Yeah like if it doesn’t feature the main character crying in a walk in fridge after being screamed at over a latte not being hot enough then it’s just not giving that real cafe worker experience lmao
@@fluorescentgreys Screaming in the walk in cooler sometimes works better. I recommend it in the walk in freezer if you need to recompose yourself quickly. Most of my work issues came from incompetence of management.
When I hear "cozy tragedy" I think of those kinds of "just before the end" stories. Like, those things where mankind is either slowly dying out or they're about to get hit by a devastating disaster, but instead of descending into chaos they take it gracefully, and the story revolves about what people do knowing that the end is near. Alternatively, stories that are set shortly after humanity is truly gone, but the traces of our presence still remain.
Franz Kafka's _The Free Trial_ where Josef K. has no clue why the Health Inspection wants to close his coffee shop down but is sure that the system would never let a small entrepreneur suffer unjustifiedly.
Ugh, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is one of the worst books ever written. Holocaust historians hate it. The author did zero research and brags about how ignorant he is (like he does with all his books).
Dude I love your videos, keep making them. They help so much to stave off the existential dread of existence that comes with 2020's America. For a followup, can we get a "Guy Who Only Reads Anti-Cozy Fiction" who has become so grimdark that Ammutseba runs for light? Whose impression of 'a good literature experiences' is in NO WAY at all in any form linked to their view on bleak repeating patterns over the course of history and humanity's moral structure or progress since around the 1940's despite our technological prowess as a whole?
That is the sadistic hate for yourself manifesting in all your thoughts and beliefs which only drag your potential for divinity down until you’re back to a bare soul so you can start the torturous cycle of existence again, thanks for coming to my TED talk😊😊
i dunno, i honestly feel like what i would enjoy is more "downtime" with my main protagonists in the fantasy novels i read. it doesn't have to be slice of life and quiet all the time, but i really would like to see the slow parts of their lives and just walk with them a bit even when they're not out adventuring. for me, that's always been the appeal of cozy fantasy (not that every cozy fantasy book is a fantastic read either~)
Have you considered delving into fanfiction? I know it's risky, but if you use a site with a proper tagging system you can propably find what you're looking for if the book is popular enough
that's one thing i really like about star trek shows like ' deep space nine ' although there is a lot of stuff about war and morality and philosophical questions and difficult situations and such.....it still takes the time to let the characters sit down for a moment and enjoy life and living and showing what life is like in that world without it constantly revolving around conflict and constantly raising the stakes. you get to see the characters live and breathe instead of, metaphorically speaking, being out of breath running for their lives all the time. My favourite episode is one where the captain of the starbase just meticulously builds a solar powered spaceship made of cloth and wood like people did in the ye olde days and it's a really sweet and wholesome story. Just a man in his downtime building a lil boat.
pacing and moments of rest are very important for stories. I suspect a lot of people swing towards the cozy genre since a lot of other works of fiction follow the trend of hyperfocusing on the action and the conflict so much so that in order for a reader to experience those missing parts lacking in those stories they have to go read a completely different story that hyperfocuses on those missing parts
Stories that have dark themes but still make the time to have moments of calm and levity are the best. There's nothing wrong with wanting something cozy and unchallenging, but you need to have some variety. When someone insists on only consuming cozy fiction it just comes across to me as a refusal to experience any kind of negative emotion.
Just realized that the draft I've been playing with off and on for three years, in which a large, sapient, disembodied tooth is in love with a man whose head is a lobster, is cozy surrealism.
I love it when I tell people “I love Terry Pratchetts discworld” they think I just like “cozy fantasy” THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I have been recommended Legends and Lattes should be a crime at this point. I’ve read Legends and Lattes! It was ok, but I definitely didn’t love it the way I love discworld. “Cozy fantasy” I will argue is the most confusing genre. I can talk for ages about this!
the discworld books are so good that liking them doesn't really tell you anything about someone's taste. they're amazing, of course everybody likes them. i refuse to recognize your existence if you don't.
