#media especially horror media which is a genre traditionally built on shock value and making you uncomfortable

[marshmellowtea]

the more i read about cozy horror the more i understand why people fucking hate the idea of this being considered a “genre”

#like i’m not opposed to the idea of blending a softer vibes with genuine scares #that juxtaposition is really interesting to me and i’d like to incorporate it into my own writing more #but from what i can tell that’s not what defenders of this genre want #they either A) don’t want horror at all (or clearly prefer horror made for children) #(which is fine but that’s already a genre you don’t need to reclassify that shit thank you) #or B) are completely misunderstanding the actual horror of certain movies in order to retroactively fit them into their idea of this genre #which is how we get these horrid ‘feminist’ takes about midsommer or the vvitch #also. just gonna say it. branding cozy horror as ‘horror made for women’ is insidious as fuck #plenty of women enjoy ‘normal’ or more extreme types of horror #and don’t need a ‘softer’ version of the genre #and insinuating otherwise is just straight up misogyny lmao #anyway yeah the criticism is less about the genre itself and more about how this is a canary in the coal mine for the further sanitation of #media especially horror media which is a genre traditionally built on shock value and making you uncomfortable #and the more i read about it the less i want anything to do with the term thanks #marshy speaks