My Life in Genre There are 12 genres listed, each with one general question. But to make it a little more chaotic, each genre has four sub-genres, each of those with a question, too! How to complete the tag: 1. Choose 10 questions and answer them as earnestly or playfully as you want. 2. Tag some other folks! How to choose ten questions? Here are some ideas: A) Genre Agnostic, Generalist: Choose 10 genres and answer the general questions associated with them B) Genre Agnostic, Specialist: Choose 10 genres and answer a question from one subgenre of each C) Genre Partisan: Choose your two favorite or most read genres and answer all questions associated with them D) This is the internet, there are no rules, do what makes you happy If you think of a good question to accompany a subgenre I haven’t listed, be sure to tag me in your response and I will add it to the list! I cannot list all of the questions in this description box, it takes up too many characters. So I will just list the 12 general questions here, and the rest will be available in a pinned comment. THE GENERAL QUESTIONS • Horror: What scares you? • Sci-Fi: What is something you have done that is beyond belief, something you didn’t think you could accomplish until you actually did it? • Fantasy: What excites you? • Thriller/Suspense: What makes you anxious or keeps you up at night? • Action/Adventure: What thrills you, something you do for fun (other than reading)? • Mystery/Crime: What aggravates you, a problem you have to remedy every time it comes up? • Humor: What delights you and/or makes you laugh? • Romance: What’s your (platonic or romantic) love language? • Non-Fiction: What inspires or motivates you? • Anti-Normative Fiction: In which areas of your life do you swim against the stream? • Literary Fiction: What is something you like to take your time with? • Poetry: What is something ordinary or mundane that you find beautiful or extraordinary? THE FULL LIST OF GENRES & SUBGENRES • Horror: What scares you? • Slasher: What’s your final girl moment, when you succeeded against incredible odds? • Folk: When is a time when you felt like you entered a space not designed for you, and how did you navigate it? • Gothic: If you were ghost, who or what would you haunt? • Cosmic: What is a time in your life when you faced the unknowable, be it a difficult challenge, or major life decision, etc.,? Extra points if tentacles are involved. • Sci-Fi: What is something you have done that is beyond belief, something you didn’t think you could accomplish until you actually did it? • Space Opera: What’s your most memorable moment while traveling/vacationing? • Apocalyptic/Dystopian: What skill/personality trait makes you invaluable to your friend group? • Military Sci-Fi: What is one time you excelled when under pressure? • Cyberpunk: If you could relegate one part of your daily life to a robot/AI, what would it be? • Fantasy: What excites you? • High Fantasy: You’re going on a world-saving quest. Which five people, real or fictional, alive or dead, make up your fellowship? • Swords & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy: Magic exists, but if you practice it there’s a good chance it will corrupt you. Are you still curious and try it anyway? Why or why not? • Urban Fantasy: What is one magical ability you would like to have? • Dark Academia: What is one thing you have learned ¬after¬ finishing any formal education that has had an impact on your life? • Thriller/Suspense: What makes you anxious or keeps you up at night? • Espionage/Political Thriller: You have to go deep undercover. Who group do you want to infiltrate? • Techno-thriller: How long could you last without your phone? • Psychological Thriller: When was a time you second-guessed yourself, only to later second-guess your second-guess? • Conspiracy: It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s true! What is a non-mainstream belief that you’re pretty sure is true(ish)? • Action/Adventure: What thrills you, something you do for fun (other than reading)? • Disaster: It’s not looting if the owners have abandoned it! Which (non-bookstore) store would you hit up if you had unlimited funds? • Buddy Adventure/Kids on Bikes: Are you the brains, the brawn, the charm, the clown, or the leader in your after-school adventure? • Western: When it’s time for work, you get a on a horse; When it’s time for fun, you get on a horse. How do you manage a work/BookTuber/life balance? • Superhero: Who has been a real-life hero in your life? • Mystery/Crime: What aggravates you, a problem you have to remedy every time it comes up? • Noir/Detective: Are you better at piecing together all of the clues or being the supportive sidekick keeping everyone’s morale up? • True Crime: Eff this genre, real-world suffering shouldn’t be a source of entertainment. What is one way, aspirational or in practice, you try to relieve others’ suffering? • Procedural: Do you find sticking to a regular routine to be liberating or stifling? • Caper/Heist: Oh no, your overly complicated plans have gone awry! What do you do when faced with the unexpected? • Humor: What delights you and/or makes you laugh? • Satire: What is a personal anecdote or character trait you have exaggerated (whether to impress others, or for whatever reason)? • Black Comedy: Has comedy ever gotten you out a tough situation? Or does it just make it worse? • Comedy of Errors: When is a time when everything went so wrong it ended up being right again? • Anti-Humor: Everyone is so cool these days, everything has to be so ironic. What is something you enjoy un-ironically? • Romance: What’s your (platonic or romantic) love language? • Romantasy/Paranormal Romance: What is something everyone else finds strange that you enjoy? • Steamy: