The joybuttons don’t care about bad grammar or triteness or slop, they just resonate to the character shapes that hit one’s kinks.
Uh... I read almost entirely id-candy. Although I can read literary stuff and enjoy it (I just started reading The Silmarillion by Tolkien, and before that I read Atlus Shrugged) I like to read id-candy because it's relaxing/leisure time/what floats my boat.
But that doesn't mean that I like bad writing. Id-candy can be just as valid as high prose. Of course, there are piles upon piles of badly written id-candy and piles of readers who want to read that. But that doesn't mean all id-candy is baby slop. Just because a story has certain charcater types or a certain plot doesn't automatically classify it as somehow being inferior to literary fic.
Id-candy is enjoyable exactly because it doesn’t make your brain engage, it doesn’t deal in subtleties, it doesn’t make you do any work.
Not necessarily, though. Even simple, well used plots can be done thousands of different ways.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the hell out of trite, cliched slop, of course.
But id-candy doesn't have to be cliched slop. It can be just as well thought out as any other genre. Of course lots of people write crap, but that doesn't mean that there isn't well thought out id-candy out there.
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By scarlet-pencil from LJ
Date: 2009-04-25 08:55 pm (UTC)The joybuttons don’t care about bad grammar or triteness or slop, they just resonate to the character shapes that hit one’s kinks.
Uh... I read almost entirely id-candy. Although I can read literary stuff and enjoy it (I just started reading The Silmarillion by Tolkien, and before that I read Atlus Shrugged) I like to read id-candy because it's relaxing/leisure time/what floats my boat.
But that doesn't mean that I like bad writing. Id-candy can be just as valid as high prose. Of course, there are piles upon piles of badly written id-candy and piles of readers who want to read that. But that doesn't mean all id-candy is baby slop. Just because a story has certain charcater types or a certain plot doesn't automatically classify it as somehow being inferior to literary fic.
Id-candy is enjoyable exactly because it doesn’t make your brain engage, it doesn’t deal in subtleties, it doesn’t make you do any work.
Not necessarily, though. Even simple, well used plots can be done thousands of different ways.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the hell out of trite, cliched slop, of course.
But id-candy doesn't have to be cliched slop. It can be just as well thought out as any other genre. Of course lots of people write crap, but that doesn't mean that there isn't well thought out id-candy out there.