Coming July 2025

It's been fifty years since magery returned to the north. The citizens of the Sharren Accord have enjoyed decades of peace and prosperity.

Giadella Marteen didn't mean to ruin that.

For more info on this book & the Tales of Ardonna series please visit my website: https://crcollins.org/

Tonight 9:30 PM Eastern/US = 2nd mtg of #solarpunk #book club hosted by Christopher Muscato. DM me for zoom--Chris isn't on mastodon.

Tonight's discussion: 3 stories from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology edited by @susankayequinn .

“What Kind of Bat is This” by @sarenaulibarri , “A Merger in Corn Country” by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social and “The Park of the Beast” by @tkrex

#reading #hopepunk #climate #fiction https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/anthology

If you're interested in a #cozy #hopepunk #fantasy story, @Jess_Alter has published this charming short:
"Which Wish is Witch"
https://werebooks.com/which-wish-is-witch/

"A young baker must decide whether to go along with the crowd or fulfill her dreams without losing her integrity."

(free signup required, as it is the most effective way to block AI, sorry)
#Indie #author #indieauthor

@breadandcircuses #Hopepunk is where it's at, because as you say, "we're living in a sci-fi dystopia"

When can they spin the carbon fibres that will give us the Space Elevator?

Hurrah for Spiders!

https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-first-gene-edited-spider-produces-red-fluorescent-silk/

In the hopepunk space opera in my head I will not be subtle over who the goodies and baddies are, and musical ques help with that.

Scene: as we pan to the Protagonists arrival at an Earth-like world, a planet the Goodies brought to life and made a paradise...

https://youtu.be/2twY8YQYDBE?si=LjlfqX9v7bxsWiSu

Another incredibly talented and dedicated #solarpunk #artist, Karl Schulschenk, has just joined the #storySeedLibrary !

https://storyseedlibrary.org/authors/karl-schulschenk/

His works are available under #creativeCommons BY-NC-ND 4.0!

One of the things I love about Mastodon is that when someone needs it, they can just toot “send puppies”, and puppies appear like it’s a magic spell.

I don’t know who needs this right now, but here are my doggos. Can’t wait to finish work today so I can go home and give them pats.
#dogs #puppy #bulldog #JackRussell #mh #HopePunk

Later this week, both of Becky Chambers' "Monk & Robot" novellas are being re-released in a single volume.

If you've not read them yet, they're absolutely the right vibe to get you through [ gestures widely /] all this.

Highly recommended.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/monk-and-robot-becky-chambers/21752517

This one is not Creative Commons, but have you seen #CommandoJugendstil 's #solarpunk take on the classical School of Athens?

Activists, engineers, gardeners and architects replacing philosophers, working on a better climate future, with stained glass instead of marble columns.

More at https://www.radarmagazine.net/solarpunk-fantascienza-crisi-climatica/

LET's GO GREEN PARTY!

Polls are now open.

7 till 22 (10pm)

Do not forget some form of ID

#Vote1Greens #WantGreenVoteGreen #SolarPunk #HopePunk #GetGreensElected

Electoral Commission Imprint: Promoted by D Dell on behalf of Northamptonshire Green Party c/o 38 Waverley Rd, Kettering, NN15 6NT

Credit to @Moby@Threads.com

With so many social programs being cut right now, and so many people in need, I'm changing up my sticker program a little.

You can still get one of my stickers, but I'm now *requiring* that folks donate to a food bank or similar. I'll still send you one at no cost with proof of donation!

We all need to pitch in if we're going to get through this together.

https://billhunt.dev/stickers/

I've created ebook versions of my hopeful climate fiction "Standing Wave" and "Running AMOC", both EPUB and PDF. You can also read them on line at https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/

"Standing Wave" is about a team of fedizens searching for a long-lost climate model. The main actors are a Mongolian Soviet researcher and his US counterpart, some time in the 1970s.

EPUB: https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Standing-Wave--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.epub
PDF: https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Standing-Wave--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.pdf

"Runnning AMOC" is about the impending collapse of the Gulf stream. The protagonist is an Indonesian-Dutch woman of around fifty.

EPUB: https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.epub
PDF: https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.pdf

#RunningAMOC #StandingWave

→ Hopepunk : pour une bienveillance #radicale
https://aoc.media/opinion/2025/04/20/hopepunk-pour-une-bienveillance-radicale/

« Au Québec, particulièrement depuis la pandémie, les #crises se multiplient et s’aggravent à un rythme effréné. »

« le #hopepunk est un courant de la #sciencefiction qui rejette la #dystopie, non pas en la niant, mais en la confrontant. [Il s'agit] d’une #insurrection douce et obstinée, d’une conviction que la #bonté, la #solidarité et l’#entraide sont les meilleures armes face au #cynisme ambiant »

hey there! i'm new to this instance, so here's an #introduction !

i'm jane, i'm an artist and disabled. i live in the middle of a cornfield, lol.

i very much like to #garden and this year i'm trying out growing flax to spin!

i'm currently learning to program and use #linux

i'm a #spinner and a #spinster lol. i'm also a #knitter and into #FiberArts of all sorts!

i'm not new to the fediverse, tho and some of my favorite hashtags are:

#ThreeGoodThings
#Today
#Bloomscrolling
#Gardening
#HandSpinning
#Knitting
#PenAndInk
#TinyDelights
#SolarPunk
#HopePunk
#Compost

i hope you all have a lovely day!

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 12
Shameless self-promotion day.

Tales of Ardonna is a #HopePunk #Fantasy epic adventure series set in 3 timelines. All but the trilogy can be read in any order as each has a standalone main plot, along with the ongoing subplots which connect them. My website has more info, plus maps. If you buy direct, they are always cheaper, plus you own the ebook.

https://crcollins.org/

Woodspell Series: https://crcollins.org/books/

Other Tales: https://crcollins.org/tales-of-ardonna/

I'm hosting an online #solarpunk bookclub meetup next week! We're reading ALL WE CAN SAVE.

Details in Solarpunk Future discord https://discord.gg/JNVcu4rr?event=1351224860948435085

When: April 16th, 8pm ET

Book https://bookshop.org/a/102876/9780593237083

#books #hopepunk #climatechange

@ayanaeliza.bsky.social @kkwilkinson.bsky.social

Redoble de tambores

Os dejo por aquí mi página de precampaña para #verkami

https://vkm.is/solarpunk

¡Apuntáos si queréis enteraros las primeras cuando salga definitivamente!