#Is the Island Utopia or Dystopia?

[lachatalovematcha]

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[lesbianaglaya]

thinking about this post from last night and why the idea of a utopia has been so uninteresting to me but is interesting in that context and again i think it's because often the utopia is a front for a dystopia or the utopia is an ending and doesnt offered any examination of what it would be like to actually live in a world where enormous life defining issues just. dont exist. in a utopia where there is death how is grief changed by its context, in a utopia where everyone lives forever dont people feel robbed of a 'life' as the conceived of it? those are just the tip of the iceberg but for me a utopia by nature must be so intrinsically different than our world and therefore the ways to live in it must also be different. not to say that the same emotions dont exist but the ways to reach said emotions are running on inherently different tracks than the ones we're used to. anyway fundamentally for me it does all come down to what if this is heaven and heaven is scary and this part from Anne of the Island

#also in the oposite direction immortality SPECIFICALLY. a horrifying concept. i have the RIGHT to die. #gabby.txt #id in alt

[spiritofjustice]

just found out that utopia, on an etymological level, means “nowhere" (or, literally, “no place”). interesting to think about how the Nowhere Islands were considered a utopia prior to the Pigmasks.

if you think about it like that (insert “it’s not that deep” image here), it feels like Nowhere’s utopian nature inherently forewarns its own demise.  no place can ever be utopian, and even Nowhere, paradoxically existing as utopian and not at all times, can’t escape that.

like, even prior to the Pigmasks, i get this feeling that Nowhere was never able to be a utopia forever. Tazmily was built upon the notion of destroying one’s memories in hopes of creating something better. it inevitably led to its own destruction in ignorance of suffering and evil. ignorance of that begets those things, i guess, so inevitably, the utopian paths leads down towards dystopia. inherently, utopia is its own undoing-- at least in Nowhere’s case it is.

there is no such thing as utopia. to have a loving, kind society takes active effort and energy. i don’t think the villagers were selfish for how they chose to go about creating Tazmily; it’s understandable. but it was a lesson to be learned-- that they can’t avoid the effort of kindness. without active choice towards kindness, they became cruel with ease.

it’s why Nowhere can only improve if the people who live there-- not just villagers, but everyone left behind there-- choose to make the world better than it once was. the core of Mother 3 is Lucas choosing kindness at every possible turn no matter the cost, after all.

#Psy's no punctuation posts #mother tag #mother 3 #like theres something to be said there ig #found this out while reading the afterword to 1984 and was so awed by that. had no idea that's what utopia meant! #or maybe i did once but i definitely forgot about it lol #considering the book Utopia gets brought up a lot in World History- it's possible i read some textbook that told me what utopia meant #but hey in any case now i know!

[autumnalwalker]

Writeblr Intro v3

Updating the pinned intro now that it's been a year and my (now previously) main WIP is complete as it's going to be.

Me:

I write as a hobby. It's something I do for fun and first and foremost for myself. But if other people happen to actually like what I write, that's pretty cool too.

I try to keep this main blog primarily writing-focused. I've set up the side-blog @traversedmiscellany for reblogging/posting any other random stuff that happens to catch my interest.

I tend to prefer to keep my online and offline lives separate so I rarely say much about personal details aside from what inevitably winds up leaking into talking about my writing.

I am open to tag games and ask games. Or just general writing-related asks.

If anyone would like to be added to a tag list (whether for WIP updates or tag games), please feel free to send me a message or reply to this post, specifying what you want to be on the tag list for.

My WIPs:

Completed (Is it still a "WIP" at this point? Either way, it's fully online and available to read for free.):

The Archivist's Journal:

A slice-of-life story about waking up on a fantasy tropical island told over the course of a year in the form of daily journal updates. Mostly fairly chill, just living life one day at a time, but with some occasional angst, social anxiety, and supernatural spookiness.

The whole story (just over 330,000 words) is posted on my side blog @thearchivistsjournal. Or if you want to read from the beginning, here's the chronological posting. Or if you prefer to read in a format other than Tumblr posts, it's mirrored over on my ScribbleHub.

