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To the categorists
Good fiction is what works. Full stop.
If you want to tell me that Fiction A is low quality because it's a video game/adaptation/fan-fiction/superhero movie/metafiction/comic book/television series/genre-centered/pornography/alternate universe/foreign/popular, please shut up.
If you want to tell me that Fiction A is low quality because you've explored it and you found Things 1 through 6 you didn't like, I'm all ears.
ETA: I now return to reading my revisionist Arthurian fantasy romance novel. Which I'm thoroughly enjoying. So there.
If you want to tell me that Fiction A is low quality because it's a video game/adaptation/fan-fiction/superhero movie/metafiction/comic book/television series/genre-centered/pornography/alternate universe/foreign/popular, please shut up.
If you want to tell me that Fiction A is low quality because you've explored it and you found Things 1 through 6 you didn't like, I'm all ears.
ETA: I now return to reading my revisionist Arthurian fantasy romance novel. Which I'm thoroughly enjoying. So there.