[@Shoryu Magami] In no particular order and mashed together because I'm falling asleep and actually heading to bed as soon as I finish this:

*giggles*  I suspect some people might call your stuff detail-porn, then.  *amused*  The fact that you can't think of anyone that meets the level of detail you want is a little concerning, but if you're writing for you and no one else, that's hardly an issue.  I don't see too much contradiction in the two ideas of heavy-handed, but both are decidedly negative, and you used it as if it was positive when handling details, which threw me.  If the details are truly heavy-handed, then I believe some editing would be in order, at least if you're writing a story.  Then again, it's always personal preference, and mine tends to lie in flow.  Unanswered questions are actually great -- Neil Gaiman, one of my favorite authors, does this well, if I remember right.  Leaving things open for the reader to fill in, or making them thing, not telling them outright what is right or wrong, it's great.  Then again, I'm surprised, with your focus on detail, that you would be accepting of such an incomplete picture, given how much emphasis you seem to place on each tiny thing.  Come to think of it, if there is a vest with four buttons, and each button is different, would you say they are different, or would you describe in detail each button, if there is no plot relevance to any of them?  I think the biggest issue with detail-heavy things is that it often falls under the umbrella of marysues and purple prose, things which are almost always big nos -- but then, I'm talking more in a forum sense, and less a published one.  *shrug*  Who knows, maybe you'll make a new type of story.

On the topic of what to call things, I tend to dislike hard divisions and insisting on labels.  Things are what they are.  Do what feels right, and if you must tag it, do that later.

And you're right, it seems we're never going to agree.  I can see where people might get bothered, but eh.  Doesn't hurt me any, and if it makes you happy, that's the important part.

Right, sleep now.  z.z  shylarah.exe has encountered an error and needs to close.