Also, here's the post I made when the project was completed for some more meta background on it and what I mean when I call it "complete."

I may eventually make additional scattered journal entries as a sort of periodic epilogue, but Day 380 should be considered the end of the "main story," so to speak.

Ongoing:

Empty Names:

My current main project. Also freely available to read in full as chapters go up.

A bit of an episodic urban fantasy moster-of-the-week sort of deal that's mostly an excuse to have a cast of OCs that I like interact with eachother. The basic premise is a world-hopping adventurer attempts to set up a sword-and-sorcery style adventurer's guild in a modern world where "adventurer" isn't considered a legitimate profession. Has what I suppose one might call "genre-typical violence" with fighting monsters and such, and individual chapters are tagged with more specific content warnings where necessary.

Here's the masterpost for it with links to chapters and to several standalone side stories set in the same world/setting.

I'm much more casual with my update schedule on this project, but it seems to be coming out to posting weekly chapter updates for a month or two at a time and then taking a month or two off from posting while I rebuild my buffer queue for the next batch of chapters.

Also, while it's not exactly a focus, the five characters of the core cast are all some flavor or another of LGBTA+, if that's a selling point for you.

The Witches' Testaments:

A prequel to the currently-hiatused "Solarpunk Witch Story" below that I wrote the loose framework and beginnings of in a sudden fit of inspiration that I may return to sporadically.

The idea was to focus a bit more on the "punk" side of Solarpunk and paint a picture of the effort and rebellion that went into how that world transitioned from Cyberpunk dystopia to Solarpunk... well, not utopia exactly, but something better than it was and striving toward that dream.

And because that sort of thing is bigger than any one person and I had multiple worldbuilding concepts I wanted to touch on, I landed on the idea of writing it in the form of a series of interviews with various characters who lived through that period of change.

Here's the masterpost for it.

Indefinite Hiatus:

Untitled Solarpunk Witch Story:

A project that I absolutely intend to return to one day once Empty Names is finished, but that's going to be a good long while yet.

The story of a freshly-minted "witch" and her AI familiar traveling from town to town in an ecologically-recovering post-capitalism future, providing highly-specialized tech support and environmental consulting wrapped up in enough mysticism and aesthetics to blur the line between what's purely technology and what might possibly be some kind of magic. I only ever wrote a prologue and five chapters worth of an initial arc/town/problem to solve, but I liked what I wrote well enough to share all that online. Ultimately this project going on hold was a matter of it being one project too many for me to handle simultaneously on the time combined with a desire to get more experience at traditional prose writing (as opposed to the epistolary format of The Archivist's Journal) so that I could better do the concept justice when I do one day revisit it.

In the meantime, those initial rough chapter drafts are all up online here: Solarpunk Witch Masterpost

Miscellaneous other writing:

On most Thursdays I'll post small (couple hundred words at most) pieces based on various interesting dreams that I've had. Being based on dreams, the content is a mixed bag. Those are tagged under #my dreams. These now have a compilation Masterpost that I'll do my best to keep updated.

Alternatively, if you just want to browse semi-random excerpts and snippets from the above works, I post a lot of that under #tag game.

Some Standalone Short Stories:

(Stories that were either written to be standalone pieces, or appear within something else but worked well enough by themselves that I gave them their own separate posts.)

The Tale of the Merchant and the Blacksmith's Daughter: A sapphic fairy tale (and, in retrospect after writing, possible trans allegory).

The Melts: An attempt to shift what would normally be body horror into the genre of slice-of-life. "What if your body slowly melting over the course of the day were treated as no more serious than the common cold and you still had to go to work?"

Kindly Basilisk: A human mech pilot who wants to be a machine, an AI who wants to be human, and the relationship they form.