@@juliamavroidi8601 my dude, I just finished reading nightwatch last month. The amount of uncozyness and deep heart wrenching PAIN that book put me through was insane! I’m honestly so very perplexed on why so many people say the discworld is cozy fantasy
@@crediblesalamander8056 I’ve never read anything like discworld, and don’t think I ever will find anything like it. It’s truly magical! Honestly they are some of the hardest books to recommend. Most of my friends that I’ve tried to share this series with just have a preconceived notion that it’s just silly fantasy for laughs like Hitchhikers Guide TTG. And when I recommend it to people who haven’t read much fantasy, I just loose them at “it’s a flat earth laying on the backs of four el-” and they dismiss the series. I’ve never loved a series so much that I couldn’t recommend it. It sucks
Okay, but what if it’s a tea house instead of a coffee shop? I’d make fun of the genre, but I know as much as anyone that we readers do what we can to cope. One of the reasons I got way into folk and fairy tales for a while was because I felt I couldn’t cope with the scope of most epic fantasy. So, I stuck with a genre that seemed to care less about the rise and fall of kingdoms and more about whether the main character was happy by the end of the story.
I recommend Phantastes by George MacDonald. He was a Victorian writer who inspired both Lewis and Tolkien. A novel about one man who wakes up in a magical land and wanders through it to find his heart's desire.
I can't remember any names on the spot, but I'm pretty sure that "post apocalypse, but it's not threatening, whoever survived tries to enjoy their life, and it's just all melancholy" is a description of an actual genre
@@Yarblocosifilitico Michael Ende did it first by writing "The Neverending Story". Probably because with his surname he thought he really needed to do something.
It's funny bc I wouldn't want to live as a woman in his world. Choose between being the Madonna who dies in the backstory or the Whore who dies in the story story lol
I do actually relate to having had the thought that, at least to me it started feeling like a lot of fiction was moving into this "everything is very sad and realistically pessimistic" vibe, but I think my solution as more "broadening my horizons" than "detox" lmfao. I still love Song of Ice and Fire.
I personaly would btw. disagree a that the pessimistic approach in fantasy is even realisitc and think that it says alot about our times that "realism" equals "things being bad". In case of historic fiction that makes me really sad since it´s often wrong. The best example is that all ways are allways muddy and all cloths are patchwork.
Yup. The thing that aggravates me about cozy fiction is that it often times does have all the problems that other literature deals with, it's just completely ignorant of them and fails to deal with them in any way.
@@peaceofcrap I mean, it's definitely worse, because it implies modern times, and while the incest between a parent and a child was a taboo throughout the entire human history, we now realise how much it impacts mental health, not only that it's morally wrong
Now I‘m just hoping for "Tress of the Emerald Tea", which takes place in an alternate universe where Tress and Charlie never had to go on an adventure and end up settling down together, opening a cozy and quirky tea shop where no two mugs look the same and you can trade in a mug of your own for a hot meal, so long as it has a story to tell.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth's Coffee and Eclairs.
cozy tragedy is when the tragedy happened and all the main characters are just tired from all the politicking and murder and they just sit down at an inn vibing
I feel like there a lot of stories out there that, in some capacity, successfully embody the weird label of like "cozy horror" or "cozy tragedy". Over the Garden Wall is famously seen as a comforting watch despite it containing some pretty disturbing imagery and having its roots in more unsettling horror tropes. A lot of manga also does the "cozy tragedy" well, especially the one shots about apocalypse/post-apocalypse setting. Imo as long as you don't try too hard to force the "cozy" feeling into the story, it'd turn out good
Love that this is some how a critique of the genere and yet also perfectly explains why people are reading cozy fiction in the first place. Personally i hate the coffe shop au thing, but give me a farmer au and im down
It’s funny because i see engaging with gritty, grim and dark fiction as my «cozy, happy place». To me it’s the thought of «cozy for the sake of cozy» that gives me a weird vibe.
