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23:12 my personal favorite answer to getting over dystopia is solar punk, my other speculative fiction fixation aside from dragons: www.rob-cameron.com/the-box/sola... My essay on solarpunk and afro solarpunk are all about how to normalize functional hope in science fiction.
Solarpunk noir subgenre
20:43 Yup. You want libertarians? Dystopian overdose is how we get libertarians. #dontdothat!
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Kid's watching Baby Shark. I have time. Backtracking a little. I've seen, normalization used synonymously with desensitization, but they are different. In Daydreamer, 1 goal was normalizing neurodivergence. The other was sensitization to abuse. Charles learns what good love and bad love looks like.
So when you read Daydreamer, the live action version would be Muppets all the way down. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713755...#daydreamer#middlegradebooks#librarians
An eleven-year-old boy copes with the challenges of his city life by weaving his reality into a magical realm of dragons, foxes, and trolls—until he must use the power of his creativity...
TACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED. This was not an accidental parallel. I reread the novel by Michael Ende (Did you know it was a German novel?). Also was influenced by the Labyrinth. My oldest daughter was 4 at the time. We rewatched the dance numbers from the movie before bed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6DJ...
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13:48 Normalizing a perspective allowing all people to live with human dignity. This is the correct function.
@charliejane.bsky.social 11:21. Yes, the precarious value of that word "should." 100% agree. "You should aspire to be this thing that maybe wasn't meant for you is all kinds of dangerous." Adjectives matter. 11 different meanings to the meaning of "Normal"