intro to tcfc
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as i vaguely hinted in this post, i'm writing a 50ish page story temporarily titled TCFC (so much has changed in this past year i've been developing the story that that the original title isn't relevant anymore!). here's a bit of an intro + some preliminary vibes for the project.
visuals:
tcfc is a psychosexual communist propaganda piece about working in the arts industry; how art-making is inherently incompatible with capitalist industrialization, how strange it is to assign financial value to something so anticapitalist as art and artmaking, and how we don't seem to want to compensate and support artists fairly for their contributions to society. how "classy" high art is purposely inaccessible and worse quality despite all the funding, how "trashy" indie amateur art is undervalued but appreciated more and often higher quality. it also looks at the ol' marxist theories of alienation in a way that (i hope) can educate readers who are unfamiliar with those concepts.
musical vibes:
dramatic and camp
painfully romantic
straight up delusional
to cope with the Horrors of capitalism and poverty, our main character has to go completely fucking delusional and convince themself that they live in luxury, with symphony orchestras and operas and dramatic star-crossed-lover monologues in the moonlight.
the story follows three queer and genderslippery clowns who perform regularly in a shitty old greasy old cabaret -- one freaky-contortionist-physical-comedy-acrobat type clown, one politically charged and quippy court jester, and one big sad pathetic wannabe pierrot. the cabaret is a side business run by the industry's biggest and most beloved actor, who created the cabaret to entertain his sleazy industry friends and to fund his own theatrical productions. he has a new show in the works, and he's been known to offer an audition to the cabaret performers he likes the best, giving these overworked and underpaid performers their big ticket out...
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