I read a lot of frankly terrible superhero comics. Mostly because I started out life as a 90s X-book reader, so by comparison, almost everything is deep and nuanced. Also, I have an endless well of nostalgia for the gigantic backlot cast from that period, particularly the space stuff. So you can pretty much get me to buy anything if you put a Shi'ar or Kl'rt on the cover.
The other weak point is dragons. I am a sucker for anything about them. I've watched more terrible movies, read more brainless fantasy, and put up with more horrific storytelling than I know how to describe, because there was a dragon character, or a dragon on the cover, or a dragon mentioned in the mythology of the backstory of the backup hero.
Eragon, for heaven's sake. (Although I did watch it with the Rifftrax on).
AHAHAH, my guilty pleasure is Harry Potter fanfic of the Harry/Hermione + universe redo flavor. For real, I'll read some of the WORST most HORRIBLY WRITTEN EVER stuff if it's in that genre. And I have.
For real, my best friends make the most adorable and smoking hot More kink knows no boundaries.
I'm also a fan of the early 90's techno/rap area see: Crystal Method and Prodigy.
Not really sure I have any "guilty" pleasures, since guilt necessarily connotes shame of some form, which I'm pretty much pathologically incapable of with the things that I like, but ...
Anything 1980s would probably qualify as "things I shouldn't like, because of my leftist politics, but I do anyway." From its bubblegum pop synth music to its teen sex comedies to its hilariously jingoistic boys' cartoons, everything 1980s was pretty much just a Reaganesque repeated chant of USA USA USA, all passion and artificiality and braindeath, like a suction-cup Garfield doll with a vinyl American flag on its tummy, but I love it anyway. The '80s will always be HOME to me, and it's for this reason that Rocky IV remains my favorite installment of that series, even though it's nothing more than a glorified music video for capitalism
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I also love watching my brother imitate Animal for my 8 year old niece.
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I read a lot of frankly terrible superhero comics. Mostly because I started out life as a 90s X-book reader, so by comparison, almost everything is deep and nuanced. Also, I have an endless well of nostalgia for the gigantic backlot cast from that period, particularly the space stuff. So you can pretty much get me to buy anything if you put a Shi'ar or Kl'rt on the cover.
The other weak point is dragons. I am a sucker for anything about them. I've watched more terrible movies, read more brainless fantasy, and put up with more horrific storytelling than I know how to describe, because there was a dragon character, or a dragon on the cover, or a dragon mentioned in the mythology of the backstory of the backup hero.
Eragon, for heaven's sake. (Although I did watch it with the Rifftrax on).
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Me? I'm a sucker for aliens. I'll read the TRASHIEST sci fi if it has aliens in it.
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For real, my best friends make the most adorable and smoking hot More kink knows no boundaries.
I'm also a fan of the early 90's techno/rap area see: Crystal Method and Prodigy.
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Anything 1980s would probably qualify as "things I shouldn't like, because of my leftist politics, but I do anyway." From its bubblegum pop synth music to its teen sex comedies to its hilariously jingoistic boys' cartoons, everything 1980s was pretty much just a Reaganesque repeated chant of USA USA USA, all passion and artificiality and braindeath, like a suction-cup Garfield doll with a vinyl American flag on its tummy, but I love it anyway. The '80s will always be HOME to me, and it's for this reason that Rocky IV remains my favorite installment of that series, even though it's nothing more than a glorified music video for capitalism ( ... )
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