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⌈ Secret Post #5992 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

how does someone find a whole genre a "squick"?

[philstar22]

Depends on how you define genre I guess. If we're talking larger genres like scifi and fantasy, that's a little weird. But sometimes people use a smaller definition.

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno. Omegaverse?
I find the whole genre of hanahaki appalling

[(Anonymous)]

Guess I'd not consider those a genre. They are a trope.

[(Anonymous)]

Omegaverse is a genre imo

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT I think it's a genre.
Trope is a theme in plot, omegaverse, high-school AU etc are a whole genre in fanfiction

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Trope=there was only one bed, enemies to lovers.IMHO

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but consider, you may be wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. But you maybe too.

Also it's obvious what OP is talking about even if you prefer calling this things tropes.

[(Anonymous)]

not genres. a genre is horror, sci-fi, historical, etc. hence everyone asking wtf they mean by a genre being a squick when we're all used to tropes being potential squicks. horror I can see but if someone is squicked by historical dramas I'm gonna laugh

[(Anonymous)]

hanahaki is the truest definition of squick to me. Just *shudder* when I even think of it. Y'all keep on writing it, but that's a hard no from me.

[(Anonymous)]

NA - With nothing but sincere curiosity, can I ask why?

I've never actually read a hanahaki fic that I found particularly well-written--in fact, I think I've only ever read barely-decent ones, tbh. But the concept has some appeal for me. Like, it makes zero sense on any practical, rational, biological level, but as a form of extremely limited magical realism, I find it pleasantly weird and iddy.

I've seen a number of people express revulsion for hanahaki fics over the last couple of years and I've always been kind of curious what it is about it that people are repulsed by. With some AUs, such as ABO or Sentinel/Guide or D/s AUs, the things that some people find squicky about them are immediately obvious to me, but with hanahaki I don't find it obvious, so that's why I'm asking.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

For me it's mostly a vomit/gore association - things exploding from your body without your control. The whole idea is very unsettling to me. I've never actually read any fic because the mere idea unsettles me.

Also it really trips my trypophobia even though that makes zero logical sense. I think it's because with trypophobia for me it's partially things coming in or going out of holes, so there's that connection in my brain.

[(Anonymous)]

Horror? True Crime?

I like a fair amount of horror myself, but I really don't like torture-porn horror, which I would consider a subgenre of horror.

I like some true crime, but anything that feels really exploitive to me or that seems to relish any victim's suffering is not really for me. But some people don't like any sort of true crime.

I could see how people could have a squick for either of those.

[(Anonymous)]

I HATE true crime. Because of exploitive ones. I know some true crime isn't like this but I don't have any mental capacity to check out.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

But I agree completely!

[(Anonymous)]

The same way someone might have a 'squick' over a trope: something about it is offputting to them, it's not complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I find the whole genre of "underwater exploration" a squick even though I'm fine with exactly the same tropes in space. I think that's wide enough to call a genre and I'm definitely not okay reading it.

[kaishi]

That sucks, OP. *hugs*

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds really frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry OP. I've had situations where someone seemed eager to read the fics I read until I gave them some reccs and then they never really talked to me much afterwards. It's a bad feeling, especially if I felt like they were judging my tastes.

[(Anonymous)]

Real talk, I've had multiple friends whom I absolutely adore as people and love spending time with, but literally you couldn't pay me to watch their favorite shows, and I do use them as a barometer of negative taste. IE, if they like it, I know I probably won't. People want different things out of media, sometimes that have nothing to do with clearly definable genre or plot points, and that's OK.

For example, I love fantasy and scifi, but I loathe CW style shallowly written TV. Friends trying super earnestly to get me into SPN/Teen Wolf/Hemlock Grove/etc are not going to succeed! I like to think I wouldn't lie that I hate vampires and then rock up with the Barbara Hambly Those Who Hunt the Night books, but I'm smoother than most at deflecting without resorting to something like that. Maybe she was on the spot and panicked, idk.)

Maybe she really does think your taste is garbage. It doesn't necessarily mean she's a bad person or a fake friend or doesn't like you. It just means she knows saying "actually I think your taste is atrocious" is fucking rude! And lots of people are uncomfortable insulting their friends!

Either ask her straight out to be honest with you - and be willing to hear it if that's the answer - or just back off a little. It's sad that she doesn't share your interests but it doesn't have to mean the death of a friendship unless one of you takes it personally.

[(Anonymous)]

Real talk, I've had multiple friends whom I absolutely adore as people and love spending time with, but literally you couldn't pay me to watch their favorite shows, and I do use them as a barometer of negative taste. IE, if they like it, I know I probably won't. People want different things out of media, sometimes that have nothing to do with clearly definable genre or plot points, and that's OK.

For example, I love fantasy and scifi, but I loathe CW style shallowly written TV. Friends trying super earnestly to get me into SPN/Teen Wolf/Hemlock Grove/etc are not going to succeed!

Same to all of this!

[(Anonymous)]

My first thought was that they might rec X based on things other people have recced to them that they were squicked by but thought 'oh, OP reads X, I can pass this on to them'. But, of course, I don't know how these conversations go, nor am I privy to any other conversations between OP and acquaintance.