For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec).I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it.1/n

@Twocrows that's the other thing about hopepunk storytelling... it's FRESH. Because it is LITERALLY NEW STUFF (or at least underground stuff that we've had forever but always gets trammeled by dominant culture storytelling).

I talk about that a bit in this article I wrote for DreamForge: "Mainstream storytellers across mediums (short stories, books, TV, film, games) are rummaging around in the hopepunk bin and coming up with fresh twists."

https://dreamforgemagazine.com/story/rewriting-the-future/