# Contextual Subgenres **URL:** \ **Category:** Dramatica Theory\ **Created:** [June 30, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/contextual-subgenres/1893 "2018-06-30T12:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 129
**Author:** ![RailwayAdventurer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@RailwayAdventurer](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/RailwayAdventurer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/contextual-subgenres/1893/129 "2019-03-02T20:07:44Z")
> [@pattyloof](#): > > Someone in the hotel is poisoning the staff. Since the honeymooning couple are both former private eyes, they offer to help. Sounds cool! > [@pattyloof](#): > > I suppose this could be a Survival story, but it’s a fairly light-hearted cozy which is why I hesitated to call it that. Understood. All the same, lighthearted or quiet conflict is still conflict if illustrated as such. Also, @jhay’s definition of the Survival subgenre is “where characters attempt to survive day-to-day in an **unfamiliar** or hostile situation,” so the Universe/Situation in the story need not necessarily be life-threatening. For example, @jhay provides “a single mother tasked with taking her sons camping” as an example of the subgenre. Source: > **[Contextual Subgenres](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/contextual-subgenres/1893/100)** > > Presenting the Universe quad! This one was quite tough, in terms of finding a way to describe them that would separate them from the other domains. I think this will be the one that will go through the most changes as I start to understand it a... --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/contextual-subgenres/1893)._