Tag Archive | genre
Genre in a Shoebox
Tweet of the Day: Bustin’ Makes Boys Feel Sad- Why Ghostbusters is So Hated As I delved deep insight a dwemer (dwarves in The Elder Scrolls games) ruin in Skyrim, I remember how much I loved exploring the halls full of steam pipes, robots and weird techo-magical devices. Which is weird because the […]
Space for Rent: Zombies for All Seasons
Tweet of the Day: More on game/sexism/representation: a response to a response to a response ——– I was watching this video the other day: Yes, great little video, I know. You should check out Dodger work. Now back to the subject at hand. I have posted about my feelings on zombies and […]
TV Tropes: The Western
Tweet of the Day: Harassment and the Back Channel ——- The Western is not just a trope but a whole genre of books, movie, games and TV shows, spanning from the 19th century dime novels to today’s gritty representations of the harsh life on the American frontier. What makes the Western still relevant for today’s […]
Genre as Argument: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Tweet of the Day: Speculative Fiction Tropes: Magictech ——- Once again, we come to the end of a blog post series. I’ve run out of genres/subgenres to write about. I know that I just scratched the surface, but writing posts like these requires a certain level intimacy with the subject at hand and I’m afraid […]
Genre as Argument: Space Opera
Tweet of the Day: The Land in Between ——- It is hard to say what argument, if any, this genre makes, since pinning down a definition of what space opera is hard enough. In the broadest sense, Space Opera is “X in space” whether X is a pirate, a cowboy, a knight or an explorer […]
Genre as Argument: Dark Fantasy
Tweet of the Day: Sword and Laser Anthology ——- This sub-genre of fantasy puts the dark back into the dark ages. It is an counter argument to the idea of an Arcadian past. The worlds portrayed in dark fantasy are dirty, messy, violent and by our standards immoral. All the familiar elements are there, but […]
Genre as Argument: Sub-Genres
Tweet of the Day: Praise the Lord and pass the genre ammunition ——- There comes a time in any life when the student becomes the master. It happens in all kinds of disciplines including writing. So, it is no surprise that as genres mature, those that grew up reading them write their own reaction to […]
Genre as Argument: Fantasy
Tweet of the Day: Dreaming of Souvlaki ——- If science fiction looks toward a technological utopia then fantasy appeals to an agrarian golden age. Fantasy as an identified genre is relatively new, newer than sci-fi, but as storytelling theme it has been around since the beginning of time. This theme can be divided into four […]
Genre as Argument: Science Fiction
Tweet of the Day: Bidding Farewell to the Comfort Zone ——- If science fiction makes an argument, it is one centered around technology: either it will improve our lives or it will devastate us. Each sub-genres within it stakes a place along the scale of idealism versus cynicism. Born out of the combination of the […]
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