What’s your favorite genre to read and to create?

[kalmia]

Im curious! What’s your favorite genre to read and what is your favorite genre to create?

Mine are actually a bit different from each other.
I love to read Fantasy, Action, and Drama. While my favorite genres to create would honestly be Romance and Drama. I’m not a huge fan of reading romance but i love creating it xD. I’m curious if other people have similar feelings where you like to create one genre but prefer reading another.

[IndigoShirtProd]

I'm like you but the opposite, I almost exclusively read romantic comedies and dramas but most of my comic ideas are action-adventure fantasy. I have thought of creating mystery, horror, sci-fi, and slice of life. But who knows when I'll get the time to work on those ideas... But I think the reason I'm drawn to making action comics I because I absolutely loved animated action shows as a kid.

[SirCoockie]

I love science fiction and comedy, and I prefer to read horror novels and thrillers. Sometimes I read romance when the story feels unique.

[XiuLyn_12]

Definitely Romance! and a dash of fantasy, and action!

[dan_thepainter]

That's very interesting to create one genre but not really read it. My favorite to read is fantasy and action. I also love to create that. The saying "write what you would read" definitely applies to me

[morganicfoods]

I usually enjoy most things fantasy, and love reading stories that are about/related to music. And I tend to write the same! It gives me an opportunity to go full out on the worldbuilding and whatnot.
I also have a soft spot for anything magical girls. xd

[TheLemmaLlama]

I mean ... I don't really go by genre much when looking for thing to read; I mostly lean towards themes moreso than genres. So I wouldn't say slice-of-life/romance/drama is my 'favourite genre to read' in the sense that my favourite stories will be in those genres, but I probably lean towards those because they're harder to screw up; I'm less likely to drop them like a hot potato within the first chapter because they're making my head hurt.

I also like to write slice-of-life and drama, but I also like to go ham on the worldbuilding with fantasy XD I would say my writing tastes and reading tastes are pretty in sync, because I would absolutely adore a fantasy story with well-developed and presented worldbuilding (or maybe just presentations of worldbuilding I'm biased towards, given my own methods :P), but I don't tend to enjoy enough fantasy stories as a whole to declare that I like it as a genre (only that this genre has a high chance of topping my zomgamazing list - but it also has a high chance of bottoming my tc;dr (too confusing, didn't read) list :P)

[darthmongoose]

I don't really choose things to read by genre... and that can make it tricky to find works that I like. A lot of sites and apps are kind of designed to recommend you stuff based on the genre, so if you read a really great superhero story, that has a tight plot, loveable characters and gorgeous art...it'll recommend me more superhero stories, as if the thing I liked about it was it being about superheroes, which wasn't really the case. Netflix rarely knows what to recommend me, because I base my choices more on the quality of the thing, or it having themes or tropes or a vibe I like, than the genre.

I like to browse the LGBTQ+ "genre" (which isn't strictly a "genre") on Tapas, because it's actually one of the most diverse and varied categories on the site. The only requirement in the LGBTQ+ category is that it in some way features queer characters (and it doesn't even need to have Romance between them, it can literally just be like... a bunch of Ace people on an adventure), meaning that it's home to a lot of the wacky, varied sorts of things I love, like Pandora's Devils, which mixes Fantasy, buddy cops, mystery, slice of life and GL elements, but also like Charity Case, which is more of a Slice of Life Drama with some Romance mixed in.

I like to create in that category too, because I don't really think of myself as "writing in a genre". Errant is obviously a Fantasy comic, but it's in a modern day setting, kinda like "urban fantasy"...except the power level is way too high and more like High Fantasy, and it has all these big swords and fights more like a superhero story, so it's like...okay, maybe it's a shounen manga? It looks a bit like a shounen manga! But it's largely focused on female characters and relationships, sometimes more like shoujo or even josei... I originally put it in "action", and then later shuffled it over to "LGBTQ+" where it actually fits in best, because there's stuff like "Magical Boy", "Pandora's Devils", "Hard Lacquer" in there. There isn't really a name for whatever this "queer, sometimes kinda magical adventures with feelings that might be a little subversive" genre is that contains things like Nimona or Lumberjanes, and overlaps with stuff like Steven Universe and Undertale... but there are enough comp titles that I know there's an audience. It's just tricky to categorise!

[Legendofgenii]

I read more history books than anything else, which might be why I mostly draw yea olde things.

[faisalhussein394]

At first, I usually liked Fantasy all thanks to WOW, LOTR, and Warhammer Fantasy and I still do but as time moves on I began to like Sci-Fi all thanks to the contents, and exposition such as Star Wars, WH40K, and Endless Space 2.

I even like horror but more on the cosmic side, and this may not be a genre but I love reading histories, and mythologies that dates back from the bronze age all the way to the napoleonic age and it's what inspires me to make my own comic.

Right now I'm currently making fantasy comics called "Mukhtar" on Tapas, and I'm planning to make a sci-fi comic that is in the Mukhtar universe called "Abbasia" and I'm planning of publishing it here on Tapas by early 2025.

