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Sparkle Valley Philosophy - "ONE PAGER"

  • J
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 10

Here is a rough and quick overview of the philosophy underlying Sparkle Valley.


Core idea

Growing up tests your imagination, especially in the age of screens. It’s a fight to hang on to what makes you feel alive.

 

The big three

  • Emily (Kierkegaard minus religion): a fractured self who “leaps” back into feeling and meaning.

  • Abigail (Kant, with heart, Novalis too?): moral imagination. Acts because it’s right, powered by love.

  • The Beast / IT (post-meaning nihilism): emptiness posing as “real life.” Feeds on numbness and forgetting.

Cast

  • Ivana (Nietzsche, misread): pride/hunger to matter - self-overcoming/ self-destruct.

  • The Smortzle (narcissistic Hobbes): power is everything

  • Frank Needlenose (Novalis on steroids): unbridled imagination/chaos - points at truth.

  • Gloria: loyalty - quiet strength.

  • Reggie : sensitive. dramatic

  • Hank Needlenose (Descartes as a head master): pure control, mind cut off from heart.

  • Major Bob & Bobbleheads: moral clarity coupled with practicality.

  • Doris / Doris Tortoise : memory—the anchor.

  • Fluffy: crazy courage with wings

  • Inzos (Jungian shadow): fear you can see, but wilts in the face of courage

 

The world runs on…

Belief, emotion, memory. Physics flexible.

Key objects

  • The Locket: a shared love makes things real.

  • The Cane: power without center

  • The Powder of Life: the choice between being and meaning.

  • The Journal: remembering as resistance

  • The Blue Flower: the soul’s spark - wonder.

  • The Butterflies: flying blue flowers -wonder with wings.

 

Trilogy in three beats

  1. Part 1 —wonder dims

  2. Part 2 —control takes over

  3. Part 3 —belief returns - feeling costs something—but that’s the point.

Emily inner map (psychology)

Abigail = spark • Ivana = pride/ache • Frank = chaos • Reggie = sensitivity • Gloria = loyalty• Hank = control • Major Bob = pragmatic • Fluffy = buried courage • Smortzle = internalized despair • Doris = anchor.

What defeats the Beast

Choice. Remembering who you are, even when it hurts.

Final takeaway

Sparkle Valley isn’t “saved.” It’s chosen—again and again—by a girl who decides feeling is worth the risk.

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