#hydropunk

Through the punk lens, you can see a lot of potential for change in both a perfect world, or one that is falling apart. These subgenres of science fiction offer some of my favorite world building dynamics such as technological advancements, new world order, and extraterrestrial influence.

Please enjoy the brief descriptions as I break down these subgenres. Credit to all artists (I could not find many names, but none are mine).

Like, there's steampunk and cyberpunk yes.

But everyone is ignoring the potential that hydropunk, biopunk, dieselpunk, atompunk and raypunk has

Theres so much fashion for steampunk, but I FEEL LIKE CYBERPUNK LACKS THE CYBERPUNK CLOTHING?

And wheres the hydropunk fashion, huh?

@tidalpunk is an amazing blog and before I even begin this blog I want to thank them for coining the term and starting the aesthetic.

Tidalpunk as a subgenre of solarpunk/lunarpunk may seem unnecessary or “indulgent” to some, but since solarpunk is ramping up into a real-world movement dedicated to sustaining the Earth, there needs to be an aesthetic that’s just as engaging for oceanography and water conservation. The condition of the world’s water and our relationship with the world-ocean is actually in many ways more important than how we are getting along with solid ground (not that we don’t need to drastically improve how we treat both of them!)

Anyway, so this is a sideblog I am creating because, as I told @Tidalpunk, 1/3rd of my solarpunk/lunarpunk story ‘The Carbon Coast’ is set out on the ocean and involves sea witches, and storms, and islands, and renewable energies out to sea like solar sails, algae fuels and biomass energy, etc.! This made me realize that I might as well develop it into officially a “tidalpunk realm”

So, for the same reason I made a solarpunk blog @carboncoast-solarpunk to learn how to get solarpunk right, then a lunarpunk blog @solvoid-lunarpunk to learn how to do that right, I’m making a tidalpunk blog now, since my book will serve all 3 aesthetics, and I want to get them all right!

I also hope to help what @Tidalpunk started by finding and reblogging more inspiration that fits the aesthetic and functional purpose of “future sustainable oceanography and oceanic culture”, so that tidalpunk can grow along with lunarpunk and solarpunk into a beautiful triangle of optimistic futures for our planet’s well-being!