I think in Bob, the sexual/romantic part is more than incidental while still not the primary focus. Nutty's Six of One is distinctly Bob, while Big Pink's Red is more gen, despite both containing het.

And Plei says it way better than I. It's there, it's a part of it certainly, but it's not The Thing. Six of One is a perfect example and precisely the kind of story that makes me wish that Bob was more of a real label and not a ... hopeful label by people who realize that there can be more to a story than 1. No Sex or 2. Sex.

I think if the source is more Bob, ita, then canon m/m is still to me slash. Slash as only non-canonical for the most part doesn't make sense to me, I guess. BBM is an exception.

I know the exact point of BBM was sex, but so much of the point of Captain Jack is sex with whoever, that I can see calling same sex stories with Owen or Tosh or Gwen (apart from their respective canonical same sex outings) or even maybe Ianto, slash, but not with him, because he's macking on someone, probably male, just about every episode.

I've never heard of the bob label. Huh. I suppose lemon, lime and orange are strictly a popslash thing?

I think the citrus stuff comes out of yaoi originally.

Also, only a small number of people latched onto Bob. Like, a dozen of us, maybe. But at the time, I think half that dozen posted here.

I do not know of the citrus.

So, what do we call same-sex canonical 'ship fic (or anything with Jack)? I mean, clearly not het. Not gen or bob, either. I would default to "slash", but mostly out of laziness, as I think relationship-to-canon is an important bit of what "slash" is.

I don't get why it has to be so labeled. It's all fic. The pairing, rating, and summary should be a pretty big hint about what you're getting.

Also, where on earth does "bob" come from? Does it stand for something, like an acronym?

I don't get why it has to be so labeled. It's all fic.

To be honest, I've thrown my mental hands up in the air about it, at least for tonight. As far as Delicious goes, since that's all user-defined I can label as I please. Anyone who wanders in off the internets and gets confuzzled, well, that's their problem. I'm primarily setting it up to make sense to me although I was hoping it might be legible to other people too.

I remember that this conversation came up (on lj, I think), and someone (I don't remember who) said, "Look, we need a word for when there's romantic relationships between characters, but it's not the point of the thing (unlike with slash/het in general). I don't care what we call it. We can call it Bob." And that's where it came from, you know, only with citations and crap.

Well, as you know, Bob...