I really want to read cozy cosmic horror! ... but then again I already find cosmic horror kind of relaxing, because it's the kind of horrible stuff that DOES NOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE. It's so far removed from reality, other than violence, SA, humans being horrible to each other in every conceivable way, that it does not really scare me. It just piques my interest. Also, what was this book about Cambrian Park again? I did not understand the title.
Cambrian Park would be a cozy version of Jurassic Park, because instead of big dangerous dinosaurs you'd just have trilobites, jellyfish, and various weird little slug creatures from the Cambrian Era
Cozy cosmic horror is pretty good, but I still prefer romcom cosmic horror. Nyarlathotep in the anime Nyaryko: Crawling With Love! is just a lot better executed than in Cthulhu Coffee where she takes a back seat to Cthulhu.
Your ploy failed, now I need a cozy little story about a nomad, an ex-corpo, and a street urchin starting a coffee shop in Night City. The twist is that through a series of hijinks and shenanigans, much of the clientele is convinced that the goods contain various drugs that provide benefits in combat, and keep trying to trade guns and crop tops for pastries.
God will strike me down if I say this, but this is just Lillian Orchard
Місяць тому
I feel like cosy Finnegan's Wake would be a normal Irish wake but with some pumpkin spice lattes and hot cocoas thrown in to enhance the general happy wholesome vibe
My bookstore friend and I agree that the cozy subgenre is what you get if you take a feel-good plot and then remove all significant conflict from the narrative. The result is just like a PSL: easily marketable but otherwise unfulfilling.
Cozy novels still have conflict, but it's usually centered around local and personal issues. Not every book needs to be about a boring chosen one saving the world from Dark Magic User™
I went to my local non-Euclidean coffee shop. Cthulhu wasn't there, but Euclid was. I turned around and walked out. I wasn't ready for that kind of confrontation.
I'm trying to figure out what the message is here, i think it's: let people enjoy what they enjoy, even if it's clearly objectively stupid and they are being annoying about it.
Meanwhile, I'm reading Farseer, Dune, and Kierkegaard all at once and constantly having an existential crisis wondering when the crazy rollercoaster will be fun instead of scary
Even though I rarely read cozy stories, I've got nothing but respect for someone who just wants to have a good time when reading fiction. There's enough shit going on in the real world, I can't fault anyone for trying to get away from it a bit in their free time
Okay I wanna read that book he mentioned in the beginning (Wilbur Browning is the author?) but for the life of me I can't find it. Also, as a reader of cozy fantasy and mysteries, this is exactly what I hear when someone starts getting too Big Brain about the genre. Listen, I read lots of genres, and I also read cozy, and I do it because it's fun! I wanna read the cute recipe for a magic charm in the back or look at the food recipe that's for some reason in the back of this cozy murder mystery, enjoy the syrupy sweet pun names for every business in the idyllic town, and have a good time with animals solving cozy mysteries. It doesn't mean every other genre is terrible and unethical; sometimes things are just fun in different ways.
"Cozy cosmic horror" I think that's just Kirby.
Jack “King” Kirby
@@irmese06 They meant the Nintendo character.
@@DollarinoJones Thanks! And I meant the guy who designed Darkseid and Galactus for schoolchildren.
Katamari would fit perfectly there
cozy cosmic horror is god taking your hand and giving you a tour of his dreams
People who have never worked in a coffee shop don’t understand they are synonymous with horror
Yeah, as one critic said of Legends and Lattes, it's a very consumer-side view of what the service industry is actually like.
Yeah like if it doesn’t feature the main character crying in a walk in fridge after being screamed at over a latte not being hot enough then it’s just not giving that real cafe worker experience lmao
I mean, it's fiction for a reason. If people wanted the actual experience they would seek that out instead.
@@fluorescentgreys Screaming in the walk in cooler sometimes works better. I recommend it in the walk in freezer if you need to recompose yourself quickly. Most of my work issues came from incompetence of management.
This comment made the video like 30% funnier
I'm past the postpostmodernist stage. I read postcozy antiaesthetic semifiction .
