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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Because I'm a grouch! I already mentioned it in posts #1 and #5
Also, I'm not trying to get these stupid genres removed from public consciousness. But it can be an interesting discussion on what practical use many of these seemingly silly tags are to others. |
I’d agree that some of the tags do add seemingly no merit. The Amazon siblings example is to me a distinction without a difference and I’d have to imagine that for all but fringe cases of bizarre school or book club/challenges no one has a use for that level of granularity in books, as well add books about people with onyx black hair and books about people with obsidian black hair.
But sub genres like grimdark, noblebright, hopepunk, cyberpunk, and steampunk would be of objective value.
A new sub genre called darkgrim which is identical to grimdark would fall into the category of the former. It also doesn’t sound as good (IMO) as grimdark and thus anyone proposing it should be soundly thumped with a dictionary.