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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7

      I think what's telling about genre discourse is that the Nerd Genres, fantasy and science fiction, act like the definition of a "genre" is having "rules" about what's "allowed to happen" in the setting, and nerds think all genres work this way when mostly they don't

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7

      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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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I almost feel like we need a word for setting genre vs. narrative genre. Like, Blade Runner is a thriller that happens to be science fiction. Lord of the Rings is adventure/war that happens to be fantasy. Dune is epic tragedy that happens to be science fiction.

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 7
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect

      But there *are* differences and times when the material genre becomes particularly relevant; for instance, Arrival is a family drama about grief but leaving out the aliens would be a misleading description

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    5. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Apr 7
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect

      Most literary fiction is just in genres that aren’t marketable anymore on their own. When’s the last time you read a robinsonade?

      3 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @Cybren @BootlegGirl

      It bears pointing out that tons of literary fiction is technically science fiction or fantasy, it's just that because it's "literary" the art snobs don't treat it as such and the genre nerds don't want to claim it either

      9 replies 4 retweets 54 likes
    7. Trevor Tocco‏ @ToccoTrevor Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren @BootlegGirl

      Frankenstein, a literary classic and one of the most well-known horror stories, is also considered the first modern science fiction novel. Go back far enough and these genre boundaries, INCLUDING sf, fantasy, and horror, are either blurry or simply nonexistent.

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @ToccoTrevor @Cybren @BootlegGirl

      In the old days the stereotypical "science fiction B-movie" was a "monster movie", which is really, really inarguably a kind of horror movie In fact if you just say "monster movie" today it's impossible to really sort the ones that we think of as "the horror genre" vs "sci-fi"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      The Invisible Man is one of the "classic Hammer Horror monsters" but he's also, like, absolutely an archetypal "science fiction" story The most recent remake is as "hard SF" as it's possible to get (dropping the magic potion conceit for a creepily plausible "active camo suit")

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      I mean come on the intentionally retro Rocky Horror Picture Show has "horror" in its own title but its introductory theme song is titled "Science Fiction Double Feature"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

          Anyway the attempt to build a hard barrier between "science fiction" and "horror" came from within the SF community, a lot of whom were really ideological and snobbish This was a whole theme of Joseph Campbell's deliberate push to change the genre during his career at Astounding

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

          He was a chauvinist who wanted to harshly sever the ties between science fiction and fantasy (no more "planetary romances" and "space operas" with space swordfights and space castles and space princesses), even though that kind of shit is how the genre started

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        1. Adam‏ @AdamStarTrek Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

          Speaking of comedies, look at the film choices made by the @MST3K team.

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        1. Dr. Ward Q. Normal‏ @WardQNormal Apr 7
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          Check. Mate.

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