The unbearable lightness of solarpunk: utopian visions and invisible infrastructures
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  • recursive_recursion [they/them]AEnglish
    4•9 months ago

    I know that cyberpunk is often overused

    can’t say I’ve personally heard of anything else having the “punk” postfix conjunction besides steampunk and solarpunk

    I know that steampunk is kinda common but once you get to solarpunk is there anything else?

    • after writing this out I realized there’s probably more as all of these (if I remembered correctly) originated out of science-fiction (or just fiction) literature

    also sidetangent: I could be wrong but doesn’t the Final Fantasy series have ties to solarpunk or is this wrong? (kinda feels close but not quite)

    going back to your main point I still don’t think the punk conjuntion is an overused trend, cyberpunk I could agree on based on the plethora of book, tv shows, movies, and games but for the rest I’m still unconvinced

    • Rozaŭtuno
      2•9 months ago

      can’t say I’ve personally heard of anything else having the “punk” postfix conjunction besides steampunk and solarpunk

      Atompunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk, tidalpunk, lunarpunk, biopunk… All they in common is they are visions of a possible future packaged in a coherent astetic.

      also sidetangent: I could be wrong but doesn’t the Final Fantasy series have ties to solarpunk or is this wrong? (kinda feels close but not quite)

      Depends on the game, 10 is kinda post-apocalyptic tidalpunk, 7 and 8 are definitely dieselpunk and 9 is basically steampunk with magic.

      • recursive_recursion [they/them]AEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        What they all have in common is that they’re visions of a possible future packaged in a coherent aesthetic.

        huh I didn’t think of it that way till now but that’s a pretty succinct definition of the genre!

        Depends on the game, 10 is kinda post-apocalyptic tidalpunk, 7 and 8 are definitely dieselpunk and 9 is basically steampunk with magic.

        totally fair and I’ll have to revisit this comment in between my breaks
        thanks!🤗