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#WritingCommunity - #PunkMarch is with all the "punks" for the month!

From Cyber to Desert to 'punkalypse, let's talk punk! And how Splatterpunk fits too 🔪

These posts won't cover everything (heck, I'm sure I'm missing some ~punks), but they're for thinking, researching, & putting Punk in "~punk"!
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills 1 Cyberpunk 2 Biopunk 3 Nanopunk 4 Clockpunk 5 Steampunk 6 Teslapunk 7 Disealpunk 8 Decopunk 9 Raypunk 10 Atom(ic)punk 11 Aetherpunk 12 Dreampunk 13 Mythpunk 14 Elfpunk 15 Bugpunk 16 Solarpunk 17 Lunarpunk 18 Seapunk 19 Forestpunk 20 Hydropunk 21 Desertpunk 22 Stonepunk 23 Sandalpunk 24 Silkpunk 25 Junkpunk/Salvagepunk 26 Cattlepunk 27 Mannerspunk 28 Dreadpunk 29 Hopepunk 30 Capepunk 31 Apunkalypse Bonus: Splatterpunk
March 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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#PunkMarch #Teslapunk

This is admittedly a little harder to find since there's so much crossover, but...

Book
"Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld has massive Tesla Cannons.

Movie
"The Prestige" (w/ Nikola Tesla as a character)

Video Game
Close to the Sun w/Tesla-designer super cruiser

Any others?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Teslapunk Recs? What are your favorite Teslapunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to Teslapunk? The power of cool by adding Tesla to inventions of lightning guns or a Tesla Tokyo Tower? Fighting against people/companies to make life better? Any other good points you want to add?
March 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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#PunkMarch - #Biopunk Recs!

I've got 2 books!

1 -"The Changeling Plague" by Syne Mitchell - loved the ending!

2 -"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi - also good!

Films: Gattaca, of course (DNA discrimination), & many of Cronenberg's films! (win w/body horror!)

Other books, #writingcommunity ?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Biopunk Recs? What are your favorite biopunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to biopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the bio-hacking or the engineered DNA? Any other good points you want to add?
March 2, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 4 - #Clockpunk

Watch the Silver Swan (an 1872 automaton performs for about 30 seconds)-links on Wikipedia!

Also music by Clockwork Quartet, & the game Silksong has cogwork automatons.

"Goblin Secrets" by Willian Alexander has heavy clockwork.

Any others to add #WritingCommunity?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Clockpunk Recs? What are your favorite clockpunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to clockpunk? Do you prefer wind up over water mills? Do you like the idea of clockpunk punching up in the future or hitting hard in fantasy settings? Any other good points you want to add?
March 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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#PunkMarch - What #Nanopunk recs do you have #writingcommunity ?

Michael Crchton's "Prey" sees nanotech dooming us, but "Tech Heaven" by Linda Nagata sees nanotech helping us.

There's also an episode of X-Files "Antibodies" - nanomachines developed to cure any fatal disease/trauma in their host!
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Nanopunk Recs? What are your favorite nanopunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to nanopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for longevity, the health benefits, or being able to change your looks with ease? Any other good points you want to add?
March 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 5 #writingcommunity #Steampunk!

All the cogs, gears, & pipes (both for smoke & steam). There's more to steampunk than just sticking gears on things - there's adventure, heists, discoveries & so much more! Automaton fights, sky pirates, anti-teach Luddites! How is the world changed?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Steampunk Aesthetics Retrofuturistic technology & designs inspired by Vitorian era/19th - go for brass & leather! Cogs, gears, dials, and analog clocks! Everything runs off steam (add boilers + steam pipes!) The world looks as if steam power was the most dominant! Inventions aren’t sleek, but untidy, cogs showing, and very much looking DIY. Steampunk Thoughts A good conflict in this time period is Romanticism vs. Enlightenment; does this continue for you? How is the environment doing as you continue burning wood and coal? Are other punks (like clockpunk or Tesla-punk) mixed with your steampunk? How are people divided? Are people fighting against your steam inventions?
March 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 2 - #Biopunk!

Similar in color to Cyberpunk, the tone shifts toward sickly greens and yellows as well as neon.

Manipulating DNA, changing what's "human" or not depending on beliefs & severity of change.

Do you fight people created with no empathy? Beast-men controlled by megacorps?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Biopunk Aesthetics Bio-luminescent blues, purples, pinks + sickly greens and yellows against dark colors Organic areas with biological architecture - your environment might be alive! High tech areas with labs (illegal + legal), mega corporations with trademarked DNA, along with modified crops, bacteria, animals (not just for humans) Biopunk Thoughts Are we still human with genetic manipulation? How much is too much? When does it become failed, or body horror? Are your punks against the system? Fighting their own bodies? What’s their purpose? Who does it help? What/Who are you fighting? Out-of-control parasites? Corrupted beast-men? Police designed with no empathy?
March 2, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 6 - #Teslapunk
#WritingCommunity -if you've ever wanted crackling lightning arcs to do anything you can imagine, Telsapunk is for you!

