this is the most amazing #ConflictlessStory I have come across yet, absolutely incredible
Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."
— Karen Boss 🦩 (@kbworld33) December 16, 2022
when i was 12 i really wanted to go to a vampire weekend concert and my mom was like “a whole weekend of vampires? doesnt sound appropriate for a girl your age” and then i showed her a music video and she was like “oh they remind me of the wiggles. ok u can go.”
— misha (@ravepuppy_) December 13, 2022
#InTheWatchfulCity contains conflict, but the core frame story is about a cooperative, mutual, nurturing attempt to create connection that is liberating—for whatever “liberation” means to them—to the characters
I also now curate a #ConflictlessStory tag
example #4728395373 of an amazing #ConflictlessStory
https://twitter.com/LandofGIHA/status/1582493486804135936
*absently wanders back like a professor going down another tangent* and how this applies to storytelling structure, western anglophone fetishization of the active & conflict (x state) literally erases the passive & conflictless (¬x state), but the #ConflictlessStory exists…
this poses a particular issue to writers outside the US and non-hegemonic writers within the US, in that you’re pressured to adapt to certain ideas of what a “good story” entails, such as conflict being necessary, which is absolutely false; see my #ConflictlessStory tag
I would say that the #ConflictlessStory entries are all able to conform to 起承轉合 but not necessarily exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement
a flawless example of a #ConflictlessStory t.co/5CQDqPEG4c
example #482881947483 of a #ConflictlessStory t.co/IKEC0l3olI
another one to add to the #ConflictlessStory tag because while there is a conflict underlying the joke (class conflict and environmental conflict), the narrative itself doesn’t require conflict to achieve story, only chaos