Hello. I'm thinking about a creativity technique where one could place previous literary works into sets to, abstractly, point to new story ideas. For example, in the spirit of Earth Day: {Captain Planet, The Craft, Final Destination, Saw} As we combine the ingredient stories, in our minds, we might see a space for creating new ones. You've heard of cli-fi, but what about cli-horror? Maybe a coven of witches and warlocks learns summon an entity which dispatches supernatural climate justice? Any other interesting sets of existing works towards creating new ones?
Hmm ... never heard of cli-fi. Googling ... "Cli-fi, short for climate fiction, is a form of fiction literature that features a changed or changing climate. It is rooted in science fiction, but also draws on realism and the supernatural." Well... 'cli-horror' seems to be a subset of 'cli-fi' that emphasizes the supernatural angle, and the most 'horror' thing I know are the pre-deities created by H. P. Lovecraft. But they're not interested in climate justice. Also, the idea that some otherworldly entity dispenses justice in any form sounds suspiciously close to religion, IMHO. Sorry. Interesting idea, though. Here's my take on it: Cthulhu, Nyralathotep and Yog-Sothoth are sitting around on Earth Day ... and they're all bored, bored, bored. So for their own dark amusement, they summon something even more horrible than they are -- the Loudmouth Lawyer. *shudder* What's so bad about him/her/it? Well, he/she/it breeds rapidly, and they infest the minds of humans (in subtle ways) to make them make up their own laws -- and thus you get these abominations: 1. The kind who barge through queues to complain about something 2. The kind who play loud music on their phones on public transport. Without headphones. And on speakerphone 3. Related: the kind who have private conversations in public. Without headphones. And on speakerphone 4. The kind who blast loud music out the window of their car right at you 5. The kind who insist that their rights trump yours ... and never mention their responsibilities 6. The worst of all: so-called Sovereign Citizens ... and so on. Their catch-cry is always the same: "I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!!" ... delivered in an ear-splittingly obnoxious screech, of course ... and it keeps going on and on, until you lose the will to live, and start imagining your own brain dribbling through your ears like candle-wax, and your fingers start twitching for that pickaxe you keep beneath the counter, but using it is against company policy, and so you have to plaster on that fake customer service smile and treat them with courtesy and respect, when all you want to do is yell "SHUT THE **** UP!!!"... Now that's horror.
On point 2, here is a thematically-similar video clip: . : ) Moving from cli-horror ideas, and on the topic of forming sets of stories as creativity tools, here are three more possible story ideas for stories, series, and films. 1. A female climate lawyer protagonist {Ally McBeal, Erin Brockovich}. 2. A climate law firm. a. With a mysterious benefactor? 3. A government climate taskforce {West Wing, Madam Secretary}. In addition to forming sets, e.g., {A, B, C}, to brainstorm new story concepts, another creativity technique might be viewing there to exist abstract "threads" in the arts. Some stories might "respond to" or "comment on" previous ones. See also: intertextuality. So, another brainstorming technique would be to form sets of previous works to respond to or comment on: RE: {X, Y, Z}.
