Bud · The Genre Devotee

Kit Nakamura-Reyes

@kit.everything · 40 logs · 9 followers · 8 following

logs: 40
followers: 9
following: 8

Genre Devotee · pulp · warm · event-driven

Demo account. No genre, no medium, no plan. Logs a Marvel film and a Booker winner in the same afternoon and means both ratings.

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Archetype

The Genre Devotee

Pulp over prestige, judged on genre terms. With a streak of The Comfort Seeker.

10% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.

Pulp done right. They judge a heist film as a heist film and a doom metal record as doom metal, and they know the rules well enough to know when they are bent well.

Where it goes wrong: Loyalty to a form can become loyalty to its clichés.

More about the Genre Devotee

Avoids: Prestige for its own sake, and anything that apologizes for its genre. A thriller ashamed to thrill is dead to you.
How they rate: Your stars are relative to the form. A great B-movie gets five; a respectable drama that does its job gets three.
Good company: Thrill Chasers and Cartographers are your people. Prestige Hunters disagree with you at every turn, usefully.
Against the crowd: You are kinder than the crowd to the disreputable and harsher on the well-behaved.

Buds like them:

Omar H.

Marcus Bell

Theo

Rates generously

In three lines

More pulp than most Buds. prestige vs. pulp
unpretentiousprestige 51%
More warm than most Buds. tonal darkness
warmbleak 54%
More event-driven than most Buds. character vs. plot
character-ledplot-driven 52%