This time, the coffee shop opens *you*.
Novelization of history with a very serious topic?
@@amilisom 🏆
Edit: just so y'all know, he said something to the effect of "I also read the newspaper"
What a coincidence! I read antisemtic aesthefiction too!
My peripheral vision read 'antisemitic' rather than 'antiaesthetic' 💀
Cozy mystery was probably a thing before cozy fantasy.
Agatha Christie is about as cozy as you can get
Writer's Digest was printing lists of cozy mystery publishers at least as far back as the late 90s.
It definitely was. Pretty sure I remember seeing that label back in the 90s. That might be where the term "cozy" originated, in fact.
does the recent anime shoshimin count?
I would totally read cozy mystery!
When I hear "cozy tragedy" I think of those kinds of "just before the end" stories. Like, those things where mankind is either slowly dying out or they're about to get hit by a devastating disaster, but instead of descending into chaos they take it gracefully, and the story revolves about what people do knowing that the end is near.
Alternatively, stories that are set shortly after humanity is truly gone, but the traces of our presence still remain.
I think the game "Stray" would fall into that second category.
Basically Yokohama Shopping Log and Girls Last Tour
It’s called cosy catastrophe. It’s the apocalypse but let’s drink some tea while we still have it.
Makes me think of Carol and the End of the World. Still need to finish that show.
This, so much this. Another version of cozy tragedy are stories that deal with loss, in a healthy way, lots of community support, caring, ...
I want to read a story about Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep opening a coffee shop
Me too.
Sounds like a good sol manga
If I'm not mistaken, Neil Gaiman has a short story, where he interviews Ktulhu.
It has to be none-euclidean and only open in your dreams though
"I love you, Cthuthy, but you gotta stop moistering my devices!"
I'm reading modernist post-fiction these days: I steal my friends' diaries and read them.
Cookie Meridian and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Bake Apple Pies are my next reads.
Genius
Judge Holden opens a bakery
@@TheReal3177judge holden opens a daycare
I wanted to read Cookie Meridian too but I accidentally ordered Coochie Meridian. 😔
@yahyabinilyas9917 that's just blood meridian ☠️
I think this implies that Sweeney Todd is a cozy thriller
You know, you might be onto something there...
Hey, the meat pies are fine if you ignore the ingredients.
Franz Kafka's _The Free Trial_ where Josef K. has no clue why the Health Inspection wants to close his coffee shop down but is sure that the system would never let a small entrepreneur suffer unjustifiedly.
Lime and Punishment. Raskolnikov drops out of university and opens a juice bar with the money he got from pawning his valuables.
I've been to Cthulhu's coffee shop once. It was mind-blowingly good.
I thought it was undescribably horrific
@@grantbartley483 no, that's Cthulhu's bar, whole different thing
Coffee so good you go mad over it.
Only until you find the reality-bending void vortex on the bottom of your cup.
It blew my mind!
My favorite comfy read has to be "Les Uncrustables"
Trying to figure out how to say that was very uncomfortable
Shout-out to all my Tolkien buddies; we’re indulging in cozy fantasy & still grappling with the big questions of the world.
That's exactly why Tolkien is so peak. You get Children of Hurin and the Shire all in one.
Hell yes. All the while remaining grounded in the traditional ideals of heroism and a fundamental belief in the good in people.
The Hobbit is the coziest of fantasy novels.
Man I loved The Boy in the Fluffy Striped Pyjamas
Well that sentence ran over a puppy...
Oh man, that's a one liner I'm not gonna forget soon
Ugh, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is one of the worst books ever written. Holocaust historians hate it. The author did zero research and brags about how ignorant he is (like he does with all his books).
Dude I love your videos, keep making them. They help so much to stave off the existential dread of existence that comes with 2020's America.
