[ SECRET POST #5894 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5894 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[One Dark Window]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault/rape]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of revenge porn]




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[Project Moon/Library of Ruina]


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09. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia, antisemitism, suicide]

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Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/KbI0e00.png

[(Anonymous)]

I'd absolutely love to see more people writing utopian stories, but this is just such a specific plot setup for one

[feotakahari]

This author posts here sometimes: https://archiveofourown.org/works/249655

(I think City of Reality might be like this too? I haven’t read it.)

[(Anonymous)]

Considering that every real civilization or country that has been widely deemed a utopia at any point has in fact turned out to very much not be, I don't think it's a good moral to say you must be an edgy asshole if you doubt such a place could be real.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, people watch fiction for fantasy and escapism - who would've thought?

Besides, it's not like we all don't wake up from a bad dream sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

Awful take

[(Anonymous)]

Stop learning morality from fiction, please.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

This strikes me as a rather strange take even in this context, given how fiction provides people a space to think and rethink their moral/ethical standards.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Evangelion (TV ending) not basically that

[(Anonymous)]

You think Evangelion was about a utopia all along? Go to bed Gendo, you're drunk.

[erinptah]

...this is kind of the Black Moon Clan in canon, although fandom likes to explore the "what if Crystal Tokyo is a secret dystopia and the Black Moon was right" angle.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that just that from the Black Moon's perspective, it's a dystopia because they're evil so from their moral standpoint Good is Bad and Bad is Good?

[(Anonymous)]

As I originally stated when I saw this, I feel like it's way too easy for a story like this to end up in toxic positivity territory. Executing something like this requires a lot of experience, subtlety, and restraint. I don't think most writers could pull it off. (I know I couldn't.)

[meadowphoenix]

I recently heard about a utopian novel from 1915, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which is basically this.

I want to read it but it was written by a white woman in the 1910s so I heard there's weird race stuff, and it seems that like Dune there's a lot of...moralizing. But anyway it seems like it fits your bill OP. There's a novel before, which is like an alt precursor and one after which is an actual sequel that have similar premises.