A micro/sub genre of Steampunk, instead of based on steam, this is based of Nikola Tesla & the power of cool with eletricty, coils & etc. inventions
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Teslapunk Aesthetics Named after Nikola Tesla - based around eletricty! Think Tesla coils, plasma lamps, violet rays, etc.! A little bit of steam (brass & leather) with glowing white, light blues, & neon purple electric crackles. Similar in style to Steampunk with brass, top hats, goggles, and more - this alternative history adds plentiful and cheap electricity and/or eclectic magic powers. Teslapunk Thoughts Like Edison vs Tesla, does your punk go up against a specific figure? Going up against corrupt empires? Companies? Is someone performing illegal experiments on people to gain more electric powers? If the police have lightening guns/powers, what do regular people have?
March 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 4 - #Clockpunk!

One of my favorite "~punks," I love gears coming together to make cars, monsters, or even household servants.

Clock'bots using a watermill might stress about keeping enough water - or losing a winding key becomes more than a small personal problem.

Plenty of plots!
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Clockpunk Aesthetics Inspired by pre-industrial work, wood, brass, and bronze are popular, along with reflective surfaces like mirrors and lenses. Machines and devices run on highly detailed gears (powered by springs? Winding keys? Water/Air mills) Areas are very fantasy, but can also show off renaissance and Baroque time periods with incredible detail! Clockpunk Thoughts Who is making all these clockwork creatures? The government’s inventors or punk inventors? Why? Is the world/country/universe/planet a clock, and the punks are trying to stop it? Re-start it? Slow down time to prevent a dystopia from forming? Are inventors joining forces to fight? Is your punk responsible for gathering scarce/guarded materials?
March 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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So, 1st, what is "Punk"?

Punk was a music subculture (70s-80s) against The Man. Anti-corporation, anti-capitalist, anti-authority, etc.

Pro-being yourself, pro-going against what society says you should do/be.

With writing, the word (usually) in front of "punk" is aesthetics or the setting.
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What is "~punk"? Punk was a subculture of music in the 1970s and 1980s - the ethos of punk primarily "being yourself and be against The Man." Anti-corporation, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarians, anti-corporate greed mixed with DIY-ethics, freedom, non-conformity, individual liberty. What does this mean in writing? Challenging the norms, looking at alternative futures, and going against the grain. What do you get when a book is "~punk"? Not just a variety of future/past/otherworld aesthetics. It’s a pairing: Aesthetics + Punk. Punk isn't dead
March 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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What #cyberpunk recs to you have?

I truly got into #cyberpunk with "Altered Carbon," but in memories prior sits H.M. Hoover's book "This Time of Darkness" still in my soul.

Blade Runner was an amazing movie, & I can't live in Japan without adding Akira to the list.

What are your recs? Your favs?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Cyberpunk Recs? What are your favorite cyberpunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to cyberpunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the gritty city or the “everything’s fine” VR system? Any other good points you want to add?
March 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 5 - #Steampunk Recs!

Music
Prof. Elemental www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1I...
Abney Park
Reginald www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCu...

Books
20k Leagues Under the Sea
Infernal Devices
The Court of the Air

Games
Guns of Icarus
Sunless Sea w/Eldritch Horrors

What's your favorite Steampunk?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills What Are Your Steampunk Recs? What are your favorite steampunk books, movies, video games, etc.? What sticks in your mind when it comes to steampunk? What is your gadgeteer genius up against? Do you have sky pirates? Are you fighting for or against an empire? Any other good points you want to add?
March 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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#PunkMarch Day 3 - #Nanopunk!

Similar to Biopunk, this turns away from bio to go nanite! Small, self-replicating machines that fix your cells, change your hair color, or give you something you didn't have before.

Warning! The grey goo apocalypse can happen if those nanites never turn off!
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Nanopunk Aesthetics Many neutral colors, white/silver/gray/black with all the colors society wants. Machines and devices that are molecular assemblers - self-replicating nanites/autonomous nanoscale robots High tech areas that look clean (too clean), places to quickly program or get pre-programmed nanites to change anything about you. Science can help... but will it? Nanopunk Thoughts Are we still human with these nanites changing you? Are you still you? Actually, do you have a personal identity anymore? Warning: the grey goo apocalypse is coming! Or maybe those nanites are rewriting rival codes... Are you fighting at the molecular level? The companies or people behind “enemy” nanites?
March 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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#PunkMarch Cyberpunk's probably the most well known of punks.

Aesthetics: colorful neon on darkness

Themes: "low-life and high-tech"

With great tech & science achievements, we've become a decaying society. Dystopia.

Corrupted companies, invasive police... Do you fight for yourself or others?
#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills Cyberpunk Aesthetics Explosions of neon colors (purples, reds, greens) against dark skies/buildings Signs in multiple languages showing a multi-ethnic culture in the area Tall buildings crammed into small areas so there’s no sky, only more buildings, exposed wires stretched across everywhere Cyberpunk Thoughts What makes us human? How are “non-human” people treated? (Robots, clones, AIs, people with cybernetic implants?) Are your punks against the system for themselves or for a community? What’s their purpose? What are you fighting? Oppressive tech? Corrupted companies? An invasive police state?
March 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM