Are you ready, kids? Also a thingy so my pizza funds don't run out anytime soon.
Ha, what a stupid-ass blog title. But the point of it is even stupider. What is your favorite genre of literature, real life and fimfic included? And in those regards, which one do you hate the most? Be as descriptive as possible.
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And yeah, this is generally just to see what my peeps like. For... reasons.
Mostly these reasons.
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I don't have one. I like reading a wide variety of things; restricting myself to just one genre seems like I'm shorting myself.
Something I'm sure you couldn't have guessed from the fact that I've written something with the majority of tags on the site. I just need to publish that Adventure story...
As my name implies, I like pretty much everything. My favorites are escapist literature: soft science fiction, high fantasy, that sort of thing. Naturally, this means that I like a considerable percentage of the genres unique to horsewords.
One of the few areas I'm not too fond of are grimderp stories. Not dark stories about best pony, but stories that are dark and depressing for no reason other than being dark and depressing. I want to enjoy what I read, and I can't do that if the characters themselves are miserable and utterly without hope.
There isn't much I won't read. I do tend to stay away from Science Fiction, but only because of the speed scientific advancement seems to move at, the 'fiction' is slowly becoming reality. Feels kinda weird reading a story published five years ago, set several hundred years in the future, where something that was invented three years ago is being treated as cutting-edge.
Alternate History, WWII, Technothriller, a smattering of Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy (if you count The Dresden Files as one). Best if it's the first three combined (which John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy did <3).
My favorite genre ultimately pans out to adventure with a bit of scifi in it. I started reading Star Wars and Star Trek books a while back and now I can happily say I've read all of those and the Bio of a Space Tyrant series.
In MLP fanfiction, though, I just read the description, momentarily glance at the tags and maturity to know what I'm getting myself into, and read it regardless of what the content is (except certain types of smut).
I hate in real life romance quite a bit if it overwhelms the story, but in fimfic I hate without a date more than anything things that are set the the same universe as a well written story that are horribly written.
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Whoo, someone else who read those Star Wars books! Top tier stuff right there!
I like a lot of things but I'm more inclined to read a dark comedy or just a comedy. Something about finding joy even in the darkest of times or themes really reels me in to the story.
I don't have a hated genre as of yet. I'm just more inclined to reading what interests me at the moment.
2405745 Star Wars books are fun because you start at the beginning (for me it was Truce at Bakura) and end up at the end (the Fate of the Jedi series) knowing far more than pretty much everyone else you know about the universe so you can just sit their slowly losing your mind that they probably aren't going to chose anything from the books for the new movie.
Id say my favourite is Sci Fi, Fantasy, because its hope and warning of what may come.
My least favourite is horror, because if I want that, Ill watch the news or go shopping.
First rule of civilisation. Children learn by example, then grow up to enforce that learning.
I cannot for the life of me stand any genre that paints a picturesque utopian society in which friendship and morality are the epitome of society. To put it in a nutshell I really hate the "canon" theme of MLP. I find it really frustrating to be presented with some perfect world filled with sunshine and rainbows. It's probably because I'm some huge jerkoff pessimist but I just can't enjoy anything unless it's dark.
So let's move onto that. What do I mean by 'dark'? It could be anywhere from tragedy to sad, a break up to a gorefest of mutilation masqueraded in a flurry of song and dance. I enjoy the moments when the human psyche is at its lowest, when your back is up against the wall with a crushing depression tearing you apart. Humans are boring when they are happy. When you're at an all time low you can do the most amazing things, say the most well thought out and brutal lines, paint the most wonderful pictures and tell breathtaking stories.
I feel like writing in a setting where everything is not perfect, where there are flaws in our world that we have to live with, is much more than going "welp err'thin is bootfiul in ponyvil". I'm currently writing a story, Path to Infinity, which is going to start dealing with the idea that hiding from the truth by surrounding yourself with happiness is, perhaps, a larger form of evil. That's what it's all about for me, really. I want to write characters in situations that make them think, that make them question.
You'll never catch me writing something happy but I doubt anyone would want me to stop writing dark and depressing.
