]

Hey Hon I have a ?. For my AU can I write HP/Various Characters
10 different pairings 10 different What If's