I started making private appeals, but I thought I'd just throw this one open and see who responds. No cornies or trolls need apply, please (although I'm sure a thread like this will engender an endless stream of heckling).
I want to get back to this as (it may not be apparent to people) in the last six months or so I have become the most prominent user of Xtranormal State (not Text-to-movie, but the desktop application). I've developed a little cadre of fans who appreciate what I'm doing with hacks, tools, and 3rd party tricks to expand what can be done. In the last few months, Xtranormal has hit critical mass and it's becoming a powerful political tool, which the right-wing has already discovered. So I don't want to sit on my hands and let them dominate the stage. I want to use whatever "name" I'm building for myself (through the trojan horse of lighter entertainment) to finish this story, take direct ownership of it (rather than through pseudonyms), and promote it.
I know there are a few here who have written some good doomer porn lately. Dohboi wrote a really good one about climate lately. Ibon's onto something with his hyper-individualism thing.
What I'm looking for is someone to write a doomer manifesto, something that covers all the bases of limits to growth, but does it in as few words as possible. It's got to be something lyrical, something that flows without putting people to sleep, and yet has enough hard data in it to not seem like just an unsupported opinionated polemic.
This is a big reason why I've been sitting on my animation work for over a year. Everything boils down to this one scene and I feel that if I screw this up, the whole thing falls apart. I can do everything else well enough. I can illustrate the various pscyhologies, the stages of grief, the way we clutch at denial, etc... but when it comes to just coming out and saying "we're screwed and this is why", all I do is second-guess everything I write. So the only way to get through this is to bring others into the creative process.
So if you think you're up to the task, PM me and I'll give you more background, as this is a scene that takes place within a group and there may be a need to break things up a little as I have people in the circle who are analogs for Lovelock, Montequest, Sharon Astyk, Joanna Macy, and so on. The person doing most of the talking is the deep ecologist archetype.
Also, if you know anybody who is good with animated charts and diagrams, let me know. I really could use that as a visual complement rather than relying on stills from google image search.
