Anonymous
10/16/2025, 10:06:48 AM
No.82818132
>>82816885
>>82817713
Is Solar Punk actually Punk in anyway?
Sure it's post-apocalyptic and there's ruins and stuff, but it really seems way too hopeful to be any kind of Punk. It's political in the way Punk is, but it's way too Utopian to have any actual conflict or storytelling. It's the end goal of any optimistic punk setting that most characters can only dream of or realize it's impossible in a cynical story.
I'd also argue Nowpunk, Junkpunk, Splatterpunk ( Assuming they mean Body horror games like Scorn or Amnesia), and Stonepunk ( Post apoc tribals explore an abandoned nuclear silo) are all genuine punk variants. Any of the Historical ones can be punk as well, like Cattlepunk telling tales of how overworked, underappreicated farmhands turned to Banditry due to life's cruel masters, only to become Cruel masters themselves.
Scavengedpunk and Dreampunk ain't far from being genuine either, but it's more because there are bits of "We gotta survive in the ruins of the old world" scavengepunk and "There should be a spirtual revolution" dream that every punk setting kind of has.
Some of these types of punks are just pure visual aesthetic (Anthropunk), Can be a genuine criticism of the historical time period but is usually just for aesthetic (Casette, Ray, and Atompunk), or are minor part of a larger punk narrative (Sky aesthetic in a Steampunk, Stitchpunk in a Scavengepunk world of 9, ect).
Despite the big focus on Orphans, Steampunk also has a problem with focusing less on the plight of the working, sneering nobility, and Imperialism, and more on stopwatches, cogs, and academia as an aesthetic.
>>82817713
Is Solar Punk actually Punk in anyway?
Sure it's post-apocalyptic and there's ruins and stuff, but it really seems way too hopeful to be any kind of Punk. It's political in the way Punk is, but it's way too Utopian to have any actual conflict or storytelling. It's the end goal of any optimistic punk setting that most characters can only dream of or realize it's impossible in a cynical story.
I'd also argue Nowpunk, Junkpunk, Splatterpunk ( Assuming they mean Body horror games like Scorn or Amnesia), and Stonepunk ( Post apoc tribals explore an abandoned nuclear silo) are all genuine punk variants. Any of the Historical ones can be punk as well, like Cattlepunk telling tales of how overworked, underappreicated farmhands turned to Banditry due to life's cruel masters, only to become Cruel masters themselves.
Scavengedpunk and Dreampunk ain't far from being genuine either, but it's more because there are bits of "We gotta survive in the ruins of the old world" scavengepunk and "There should be a spirtual revolution" dream that every punk setting kind of has.
Some of these types of punks are just pure visual aesthetic (Anthropunk), Can be a genuine criticism of the historical time period but is usually just for aesthetic (Casette, Ray, and Atompunk), or are minor part of a larger punk narrative (Sky aesthetic in a Steampunk, Stitchpunk in a Scavengepunk world of 9, ect).
Despite the big focus on Orphans, Steampunk also has a problem with focusing less on the plight of the working, sneering nobility, and Imperialism, and more on stopwatches, cogs, and academia as an aesthetic.