For a followup, can we get a "Guy Who Only Reads Anti-Cozy Fiction" who has become so grimdark that Ammutseba runs for light? Whose impression of 'a good literature experiences' is in NO WAY at all in any form linked to their view on bleak repeating patterns over the course of history and humanity's moral structure or progress since around the 1940's despite our technological prowess as a whole?
That sounds like it would be a perfect sequel to this video; I might have to take it up!
That is the sadistic hate for yourself manifesting in all your thoughts and beliefs which only drag your potential for divinity down until you’re back to a bare soul so you can start the torturous cycle of existence again, thanks for coming to my TED talk😊😊
0:18 Actually, the cambrian didn't have ocean predators anywhere near as large as today's predators, by comparison, they would be medium large at best
Fair, but by the standards of "shrimp" anamalocaris could get pretty massive.
@@genericallyentertaining Well, you could even say the ancient shrimp-like species, anomalocaris was quite "Anomalous" in this specific context
NEEEERRRRRRRRRRD
Only kidding
@@genericallyentertainingit was massive by the standards of other creatures back then too
i dunno, i honestly feel like what i would enjoy is more "downtime" with my main protagonists in the fantasy novels i read. it doesn't have to be slice of life and quiet all the time, but i really would like to see the slow parts of their lives and just walk with them a bit even when they're not out adventuring. for me, that's always been the appeal of cozy fantasy (not that every cozy fantasy book is a fantastic read either~)
Have you considered delving into fanfiction? I know it's risky, but if you use a site with a proper tagging system you can propably find what you're looking for if the book is popular enough
@@liljatupsuI tried that but it just ended up being all shipping ): not really my jam
that's one thing i really like about star trek shows like ' deep space nine ' although there is a lot of stuff about war and morality and philosophical questions and difficult situations and such.....it still takes the time to let the characters sit down for a moment and enjoy life and living and showing what life is like in that world without it constantly revolving around conflict and constantly raising the stakes. you get to see the characters live and breathe instead of, metaphorically speaking, being out of breath running for their lives all the time. My favourite episode is one where the captain of the starbase just meticulously builds a solar powered spaceship made of cloth and wood like people did in the ye olde days and it's a really sweet and wholesome story. Just a man in his downtime building a lil boat.
pacing and moments of rest are very important for stories.
I suspect a lot of people swing towards the cozy genre since a lot of other works of fiction follow the trend of hyperfocusing on the action and the conflict so much so that in order for a reader to experience those missing parts lacking in those stories they have to go read a completely different story that hyperfocuses on those missing parts
Stories that have dark themes but still make the time to have moments of calm and levity are the best. There's nothing wrong with wanting something cozy and unchallenging, but you need to have some variety. When someone insists on only consuming cozy fiction it just comes across to me as a refusal to experience any kind of negative emotion.
Just realized that the draft I've been playing with off and on for three years, in which a large, sapient, disembodied tooth is in love with a man whose head is a lobster, is cozy surrealism.
that sounds like so much fun
Is the lobster a human body with just the head of a lobster? Or is there an entire lobster mounted on a human neck?
@celisewillis An entire lobster.
I bet Poe isn't so cozy in his grave after "The Cask of a Macchiato".
Puns like the Casque of A Macchiato is why i subscribed to this channel. Love ya Mr Genric 🎉
Came here specifically to compliment that pun
Honestly, that pun is like 60% of why I made this video.
You're right, that one knocked me out
"Titus andronicus and cinnamon apple pies" gotta be my favourite in this genre
Personally, I really enjoyed “Live Laugh Lovecraft”
Lloyd Alexander's The Black Coffeepot
Me explaining Slice of Life anime to my friends.
Yes
I love it when I tell people “I love Terry Pratchetts discworld” they think I just like “cozy fantasy” THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I have been recommended Legends and Lattes should be a crime at this point. I’ve read Legends and Lattes! It was ok, but I definitely didn’t love it the way I love discworld. “Cozy fantasy” I will argue is the most confusing genre. I can talk for ages about this!
the discworld books are so good that liking them doesn't really tell you anything about someone's taste. they're amazing, of course everybody likes them. i refuse to recognize your existence if you don't.
