Everything is cool

Ugh yes, I don’t even know how I got this spoon. It’s wide and flat, and has these sheer edges like it was just stamped from a sheet of metal and then fucked into a vaguely spoon adjacent shape by aliens who had heard of the concept of spoon and hated people. Somehow the metal is always kind of grimy looking, even when freshly cleaned.

This spoon will outlive me. It will outlive all of us.

I’ve been taking mine on runs and long walks, trying to wear them out. 🧦 🔫 It’s the only way

I WANT to work on it, I’m just dead tired after work to get anything done.

😭 that sucks and I know what you mean. Sometimes I just do my work on the weekends if I’m too burnt out during the week.

For the solarpunk fiction project, is there any part of it that you can just start writing without prep work? Just because it sounds like you miss writing. Obviously research is important to solarpunk, and a huge part of the creative project so don’t feel bad!!

If you don’t mind taking point on the wiki, that would be great! Makes sense that there would be solarpunk writing resources associated with the solarpunk writing community.

I agree it would be nice to let anyone at least suggest changes without being a mod, but I guess this is just what we have to work with for now.

Speaking of thinking ahead though, what do you think about a rule against LLM generated content? Not to pass judgement on the technology even, but just to prevent blatant content turfing.

I guess my parents didn’t force me to eat, so I just had what they put out.

Nice! Can’t wait to hear about it!!

What do you mean by jail? Are you imagining like some voluntary jail where you check in and out as you please?

Sorry, I’m not trying to be glib, but maybe we just have different understandings on the word “force”. You can’t send someone to jail without force.

Exactly. This will sounds flippant, but it’s the same thing when people debate over “what is art” as if something has to be good in order to be considered art.

Likewise, you don’t need to be good to be considered a person. In fact there is nothing you could do that could rob you of your personhood in my eyes. It’s inalienable. That doesn’t mean every person is good or should be treated the same way.

I don’t want Nazies dead. But they are not people.

I think you’ve got it backwards, friend! They are people, just awful people who need to be stopped.

it’ssss jokesssss

Honestly I’m never surprised to see @lemmy.world after these comments. Not saying there aren’t plenty of cool people on world, like yourself, but it is the default instance.

Like so much. I couldn’t keep up.

Pretty happy I grew up with hippy parents who raised me on almond and soy milks 😤

Very well put. Especially since solarpunk can be seen as sort of utopian (or at least anti-dystopian), and as you say these are culturally less familiar ideas, so you sort of have to justify yourself as you’re writing, specifically because so many people are lacking in the framework of hope and gumption that makes solarpunk make sense IRL and in fiction.

Actually now that I’m thinking of it, perhaps this community would be a better place to centralize this information than on my website etc. As I understand it, each slrpnk.net community gets a free wiki, perhaps perhaps we could eventually set things up so people could contribute resources and get them added?

Oh there’s an idea worth exploring… I haven’t explored the wiki beyond reading the manifesto. Is it just a matter of making a https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start and linking out to/from it? Definitely seems like a good hub for specifically solarpunk writing resources.

EDIT Oh I see, yes the tutorial lays it all out https://wiki.slrpnk.net/tutorial. I’m just heading off to a job, but I’ll check this out when I have a little more time!

I’m hoping to start a bit of a culture of packaging up and sharing writer-level research to make writing solarpunk easier.

That’s a great project. You describe a problem I hadn’t really thought of existing, but now that you say it it’s obvious. Like your Using Every Part Of The Car article. I can see that being so valuable to writers (and also actually educational).

I like your clarity of vision. I know what you mean about being like emotionally “done” with a project, but still having work to do to consider it actually “finished.” Good luck with your crowdfunding! I’ve never undertaken such a thing. It sounds hard!

One thing I’ve discussed elsewhere is that there seemingly to be less interest in… reading long form fiction?

Hmmm I’m not sure. That seems to be the perception, for sure. And there is for sure a lot more short-form content now. But I feel like there is maybe the same amount of long-form content as well? Like I have no trouble finding long articles, long books, and long videos. Though I couldn’t really say if they’re more or less popular. I could see “snack” sized content certainly being easier to consume during little breaks, for sure though.

Anyway, that’s my gut take. Full disclosure I mostly write microfiction roffffl so I’m slightly biased.

Welcome! It’s considerate of you to show restraint re sharing links. If you’ve got a homepage or hub of some sort online, you can also put in your Bio for anyone who goes looking, if you don’t want to come on too strong.

It sounds like you’ve read the sidebar already, but yeah, the rule around self-promotion is mainly to keep people from just dumping their work in the community without actually engaging with other posters. On that note, a great way to open up avenues for sharing is to comment on the stuff other people have shared.

Also if you’ve got a specific story, sample, or draft that you’d like to share, either for feedback or just to show off (it’s allowed!), you can use pads.slrpnk.net to do that. It’s not a rule or anything, just one of the available tools.

Short-term goal? Write ONE story before December.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I mean… with the turning of the season, the nights drawing in… I’ve got to say horror, right? 😈 Hehe.

I’ll probably take you up on that! Having had a chance to read some of your dialogue, I know I could definitely benefit from your notes.