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Author: Madrugada

Feb 22nd 2009 at 10:52:34 AM

It's not paranoia, though. They really are out there waiting, waiting, waiting...

Sorry. But WeirdFiction is the name used outside this wiki, and I think when there's an established name we need to have a bunch of really good reasons to relegate it to a redirect in favor of something else.

Oh, and those two objections to WeirdFiction that I promised to address:

Aside from starting with "w" i don't see how WeirdFiction is too close to WidgetSeries. They don't sound alike and they don't even have the same number of syllables. WidgetSeries is something that's odd or out of the mainstream; WeirdFiction is the genre that is based in a universe where humans and earth are insignificant and the other inhabitants are bigger, and more alien than we can imagine.

Second: that it's too broad. It's only too broad to people who don't know what it is and don't bother to read the description. The same objection can be made to at least 50% of the existing trope names. We can't do anything for those people short of adopting a naming scheme along the lines of TheHeroWhoIsInexperiencedAtSexAndDoesntUnderstandIt instead of ChasteHero: they are choosing to remain uninformed.