Diskworkd isn't even cozy! Except for the Tiffany Aching series perhaps
@@juliamavroidi8601 my dude, I just finished reading nightwatch last month. The amount of uncozyness and deep heart wrenching PAIN that book put me through was insane! I’m honestly so very perplexed on why so many people say the discworld is cozy fantasy
@@crediblesalamander8056 I’ve never read anything like discworld, and don’t think I ever will find anything like it. It’s truly magical! Honestly they are some of the hardest books to recommend. Most of my friends that I’ve tried to share this series with just have a preconceived notion that it’s just silly fantasy for laughs like Hitchhikers Guide TTG. And when I recommend it to people who haven’t read much fantasy, I just loose them at “it’s a flat earth laying on the backs of four el-” and they dismiss the series. I’ve never loved a series so much that I couldn’t recommend it. It sucks
@@crediblesalamander8056I find them to be mid at best
1:30 NO ONE GOT THE OEDIPUS JOKE?! Ill explain:
"Who opened a bakery? Cuz I can smell the inn bread"
It's basically slice-of-life, but cozy.
Okay, but what if it’s a tea house instead of a coffee shop?
I’d make fun of the genre, but I know as much as anyone that we readers do what we can to
cope. One of the reasons I got way into folk and fairy tales for a while was because I felt I couldn’t cope with the scope of most epic fantasy. So, I stuck with a genre that seemed to care less about the rise and fall of kingdoms and more about whether the main character was happy by the end of the story.
Have you read The Goblin Emperor?
I recommend Phantastes by George MacDonald. He was a Victorian writer who inspired both Lewis and Tolkien. A novel about one man who wakes up in a magical land and wanders through it to find his heart's desire.
“How can tragedy be cozy?” Japanese media does it all the time.
I was very disappointed to find out Cambrian Park by Wilbur Browning is not real.
Found the support group I was looking for 😢 it sounded so kickass
Ogre will never understand finnigans wake at this rate
Ogre too stupid, ogre can only understand surface level themes like nationalism
Cozy dying world sci-fi..
That's the ten year plan of every tech billionaire
that's @lukehumphris animations
no traffic and you can park anywhere. What's not to love?
I can't remember any names on the spot, but I'm pretty sure that "post apocalypse, but it's not threatening, whoever survived tries to enjoy their life, and it's just all melancholy" is a description of an actual genre
Girls Last Tour
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” -George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
So it's a thousand cozy lives - just think of the chill life experience we can absorb!
@@MagusMarquillin ☕️☕️☕️
"The end of a saga is the end of a life...
... that's why I ain't finishing mine, motherf***ers"
George R.R. Martin, probably
@@Yarblocosifilitico Michael Ende did it first by writing "The Neverending Story". Probably because with his surname he thought he really needed to do something.
It's funny bc I wouldn't want to live as a woman in his world. Choose between being the Madonna who dies in the backstory or the Whore who dies in the story story lol
I do actually relate to having had the thought that, at least to me it started feeling like a lot of fiction was moving into this "everything is very sad and realistically pessimistic" vibe, but I think my solution as more "broadening my horizons" than "detox" lmfao.
I still love Song of Ice and Fire.
I personaly would btw. disagree a that the pessimistic approach in fantasy is even realisitc and think that it says alot about our times that "realism" equals "things being bad". In case of historic fiction that makes me really sad since it´s often wrong. The best example is that all ways are allways muddy and all cloths are patchwork.
I'm in the middle of Cozy 1984. It's just about a guy working with his big brother in a coffee shop, really good.
bro reinvented Nyaruko Crawling with Love in less than a minute
Love that anime. So cozy
Sometimes I think I’m a good person who’s trying to be better and bring goodness into this world, then I remember I didn’t like Legends and Lattes
"I feel like that's worse somehow"
Yup. The thing that aggravates me about cozy fiction is that it often times does have all the problems that other literature deals with, it's just completely ignorant of them and fails to deal with them in any way.
