LemonMay 16

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Solarpunk Prompts (@SolarpunkPrompts) • Activity

What is Solarpunk? Why does it matter? In this series we discuss Solarpunk as a movement within art, literature, and activism. We explore its themes and talk about what separates it from its genre peers. Each episode explores a writing prompt set in a Solarpunk aesthetic with examples and inspirations from our world today. Based upon story prompts created by Paweł Ngei⁩. Episode transcripts available here New logo and cover image by Natalia Vish (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

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Show threadCharlie StrossMay 16
@the_lemonaut @qlaras You just reinvented the Mundane SF movement from 20 years ago.
Show threadcwicseolforMay 16
@cstross @the_lemonaut @qlaras This variation on solarpunk, under the solarpunk name, has been pretty prominent for a decade or so (though it’s being brilliantly summed up and illustrated here in my absolute favorite iteration of itself.) Most the major citations date to the early twenty-teens.
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

@cwicseolfor @qlaras

Hey @cstross - first, let me thank you for your books, Accelerando inspired me to be who I am today!

I'm one of the writers of the @SolarpunkPrompts podcast @the_lemonaut mentions and wrote quite a few essays on the movement.

Solarpunk doesn't claim to be anything new, it's just a label people are rallying around to imagine how a future could look like if we are to become a sustainable civilization.

Something which is still way too hard to imagine.

May 16 at 9:49pmWeb
Show threadSolarpunk Presents PodcastMay 17

@alxd @cwicseolfor @qlaras @cstross @SolarpunkPrompts @the_lemonaut I see solarpunk as a new iteration of older impulses, outfitted to meet this moment (like cyberpunk met the moment of the mid-late eighties). I think solarpunk definitely needs to spend time considering its forbears and the movements in SF/literal social movements that inform it, not just to understand solarpunk as it is now more fully, but also to learn from those who have come before us and carry forward their visions, tweaked to respond to reality as it is now :) If there are solarpunks out there who do that, they're so few and far between and their voices aren't super prominent that they aren't represented well...- @arielkroon

(Ugh tried to post this from my personal account and got dinged for character count. I hate breaking things up over multiple posts if I don't have to. Let me have my gigantic run-on sentences!)