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[keposis]

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[fakescorpion]

fakescorpion one piece fanfic masterlist

Piling all my completed fanfics in one place. My favorite characters are Mihawk, Crocodile, and Katakuri. I am also fairly obsessed with seraphim and Charlotte fam. Mihawk/Crocodile has completely taken over my life, I love them unhinged and cruel. Here's my AO3 dashboard (please come talk to me)

Mihawk Crocodile

What could possibly go wrong?

rating: T warnings: none status: completed (oneshot)(~ 2,300 words) genres: canon-compliant, missing scene tags: one piece logic, hilarity ensues, comedy of errors, damaged pride and dignity characters: Mihawk/Crocodile summary: It takes a little bit of time to travel from Kuraigana Island to Karai Bari Island. Mihawk and Crocodile shenanigans. Meanwhile, Buggy fucks up and The Poster(TM) happened.

After Every Storm

rating: E warnings: none status: completed (oneshot)(~ 3,300 words) genres: canon-compliant, pwp, character study tags: established relationship, bdsm, sex toys, cock rings, cock cage, sounding rod, making love, rain, water, wet and messy characters: Mihawk/Crocodile summary: What comes after every storm? (Mihawk and Crocodile have sex in their bdsm dungeon, while it is raining and flooding inside the room…)

Rabbits of The Valley

rating: E warnings: graphic violence, manga spoilers status: completed (oneshot)(~ 7,500 words) genres: canon-compliant, theory, character study tags: backstory, unreliable narrator, established symbiotic relationship, codependency, childhood trauma, branding, dehumanization, allusions to canon genocide characters: Mihawk/Crocodile, Mihawk/Shanks summary: After a nightmare. Mihawk and Crocodile talk about their haunting past, the lifelong trauma that made them who they are today. Meanwhile, they have sex, pleasure to blunt the pain.

in another world, in a thousand lifetimes

rating: E warnings: none status: completed (2 chap)(~ 3,500 words) genres: OPLA canon-compliant, world-building, character study tags: stream of consciousness, opposites attract, belligerent sexual tension, violent sex, kissing and making love characters: Mihawk/Crocodile summary: Intro execution scene. Mihawk sees him first on that day, the man that introduces himself as Sir Crocodile. note: OPLA hawkcroc collection. independent short stories in chronological order, porn with character study.

Seraphim

In God’s Own Image

rating: T warnings: none status: completed (oneshot)(~ 750 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building, character study tags: innocence, loss of innocence, psychological horror, moral ambiguity, empathy, free will, religious imagery, symbolism characters: seraphim, warlords summary: This is what human arrogance has inadvertently created for themselves. A different take on the seraphim dilemma.

Memories in Our Hourglass

rating: T warnings: post-canon status: completed (oneshot)(~ 1,200 words) genres: AU-canon divergence, character study tags: unreliable narrator, established symbiotic relationship, amnesia, memory loss, identity issues, pregnancy, body dysphoria, body horror, psychological horror characters: Mihawk/Crocodile, S-Hawk/S-Croc summary: Mihawk does not remember what happened before, and Crocodile will not remember what happens after. Though once upon a time, they dreamed about finding utopia at the end of the world. note: Mihawk has retrograde amnesia, Crocodile has anterograde amnesia.

Mihawk Crocodile to owe and to own

Mihawk and Crocodile collection, manga canon compliant stories from childhood to adulthood. There once was a prince and a servant, from the dystopia elysium, their fate tangled from the beginning till the end.

IOU By Proxy

rating: M warnings: graphic violence, horror status: completed (3 chap)(~ 10,800 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, unreliable narrator, childhood trauma, blood and violence, body horror, psychological horror, insanity, mental instability, mental disorders, dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships characters: Mihawk, Crocodile, Cross Guild summary: The privilege of royal blood, and the first step in the ladder of preference. A crown is a crown, and divine right is not free. Dracule Mihawk was a prince, and Crocodile was the price that paid for his everything. note: childhood friends.

IOU Be Close / IOU Being Closer

rating: T / E warnings: underage kissing and sex, incest, dubious consent status: completed (oneshot companion pieces)(~ 5,000 words) genres: canon-compliant, character study tags: backstory, unreliable narrator, dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships, insanity, mental instability, moral bankruptcy, mental disorders, schizophrenia, chronic illness, chronic pain, innocence and loss of innocence, codependency characters: Mihawk/Crocodile summary: IOU Be Close: Crocodile is fifteen and gets a rose, Mihawk is twelve and gets his first kiss. A story about childhood innocence and love, that is more than meets the eye. IOU Being Closer: Incidentally, unforgivable perhaps, that they are actually each other’s most traumatic experience. A story about childhood innocence and love, told as an unfortunate horror tale. note: these companion stories explore the darker side of trans identity using chronic pain as literal metaphor, and touch on heavy topics including child grooming and child sexual abuse. please proceed with caution and heed all warning tags.

