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I made an orange version of my "mag boot" lights inspired by #TheExpanse for visibility when walking around traffic. Might also be useful when on a bike. Thoughts?
Made these "mag boot" lights (red version with arrow pattern) inspired by #TheExpanse to keep me visible when walking around traffic. Could also work for when on a bicycle/motorcycle/scooter. What do you think?
Made these "mag boot" lights inspired by #TheExpanse to keep me visible when walking around traffic. Could also work for when on a bicycle/motorcycle/scooter. What do you think?
I made a pledge on Kickstarter for "Solarpunk Magazine" 2024 with only a few hours to go - I've loved reading the magazine this year and am really happy to support them!
Got waylaid by all the great perks but
ended up going with the #Lunarpunk collection because I loved the short story "Midnight Serenade" by @jendiagammon (@jendiagammon) and I wanted to read their novel "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" - very excited!
The folks at Solarpunk Magazine have launched a Kickstarter for their 2024 subscriptions, and you can get my novella STEEL TREE as part of the “ebook bag” reward tier! This is a great way to grab a bunch of amazing optimistic speculative fiction all at once.
I'm a slightly autistic introvert, interested in a lot of things like surfing, design, technologies and computer science. Russian (native), English (foreign). 35+ yrs old.
An essay I wrote about solarpunk and reincarnation is now up at the Solarpunk Station blog!
And be sure to check out the other posts in the "Solarpunk Spirituality" series, if the intersection of those two is something that interests you. Everyone who's written a blog for this series has a little different take on it!
Out now! SOLAR FLARE: Solarpunk Stories from the publisher Zombies Need Brains, LLC contains my story "Walking Through Fog." It's about birth and death, extinction and renewal, in a community that harvests their water from fog harps.
Speaking of #SolarPunk, some Polish "internet celebrity art critic" type did a truly galaxy-brained "takedown" of that genre and… let's just say that I stopped reading after:
> The first obvious problem with Solarpunk is what are the characters supposed to do at night?
> what are the characters supposed to do at night?
switch to flywheel power of course
there is a subgenre/sister genre called #Lunarpunk though which is more mystical and...self-centered? that's not a very good word to use, but it focuses on individual things. it's more private and introverted.
There's an expectation that if you're an #Asian#writer you should write stories with Asian characters, set in Asian places with Asian struggles.
I especially dislike reading/writing stories I dub "sad stories of Asians" that seemed so beloved in literary circles.
A writer friend with the same inclination was told by a prominent writer that "she should get to the root of why she doesn't want to write about your own culture."
I've never been that kind of #writer. I hardly ever think about the race/culture of my characters because they exist in a distant future when humanity's genes have been so thoroughly mixed that race is a nonsense construct. I'm far more interested in stories of societal advancement & futuristic visions than dwelling in my particular gene pool's social and historical angst.