There's this widespread belief that stories need conflict and it's horseshit. Sometimes you just want to be around interesting characters or ideas. Like, *especially* if you're making escapist fiction, you think people don't occasionally want to escape from the idea of struggle? https://twitter.com/pant_leg/status/1200200097461604353

When you learn music theory you get rules like "no parallel motion in fifths" and "V resolves to I" and eventually you learn these aren't bright lines you mustn't cross, they're guides we've observed to have worked in the past. Storytelling classes skip that last part I guess?

Right, yes, it's an extremely Western, capitalist mode of storytelling. https://twitter.com/nightofthecrabs/status/1200551123037364224?s=20