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I’ve realized now that stability vs. journey really isn’t the best way of defining what I am searching for.
Family Wonderland better encapsulates the issues I’m wrestling with on this page because:
There are two things I want:
Can those two things be reconciled?
In a way, this tension reflects my own life, yet it seems like the Lord has largely provided the means for me to reconcile them.
What I am trying to do now is reconcile them in a fantasy story.
I’m a restless soul that doesn’t like to leave my house. My life is comprised of two parts, the stable part that I don’t want to change, and the volatile part that is changing all the time.
The physical part is stable. The abstract part is dynamic.
Normally, that dichotomy appears in stories as Portal fantasy or Liminal fantasy, but I don’t want Marloth to be either of those. I want Marloth to be immersive. ‣.
That leaves a dichotomy with a stable fantasy and a dynamic fantasy.
What if I depict the stable and unstable as conflicting forces?