Read the Darren Shan series and mix that with Harry Potter.
With Darren Shan I mean Circus De Freak, no don't watch the movie it's awful. (It tries to ram a series about as long as the whole Harry Potter series into a single book.)
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I like Adventure, Dark, and Slice of Life.
I'm really not the largest fan of Romance, but when I find a good one. I like a good romance.
Other than that, it's pretty simple. I'm open to pretty much any story.
This is actually a twofold answer. I have a favorite Fimfiction genre, and then a favorite RL fic genre.
For Fimfiction, I enjoy romance, comedy, slice of life and some adventure. In that order.
For Romance, I like it because it's often a place where interesting tensions arise and ultimately get resolved. Sometimes. I like the interpersonal connections that authors build and how they justify them.
For comedy... I like a good laugh. Usually something quick, but if a story itself is amusing, then I can get behind that as well.
Slice of life is simply me enjoying seeing what the characters that I love from the show do during their off time - or, in AU interpretations, what they would have done had things been different.
For non-pony literature, I enjoy Science fiction, fantasy. Mostly adventure-type stories. Slice of Life and drama is something that I get enough of in real life, but the best stories that I enjoy the most have elements of everything thrown in where appropriate and in the right amounts.
Peter F. Hamilton is one of my favorite authors because of this. His Pandora's Star series has a little bit of everything, including some mystery, a little romance, a heck of a lot of drama and slice of life moments, all wrapped up in a massive adventure that spans many different tightly interwoven plots that all come together in the end for a very rewarding payoff.
I am an optimist at heart. What I dislike are dark stories that are dark for the sake of being dark. I also dislike gore and tragedy for much the same reason.
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Raises his hand slowly.
Fantasy in all forms.
Just the fact that you can basically come up with anything and have it be believable, it's full creative freedom.
Dark and comedy are my faves both on Fimfiction and in non-pony literature. Least favorite is probably anthro.
fantasy comedy , but mostly I love my hero to be just that....hero with moral code and stuff
I like Discord also...it's always a big win
I hate harem story, and nurfed Discord
You already know me well enough, Bobby.
Personally I'll enjoy almost any story that have a really strong message behind it. Particularly if I like the message.
IRL you have stories like Lord of the Flies, Great Expectations and Fahrenheit 451
on FimFIc you have stuff like Fallout: Equestria, Past Sins and Twilight's Dollhouse.
If I were to pick a genre though it would have to be Adventure or Dark Tragedy. I enjoy Adventure stories because there are some many twists and turns and you never know where the story is going IE: Fallout: Equestria. Dark Tragedy is really hard to pull of and it's almost a hit or miss, I really enjoy stories that watch the main Character slowly go insane IE: Twilight's Dollhouse.
The only types of stories I don't read are ones that the few ships I despise- Any Dragon X Pony ship. I don't understand the appeal of horse on reptile. Griffion X Pony for the same reasons. Dragon X Griffon, let's just say I hate cross-species shipping except for Changelings. Twilestia/TwiDance because they're REALLY pedophilic and creepy when you think about it and anything involving incest or adult on child.
My interests aren't genre-based. Really, I just like anything that's easy to comprehend and quick-paced without flowery details.
I don't think I have a favorite genre, which shows in my writing. I mean, I like authors like Michael Crichton, who wrote sci-fi, but then I also like Steven King. Then when you add more slice-of-life authors like John Green to the mix... yeah, there's no real pattern. I like what I like.
The closest thing to a pattern is that about 75% or so of books I read have a sort of dark-ish tone to them. I love well-written dark stories.
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Now why in the world would you want that?
I like a I tell many of many deviantART friends, I live for the story. There isn't much that I will turn away. Although, I do have my limits, most of those limits exist in R34 territory, save for clop. I'm okay with clop.
I like mostly Adventure , Romance and Human in Equestria. Since theres so many ways to get into it.
Hmm...
I like stories with good grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
I can't stand stories without these things.
My favorite is probably magical fantasy adventure (it's like adventure, but with magic), preferably if magic makes some sort of sense.
Most hated are romance detectives. Anything with crappy romantic subplot, or poor foreshadowing/crappy end twist really.
