Also, I think how long a person has been in fandom and how the people around hir have defined words makes an impact. I don't think it's immediately clear what words mean and unless your flist is engaging in lots of meta or linking to it or what have you, you sort of pick up amorphous definitions for words that aren't necessarily as nuanced as the ways in which people are using them.
Also, I think it's really interesting that you looked to the ending to determine which segment of fandom would be more affirmed by the story discussed in this post. I don't think that way of looking at story labeling has ever occurred to me, maybe because I write so many unhappy endings?
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I think so.
Also, I think how long a person has been in fandom and how the people around hir have defined words makes an impact. I don't think it's immediately clear what words mean and unless your flist is engaging in lots of meta or linking to it or what have you, you sort of pick up amorphous definitions for words that aren't necessarily as nuanced as the ways in which people are using them.
Also, I think it's really interesting that you looked to the ending to determine which segment of fandom would be more affirmed by the story discussed in this post. I don't think that way of looking at story labeling has ever occurred to me, maybe because I write so many unhappy endings?