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⌈ Secret Post #4446 ⌋

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How does that list compare with your favorite types of fanfic?

Horror and Drama in original fiction. I can't stand romance novels or even novels with heavy romance story lines.

Romance, drama, and comedy in fanfiction.

Published: Realistic science fiction/military horror versus...

Fic: Uh.... realistic science fiction military horror with a side of porn?

Can you rec some military horror?

Ok so this is going to sound terrible, honestly, but...

The Resident Evil novelizations (some of them) are just on the so-bad-it's-good side of bad.

For actual good books, it's been a bit since I read much of anything for pleasure but I quite enjoyed Burning Sky by Weston Ochse. Not an especially challenging read, but I like brain candy right now.

That Burning Sky one looks great!

I know I wasn't who you asked but I like the '50s version of The Thing.

I will give it a look, I've seen the movie from the 80s.

I love sci-fi and fantasy, but find most 'fantasy' fic to be incredibly tedious.
I've read a lot of good sci-fi fic, though.

Any recs for good scifi? I always end up finding the female characters too 2D.

For tv/movies?

The Expanse, for one - holy gods. The books *and* the series. Amazing.
I thought the movie Pandorum was awesome, as was The Martian and John Carter (sadly not female leads, but good female characters), and i really enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane. Annihilation was extremely weird but also really good (and creepy). I like the women in Pitch Black and The Abyss. Loved loved loved the women in the series Defiance, and loved most of the women in Falling Skies. Humans also has some amazing women.

Not *exactly* sci-fi, but Kate Winslet is excellent in Contagion.

For books, I love the sci-fi of CJ Cherryh, excellent women, really *interesting* stuff. The Cyteen series is particularly amazing and disturbing.

My favorite genres of published fiction are probably soft sci-fi, and historical / contemporary fantasy. And I love those genres when I find them in fic, but it's pretty rare.

Published: M/M erotica or F/F erotica written by women. Fantasy- particularly high fantasy. Scifi/fantasy mixes.

Fic: erotica (mainly M/M and F/F, but some M/F). Action/adventure. Slight canon alteration AUs. Fics similar in feel to canons.

In both I tend to avoid straight up romance if it doesn't include full-on sex scenes. Romance on its own is boring. Romantic relationships in the midst of action are fine. I also don't go looking for straight-up comedy. Again, there can be humor within the other genres, but something with the primary intent being humor, I'm probably not interested.

Published: Mystery/thriller/suspense/horror. I won't read romance unless someone who generally has similar taste to me basically says "this is the best book I've ever read" and even then there's a good chance I won't like it.

Fanfic: Give me alllll the romance. For whatever reason I feel like romantic fanfic is way more interesting/less cliche than published stuff.

Published: Children’s fantasy, children’s horror (generally, less rules/'realism', more magic and/or spooks), soft science fiction/space opera, military science fiction, pulpy adventure, pulpy crime, paranormal investigation, whatever John Connelly is (horror crime?), a lot of horror-adjacent mixed genres where the emphasis is less on the despair/gore and more on eerie weirdness intruding on whatever the other genre is

Fanfic: hurt/comfort, pulpy adventure, found-family fluff, oddball AUs

So … probably pretty similar, I think? Fanfic just lets me focus more on the in-depth emotional bits of my favourite genres

Literary and slice of life (especially when written by authors writing from/about a culture I know nothing about) and fantasy. I read mysteries now and again.

I don't reach much fanfic, but when I do it's gen or romance involving my favorite characters.

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What are you favorite genres in original published fiction?

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