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S. Qiouyi Lu 🪷 陸秋逸 🧮 Lù Qiūyì

Oct 21 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

I love creating hybrid -punk styles; I love dieselpunk but I think summarizing it as “the grittier cousin of steampunk” and centering it on nazis and war robs the subgenre of so much potential, which I am excited to explore via solardiesepunk

as alt history steampunk tends to be set in early to mid industrialization efforts, and dieselpunk is typically already industrialized or post-industrial, and a key frequently unexamined factor in both -punks is colonialism & imperialism

similarly I think it does dieselpunk a disservice to focus on fossil fuel diesel, when “diesel” is actually a mode of combustion that doesn’t require fossil fuels at all, it’s a method not a type of fuel

so “solardieselpunk” may appear to be an oxymoron initially, but actually I think solarpunk & dieselpunk are extremely compatible—still working out the details of how I’ll execute, but I think my solardieselpunk narrative will be one in which colonialism and genocide are stopped

what could be more solarpunk than stopping an empire that would destroy the earth before it can!!! what could be more dieselpunk than defeating fascism and authoritarianism before it has a chance to commit genocide!! what could be more solardieselpunk than #RazingBabel!!

I looooved doing biocyberpunk for #InTheWatchfulCity bc there’s a similar artificial distance between biopunk & cyberpunk—but machines can be organic, and the human brain is capable of many things that computers can’t even grasp, what’s more cyberpunk than a 電腦 ‘electric brain’

a -punk is not -punk without social criticism or social rebellion; ∴ hybrid -punks allow you to intersect criticisms for more layers and complexity

something that is merely aesthetic without social criticism or rebellion is not a -punk, it is a type of vibes

which is not inherently bad, we stan all vibes no plot stories in this house, -punk and vibes just aren’t necessarily synonyms as storytelling tools

https://twitter.com/jonlpan/status/1583583845223235584

the secondary genre of #RazingBabel honestly!!!!! there will be language pistons!

https://twitter.com/jonlpan/status/1583583845223235584

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