It can be good as long as the thing being described is worthy of the description. Moorcock for example often goes into not just imagery but utterly dreamlike prose. And people like Hal Duncan are sometime impenetrable. But also they’re literally describing things like a dimension ripped apart by chaos until geometry breaks down or the sympathetic magic of trying to mantle Ianna and become a god by performing her journey to the underworld in a modern setting.

This take is giving major STEM-lord energy

I’ve thought about this and seen threads like this before. I’m not sure what I think. All I’ve arrived at is “Sometimes I like descriptions that use metaphors and/or similes, and sometimes I don’t”. When they’re good, they give me a window into the world as the characters perceive it, or as the author wants to convey it. When they’re bad, it’s like being trapped with someone who won’t stop reading you their terrible poetry and refuses to take the hint that you’re not interested.

Jesus Christ, this thread is incredibly depressing tbh. This is like “the curtains were fucking blue” level shit.