quandaries you only get in fandom...

[ratcreature]

Like, does Draco/Dementor count as slash? gen? het? See, I'm still tagging LJ art I come across for the LJ art link list, and you can't see the Dementor's private parts in the picture in question (whatever those may be--not that I particularly want to see Dementor genitalia). I went with slash in the end, but once again these categories show their drawbacks.

On another labelling issue: What is it with SGA RPS being simply categorized as SGA on rec and fiction pages and such? A couple of times now I've looked at SGA recs and the RPS was mixed among the SGA FPS as if it was the same fandom. I commented before that for me as a strict FPS fan it's inconvenient and counterintuitive when communities just mix the two categories like that there's plenty of SW fiction on ewan_hayden, even though I realize that it is convenient for people interested in both the actors and their shows/movies to combine the too when creating a forum, but on a recs or fiction site that has separate fandom sections I find it just wrong somehow that SGA and SGA RPS are put in the same section and that then is just labelled SGA not even "SGA & SGA RPS" or something.

Am I the only one who's so anal about such labels to be bugged by this? Also, I'm wondering whether this is like a growing trend in fandom, that the RPS and FPS for a group of actors are coming to be considered as the same fandom?

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[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

Like, does Draco/Dementor counts as slash? gen? het?

I've been wondering that about John/Atlantis.

I haven't noticed that SGA RPS is being categorized solely as SGA anywhere that I frequent, but I will join you in a "yikes".

[ratcreature]

I think it might be just a convenience thing, in that there is for example much less Joe/David than McShep, so if people who are into the actors as well just put it with the SGA stuff, and might think it misleading to label the section "SGA & SGA RPS" because it's *mostly* fictional with just a bit RPS. But OTOH to me it really feels like a trend that for some in fandom the actor fic and show fic are like two sides or aspects of the same fandom. Still clearly labelled, like you'd label for other pairings or warnings, but in the same fandom space. I've seen that in several of my fandoms where actorslash is popular, like communities that are for both Ewan/Hayden and Anakin/Obi-Wan, or SPN spaces that are for Jensen/Jared as well, like the SPN newsletter that cover actorfic stories as well as SPN stories. So it's not just in fandoms where RPS is rather a small section (s it seems to be in SGA). And it just bugs me, because for me the fandoms are different, and I find it impractical and inconvenient that resources that are usually fandom specific more and more are so only "sort-of" in that they'll always cover the actor side as well.