Then, when they’ve had enough, they reset the game, and I get to work: picking eggshells off the floor, scratching hardened batter off the walls, patching the holes they’ve blown in the ceiling.Īfter the player leaves the game, their avatar is pulled back up via its cable to the Cloud, where millions of other inactive avatars dangle like a constellation of stars. Their hands slip and their spatulas go flying, whipping batter into the air. Instead of following the recipes I give to them, they deliberately set the kitchen on fire.
They just want to see how much chaos they can get away with. While it’s my job to guide players through the game, I’ve been here long enough to know that most players aren’t actually here to win. In my current iteration, I am a tutorial NPC for a pancake-making video game. Like all Non-Player Characters, I came from the digital primordial soup that lies beneath every video game: an amorphous crawl space where player avatars go after they die.
I don’t reme mber much of who I was before I was reborn. We hope that through this collection you will be able to escape from-and reflect on-the futures, pasts, and presents of our world and those beyond. In this volume, we include many of our favourite topics: fungal renaissance, fairy resistance, post-god cyborgs, family, identity, and connection. We have chosen to promote sci-fi and fantasy genres of art that subvert its classic tropes and reimagine the world without hetero-patriarchal and colonial violence. These genres that have had no qualms representing western dreams of colonial expansion and have allowed for the objectification and exploitation of femme characters. One of our main intentions in compiling this mag is to highlight the work of marginalized writers, whose perspectives have historically been left out of canonical sci-fi and fantasy.
We have curated this collection based on our perspectives as queer, (cyber-)feminist, and anti-colonial femmes. The Sprawl Mag came to be from a cafe conversation and a mutual love of speculative art.
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