Against
Entropy
Studios

Making stories about the human spirit in a world where things fall apart.

We’re a recently founded generative dramaturgy studio, we want to create narratives that speak to the heart of the human condition and create art with messages and themes that can change the world. We are starting up the studio now, and are seeking to be entirely independent and crowdfunded.

Methodology

We’re married to art itself, and medium agnostic. We start ideating at the level of story, message, structure, themes, characters, and the narrative artistry, and in the process, find the narrative’s appropriate medium be it a novel, a film, a series, a comic, or musical.

Our ideation process mirrors a research library model. Typically based on the nature of the subject matter we tackle, the process of ideation for a piece will look more like a spiritual and mental journey of the collaborators; involving interviewing people, traveling, debating one another, exploring philosophical arguments, and more, as a necessary component of, not in addition to, the narrative architecture work.

Narrative Catalog

My Tower of Babel

62,137 Words

Two teenagers attempt to connect across an unbridgeable gap in how they know the world; one through doubt, one through faith, and discover that love doesn't translate across incompatible systems of meaning.

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The Eyes

61,992 Words

Superheroes can't solve today's problems. You can't punch away poverty, laser-beam systemic racism, or fight your way through institutional injustice. So what if we imagined a hero whose power was to perceive systems, and asked how our myths catch up with our realities?

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Superweapons

55,709 Words

Deriving causality; seeing the full chain of cause and effect across human systems, is a power that only heaven should possess. A state manufactures it into a child prodigy. When that prodigy escapes, takes over a country, and is about to be crowned Empress, the world has to answer: what happens when superweapons go rogue?

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Tyranny

30,665 Words

A former mortal who climbed to godhood over a celestial empire spanning all of existence has achieved every form of power imaginable and is not fulfilled. This is a creation myth told from the perspective of the creator.

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The Man in the Kingdom of Heaven

25,686 Words

In a cultivation world where Heaven rains down thunder to destroy all every million years, one individual has survived multiple cycles without losing his humanity, and his philosophy of seeking peace rather than happiness is the reason.

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Minds Like Fire

17,601 Words

What if every animal species had the baseline intellect of a human; full interior lives, language, currency, armies, love? What would humans represent to those creatures when we evolve with intellect a billion times more abstract than theirs?

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Outrage

3,347 Words

What if humanity has morally outgrown its gods? The afterlife is confirmed real: hell, heaven, eternal punishment, all of it, and instead of falling to their knees, humanity rises in outrage.

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The Magnitude of Being

In Progress

In a future where every human is a deity with their own pocket universe, the magnitude of emotion can finally be expressed: a rage that would annihilate galaxies, grief that freezes reality, and yet, face-to-face with another person, connection is just as difficult as it ever was.

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Unassailable

In Progress

A man with complete mastery over physical movement conquers every sport on Earth, flattening possibility itself, and forces every athlete alive to confront what it means to hope against someone who cannot be beaten.

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Zoron

In Progress

“Clanker!” In a world of technological abundance where robots possess obvious humanity, prejudice persists anyway, and when that prejudice meets a child who can't be contained by her fail-safes, it produces a singularity built on justified fury.

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The Hive

In Progress

A space-faring Hivemind consciousness navigates a galaxy of established empires, trying to grow, survive, and figure out what it wants; told from the perspective of the collective itself.

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Leadership

Brent
Pennington

Hey, I’m founder of the project, and obsessed with the hardest ideas there are to articulate: the abstract, the systemic, structural. I believe that every time we get to scratch these cognitive itches at the edges of our mind, every time we cry due to overwhelm, or start tearing up without knowing why, it’s what lets us make progress in our personal lives and society as a whole.

Thus, finding people who resonate deeply with a big, abstract, halfway complete thought, resourcing them to build a unique narrative around it, doing the work to explore the concept, articulate it, and make the feeling accessible, is one of the most important contributions I believe I could make to the arts and the world.

Brent Pennington

Independent & Crowdfunded

The studio is entirely crowdfunded and independent. Nothing has launched yet - this site is informational, a statement of what the studio is for and what is already being built.

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