Actually I just realized I never shared the new pages on landfill mining or rough mounding on bsky either:
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You can find the whole #solarpunk worldbuilding resource wiki here: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start
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We've added a new page on phytoremediation, mycoremediation, and bioremediation to the slrpnk.net/c/writing #solarpunk worldbuilding resource wiki: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:phyt...
It's very much a work in progress so if you'd like to make additions or corrections feel free to reach out!
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Hey, sorry to miss this question! If we stuck to the original plan/sketch it'd be three - two partial figures, one full figure, and one large cat? Two figures facing away from the viewer, one partial figure facing back towards the viewer and waving them foward
I think if we stuck with the original sketch, it'd be three - two partial figures, one full figure, and what looks like some kind of large cat. Two figures facing away from the viewer, one looking back towards the viewer and waving them forward
I think this particular flavor of rural solarpunk - based pretty heavily on how the region looked before the automobile gained power. The way things shift and reconfigure and rebuild. Also lots and lots of rewilding, environmental restoration, phytoremediation, and deconstruction details
So this is the general genre we're aiming for - the campaign does its best to invert a lot of tropes from this stuff, but the DNA is there and I think it's worth playing with that too
It's a @fullyautomatedrpg.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy project and we're aiming to release it for free through all their usual channels (if I have time, I'll make a bookbinding version incase anyone wants a hardcopy)
So the development of abandoned McMansions and golf course being turned into a self-sufficient agricultural community and food forest, the exurbs getting rewilded again, the return of trains to the region, and a ton of other stuff all suddenly had a home - the worldbuilding is my favorite part
Thank you! I'd had a bunch of concepts I wanted to use in a story because they wouldn't fit well in a single photobash and when I learned that certain industrial wastes can be used as an input in geopolymers, that kind of gave me the central hook to arrange them all around.
Yes, I have the background (I was actually just working on painting it over as our backup plan in case we couldn't find another artist) and the somewhat-lower-res sketch. If you'd like I could share some examples of the style we're hoping to mimic
for the interior art I aimed for a more comic/Choose Your Own Adventure book -style made with lineart photobashes with color painted in underneath.
Even if we are breaking some of the composition rules the pulp artists seemed to follow - for example you almost never find covers where the protagonists have their back to the viewer even if they had to really mess with composition to make it happen. But then, these characters are stand-ins for PCs
Thank you! I've been having an absolute blast writing, running, and playing it!
I'd be quite happy with a digital-painterly style that captures the same feel, that's what our first artist was skilled at. I mostly just want to evoke some of the same vibes but with solarpunk updates
We'd be looking for a 8.5"x11" image with basically good enough resolution for a PDF. I tend to start at pretty high rez so the background resolution a little crazy (attached), but that was mostly an abundance of caution, wanting to make things easy for the artist who was planning to paint over it.
The image shows a group of three adventurous looking humans and a large cat gathered up at the top of a steep hill looking out over distant scenery. The background is a photobash I put together before contacting our first artist. The line art was done by our first artist and has one person holding a bird-like drone, one holding binoculars, and one gesturing the viewer forward excitedly.
Hi! So we have a bit of a start (I photobashed a background and our first artist worked out a sketch of the figures with us). We were hoping to hit a sort of painterly style used by pulp adventure stories in the 50s and 60s as this campaign inverts a lot of lost-city tropes.
The image shows a group of three adventurous looking humans and a large cat gathered up at the top of a steep hill looking out over distant scenery. The background is a photobash I put together before contacting our first artist. The line art was done by our first artist and has one person holding a bird-like drone, one holding binoculars, and one gesturing the viewer forward excitedly.
We've still got most of the funds from the first commission attempt available, and can flex a bit to get this made.
For a bit of an idea what we're looking for, I've attached a sketch from when we were talking things out with our first artist.
If you know (or are!) someone who can work in the sort of painterly, exaggerated but realistic-ish style frequently used by pulp adventure books and magazines in the 50s and 60s we'd love to talk!
We've still got most of the funds from the first commission attempt available, and can flex a bit
I had hired an artist to paint the cover art in the style of pulp adventure novels, as the campaign inverts and riffs on those sort of lost city tropes. Unfortunately they had to drop out for life-happened reasons. So we're looking for an artist!
#art #solarpunk #scifi #digitalart
For the last 3 years I've been working on a #solarpunk TTRPG treasure hunting adventure where the players search a mostly-abandoned town (undergoing deconstruction and rewilding) for industrial waste illegally dumped there decades before. We've nearly finished the book & plan to release it CC-BY-SA
Also if you're looking for solarpunk artists, there's a collection of Creative Commons-licensed solarpunk artwork here: storyseedlibrary.org/art/ pretty much all my favorites are here!
I would really like to wrap up the comic at some point. I'm very fond of it
Hey thank you for the link! I also do some straight-up solarpunk photobashes (prez deer might be more cyberpunk/ecofiction) though I tend to have more interest in the industrial side of things even then
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There's a bunch in prezdeer style at the bottom
But solarpunk is way too big and encompasses too many domains for any one person to gather a full guide. So if you're a writer with notes to add, or someone with a solarpunk special interest you'd just like to see writers get right, I hope you'll consider contributing something!
One of my ongoing goals is to start a culture of packaging up and sharing writer-level research to make writing grounded, aspirational fiction easier. The current wiki is essentially a cleaned-up version of my own notes (with a few small research projects done just for this).
I'm very excited to share that I've been working with the slrpnk.net/c/writing mods to set up a collection of resources and notes to make writing solarpunk easier:
wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start
#solarpunk #writing #fiction #sciencefiction
Thank you! I think this is the answer to the question I should have asked (basically for a list of design/goals requirements for long-lasting, fixable designs). I really appreciate the input!
Heavily modified photo of a three-story concrete parking garage, where each bay has been replaced with a different style window, hanging plants, murals, and on the ground level, also a bike shop, a tienda selling produce, and a mural of a deer. In the foreground, a modified streetcar passes on railroad tracks. On the roof, fruit trees grow.
Today from Reckoning 9, "Repurposed Parking Garage", solarpunk design art by @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social depicting a post-car-culture future, brutalist infrastructure converted to practical use, with bike shop, fruit stand, rooftop orchard, and 1910s-era streetcar! reckoning.press/repurposed-p...
I'm very excited to announce that one of my Postcards from a Solarpunk Future has been published in Reckoning Press!
Reading short stories in Reckoning was I think the main thing that got me to give solarpunk another look.
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#solarpunk #art #photobash #collage
Thanks! Sorry for the delay, I just saw this. This is great - I'd love to start hosting shared files! I have a folder with all my bookbinding stuff here, I'd be happy to give you access: mega.nz/folder/uMdGx...
And sure! I've made some with libreoffice but I usually export to PDF and interpose those
I think what I'm looking for (or considering trying to help make) is a sort of bookbinder's equivalent of standardebooks.org. A repository where people can share the files they've made for CC or public domain books, along with their alternative covers for trad published books and things like that.