Who needs an original plot when you’ve got chemistry? What is a relationship in your life that is more important than any of the stories that may happen around it? • Romantic Suspense: Who doesn’t bond over red herrings and maybe some ambient background violence? What is a weird/uncommon scenario when you found yourself bonding with someone else (platonic or romantic)? • Historical Romance: What is a tradition that has been passed down in your family or friend group that you hold dear? • Non-Fiction: What inspires or motivates you? • Memoir: What is a story about you that a family member or close friend might share about you, but wouldn’t be the first thing you share about yourself? • History: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: What is something in your life that was a real learning moment or turning point? • Politics/Activism: When have you felt like everything was against you but you were able to persevere? • Spiritual/Self-Help: Outside of reading, what is an afternoon of self-care look like? • Anti-Normative Fiction: In which areas of your life do you swim against the stream? • Queer Fiction: How has found/chosen family improved or impacted your life? • Weird Fiction: What is something that makes perfect sense to you but leaves most everyone else scratching their head? • Transgressive Fiction: What is a common cultural trend that you resolutely refuse to be part of? • Anti-novel/Experimental Fiction: What is something you find joy in that is in no way at all related to books, reading, or BookTube? • Literary Fiction: What is something you like to take your time with? • Classics: What is a tradition you hold dear? • Speculative Fiction/Magical Realism: The impossible is possible, but in a subtle way. What is an uncommon or special talent you have? • Contemplative Fiction: What’s the meaning of life? • Family/Generational Drama: What is something (not an object but an outlook, character trait, etc.) you have inherited from your parents or ancestors? • Poetry: What is something ordinary or mundane that you find beautiful or extraordinary? • Free verse: You look like you’re following the rules, but you’re really making it up as you go along. What is an area of your life where you’ve created your own “rules,” even if they aren’t necessarily what others might expect? • Sonnet/Haiku: What is something in your life where form is as important as function? That is to say, the way you go about doing something is as important as getting the thing done? • Epic/Dramatic: What is one story from your life that you just have to tell to friends again and again? • Abstract: When is a time you abandoned all the rules/expectations and found something amazing as a result?
I love ranty videos 😂. Well done. Very interesting answers to the prompts. Good to learn more about you. Now I want to know what a freelance biologist does 😊
My Life in Genre
There are 12 genres listed, each with one general question. But to make it a little more chaotic, each genre has four sub-genres, each of those with a question, too!
How to complete the tag:
1. Choose 10 questions and answer them as earnestly or playfully as you want.
2. Tag some other folks!
How to choose ten questions? Here are some ideas:
A) Genre Agnostic, Generalist: Choose 10 genres and answer the general questions associated with them
B) Genre Agnostic, Specialist: Choose 10 genres and answer a question from one subgenre of each
C) Genre Partisan: Choose your two favorite or most read genres and answer all questions associated with them
D) This is the internet, there are no rules, do what makes you happy
If you think of a good question to accompany a subgenre I haven’t listed, be sure to tag me in your response and I will add it to the list!
I cannot list all of the questions in this description box, it takes up too many characters. So I will just list the 12 general questions here, and the rest will be available in a pinned comment.
THE GENERAL QUESTIONS
• Horror: What scares you?
• Sci-Fi: What is something you have done that is beyond belief, something you didn’t think you could accomplish until you actually did it?
• Fantasy: What excites you?
• Thriller/Suspense: What makes you anxious or keeps you up at night?
• Action/Adventure: What thrills you, something you do for fun (other than reading)?
• Mystery/Crime: What aggravates you, a problem you have to remedy every time it comes up?
• Humor: What delights you and/or makes you laugh?
• Romance: What’s your (platonic or romantic) love language?
• Non-Fiction: What inspires or motivates you?
• Anti-Normative Fiction: In which areas of your life do you swim against the stream?
• Literary Fiction: What is something you like to take your time with?
• Poetry: What is something ordinary or mundane that you find beautiful or extraordinary?
THE FULL LIST OF GENRES & SUBGENRES
• Horror: What scares you?
• Slasher: What’s your final girl moment, when you succeeded against incredible odds?
• Folk: When is a time when you felt like you entered a space not designed for you, and how did you navigate it?
• Gothic: If you were ghost, who or what would you haunt?
• Cosmic: What is a time in your life when you faced the unknowable, be it a difficult challenge, or major life decision, etc.,? Extra points if tentacles are involved.
• Sci-Fi: What is something you have done that is beyond belief, something you didn’t think you could accomplish until you actually did it?
• Space Opera: What’s your most memorable moment while traveling/vacationing?
• Apocalyptic/Dystopian: What skill/personality trait makes you invaluable to your friend group?
• Military Sci-Fi: What is one time you excelled when under pressure?
• Cyberpunk: If you could relegate one part of your daily life to a robot/AI, what would it be?
