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I have noticed that when recommending media I am tending to flinch away from calling it 'good' and instead tend to call it 'fun'
even though both are entirely subjective concepts, I feel like if I call something 'good' I sort of have to defend it in terms of successfully executing things like writing three-dimensional characters and having themes and all sorts of other things people who know art talk about. I am bad at identifying those things though, while I am usually pretty confident of whether I'm having fun reading something.
Maybe this is unnecessarily defensive, but it's not like I've never had the conversation going 'I think [thing] is good' '[thing] is bad because of x y z' 'I don't really have a counterargument to x y z but I still think [thing] is good'
even though both are entirely subjective concepts, I feel like if I call something 'good' I sort of have to defend it in terms of successfully executing things like writing three-dimensional characters and having themes and all sorts of other things people who know art talk about. I am bad at identifying those things though, while I am usually pretty confident of whether I'm having fun reading something.
Maybe this is unnecessarily defensive, but it's not like I've never had the conversation going 'I think [thing] is good' '[thing] is bad because of x y z' 'I don't really have a counterargument to x y z but I still think [thing] is good'