Okay, here's a quick rundown, as I understand them anyway ;)
Gen = General fiction, which generally means not a romance/relationship piece, just story
Het = Heterosexual, meaning straight relationship
Slash = well, originally this was meant to denote sex between two characters from a show who weren't actually having sex in canon (i.e. Mal/Inara) but now a days it refers to gay sex/pairings, usually male, but I have seen it used for female as well, when they don't use...
Femslash - lesbian sex/pairing
UST = Unresolved Sexual Tension
RST = Resolved Sexual Tension
OTP = One True Pairing
OT3 = One True Threesome
Then you get into all sorts of acronyms that are often fandom specific. CSI in Firefly Fanfic for example refers to Crazy Space Incest, which means Simon/River sex/pairing fic. MSR in X-Files refers to Mulder/Scully Romance. You pretty much just have to pick them up in each fandom, ask specifically to find them out
As for the rating system, it's just like the movies. G for general audience, safe for anyone to read PG, safe for 10 year olds PG-13, some mature themes and/or violence/language R, mature themes, violence, language, but generally not explicit sex NC-17, explicit sex, and sometimes for extreme graphic violence etc.
I would probably classify this fic as Het, Mulder/Scully pairing, PG rating. The Het I find a bit redundant if you're posting in a forum that's devoted to the fandom, as everyone will know who Mulder and Scully are and know that that is a heterosexual relationship, up to you :o) I don't generally use the het or gen tags, but I would use slash or femslash or ... multiple? group? threesome? for something more *shrug* Some communities have a specific structure, and include keywords and categories... it really just depends, but the ones above are most of the general ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
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Date: 2008-10-03 06:55 pm (UTC)Gen = General fiction, which generally means not a romance/relationship piece, just story
Het = Heterosexual, meaning straight relationship
Slash = well, originally this was meant to denote sex between two characters from a show who weren't actually having sex in canon (i.e. Mal/Inara) but now a days it refers to gay sex/pairings, usually male, but I have seen it used for female as well, when they don't use...
Femslash - lesbian sex/pairing
UST = Unresolved Sexual Tension
RST = Resolved Sexual Tension
OTP = One True Pairing
OT3 = One True Threesome
Then you get into all sorts of acronyms that are often fandom specific. CSI in Firefly Fanfic for example refers to Crazy Space Incest, which means Simon/River sex/pairing fic. MSR in X-Files refers to Mulder/Scully Romance. You pretty much just have to pick them up in each fandom, ask specifically to find them out
As for the rating system, it's just like the movies.
G for general audience, safe for anyone to read
PG, safe for 10 year olds
PG-13, some mature themes and/or violence/language
R, mature themes, violence, language, but generally not explicit sex
NC-17, explicit sex, and sometimes for extreme graphic violence etc.
I would probably classify this fic as Het, Mulder/Scully pairing, PG rating. The Het I find a bit redundant if you're posting in a forum that's devoted to the fandom, as everyone will know who Mulder and Scully are and know that that is a heterosexual relationship, up to you :o)
I don't generally use the het or gen tags, but I would use slash or femslash or ... multiple? group? threesome? for something more *shrug*
Some communities have a specific structure, and include keywords and categories... it really just depends, but the ones above are most of the general ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
Any clearer? :o)