Let's talk about genres and tags...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I believe we have had this discussion some other time, possibly more than once.  However, it never hurts to review things and we do have newer people here who might not be privy to prior conversations on the topic.
Please, anyone who has more to say on it chime in and let's see if we come to any different conclusions.  Section VII is about following the path laid down in the original series.  That means the guys are charming and sexy, date women and sometimes even have intimate relations with those same women.  In Napoleon's case we understand that he is the most sexually active, at least it looks that way.  The Kuryakin mystique hangs in there and makes us wonder, and some of us refuse to believe that he is as chaste as the series made him look.
Anyway...  stories here should reflect that very 60's image, which is the image of the show.  Every once in a while a writer likes to delve into something slightly AU (alternate universe) where the men have something additional in their lives that isn't in the show.  We haven't strictly enforced any rules about this, although writers have chosen to not post some of those stories here: for example mrua7 's stories that center around Illya and Napoleon having wives and children.  It really doesn't fit here, but has a fantastic following over on ff.net.  I believe there is a  baby that's been gestating for around two years... Marian just needs some encouragement perhaps ;)
Alynwa has a delightful series with Leona Nicole, her Sugar and Spies stories.  While it is not necessarily something we could consider within the parameters of the show, it slips in somewhere as the time away from Headquarters when we don't know what the guys are doing.  It's one of those maybe yes, maybe no but we sure like reading about it.
We don't do slash because it is an entirely different genre of stories set within what I consider an AU scenario.  It's great that we have the MUNCLE community for readers and writers who enjoy that genre, and some other non-specific comms as well.
Section VII started out as a dedicated site, and it's something we work on maintaining.  The newest tag to come along is gen/mature.  It was suggested by st_crispins as a way to describe the almost or mildly het stories that don't necessarily fall into purely explicit het.  It can also cover stories that might have violence or language that goes beyond what people experienced in the show.
I'm curious to hear back on the gen/mature category.  I know it makes for a little head scratching for those writing up the newsletters, so along with the tag gen/mature the writer now has an obligation to fill in the blanks; what exactly makes it mature?
The website HERE has a lengthy list of terms and genres that might be helpful in determining what it is you're writing, that is if you still have questions about it.  Of particular interest as I'm looking at it is the section on Songfics.  I might need to re-think how we post for Song Story.
Feel free to chime in on this.  The object here is to encourage writers and continue to see more stories written for MFU.  We've added an impressive number of new works to the fanfiction archives through the challenges here on Section VII.  Remember that if you have a story that leans more to Het, the mfu_map_room was opened specifically for those stories.  If a story leans more to Het then simply post it on the Map Room and leave a link here on S7 directing us to your entry.

Comments

[carabele.livejournal.com]

Do we have a new tag... Family Stories?

No, we don't need a tag for that. Let's keep the tagging to a miniumum. Tagging becomes totally irrelevant when there is too much of it.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

No, no family tag ;) I'd be happy if it was just gen and slash. However, I've read comments from people who prefer slash that indicate how much they dislike het, so I guess that one is necessary as well.