SF and fantasy don't even actually really work this way The distinction between these two genres is just the superficial chrome, what it looks like - "psionic powers" aren't actually less impossible than "magic" in any sense, they just look and feel different
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But horror especially, which is about an aesthetic and a mood more than it is a specific setting, defies this kind of definition The reason horror doesn't naturally split into "realistic horror" and "supernatural horror" is half the time the horror is the characters don't know
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People don't try to say whether slasher movies are about "mundane slashers" or "supernatural slashers" For Friday the 13th that's a straight up spoiler for the first movie For Halloween, actively defining what Michael Myers is was that franchise jumping the shark
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It's worth pointing out whenever talking about genre that Alien and Aliens are obviously in very different genres (Alien is very clearly a horror movie and Aliens, horrifying and tragic though it may be, isn't) but Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Pt. 2 obviously aren't
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Even though the big twist of Pt. 1 was "Okay so this is our world after all, nothing truly supernatural happens" and then Pt. 2 was "OR DOES IT" (But the franchise doesn't actually firmly commit to "Okay yeah Jason is supernatural and undead" until Pt. 6)
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Admittedly romance has these kind of rules too?
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I don't like Nicholas Sparks movies (I think they're too sappy), but I've absolutely encountered people angry that the magical element rarely makes any sense and usually goes completely unexplained. Like...that's not the point, the explanation doesn't matter.
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i dunno, people can get very zealous about what the rules that define the romance genre are i'm not sure this is a problem restricted to nerddom
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Perhaps nerdom is expansive
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I don’t know- I’ve met people who get really goddamn titchy about what’s *real* literature and what’s genre trash. I feel like this is just part of a broader problem of people getting too invested in classifications rather than just getting on and enjoying things.
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Or just disliking something and moving on rather than trying to make it something they have to have capital r Reasons for.
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