#hopepunk — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hopepunk, aggregated by home.social.
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This was so much fun! I've written a short fictional story, "Many moons from now", which you can read here: https://kedara.eu/many-moons/
This is my submission to the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival of this month; the theme is "moonlight".
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This was so much fun! I've written a short fictional story, "Many moons from now", which you can read here: https://kedara.eu/many-moons/
This is my submission to the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival of this month; the theme is "moonlight".
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This was so much fun! I've written a short fictional story, "Many moons from now", which you can read here: https://kedara.eu/many-moons/
This is my submission to the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival of this month; the theme is "moonlight".
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This was so much fun! I've written a short fictional story, "Many moons from now", which you can read here: https://kedara.eu/many-moons/
This is my submission to the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival of this month; the theme is "moonlight".
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This was so much fun! I've written a short fictional story, "Many moons from now", which you can read here: https://kedara.eu/many-moons/
This is my submission to the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival of this month; the theme is "moonlight".
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Hi! Does anyone have recommendations for *utopian poetry*. Meaning poetry about a hopeful possible future?
Hej! Är det någon som har tips på *utopisk poesi*? Alltså poesi som handlar om en möjlig hoppfull framtid?
Maybe within / Kanske inom / #hopepunk #steampunk #solarpunk #utopian #poesi #poetry
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Hi! Does anyone have recommendations for *utopian poetry*. Meaning poetry about a hopeful possible future?
Hej! Är det någon som har tips på *utopisk poesi*? Alltså poesi som handlar om en möjlig hoppfull framtid?
Maybe within / Kanske inom / #hopepunk #steampunk #solarpunk #utopian #poesi #poetry
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Hi! Does anyone have recommendations for *utopian poetry*. Meaning poetry about a hopeful possible future?
Hej! Är det någon som har tips på *utopisk poesi*? Alltså poesi som handlar om en möjlig hoppfull framtid?
Maybe within / Kanske inom / #hopepunk #steampunk #solarpunk #utopian #poesi #poetry
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Hi! Does anyone have recommendations for *utopian poetry*. Meaning poetry about a hopeful possible future?
Hej! Är det någon som har tips på *utopisk poesi*? Alltså poesi som handlar om en möjlig hoppfull framtid?
Maybe within / Kanske inom / #hopepunk #steampunk #solarpunk #utopian #poesi #poetry
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Hi! Does anyone have recommendations for *utopian poetry*. Meaning poetry about a hopeful possible future?
Hej! Är det någon som har tips på *utopisk poesi*? Alltså poesi som handlar om en möjlig hoppfull framtid?
Maybe within / Kanske inom / #hopepunk #steampunk #solarpunk #utopian #poesi #poetry
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Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live on my site: https://crcollins.org/2026/09/09/year-1-month-3/
Read from beginning: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
Learn more: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
#Today #Bookstodon #SFF #Magic #HopePunk #Polyamory #EpicFantasy #Trees
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Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live on my site: https://crcollins.org/2026/09/09/year-1-month-3/
Read from beginning: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
Learn more: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
#Today #Bookstodon #SFF #Magic #HopePunk #Polyamory #EpicFantasy #Trees
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Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live on my site: https://crcollins.org/2026/09/09/year-1-month-3/
Read from beginning: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
Learn more: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
#Today #Bookstodon #SFF #Magic #HopePunk #Polyamory #EpicFantasy #Trees
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Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live on my site: https://crcollins.org/2026/09/09/year-1-month-3/
Read from beginning: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
Learn more: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
#Today #Bookstodon #SFF #Magic #HopePunk #Polyamory #EpicFantasy #Trees
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Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live on my site: https://crcollins.org/2026/09/09/year-1-month-3/
Read from beginning: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
Learn more: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
#Today #Bookstodon #SFF #Magic #HopePunk #Polyamory #EpicFantasy #Trees
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Take a chance on one of my otherworldly stories about people who risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & community. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty, but never grim.
Buy DRM-free epubs or print direct from me:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1Kindle & print from the Bezos Bazaar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L8MX7U4
Other vendors:
https://books2read.com/kmherkes#bookstodon
#BookPromo
#books
#reading
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
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Working on a new zine. The idea is still taking shape, in a playful and explosive way, combining text and images. Something with nature ! The bad photos show you: these are #humanmade!
You find my last zine about #reconnectingWithNature here: https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138
#zine #zinester #zines #artbook #doodles #drawing #noAI #natureLovers #NatureMatchCut #nature #solarpunk #hopepunk
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Take a chance on one of my otherworldly novels about people who risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & love. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty, never grim.
DRM-free ebooks or print direct:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1Kindle (or download as epub): https://www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/author/B00GRLYEL2
bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=K+M+Herkes
even more vendors: https://books2read.com/kmherkes
#bookstodon #BookPromo #books #SciFi #ScienceFiction #fantasy #hopepunk #reading
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Take a chance on one of my otherworldly novels about people who risk everything for friendship, trust, & love. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty but never grim.
Paperbacks & DRM-free ebooks via my website:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1kindle: https://www.amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/author/B00GRLYEL2
Nook, Kobo etc here: https://books2read.com/kmherkes
(DRM-free where I can make them so.)
#bookstodon
#BookPromo
#books
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
#fantasy
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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The main character of the #hopepunk book I'm reading is a cis woman with an infant, married to a trans woman. They share a house with another cis woman, this one married to a trans man (who gave birth to their toddler, because his transition was delayed by cult parents). Fine, all for it.
Where I have some problem is when the watershed people (their distributed-consensus quasi-government setup) have to interact with corporate people on their artificial aisland [sic: AI+island]. The corpos have four #genders (female and male not among the choices) at which they can play, changing at any time, plus a gender for non-players.
They have five sets of #pronouns to match, and you're supposed to use the correct pronouns of the moment, which you should pick up on by reading body language and clothing choices.
Sorry, no. I get overloaded just reading about it, and I'd dissolve in a puddle if I had to react to it all in real time. The pangolin-pillbug aliens and their three-meter-tall ten-legged spider colleagues are straightforward in comparison. #SciFi
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Hey #climateActivist types, has anyone put together a list of actionable items that people can take to make the world a bit better? Not just in terms of #climateJustice or #environmentalism but also #indigenousSolidarity, #racialJustice, #community building, #feminist and #queer #action and more. If so, I'd really like to see it.
Please boost this post for reach. I want to know how we're helping each other, Mastodon!