[pixxiepinks]

To read, it would definitely have to be fantasy (only once in a blood moon do I ever read anything that's not, and the things I do read outside of that would probably fall into the mystery/crime genre.)

I also write exclusively in Fantasy. But "Fantasy" is such a huge hard-to-define genre, that can pretty much mean a tiny unbelievable element all the way to LOTR and Dungeons and Dragons. And because Fantasy is such a huge and varied genre, I'll get a bit more specific and tell you the themes i always seem to end up writing into my works:

1. Pantheons (I don't know why, but I love writing stories that include multiple gods, and it's a theme in pretty much all my works. I really enjoy exploring the interesting tangle of emotions and meanings with divinity (Which is also why a lot of my works contain divine horror and trials of faith) If we are made in the image of the gods, then what does that say about the divine?)

2. Identity (What makes a person a person? It's a big question, and one I find myself often weaving into the narrative as the MC meets creatures and people from different backgrounds and/or species. At what point do we draw the line between monster and man?)

3. Family (I love reading stories where the main cast becomes a family unit, something that can never really be separated, a family of choice not blood. Perhaps because it mirrors my own real-life experiences with family,(with blood-family taking you for granted and found-family actually appreciating you) I always incorporate elements of the MC choosing who is theirs and vice versa. The Blood of the convenient is thicker than the water of the womb)

There are a few more tropes I use a lot, like there always being a child main character or LGBTQ+ themes, but I'll stop here before I ramble on forever.
[And thanks to everyone for sharing their own thoughts, they are so interesting to read!]

[Katzalcoatl]

Favorite genre is romance/fantasy. Specifically medieval fantasy korean novels/manhwa. Japanese novels though I would say I like more dark fantasy. Basically anything like revenge plots or maybe killers being reincarnated.

That's what I like to read more mixed with a few GL here and there (I mainly like seeing how pure romance is described in GL novels not all GL are like that though like in any genre you have to look for the good novels).

What I like to write more about is science-fiction and action. Ironic considering how I usually avoid reading science-fiction. I do read many novels for work but I wouldn't say I enjoy it such as how I enjoy reading medieval romance fantasy. But yeah I super enjoy writing such novels. Why? No idea tbh.

[Dei]

My fave genre to read:
Psych thrillers, Horror, Sci-fi thrillers (like Blake Crouch's works), if they have touches of good romantic development then it's a total bonus since I don't like reading straight up Romance books as I find them quite simplistic and candy reads. I want to at least see what the main characters are doing in life other than flirting with each other all the time.

What I've written:
Fantasy Romance (my own version of a semi-modern Middle Earth with selected elements of the Industrial Age, no hobbits, elves, dwarves and orcs though), Horror Romance (has paranormal and psychological themes)

[allisoncandraw]

Slice of life/comedy, both for reading and creating. I'm interested in the mundane

[Kuma]

I like Low Fantasy, High Fantasy, Space Operas, Cyberpunk and Urban Fantasy.

[WLHcomics]

Probably comedy, and supernatural. I grew up reading and watching shows with funny characters and monsters, so it's kinda rubbed off on me and my work. Some of my top picks for funny and/or supernatural content would be anything by Tim Burton, Archie comics, Billy and Mandy, Courage The Cowardly Dog and Goosebumps for example. That's why all my comic series are some kind of funny monster show, I literally have a zombie as one of my main characters.

[Mallory]

It's probably easier to name genres I don't read. I LIKE science fiction slightly above others, but I'm also picky, so I'd rather read any genre book that meets my standards (mostly in terms of characters and how interesting they are) than read within a specific genre, if that makes any sense.

The only one I never touch is horror. I am a scardey-cat, and even for more "gentle" horror that's more spooky and confusing that outright disgusting... I have an overactive imagination (obviously, being a creator, lol) and I don't like not being able to sleep for days after consuming anything horror. I also don't really read romance. I've tried many times, because I am interested in how character-driven the genre should theoretically be. I just get fed up with certain things that show up over and over again. I'm sure there's romance out there to my taste, but I can't find it. I do write romance-driven books occasionally, because then I can avoid the things I don't like.

[Teira]

Favorite Genre to read:Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror
Favorite to Create:Sci-fi

[DarkSena]

I've always been into BL since the age of 15. A first it was just a pure curiousity, but it kinda did grow on me and it's the genre I've been reading the most and now also creating a BL comic myself. I also like fantasy and crimi. Fantasy would be most definitely right the second genre I'd run to if I created a new comic lol

[ThunderChicken]

I like fantasy, sci-fi, humour, and LGBTQ stuff (gotta support the home team!). I also like other genres if it incorporates some of these things; for example, I will enjoy a horror with humour (fun fact: As a kid I was absolutely terrified by the Friday the Thirteenth movies, but had no problems watching Nightmare on Elm Street. The reason? Jason was a psycho killer. Freddy was, too, but he had a sense of humour about it), or a thriller/mystery with LGBTQ aspects, etc.

As for writing, so far the only things I've tried are slice of life/LGBTQ/Coming of age for my first book and shapeshifter fantasy/LGBTQ for my second. I've got a sci-fi "in the chamber", but that one is a long way off.