@@peaceofcrap I mean, it's definitely worse, because it implies modern times, and while the incest between a parent and a child was a taboo throughout the entire human history, we now realise how much it impacts mental health, not only that it's morally wrong
Now I‘m just hoping for "Tress of the Emerald Tea", which takes place in an alternate universe where Tress and Charlie never had to go on an adventure and end up settling down together, opening a cozy and quirky tea shop where no two mugs look the same and you can trade in a mug of your own for a hot meal, so long as it has a story to tell.
Oh I see this was an elaborate setup for all
The title puns
This channel is getting more and more unhinged in the most nerdy way and I freaking love it 😂😂😂
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth's Coffee and Eclairs.
Brilliant.
@genericallyentertaining , oh my, thanks! 🙂
cozy tragedy is when the tragedy happened and all the main characters are just tired from all the politicking and murder and they just sit down at an inn vibing
I feel like there a lot of stories out there that, in some capacity, successfully embody the weird label of like "cozy horror" or "cozy tragedy". Over the Garden Wall is famously seen as a comforting watch despite it containing some pretty disturbing imagery and having its roots in more unsettling horror tropes. A lot of manga also does the "cozy tragedy" well, especially the one shots about apocalypse/post-apocalypse setting. Imo as long as you don't try too hard to force the "cozy" feeling into the story, it'd turn out good
Usually I like for my real life to be cozy and my fiction to be kinda dark and fucked up
Do the "Sucker for Love" games count as cozy eldritch horror? Hahah
Cozy mystery has been a
Subgenre for decades.
Love that this is some how a critique of the genere and yet also perfectly explains why people are reading cozy fiction in the first place. Personally i hate the coffe shop au thing, but give me a farmer au and im down
I'm a cook, so I'd be interested in cozy cooking
“cambrian”
“large ocean predators”
pick one
It’s funny because i see engaging with gritty, grim and dark fiction as my «cozy, happy place». To me it’s the thought of «cozy for the sake of cozy» that gives me a weird vibe.
I guess you can say that you are comforted by the disturbing and disturbed by the comfortable
i guess it'd be nice if not every fantasy world had slavery
Becky Chambers's "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" is so very, very cozy
For a change from the cozy coffee shop, you should try the cozy bookstore setting.
0:50 I'm sorry.... but can you say that again please?
I love the fixation on coffee shops.
You know it's a good video when you go to like the video and you've already liked it.
Cozy blood meridian is my personal favorite.
I hate to bring her up but... this is what Lily Orchard wants all media to be lol
1:55
Somehow, those sound like titles for porn-parodies
You mean like Finnegan's Wank ?
Hairy Pooter and the Busty Barista Coffee Shop Cream Pies
we sniff all kinds of delusion catnip these days but its still nothing new under the sun.
You got me so excited for Wilbur Browning only for me to google this book and find out he doesn’t exist
Cosy Rama, Rendezvous with an interstellar coffee shop
He's just an honest level 4 retired ranger, cooking, woodcutting, raising some kids, and watching out for an orcish horde. Pretty cozy.
This man gave Granny fiction an absolute beautiful scientific academic sounding term and I absolutely love it
I really want to read cozy cosmic horror!
... but then again I already find cosmic horror kind of relaxing, because it's the kind of horrible stuff that DOES NOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE. It's so far removed from reality, other than violence, SA, humans being horrible to each other in every conceivable way, that it does not really scare me. It just piques my interest.
Also, what was this book about Cambrian Park again? I did not understand the title.
Cambrian Park would be a cozy version of Jurassic Park, because instead of big dangerous dinosaurs you'd just have trilobites, jellyfish, and various weird little slug creatures from the Cambrian Era
@@EvanMe I want hallucigenia.
I feel like the best thing to do for a “fiction detox” would just be a Fraiser marathon
Cozy cosmic horror is pretty good, but I still prefer romcom cosmic horror. Nyarlathotep in the anime Nyaryko: Crawling With Love! is just a lot better executed than in Cthulhu Coffee where she takes a back seat to Cthulhu.
