badcompany_muse; A Happy Place

[salvagestime]

Utopia - 1551, from Mod.L. Utopia, lit. "nowhere," coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying perfect legal, social, and political systems), from Gk. ou "not" + topos "place." Extended to "any perfect place," 1613. Utopian originally meant "having no known location" (1609); sense of "impossibly

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[handysparehand]

I love this. A really awesome take on Utopia. Bonus points for being influenced by one of my favorite short stories as well. I love this so much. Utopia/Dystopia ideas always fascinate me, and this prompt is no exception. Brilliant <3

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[salvagestime]

Me too! The other piece that influenced this, by the way, was about a group of people going through the universe destroying utopias, because only disorder could breed knowledge while utopias bred nothing. It sort of reminded me of the way the Doctor causes governments to collapse because he sees something wrong with them.

/ramble ramble

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[salvagestime]

YOU WENT TO BED. But I found what you wanted!

That is Somtow Sucharitkul's 'The Inquestor Series' which is about the utopia hunters who destroy them. It's a little older and rarer but if you scroll here you can find all the stuff in the series to look for if you're interested. The first one is actually 'The Thirteenth Utopia' but that's only found in sci-fi magazine collections, I think. The old sci-fi magazines are pretty fascinating themselves

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[shatteredqueen]

I remember having to read 'The Lottery' in school. I was never very impressed by it, myself. I wanted to read something a little longer that explored dystopias.

So I read 1984, instead.

[shatteredqueen]

I loved this, Kisha. I love how it explored the utopia/dystopia idea, how the Doctor reacted and how the culture of one people can be perceived by the culture of another. And his meddling! Even though his meddling might end up killing more people, it's still a better life than what they're leading. I love that.

[salvagestime]

I've been trying to write this idea for a while. I'm not entirely sure what made it work but I'm glad it did!

[salvagestime]

You'll be happy to note I actually saved those bits for once! But thank you very much, I'm glad it worked.

[salvagestime]

I'm too lazy to delete things that I actually hit save on

I MEAN YAY.

[mind_the_tardis]

The cracks in the community were thrown away. <---Really nice line.

Also! Octavia E. Butler! "Bloodchild!" Octavia E. Butler! *does the Dance of Octavia E. Butler is Awesome*

[salvagestime]

We read her for class! The maggots part sort of scarred me for life but she's a good writer.

[mind_the_tardis]

She's spectacular! A little bitter-lonely, I think, but she also writes these warm, weird, love story things. "Bloodchild" is a pretty good sample of that. I'd suggest her Xenogenesis trilogy-no maggots, and the characters are lovely, tough but sympathetic. Or if you want a one-novel sample on all of her same favorite themes, she wrote a kind-of-vampire story, Fledgling, which isn't bad.

She died a few years back, which made me SAD ;_;