IOU A Neverland Fantasy

rating: M warnings: implied underage relationship, incest status: completed for now (2 chap)(~ 5,700 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, unreliable narrator, insanity, mental instability, mental disorders, schizophrenia, grandiose delusion, jealousy delusion, dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships characters: Mihawk/Crocodile summary: Grandiose: World’s Greatest, perhaps has always been a contentious title before. So, what exactly makes the greatest swordsman in the world? Jealousy: They say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. note: Dracule Mihawk as a schizophrenic, forever curse and unparalleled swordsman talent. every chapter is independent story in chronological order.

Mihawk Crocodile once upon a fairytale

Mihawk and Crocodile collection, anime canon compliant stories from childhood to adulthood. There once was a knight and a princess, from the utopia fairytale land, and it took them thirty years to find their way back together.

in their golden eyes

rating: M warnings: graphic violence status: completed (2 chap)(~ 5,000 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, childhood trauma, blood and violence, body horror, mental instability, complicated relationship characters: Mihawk/Crocodile, Cross Guild summary: Backstory for Dracule Mihawk and Sir Crocodile. The reason behind the formation of Cross Guild, and the shared traumatic history that leaded to Mihawk hunting marines and Crocodile chasing after the illusive title of Pirate King.

a little kindness

rating: M warnings: dubious consent, suicidal ideation status: completed (oneshot)(~ 2,300 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, unreliable narrator, psychological trauma, insanity, mental instability, complicated relationship characters: Mihawk/Shanks summary: One night between Mihawk and Shanks that changes everything. Mihawk offers a little kindness—once in his lifetime—and the reason why someone like ‘Red-Haired’ Shanks would lose his left arm to a fish.

on this broken pedestal

rating: M warnings: graphic violence status: completed (6 chap)(~ 28,000 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, blood and violence, body horror, mental instability, complicated relationship, conflict of interests, flirting, Crocodile and his 200 IQ plans characters: Crocodile, Doflamingo, Katakuri summary: Story of the first pirate ever inducted into the government Warlord System. This is the most important two years of Crocodile’s life, for the crown, and what it means to change the entire course of One Piece history as one person against the world. note: featuring Crocodile's first meeting with Doflamingo and Katakuri, Crocodile playing Davy Back Fight, and Crocodile being a cruel genius because he absolutely is.

whatever happened to the fairytale dream

rating: E warnings: graphic violence, dubious and non-consent, necrophilia and bestiality, reference uxoricide and filicide status: completed (oneshot)(~ 9,000 words) genres: AU-canon divergence, pwp, character study tags: unreliable narrator, dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships, insanity, mental instability, moral bankruptcy, bdsm, bad bdsm etiquette, body horror, violence and sexual violence, pregnancy mentioned characters: Mihawk/Crocodile, Cross Guild summary: Mihawk and Crocodile have sex in the guild treasury, unsafe, insane, questionably consensual, while learning the secrets about each other’s most broken places. note: this story is extremely fucked up, the characters are insane and pushing all acceptable societal boundaries, proceed with caution and heed all warning tags.

Charlotte family and Big Mom Pirates To Carry the Charlotte Name

Charlotte family, fluff and violence, canon compliant backstories for this beautifully dysfunctional crew.

As a Charlotte Child

rating: M warnings: graphic violence, additional warnings status: completed (6 chap)(~ 16,000 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, childhood trauma, child neglect, dysfunctional family, protective siblings, blood and violence, mental instability characters: Perospero, Compote, Katakuri, Daifuku, Oven, Amande, Opera, Cracker, Custard, Brulee, "Big Mom" Linlin summary: Charlotte Linlin wasn’t always an Emperor, and it was not so easy growing up or surviving as children of a neglectful pirate mother. This was the beginning before Big Mom Pirates fame.

