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The worst story ever told is: ""A person wanted something. They got it."" The BEST stories are the ones with struggles, conflict, pain, suffering, perseverance and glory. We are all the heroes in our own tales, and it's up to US how we wield that responsibility. What do we fight for? What do we DIE for? It's not a matter of IF we face the dragon, it's WHEN! From AI to a shifting audience to fearful gatekeepers clinging to power, nobody said this was going to be easy. But the truth about every apocalypse, is it has happened before. Epochs are always on the brink of destruction. Endings are Beginnings. We must not turn away, because the role of the storyteller, the artist, the gamer, the grown up child, the jester, the cartoonist, the dreamer and the idiot is more important in these times of transition than ever, and we are on the front line of this future. An Optimist's duty is to bear witness and not look away. To straddle the line between the fool and the cynic. To become a bulwark with a steady heart and a fixed eye towards quality and honest truth. To find beauty in the ruin. To use the shit of failure to plant seeds of growth. The storyteller's job isn't to fix the past, but to remember THE FUTURE. Will that future be a dusty wasteland full of cannibals, fallout, ghouls and marauders, or will it be an opera dripping with laser courage and cool fashion where children celebrate bees and live in a world where Rhinos still have horns? It's up to US to decide. Bring sketchbooks.