I guess there are certain commonalities in what people enjoy in wingfic, like maybe the exhilaration of flying, descriptions of the beautiful colors and shapes of the wings, one character touching or grooming another's wings... (I only started reading wingfic very very recently, so those are only educated guesses!) And if those elements are present in fic with canonical wings, then one could say it's still wingfic?
It reminds me of the debate as to whether it's still "slash" if the queer couple is canonical. Whereas for other tropes such as hurt/comfort, we don't hesitate to use that label even when it's canonical.
I guess some tropes or fic categories were widespread in fandom before ever being a canonical part of a large, popular canon, whereas for other tropes it's the other way round. It would be interesting to examine some other popular tropes from that perspective...
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I guess there are certain commonalities in what people enjoy in wingfic, like maybe the exhilaration of flying, descriptions of the beautiful colors and shapes of the wings, one character touching or grooming another's wings... (I only started reading wingfic very very recently, so those are only educated guesses!) And if those elements are present in fic with canonical wings, then one could say it's still wingfic?
It reminds me of the debate as to whether it's still "slash" if the queer couple is canonical. Whereas for other tropes such as hurt/comfort, we don't hesitate to use that label even when it's canonical.
I guess some tropes or fic categories were widespread in fandom before ever being a canonical part of a large, popular canon, whereas for other tropes it's the other way round. It would be interesting to examine some other popular tropes from that perspective...