Happy Spring!
It’s Time to End the Hero’s Journey
I don’t know about you, but I’ve absolutely had enough of it: the story structure known as the hero’s journey. While these stories make for great escapism, they’re not great for actually changing the world. Let’s let solarpunk stories dump the hero’s journey, even as a means to explore life in a solarpunk future. Let’s use all the other story structures instead.
Links Roundup
The interwebs had so many interesting things to read this week! Here’s a links roundup of a few.
Some Sights From Lutherstadt Wittenberg and the Elbe River
Working on Better Endings
Some Thoughts On the Work of Peace
Review of The Mountain in the Sea
I recently read Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea and enjoyed it so much, I decide to write a review of it. That’s up at our Patreon right now and available for everyone to read. I’d love it if you’d check it out.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-review-in-93689277
Introducing Season 4
Getting Ready to Get Rid of the Solarpunk Cave to the New Tunes of Lana Del Rey
Today, because it was too dismal and rainy to finish digging the evil ground elder roots out of my strawberry patch, I started ripping the wallpaper off of the walls of the Solarpunk Cave. This meant saying goodbye to the cave paintings I started to make a couple of years ago, because they were exactly the sort of thing that belonged on the grungy old walls of the grotto.