Thanks to this video, now I understand concepts like "VA-11 Hall-A" slightly more. A cozy cyberpunk. Very punkish.
VA-11 Hall-A is so good.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is definitely cozy cosmic horror. The moral of the story is “there’s no place like home”
Your ploy failed, now I need a cozy little story about a nomad, an ex-corpo, and a street urchin starting a coffee shop in Night City. The twist is that through a series of hijinks and shenanigans, much of the clientele is convinced that the goods contain various drugs that provide benefits in combat, and keep trying to trade guns and crop tops for pastries.
I'm memorizing that speech for the next time someone asks me.
"A Portrait of the Latte Artist as a Young Barista" got me.
I thought I liked cozy books, but maybe I don't actually like Cozy books.
A PORTRAIT OF THE LATTE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BARISTA ?? This is so good help
The cask of a macchiato is actually so brilliant
0:47 “cozy cosmic horror” L.O.L.
God will strike me down if I say this, but this is just Lillian Orchard
I feel like cosy Finnegan's Wake would be a normal Irish wake but with some pumpkin spice lattes and hot cocoas thrown in to enhance the general happy wholesome vibe
Reject the postmodern nihilistic critique of capitalism. Embrace the world’s biggest multi-genre coffee shop chain.
"It's not really that intense"
I don't know man, those trilobites can get pretty big!
My bookstore friend and I agree that the cozy subgenre is what you get if you take a feel-good plot and then remove all significant conflict from the narrative. The result is just like a PSL: easily marketable but otherwise unfulfilling.
Cozy novels still have conflict, but it's usually centered around local and personal issues. Not every book needs to be about a boring chosen one saving the world from Dark Magic User™
I went to my local non-Euclidean coffee shop. Cthulhu wasn't there, but Euclid was. I turned around and walked out. I wasn't ready for that kind of confrontation.
That's just a business strategy to sell more coffee.
Good video man, keep up the good work
Just need some cozy mythology and we're set.
I'm trying to figure out what the message is here, i think it's: let people enjoy what they enjoy, even if it's clearly objectively stupid and they are being annoying about it.
cask of a machiatto was hilarious
Wait why does it actually sound good
Meanwhile, I'm reading Farseer, Dune, and Kierkegaard all at once and constantly having an existential crisis wondering when the crazy rollercoaster will be fun instead of scary
I just made a PowerPoint presentation about James Joyce, so I can understand the "cozy Finnegan's Wake" joke.
Maybe the real Coffee Shop AU was the friends we made along the way
the absolute legend, he never- wait wrong channel
"Cozy Cinema" needs to happen.
I never understood the appeal of cozy fiction but I think I actually get it now.
Please give me the cozy cosmic horror tho.
Ok, but I need this.
Definetly need this.
Now I'm interested both in a Cambrian Park, and in (original) cozy fantasies.
I was very upset when I found out there is no Wilbur Browning nor a book like Jurassic Park about the Cambrian period. That's a cool idea.
Even though I rarely read cozy stories, I've got nothing but respect for someone who just wants to have a good time when reading fiction. There's enough shit going on in the real world, I can't fault anyone for trying to get away from it a bit in their free time
Okay I wanna read that book he mentioned in the beginning (Wilbur Browning is the author?) but for the life of me I can't find it. Also, as a reader of cozy fantasy and mysteries, this is exactly what I hear when someone starts getting too Big Brain about the genre. Listen, I read lots of genres, and I also read cozy, and I do it because it's fun! I wanna read the cute recipe for a magic charm in the back or look at the food recipe that's for some reason in the back of this cozy murder mystery, enjoy the syrupy sweet pun names for every business in the idyllic town, and have a good time with animals solving cozy mysteries. It doesn't mean every other genre is terrible and unethical; sometimes things are just fun in different ways.
Ah yes, the cozy ramblings in Finnegan’s Wake