I want someone to produce SciFi/Fantasy films that have zero conflict. Just hours of gorgeous communist utopias with innovative settings, gorgeous landscapes, and beautiful concepts. Oh, and of course, characters queer AF.
Just people vibing, loving, caring, happy to exist and take pleasure in living in a purple star bubble spacecraft or cooperatively alongside cute creatures in a seafoam forest.
I am a writer and I know how storytelling works, but...
sometimes I want my escapism real chill.
The more I think about this, the more I believe it is praxis. We are so frequently presented with visions of the future through SciFi, but often in the form of a warning to inform the present.
However, one of the things we often complain about is the inability of others to visualize a functioning perspective of the future.
What if, instead of designing dysfunctional futures, we occasionally splurged into utopian brilliance and wish fulfillment? Without the projection of our current problems?
@revoluciana I also feel the desire for speculative future-fiction that isn't conflict driven.
I very rarely have the spoons for creative writing, but I try to get this into my microfiction whenever I can.
I do want to disrupt this common misconception that conflict is important to stories, though; that's a hallmark of the oppressive cultural muck we all have to swim in, and it's a lie.
People tell stories without conflict all the time. This is a great resource for exploring already-established cultural story structures that don't center conflict/resolution as the vehicle: https://www.kimyoonmiauthor.com/post/641948278831874048/worldwide-story-structures
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