AHC: Create a new Sub- or Microgenre

[Plateosaurus]

I'm a bit interested in small obscure genres or subgenres, whether films, games, music, or literature. The goal of is to make up one of these, kind of like my Whateverpunk thread.

Gathering Metal: A genre combining metal with indigenous american instruments, typically drums, and highly associated with the southwestern US, great plains, and pacific northwest regions (both US and Canada), and often critiques the treat of native american culture throughout history. Had a brief rise in popularity in the early 2000's with the Calgary band Ceratopsian, and still have some influences in the late 2010's.

 

[leopard9]

Okay, let's see if I can do this right.

Crowned Knight: A fantasy/Middle Ages sub-genre that features a lowly knight eventually winning the admiration and/or respect of his peers and leverages his social power to eventually overthrow the current rulers and become king. Can be remixed to feature magic, science, optimistic or grimdark tones, etc.

 

[Mister Abbadon]

I-Punk/Millenial Cyber-Punk


A sub genre of cyber punk, generally written after the turn of the Millenium. More like classic cyber-punk than post cyber-punk in tone but visually different. While Classic cyber-punk started with the idea that technology will creat new problems for the world, and post cyber-punk with the concept that tech will solve some of the worlds problems but change others, I-punk holds the opinion that technology will make the worlds existing problems much much worse. Visually stresses sterile white buildings and tech, minimalism, and less noticable augmentations.

 

[ClockworkDawn]

Softpocalypse

A sub-genre of Apocalyptic fiction, of a noticeably more non-violent type. These typically involve a humanity that is reaching its inevitable end, not due to war or an unknown foe, but to a less violent fate such as universal infertility. These typically involve themes of accepting your fate, and the reclamation of the world by nature.

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

ZardZOTs -- alternate histories that involve flying gun-spewing idols showing up at various historic junctures.

 

[Sam R.]

The actual history of House/Techno kind of make this unchallenging.

 

[GrahamB]

Fantasy How-To Manuals: wherein the reader is taught practical lessons in fantastical skills entirely irrelevant (but often related) to real life. Notable example include:
"A Practical Guide to Mandrakes: Their Cultivation, Safe Harvesting, and Uses" by Lady Vanelope Bruunskup
"Field Guide to Major Salamanders and Minor Dire Toads" by Grandnuff (Dr. Wiz. Git.)
"Weaving Patterns for Flying Carpets and other Motive Fabrics" by Ms. Princilla Buutes
"Castle Restorations and Refurbishments, 8th Ed. (includes sections on exotic materials)" by The Society For Variably Dilapidated Fortifications (est. a -9022)

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

The actual history of House/Techno kind of make this unchallenging.

Are you saying that Deep Witch House, the cross over of Deep House and Witch House, wouldn't take much creativity to propose?

 

[Sam R.]

Are you saying that Deep Witch House, the cross over of Deep House and Witch House, wouldn't take much creativity to propose?

Given that hardcore techno and gabber house is now pushing boundaries with treble melodic loli-breakcore, and that hardcore techno and gabber house is already a micro genre full of nano genres (breakcore) making Loli breakcore a pico genre.

just give it 100 years and monkeys will have used daw to create all the genres.

 

[pompejus]

The Southern, a western-like story taking place in Southern Africa. In the middle of the 20th century populair around the world, but later on it was often considered too racist outside of South Africa, until in the late 90's, after the end of apartheid two very highly regarded movies were made that deconstructed the genre in which the native Africans were treated as sympathatic characters instead of the generaly bogeymen they used to be.

 

[Beacon]

Snap Erasure - A post-apocalyptic revival genre where the only media still remaining in the world are Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, specifically only the scenes where Thanos snaps his fingers and the other characters break into small pieces and disappear. It took 43 years for society to pick up again and by that time, Snap Erasure was already a part of the theatre and performance culture of Neork (OTL New York).

 

[Neoteros]

Acoustic metal: born as a sub-genre of symphonic metal (think Apocalyptica, Nightwish's interlude tracks, or even van Canto), it came into its own when bands started giving the acoustic treatment to other metal genres; at the center of a triangle with folk, prog and symphonic at its edges, acoustic metal concerts are one of the very few places where turtleneck-wearing nerds and edgy goth girls are equally represented.

 

[Plateosaurus]

Jezdec - a genre set in and usually made by central and eastern European and/or central Asian countries, focusing on the lives and exploits of people that work with horses, like cavalrymen and ranchers, typically in the 1600's to 1800's, but works set in other centuries aren't unheard of, such as the neolithic, middle ages or bordering time periods, or World War II or even Cold War. Often considered a precursor/sibling to the western genre, it first emerged in the 1880's, and became a popular genre from the 1930's to 70's, likely in response to american imperialist exports threatening to overtake native cultural products.