• Fantasy: What excites you?
• High Fantasy: You’re going on a world-saving quest. Which five people, real or fictional, alive or dead, make up your fellowship?
• Swords & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy: Magic exists, but if you practice it there’s a good chance it will corrupt you. Are you still curious and try it anyway? Why or why not?
• Urban Fantasy: What is one magical ability you would like to have?
• Dark Academia: What is one thing you have learned ¬after¬ finishing any formal education that has had an impact on your life?
• Thriller/Suspense: What makes you anxious or keeps you up at night?
• Espionage/Political Thriller: You have to go deep undercover. Who group do you want to infiltrate?
• Techno-thriller: How long could you last without your phone?
• Psychological Thriller: When was a time you second-guessed yourself, only to later second-guess your second-guess?
• Conspiracy: It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s true! What is a non-mainstream belief that you’re pretty sure is true(ish)?
• Action/Adventure: What thrills you, something you do for fun (other than reading)?
• Disaster: It’s not looting if the owners have abandoned it! Which (non-bookstore) store would you hit up if you had unlimited funds?
• Buddy Adventure/Kids on Bikes: Are you the brains, the brawn, the charm, the clown, or the leader in your after-school adventure?
• Western: When it’s time for work, you get a on a horse; When it’s time for fun, you get on a horse. How do you manage a work/BookTuber/life balance?
• Superhero: Who has been a real-life hero in your life?
• Mystery/Crime: What aggravates you, a problem you have to remedy every time it comes up?
• Noir/Detective: Are you better at piecing together all of the clues or being the supportive sidekick keeping everyone’s morale up?
• True Crime: Eff this genre, real-world suffering shouldn’t be a source of entertainment. What is one way, aspirational or in practice, you try to relieve others’ suffering?
• Procedural: Do you find sticking to a regular routine to be liberating or stifling?
• Caper/Heist: Oh no, your overly complicated plans have gone awry! What do you do when faced with the unexpected?
• Humor: What delights you and/or makes you laugh?
• Satire: What is a personal anecdote or character trait you have exaggerated (whether to impress others, or for whatever reason)?
• Black Comedy: Has comedy ever gotten you out a tough situation? Or does it just make it worse?
• Comedy of Errors: When is a time when everything went so wrong it ended up being right again?
• Anti-Humor: Everyone is so cool these days, everything has to be so ironic. What is something you enjoy un-ironically?
• Romance: What’s your (platonic or romantic) love language?
• Romantasy/Paranormal Romance: What is something everyone else finds strange that you enjoy?
• Steamy: Who needs an original plot when you’ve got chemistry? What is a relationship in your life that is more important than any of the stories that may happen around it?
• Romantic Suspense: Who doesn’t bond over red herrings and maybe some ambient background violence? What is a weird/uncommon scenario when you found yourself bonding with someone else (platonic or romantic)?
• Historical Romance: What is a tradition that has been passed down in your family or friend group that you hold dear?
• Non-Fiction: What inspires or motivates you?
• Memoir: What is a story about you that a family member or close friend might share about you, but wouldn’t be the first thing you share about yourself?
• History: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: What is something in your life that was a real learning moment or turning point?
• Politics/Activism: When have you felt like everything was against you but you were able to persevere?
• Spiritual/Self-Help: Outside of reading, what is an afternoon of self-care look like?
• Anti-Normative Fiction: In which areas of your life do you swim against the stream?
• Queer Fiction: How has found/chosen family improved or impacted your life?
• Weird Fiction: What is something that makes perfect sense to you but leaves most everyone else scratching their head?
• Transgressive Fiction: What is a common cultural trend that you resolutely refuse to be part of?
• Anti-novel/Experimental Fiction: What is something you find joy in that is in no way at all related to books, reading, or BookTube?
• Literary Fiction: What is something you like to take your time with?
• Classics: What is a tradition you hold dear?
• Speculative Fiction/Magical Realism: The impossible is possible, but in a subtle way. What is an uncommon or special talent you have?
• Contemplative Fiction: What’s the meaning of life?
• Family/Generational Drama: What is something (not an object but an outlook, character trait, etc.) you have inherited from your parents or ancestors?
• Poetry: What is something ordinary or mundane that you find beautiful or extraordinary?
• Free verse: You look like you’re following the rules, but you’re really making it up as you go along. What is an area of your life where you’ve created your own “rules,” even if they aren’t necessarily what others might expect?
• Sonnet/Haiku: What is something in your life where form is as important as function? That is to say, the way you go about doing something is as important as getting the thing done?
• Epic/Dramatic: What is one story from your life that you just have to tell to friends again and again?
• Abstract: When is a time you abandoned all the rules/expectations and found something amazing as a result?
I love ranty videos 😂. Well done. Very interesting answers to the prompts. Good to learn more about you. Now I want to know what a freelance biologist does 😊
Well I'm not actually sure about that either 😉