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Only loosely related, but why do people's idea of solarpunk aesthetics feel completely divorced from any punk-ness.
Gimme patched together, beautifully mended clothes and once broken possessions, gimme stickerbombed custom open source hardware, gimme a hodgepodge of recycled items used as planters for an herb garden, gimme things that feel deeply human. Not gleaming polished metal and glass, like 70's futurist magazine cover but with more plants.
There should be some texture and humanity in solarpunk aesthetics. It has to be punk.
using -punk as a suffix is almost always misleading. like steampunk was almost immediately diluted into mismatched victorian garb and random gears that couldn’t possibly serve any purpose. equally not punk.
"Just glue some gears on it and call it steampunk..."🎶