Family Album

rating: T warnings: non-graphic violence status: completed (8 chap)(~ 40,000 words) genres: canon-compliant, world-building tags: backstory, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, family bonding and family feels, protective siblings, mental instability, complicated relationship and friendships characters: Charlotte fam, "Big Mom" Linlin summary: Every chapter is independent story in non-chronological order.

Friends, Meet Family

rating: G warnings: graphic violence status: completed (12 chap)(~ 27,000 words) genres: AU-canon divergence, world-building tags: meet the family, dysfunctional family, family shenanigans, hilarity ensues, humor, conflict of interests, complicated friendships characters: Big Mom Pirates, Strawhat Pirates summary: When news got back to Tottoland that battleship of a certain Charlotte daughter was spotted within the mysterious Florian Triangle, Katakuri was tasked with the mission to retrieve his runaway little sister. note: featuring Big Mom Pirates and Strawhat Pirates meeting during Thriller Bark arc.

Lullaby

rating: E warnings: dubious consent, underage, incest status: completed (oneshot)(~ 5,000 words) genres: AU-canon divergence, world-building tags: childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships, incest, polyamory, infidelity, insanity, mental instability, moral bankruptcy characters: Perospero, Katakuri summary: Perospero managed the largest orphanage in the world. Inside, hid a well-kept secret in Tottoland. note: this story is extremely fucked up, please proceed with caution and heed warning tags.

I am an extremely slow writer, so apologies in advance. I will keep this list updated as I gradually finish my wip buuut please don't hold your breath and I will try my best. Lots of hugs.

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[whilereadingandwalking]

Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan, is an excellent anthology examining what life might be like in the recent, climate-disaster-haunted near-future.

It starts off with an interview about utopia, hope, and future with Kim Stanley Robinson, and then dives into 10 stories by authors including Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Sarah Gailey, and more. My favorite story of all of them was "Legion" by Malka Older, which I've nominated for the Hugo Awards—the execution is superb in this story about how surveillance could be turned to the use of the oppressed to create a community of safety and scare the violent into non-action. I also adored "Down and Out in Exile Park" by Tade Thompson, a story about the possibility of utopia on a floating island of plastics off Lagos; and "Do You Hear the Fungi Sing" by Chen Qiufan, translated by Emily Jin, a queer tale of fungal networks and change.

All around, these stories dive into the utopias and dystopias, the resistance and complicities, that might result from our man-made disasters. The collection has everything—from mermaids to drone delivery to a cannibal Tom Hanks.

Content warnings for violence, ableism

#tomorrow’s parties #jonathan strahan #short stories #sff #sci fi #my book reviews

[estrangedfiances]

the world if the beatles had indeed started a commune in a greek island

[an image of a city. it is neither an utopia nor a dystopia. it presents a world as good and as fucked up as ours, but in new and exciting ways]

#the beatles

[truth-bound]

saiki k homestuck au because i have brain worms

(u dont need to know the plot of homestuck just that trolls are a fucked up race of aliens on a planet called alternia that basically have a blood based caste system going from warm colors being the lowest to cooler colors being higher. exceptions are the fuchsia bloods who are at the highest caste and are heir apparent. also they are raised by animals called lusus or lusii)

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kuusou is the unhappiest troll alive. despite being the only male (though he hatched as female, he corrected this swiftly after he emerged) fuchsia blood and with every power imaginable for his species and more he has nothing. the truth is he doesnt want to have any power or glory with being fuchsia or for anyone to worship him. in fact, his older 'brother' (a genius violet blood that he was co raised with after their lusii become mated pairs. its a shame he can hear those twos thoughts at all times, they are so lovey dovey it hurts) uses the prospect of revealing his blood status to others as some sick game. kusuke at least built him limiters to contain his growing powers.

though kuusou and kusuke live on the hostile planet of alternia where its a kill or be killed lifestyle, kuusou has never been one for violence and used his latent psychic abilities to brainwash every troll in his island nation separate from mainland to have a more peaceful life. he keeps them all in strict isolation mostly because it would be a bother for both him and the annoyances hes grown fond of if they were exposed to the actually cut throat outside world.