I have a thing for romance. Love – or lust – tends to be a powerful motivator and, when written well, can really instill one with emotion. But it's not romance for romance's sake (although I sometimes read those, too). When there's something outside the romance, a powerful issue or side-goal that interferes and makes the final union so much harder to attain, that's when these stories shine. One can't just throw two characters together, say they're in love and then expect me to be interested. Every great love story has a conflict that transcends the inner romance and makes it into something bigger.
Take The Father of My Children. It's laced with romance, but if it were just about the Cakes jumping one another then it never would have worked (except as clop). There was a deep fear, a driving uncertainty and need within Cup Cake to clarify things, an issue that worked with the romance and made it something far more important.
The second favorite of mine is, for lack of a better term, the 'creepy' story. I learned long ago that I have a thing for the darker elements. It doesn't even have to be scary – look at 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' 'Feed Them' is a great example of the creepy story done right, but one of my all-time favorites remains the original game version of 'The Story of the Blanks.' I'm also a fan of certain creepy 'mythology,' such as the Cthulhu Mythos and Slender Man. 'Twilight Sparkle: Night Shift' is another exemplary example of the creepy done right, even if the overarching plot could use tons of improvement.
But the one thing that I search for, regardless of genre and writing style, is originality. If a story is featured but looks like it's telling the same story a thousand other authors have done, I won't read it unless pressed to by my friends. I don't want to read the 441st story about Celestia raising a foal, or the 805th story about Twilight discovering immortality sucks, or the 1192nd blatant self-insert about a human visiting Equestria. Show me something that's never been done before or at least approach an old topic in an uncommon way, otherwise I don't care.
Main genre that I've enjoyed reading would be romance, however with experience reading this genre, I've realized that most romance stories on here, are done like shit.
2405950 Provides exactly what I mean.
I enjoy a good dark/sad story every once in a while, but like the issue I stated above, most are not done right. Other than that I don't have too much of a biased opinion on genres
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I just like happy endings.
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Dark or sad stories, you say? Forgive me blatantly abusing this opportunity to self-plug.
2406018 Alright, I'll check it out sometime later today.
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I think you might need more than a day...
2406035 How long is it? I kind of can't check right now as I am not on my personal computer and I'm not viewing mature stories whilst on this one.
Whatever interests me; although probably non-fiction if I my small amount of books in my closet is any indication...
Rush and Pony on!
T4E
Dark things. The story Grimoire on this site is a perfect example.
Sci-fi.
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106,000 words.
I love dark and gore stories, with a little bit of mystery.
2406233 I read 50k+ words over the past day, don't have an exact count as I read a 50k story and some chapters of another. I think I'll be fine
I love your stories, Rainbow Bob!
[Ass kissing intensifies]
2406417 Well, you clearly read a lot more than I do. Enjoy! Or not, depending on your perspective.
2406489 I hate reading so much I do it every day
Science Fiction is my favourite in published literature, especially when it involves some sort of dystopian future (i.e. 1984, Mortal Engines, et cetera) or alternate histories (i.e. Leviathan). Or on a wider range, anything involving action and adventure which makes some logical sense.
On FimFic, though, my favourite by far is romance. I don't know why, but to me, MLP characters feel like they were made to be shipped.
My least favourite in published literature would have to be those oh-so-edgy young adult novels that try way too hard to fit into pop culture's narrow view of 'cool'.
On FimFic... well, I don't really have one I expressly dislike. Unless I can count my stories (story) as a genre, in which case it would be that because it still makes me want to facepalm even to this day.
Give me some high fantasy or horror, and I'll be happy.
Favorite: Comedy
Least favorite: gorn
My favorite in "real life" is sci-fi. On fimfic it's HiE crossover fics with sci-fi elements. (halo, mass effect, etc.)
slice of life mixed with mystery, adventure and/or romance.
I'll read anything, but stuff like the Harry Potter series and the Leviathan trilogy were enjoyable.
I enjoy comic books.
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Sometimes the best endings are those that leave nobody happy.
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Subjective. But I tend to prefer happy stuff entirely.