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A Community for furries, which also like Solarpunk. Other Hope punk is welcome, too.

What is solar punk? Solarpunk is not really defined, yet but describes a more community driven utopian idea as opposed to a corporate driven dystopian that cyberpunk is. Here is one possible manifest: https://www.re-des.org/es/a-solarpunk-manifesto/

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Spitballing ideas for SolarPunk conflict (pawb.social)
submitted 1 week ago by DarrenTheFoxcoon@pawb.social to c/solarpunk_furs@pawb.social
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Especially re. upcoming SolarPunk horror-story contest (starts next year):

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/

It's often said: SolarPunk is a fantastic aesthetic, even a standard to live up to, but utopia makes for difficult fiction. No conflict, no engine to drive a plot.

Some 1AM ideas in this vein, and potential fuel for next year's contest:

  • Children, always getting into things they shouldn't, places they shouldn't, the curious things. A parent's worst nightmare.
  • Scars of the Past, things and traumas left behind by what came before the utopia (eg as happy-lovely as Vader-San's Synth/lizard world is, the lore leading up to it, oof)
  • Interpersonal drama?
  • The Human Condition? (eg as OP as Superman is in terms of powers, most of his best stories explore his behaviour and his humanity)
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[–] Kovukono@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

I'd go with "the human condition." Solarpunk turns the clock forward in terms of eco-sustainability, but arguably it turns the clock backwards in terms of storytelling settings. A lot of the man vs. dystopia stories are relatively recent.

You could focus on man's desire to create, and the urge of testing that against the legal and ethical limits of that world. You could explore the treatment of extreme greed as a mental condition that places hard limits on what society allows those people to do. Stories like Frankenstein, Dracula, even a lot of Poe's Gothic horror are still very much possible in this kind of setting (though the stories themselves don't necessarily reflect technology). It's kind of down to the question of "do you want to explore horror related to solarpunk, or horror that just occurs in a solarpunk world?"