I just bumbled into the name of a genre called “Hopepunk” when looking up one of my favorte authors, Becky Chambers … and in addition to they learned she has published more books than I realized. YAY!
(“The long way to a small angry planet” is very good)
(“The long way to a small angry planet” is very good)
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Remember that Grimdark was coined, more as a joke, regarding WH40K because of its opening spiel and the others were riffs on it.
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Setting:Brighthammer_40,000
And yes, this is from a chan because back when this was all developed, 4chan's /tg/ was a place people in the TTRPG space went to because it wasn't locked into one game and had more flexible moderation than https://rpg.net
“In 2021, being optimistic is the most ‘punk’ thing you can be”
I’m enjoying reading through a Hopepunk RPG called Eco Mofos that I backed on KS.
https://peregrinecoast.press/en-us/products/eco-mofos
I really hate my phone’s keyboard.
Solarpunk and Hopepunk are considered distinct but similar Genres.
You can generally alter one genre into another genre by saying “this is a variant of that” but all the differentiations I have read regarding the two are more robust than your six words.
The first sentence of the Wikipedia article even notes they are similar but distinct.
it honestly has to be my favourite book full stop
please read it if you haven’t already
If you like, I have a page on my website re: the genres:
https://susankayequinn.com/hopepunk-solarpunk
And a podcast about hopeful cli-fi/solarpunk w/rec reads:
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
We stole rock n roll, mate. Go an' steal someone else's credibility. We're still using ours.
You can join the lot arguing what it is, but you can't HAVE it