Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170129062611

Literati tend can be surprisingly short-sighted some times. A comic strip I once saw noted this effect on video-games and how they are dressed down as a form of art. The same effect can apply to almost any form of art, basically, don't let anyone putdown your preferred work because it isn't a different type of art. You don't put rap down for not being classical music, you don't put poetry down for not being animated movies, you don't put videogames down for not being movies, and you don't put movies down for not being books. I genuinely enjoy The Lord of the Rings books and movies but the things that were changed in the movies from the books were changed for the sake of the new medium, film. That doesn't make an excuse either, the Twilight fans say the book was better, (It was by the way but in the same way getting an ear chopped off is better than getting both eyes gouged out) but it being a different medium does not make the finished product better or worse.

While you should be open to criticism and not elevate anything you like to a place of unquestioning loyalty, never. ever let anyone tell you said work is bad because of the medium it occupies.