 

[overoceans]

Co-operative Christian Music

Explicitly Christian artists and bands(IOW not U2 or Sixpence None The Richer), employing Christian themes non-ironically(IOW not the Violent Femmes), but with a left-wing, Social Gospel bent. Distinct from other biblically-themed protest music(eg. One Tin Soldier) in that it is written by and for people who regard Jesus Christ as the unique saviour of mankind, but vote Democratic or Green.

Like mainstream CCM, encompasses a wide variety of genres. Notable acts include death-metal outfit Thornz, with their lyrical metaphor on police brutality Gaderene Herd, and the folky feminist trio Wisdom's Word, who did the classic politically-pro-choice-but-personally-pro-life number Little John's Leap.

(Minus ASB, there would be very little market for this. I'm thinking of a POD along the lines of "William Jennings Bryan becomes the defining figure of left-wing politics in the USA.")

 

[The Militant Doberman]

Jamahiriya Western — classified as a subgenre of (depending on whom you ask) either Spaghetti Western or Ostorn films, this term encompasses cowboy/western style movies filmed in Gaddafi’s Libya. These films often (though not always) substitute the Libyan frontier in the days of the Italian occupation or the Ottoman rule for the American Wild West though they still share similar themes and tropes with their U.S. counterparts (i.e.: a lone gunman seeking justice in a lawless land/time).

 

[U19qqx01]

Pastelpunk- A subgenre of punk music identified by similar subjects discussed in punk music, but with a less gritty tone than regular punk music. Less real-life instruments are used in pastelpunk than in regular punk, being replaced by simulations of instruments or completely replaced by synthetic sounds generated by computer.

 

[Sriyam Swastik]

Escape room stories, a genre of reality shows and movies where participants or characters of varying backgrounds are put in virtual reality escape rooms, where they must cooperate and compete with each other to escape using hints in the rooms.

 

[nezza]

Cross-species- A world where humanity is made up of either "pure" or "hybrid" eg Homo-Arachnid, Homo-Crustacean, Homo-Avian and the conflicts between them.

 

[British Biscuit]

Botswana Borg — a sci-fi genre focusing on the ramifications of a new ground-breaking, society-altering new technology (nanotechnology, gene-editing, strong A.I., cold fusion, etc.) suddenly & without warning being discovered in/emerging from a third world/socially collapsed nation (e.g.: Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan, etc). Unlike for example utopian fiction/alternative history which stipulates that a country goes down a different path of historical development allowing for a particular breakthrough to emerge (e.g.: T. Bisson's Fire on the Mountain where a P.O.D. in 1859 sets off a cascade of events resulting in a utopian-socialist black state sending an expedition to Mars in 1959) "B.B." tales are characterised by the breakthrough occurring unpredictably out-of-the-blue in a place with seemingly no prerequisites for a scientific revolution. Because of this the genre as a whole has been criticized in certain circles as "lazy" & "empty wish-fulfilment".

The name for the genre comes from a Star Trek fan-novel published online in 2004 where the Borg drones that crash-landed in the Arctic in 2063 A.D. during the events of the film First Contact instead end up in Botswana. One of the drones survives the crash and ends up cut off from the link to the Collective, resulting in the human personality emerging. Although he commits suicide to prevent the nanobots from repairing the link, before he dies he reveals to the Botswanan scientists and authorities key secrets to advanced Borg nano & computer technology. This results in Botswana suddenly becoming the key power on post-WW3 Earth and a much more global-south-dominated unified humanity by the time the Federation is established.

ZardZOTs -- alternate histories that involve flying gun-spewing idols showing up at various historic junctures.

Is this a reference to The Guns of the South/AH.com's Strangerverse?

 

[overoceans]

Deprogrammer Procedural

Anti-cult deprogrammers portrayed as legitimate private-sector law enforcement, similar to OTL's bounty hunters or private investigators. A typical TV story-line is broken into two installments...

1) a DP being hired by someone to abduct a famlly member enthralled to a cult. Action and adventure ensue, with a hefty side-helping of deviant sectarian weirdness.

2) the next week's episode involves the deprogramming, with lots of emotional fireworks, flashbacks to the victim's emtionally fraught childhood, the horrors of.cult life, etc.

Deprogrammer movies follow the same template, just with both parts taking place in the same film.

(This is based on a couple of made-for-TV from the late 70s, in which deprogrammers were portrayed as heroes, even though they were literally kidnapping people who had voluntarily joined the groups in question. My understanding is that the law eventually caught up with the trend toward legitimization of deprogrammers, with some of them facing criminal charges when the people they "rescued" insisted they had been happy where they were.)