in turn, hes also obscured his island from outsiders so that to all but those hatched on the island and the select few he allows in no other trolls know about it. not even the empress. all for the best, if the empress knew about him he would have to fight her and then become the first emperor which is such a pain. theres others for that. by this, adult trolls can exist without being sent to the space military.

in this weird semi dystopia semi utopia, bloodcaste is more a symbol of inherited physical or psychic ability than inherent roles or status. easier to deal with than the alternative. life resembles life on earth a bit more, and saiki can live in relative peace besides when kusuke tries to expose him as heir apparent. kusuke might just not like the peaceful life of kuusou's little bubble.

he still hasnt found a solution to his fins but nobody has said a thing about it. still, he keeps his blood anonymous just in case.

#tdlosk #homestuck #saiki k #saiki #saiki kusou no psi nan #homestuck au

[roleplayfinder]

Seeking new writers! Keposis is a multifandom group rp server, one that is not a utopia or a dystopia in design, but rather the last effort of a dying kind to save their home world from its imminent demise. Your muses will be brought here after an emotional high or low in their life, and it's up to them to decide what they do with this opportunity. There's potential for any brand of interaction- romance, action, angst, slice of life, anything is possible within the islands shores. The server is strictly 18+ and has a multifandom and oc friendly setting. We’re a friendly and laid back group that focuses on building relationships in interactions in both text form and paragraph form, and will feature several smaller events as well as grander, lore based events as the server grows. At the moment we have muses from Kingdom Hearts, Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact, Jujutsu Kaisen, and more! We'd love to expand our roster, and welcome people from all kinds of different settings and worlds. https://discord.gg/PJ49ckgdxh

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[rpadverts]

Seeking Writers of all kinds!

Seeking new writers! Keposis isn't a utopia or a dystopia in design, but rather the last effort of a dying kind to save their home world from its imminent demise. Your muses will be brought here after an emotional high or low in their life, and it's up to them to decide what they do with this opportunity. There's potential for any brand of interaction- romance, action, angst, slice of life, anything is possible within the islands shores. The server is strictly 18+ and has a multifandom and oc friendly setting. We’re a friendly and laid back group that focuses on building relationships in interactions in both text form and paragraph form, and will feature several smaller events as well as grander, lore based events as the server grows.

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[africare8]

Waterworld 1995 movie

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/plotsummary/

The world I’m creating sounds a lot like the one from Waterworld except it’s less dystopia and more utopia in the settlements. 

I might have to look into different myths that could appear in my world. Like in Waterworld they’re in search of a mythical island called "Dryland".

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Top, Dmitry Gielen, Life-Force, or the Genius of Rhodes, 2023, on view at ISSMAG, Moscow. Via. Bottom, screen capture of Google Map on 2023-02-10 at 6.30.59 PM showing the area impacted by the Kahramanmaras earthquake.

The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and western Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction in both countries.

The initial earthquake emanated from a fault 18 kilometers (11 miles) below the land surface. The shallow depth meant the earthquake produced violent shaking that affected areas hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter. The first quake was followed by a 7.5 magnitude event about nine hours later, as well as hundreds of smaller aftershocks. Via.

It is also the strongest quake to hit anywhere in the world since an 8.1 magnitude quake struck a region near the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean in 2021, though the remote location of that incident resulted in little damage. Via.

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Catastrophe also haunts the theoretical imagination. It even haunts what might seem furthest from catastrophe, which is the utopian imagination. Utopias emerge in response to crisis and catastrophe, figured in the postapocalyptic imagination, as well as functioning to stem catastrophe. Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is, in part, a response to the world of enclosures in which sheep have “turned into man-eaters,” leaving the masses in poverty. Utopias also, as I will suggest, carry the trace of catastrophe within them, not least the catastrophes they try to ward off. Utopias are also marked by the tendency to inhabit the inversion to dystopia, to the point that these forms become blurred. What then of the recent prehistory of our theoretical present? Here we have seen the emergence and eclipse of what I have called the “utopias of the text.” These were the visions, associated in particular with the theoretical moment known as post-structuralism, in which the text emerged as the counter to the limits of any particular text. They had their heyday in the moment of the 1970s, especially in the wake of May ’68. The text now overflowed all containment and dispersed itself beyond the author, reader, or any other limit. It was an uncontained utopia.

