Coder, Creative, Fungi🍄

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  • Thanks. So nice to hear some feedback <3

    You are right about the story. I crafted the whole thing a bit more hasty than the last ones. It should be longer and have an actual story and maybe some new characters. I also need to improve my writing. I tried a more playful style for this one, because its adventerous and so on, but its too inconsistent.

    I’m thinking about extending and re-writing it, but am not sure if I will find the time. Thanks anyways :)


  • Ok, I see. To be honest, I didn’t put as much thought in this than in the last stories. Maybe it would have worked if it was longer … I will think about it! Thanks anyway for the feedback.

    And it isn’t very Solarpunkish 😉

    the use of “open web” etc makes it too up front as well

    That’s true. But otherwise, I don’t think the idea would have come across

    Well yes, but Solarpunk also supported dezentrality 😇

    the use of “open web” etc makes it too up front as well











  • That would still have been an interesting way to explore these questions. Royalty does not exist in a vacuum, it is a product of many principles that Sheeta and Pazy would not be fan of (not even Muska I bet).

    That’s true. Could certainly be interesting, I mean, they build the whole thing and probably spend a few generations there.

    But thing is, Miyazaki is very anti-tech. He did not want Laputa to be a dream followed by solarpunk, it was supposed to be a cautionary tale about the fall of technological societies. It prefered to focus on the destructive powers rather than on the post-labor utopias that the Laputa robots could have brought.

    I would call his relationship with tech ambivalent, because the tech of Laputa is primarily positive and exists in harmony with nature. It just falls into the wrong hands.














  • I would suggest a series of short stories if you like the setting and are enjoying writing it.

    I was thinking about that too. Could be cool to experiment with different characters, factions, etc.

    I think something more relatable might get the solar punk message across. I only dipped into the short story you posted and it felt more fantasy than near future sci-fi.

    Its just that with the mention of actual federated social media, many people seem to immediatly recoil. And then if you introduce some metaphor for the Fediverse like the Fungiverse, then you also have to incorporate it in a world that really embraces the concept.

    And tbh, I opened it more because I’m a mushroom and sci-fi/fantasy nerd and saw your post in the sci-fi sub.

    Ah, I see. Maybe I do need to edit the story again so it fits more the primary genre … let’s see. Thanks for the feedback ;)