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[ SECRET POST #2708 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2708 ⌋

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[Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High and Saved By The Bell]

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[The Cinema Snob]

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[Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty]

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[Silicon Valley]

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[Xavier Dolan]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Sailor Moon]

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[Iwan Rheon]

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[Love Stage!!]

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[The Losers (movie)]

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[K-pop]

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I love the concept of urban fantasy, but it always seems to result in teen romance drama with a backdrop of supernatural happenings.

For books, fantasy. I enjoy fantasy movies but hate reading it.

Same.

That's funny, because I love reading fantasy but hate watching it.

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Fantasy, period. Especially dark fantasy. I so rarely see an example of the genre that I like.

It tends to be a little better in video games.

I go the opposite way on video games. So far, only one this year has had a story worth thinking about once I stepped away from the keyboard.

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cbrachyrhynchos - 2014-06-03 01:26 (UTC) - Expand

steampunk

I love stories set in Victorian/Edwardian times. And I like clockwork machinery and Edison, Tesla and their ilk. But most of the steampunk genre related goods that I've seen are so corn ball or just so bad or worse have barely anything to do with Victorian/Edwardian times outside of top hats and monocles that I groan when ever someone suggests something to me and goes, "It's steampunk!"

Yeahhhhhhh.

Steampunk could be real cool but most of it is just bad. It just seems like a lot of it is based on a really narrow idea of what the source material is and what the genre is trying to do. It almost comes off as a caricature of both Victorian/Edwardian stuff and of the whole clockwork machinery aspect sometimes.

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Yep, steampunk always looks so cool but it's always so shit.

Steampunk is overrated.

Thief is probably the one steampunk video game that doesn't make me roll my eyes.

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dethtoll - 2014-06-03 02:27 (UTC) - Expand

I feel like I liked the idea of Steampunk when I was a teenager, but I never really read/saw anything about it that was very good, and then it got way overused.

Just Glue Some Gears on it, and Call it Steampunk.

I have to admit, I kinda like chap hop for being ridiculous. But while it's nice to have some fantasy that moves past the Industrial Revolution, alt history is really hard to keep working for a full novel.

Yeah, I feel the same way about urban fantasy, too. So disappointing. :(

Steampunk is another thing where I love the idea of it, but it never seems to come out as awesome as I hoped.

I cannot get into high fantasy at all. Books, that is. I love TV/movies. Like Game of Thrones is exactly my kind of show, but not my kind of book. I just find high fantasy books all very same-y, I guess. And I know it's not, but I just can't get into it.

Somewhat ditto to urban fantasy. I like urban fantasy books that focus on the world building or the magic, but so much it now has turned into paranormal romance.

sci-fi when it's about aliens. in theory, tons of possibilities, lots of creative freedom. in practice, always the same damn tropes and clichés.

historical fiction. why is it so often focused on romance?

I get you on sci-fi. I'm much more a fan of the Aliens/Predator approach than the Star Trek approach.

as soon as I read the title of this thread I though "urban fantasy!" as well :P YANA

Same here with urban/paranormal fantasy. A whole adult genre about badass women dealing with the supernatural in modern times? When I was younger, when the craze first began, that was a dream come true for me. But, many frustrating rape-fantasy novels later, I've discovered the reality is faux-action girls who spend more time fucking the supernatural than anything else and serve mostly as phenomenally stupid viewfinders for some asshole's sexy alphaness.

Every now and then I find a rare gem that lives up to my ideal for the genre. But mostly I've given up.

Hahah I feel the same about urban fantasy but the last time I said it here, one of the other users gave me a ton of shit for it.

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cbrachyrhynchos - 2014-06-03 01:25 (UTC) - Expand

Romantic comedies.

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cbrachyrhynchos - 2014-06-03 01:08 (UTC) - Expand

Fantasy novels. It feels like online fantasy has so much more variety in the worlds it depicts. (Also, it knows when to goddamn END.)

Superhero TV shows and books.

Dystopian/post-apocalypse lit.

You should be reading the Greywalker series by Kat Richardson. Urban fantasy mystery series with a lady private eye as the lead, and zero teen romance drama. Also werewolves don't exist, vampires are viscerally disturbing to her, and for several books she doesn't even have a boyfriend, and it's really refreshing. The past few books feel like the plot's stagnated a little but hopefully it'll pick up again soon.

Easy solution: don't read teen paranormal romance.

In books, urban fantasy never grabbed me. I quibble about sci-fi, I like some, I hate some, and it's not divided across sub-genre lines. I like some hard sci-fi, but some is really dry and tiresome too. Soft sci-fi also varies.

Someone mentioned the current trend of urban fantasy being kick-ass women dealing with supernatural stuff turning into faux-action girls fucking supernatural stuff also makes me avoid lots.

Though I hugely love high fantasy, sword-and-sorcery fantasy can be a bit hit-and-miss.

In movies, high fantasy has never been all that successful. I think it's that movies don't have the time to go into the sort of scope most high fantasy needs. LotR only managed it by dint of having movies that topped over 3 hours each.

In contrast to my book tastes, I feel TV and movies is excellent for urban/modern fantasy. Less so for hard sci-fi, and I usually see hard sci-fi books adapted into softer movies.

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