Benjamin Noys, from Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Crisis of Hybrid Matter, for e-flux, February 8, 2023.

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A man without a polis is either more or less than a man. A man without property is without a polis. A man without property is without a polis is an animal or a god. There is a decoy private. There was that euphemism, privatization. There was that legal fiction, the corporation. There were the roots of the private, deprivation. There are the de-privatizing forms to fill out for the public. There was an accounting of all the sex partners for the state. There was a weighing of pregnant women for the state. There were those needles in the children for the state. There were the public assistance cards owned by the private banks. There was Citibank and Bank of America. There was US Bank. There was the fact that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody. There is a stake in this. There is my name a poet’s citizenry. There is that this costs me everything. There is that this is in the air. There is all this leaking. There are these things the private: pain, hunger, birth, death, disease, menstruation, rape, sex labor, grooming, food preparation, animal care, miscarriage, abortion, heartbreak, dirt, debt, work, and hospital bills. These are the things that are public————–. There is that the private hurts the man without a polis. There is that the public hurts the woman without property.

Anne Boyer, from Who Are All These People What Is All This Money, in My Common Heart, 2011. Via.

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BOOK LIST: THE BEST OF DYSTOPIAN BOOKS

List compiled by Anonymous

1984 by George Orwell

Have you ever heard the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”? Well, you can thank George Orwell for that. 1984 follows Winston as he struggles to conform to the societal standards put in by the party that controls the government (AKA “Big Brother”). I would recommend this book because it serves as the blueprint for modern dystopian books - and if you like modern dystopian books such as the ones described on this list, you will love this book. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Arguably, The Hunger Games was one of the most popular books of the early 2010s. This book follows the story of Katniss - just a normal girl who ends up volunteering to participate in the Hunger Games in place of her sister. The ‘game’ itself involves a bunch of teenagers getting trapped in an area together and being forced to fight until one person remains. Although this book is violent and quite dramatic, action is not the reason I would recommend this book. The Hunger Games is a book I would recommend due to the complexity of characters that get developed as they go through the games. Many books, movies, and television shows have tried to copy this troupe but none can do it as well as Collins did in this book.

Animal Farm by George Orwell This book is easily one of “the classics” when talking about dystopian books. Taking place on a farm, Animal Farm discusses how a group of animals attempts to overthrow the farmer in order to make a more fair society. While in theory the animals fought for equality for all, it becomes apparent very quickly that some animals see themselves as above this. The gradual decline of the animals from when they first got their freedom to where they are at the end of the book is what makes this book worth reading - and what causes you to put the book down after and really think. Divergent by Veronica Roth The world in Divergent is based on everyone belonging to a faction. People can choose to remain in the faction they grew up in (the most common), or change factions. When the main character Tris has to face this choice, she ends up making a decision that permanently changes her life and the life of those living in this society. Divergent is definitely a book worth reading due to the compelling plot, complex characters, and plot twist after plot twist. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lord of the Flies is not what you might consider traditionally ‘dystopian’ - after all, this book follows a group of preteen boys after they get stranded on a deserted island. However, the themes and character development that occurs throughout the book is definitely in line with the rest of the books on this list. If not required by your school, I would definitely recommend reading this book. Relatively, it's a quick read and will have you on the edge of your seat until the final page. The Giver by Louis Lowry Another iconic title from your school’s required reading list. The Giver revolved around a society in which there is no emotional depth nor color. After the main character Jonas is selected to be the one to receive the memories of life before this society, he undergoes a lengthy and difficult process in which he questions the entire world that he lives on. The dramatic shift from utopia to dystopia is what makes this book such an incredible read - and the narration to accompany it truly makes it one of the best dystopian books ever written. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy Written in the early 2010s, The 5th Wave is another incredible book. This book follows Cassie as she tries to survive in a world that has been brought to its knees by aliens. In my opinion, this book is severely underrated. The 5th Wave is truly a one of a kind book - even though it uses the common troupe of aliens invading earth - which is why it is on this list. Cinder by Marissa Meyer Cinder is a severely underrated book. Taking its inspiration from the well-known fairytale Cinderella, Cinder takes place in a dystopian society with cyborgs walking around (even the main character Cinder is one). Although this book is mainly considered to be a dystopian type book, I would recommend it for the sci-fi aspect of it. It is a very interesting retelling of a classic story, and one that you would not be able to find anywhere else.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A dystopian book about books! Fahrenheit 451 describes a society in which books are illegal and any book found will be burned (hence the title is the temperature at which paper in books would burn). The main reason I would recommend this book, much like 1984 and Animal Farm, is because it lays a foundation for what a dystopian book should strive to be. With a compelling story and characters to go with it, this book is definitely a must read. Ready Player One by Ernst Cline As the title would suggest, Ready Player One revolves around a dystopian society that has a virtual reality game. In this book, the main character Wade searches for an “Easter egg” in this game in order to inherit the fortune of the creator of the game. Ready Player One is the perfect book for both those who love video games and those who have never picked up a controller due to the complex world Cline is able to create in this book. 

