Lunarpunk is the sister aesthetic to solarpunk, but darker, I was actually surprised to see it has it’s own flag presented below. The basis is people moving to the moon and waiting for the earth to heal while in colonies, there would be tons of difficulties with low gravitational pull, constant unfiltered radiation from the sun, and probably even keeping warm, very compelling in my opinion.
It looks much like the solarpunk flag, but unlike the solarpunk flag, lunarpunk doesn’t have a political movement attached
Tidalpunk
Tidalpunk is basically humans moving to the sea because the land has been left unhealed for so long, it’s almost uninhabitable, so people are living on or under the sea until the land is able to start healing again/ Expansion in population has led to housing out at or under water that’s Eco-friendly and doesn’t harm wildlife, sadly this one doesn’t have a flag. Luckily it has an aesthetic though.
Sustainable, ocean-based living? Yes please, makes me wish I knew how to swim though. To be perfectly honest I’m out of ideas on this post, so if you have any more ideas, please feel free to re-blog with what sub-genres relating to solarpunk you could find. I’m certain there are niche ones that I haven’t found yet.
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just curious on why you say that the lunarpunk flag has no political movement attached? since any sort of -punk movement is inherently political as an opposition to capitalism, and the above flag has pretty obvious ties to anarchism
How I’d like to describe lunarpunk is as a narrative device and aesthetic, it’s an offshoot of the solarpunk genre, yes, but it has no movement of its own. Lunarpunk is solarpunk, but with aesthetic and attitude changes. Lunarpunk is more gritty and dark than solarpunk, but shares the same message in the way that we must treat the earth better if we want to live on it and that includes an opposition to capitalism, authoritarianism, etc. However it has no characteristics of a defined political movement as it’s using the solarpunk message solely.
In terms of aesthetic, genre, and political movement, Solarpunk is very new. Anarchism has been around formally since 1809, but perhaps even before. So in terms of egalitarian ideologies, Solarpunk is the peppy, bright-eyed child in the egalitarian/collectivist political sphere, but at this point it’s our best hope in terms of getting out of the choke-hold we’ve been in for so long. Having hope in the future doesn’t make a movement less serious, it makes the people involved fight harder than those on the sidelines. Solarpunks are the scholars and players, we study and we play in our down time. I know I do at least, I have connections all across my community, even into city government and partially into county government, so pulling a few strings would be easy, but I also do things that aren’t so legal. In the spring and summer, I’m an avid guerrilla gardener and graffiti artist. Not that I’m any good at graffiti, but I get the message across in biodegradable spray paint and chalk. One of these days I’m going to talk face-to-face with our energy council and treasurer and discuss a bill to add clean rooftop energy to all the small stores in my city, but that’s just me.
What drives us is hope, we’re tired of feeling trapped under a sense of impending doom, we’re tired of feeling trapped under capitalism, and we’re tired of the evils of the world winning because it’s profitable. We’re angry, we’re smart, and we’re strong, much stronger together than any bourgeois pigs. Even if we have to work within the red tape, we will prevail because we’re working together and I think we can all get behind that goal.