The Best of Dystopian Books Playlist

“Hey Kids” - Molina This song has a very 80s-sci-fi movie feel to it and could go with 1984 or Ready Player One. “Radioactive” - Imagine Dragons “Radioactive” is a song about someone’s world being completely changed and now they have to live in it. I think this goes very well with the overall idea of a dystopia and the idea of needing to adapt. “Yellow Flicker Beat” - Lorde The main connotation I have with this song is The Hunger Games, since this song was used specifically for the promotion of the movie. Nonetheless, this song can be applied to other books on this list who also deal with a main character who becomes the face of revolution. “Sign of the Times” - Harry Styles “Sign of the Times” describes someone as they prepare for what the song calls ‘the final show’. I think this song goes with the idea of dystopias because of its discussion of moving onto something better, and getting away from the past. “Renegades” - X Ambassadors The word renegade means someone who goes against society. This song goes with the theme of breaking away from a dystopian society and being independent. “As the World Caves In” - Matt Maltese This song describes the world ending, and how the character in the song only wants to be with one other person. I think the feel of this song of the world ending fits with the theme of this book list, but also explores the romantic aspect that is shown in some of these books. “Skyfall” - Adele Much like “Yellow Flicker Beat” was written for The Hunger Games, “Skyfall” was written for a James Bond movie. Although James Bond is not dystopian, the theme of this song and making “a final stand” definitely fit with the theme of these books. “I Want to Break Free” - Queen I think that breaking free, whether literally or mentally, is a common theme of dystopian books and this song by Queen captures that theme. “Pompeii” - Bastille In history, Pompeii was the Roman city that was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius. In this song, Pompeii serves as a symbol for restarting after a tragic event happens. I think this song goes well with this book list due to the fact that it very much goes with being happy with a change in society, but upset on how it happened. “Welcome Home” - Radical Face “Welcome Home” is about finding inner peace and finding what home is. I think that this goes with this book list due to the fact that many of the characters throughout these books are looking for peace both internally and in their world.

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I think a common problem with dystopia is that it too often says “this part of society is bad” and like that’s good but then it ends there. If that’s bad, what’s the alternative? What’s better? Is there another option? Probably? That’s why I like Huxley but think anyone who gets assigned Brave New World really should have it double-barreled with Island. Hedonistic consumerism stunts humanity, cool: here's an island where some people have ideas on how to oppose that and grow. Warning dystopia without proposed Utopia, or at least improvement, makes me think of that old thing where your mom said, "If you can complain, can you think of something to do about it?" 

Anyway what I’m saying is more people should read Island I guess, even if it seeped into culture in such a way that its tenets are the wooden signs of wine moms now. Except the free sex. That’d make for better potpourri parties though. And authors should consider proposing a better option alongside their Thing Bad, because it shows another level of thinking about it.

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