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Christopher R. Muscato
@chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Writer of sff/solarpunk/nomadpunk, hope addict, dad of twins, constantly fighting writer’s block
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I’d love to build a community here on Bluesky- so please help me build this list!

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From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
How soil could help us reach climate targets
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
tcnv.link
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Just under 24 hours left for Heliosail!☀️⛵🪐🌱

We're trying to reach the first stretch goal before it ends! If you like art nouveau, pulp adventure, and way too many plants everywhere, this game is for you ;)
#TTRPG #Solarpunk #SciFi #Pirates #IndieRPG #Kickstarter
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Heliosail by Quinnsilver Studios - Gamefound
You and your friends become a crew of space pirates and adventurers in this solarpunk sci-fi campaign system.
gamefound.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Checking in from Northern Colorado
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Thank you to all who participated & perused our first ever #Hopepit!!

May we all continue to illuminate paths in the darkness, when we can find light to share.

Stay tuned for our next event, and keep creating hopeful content & vision to work for. 💛

🌱🌞
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined us for #HopePit yesterday! And a special thanks to @arachnereid.bsky.social who did a lot of the leg work to make this happen.

If you have any thoughts for next time, message me, @arachnereid.bsky.social @thestripedbananas.bsky.social or @hopepit.bsky.social

Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My final pitch for the day!

“All Roads Lead to Roam” my nomadpunk collection

- transience as resilience
- radical adaptability
- wandering forests, roaming campervans, peripatetic mushroom vendors, people who move with the seasons and without permission

#HopePit #solarpunk #querying #nomadpunk
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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#Hopepit Pitch/ Promote Post #2
Here's the Wildcards crew, a unit in the fight to return human rights and democracy to the former USA.
www.oetearmann.com/personnel-page
www.oetearmann.com/store
#Hopepunk #CliFi #Solarpunk #resist
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Hey #Hopepit! For pitch/ promote day I'm going to offer my extant work: the Aces High Jokers Wild series. This is one path out of corporate control and into a solarpunk future. Shenanigans, solidarity and good trouble all the way along.
www.oetearmann.com/store
#Hopepunk #CliFi #Solarpunk #resist
Get The Books — O.E. Tearmann
www.oetearmann.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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When chemist Erin Raincrow discovers her employer means to use her fertilizer formula to create chemical weapons, she runs away with the super soldier clone that came to kill her to a solarpunk PNW to finish her formula to save the world from starvation.

#HopePit #WIP #A #Solarpunk
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Unbarbing of Wire”

Shared-world collection in a solarpunk North American West

- city-roving taco trucks
- cussin’ cowboys
- airship farms and the cats that stalk their gardens
- borders? What borders?
- quite a bit of giddyup if I do say so myself

#HopePit #SF #Queryjng #CliFi #Solarpunk
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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THE SILENT is a Princess Mononoke-inspired eco-fantasy tale about human connection to nature and the power hidden in each of us to make a better world simply by being who we are truly meant to be.

Nature Magic
Slow-burn Romance
Family lost / Family found
Activist Protagonist

#hopepit #ecofantasy
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect.
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I could teach a full seminar on why there should be more Colorado solarpunk but at the end of the day it’s just fun to see solarpunk visions of home
#Hopepit snippet share! Here's what Downtown Denver looks like when it goes solarpunk
#hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi
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November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Nomadism…in space! Eco-sci-fi collection of stories about migration, wandering, and general transience through the great unknown. With:
- space witches
- rediscovering purpose through bicycling
- screw these space colonizers
And more!

querying “True Stories of Cycling on Ceres”

#hopepit #scifi
Saturday, Nov 8

#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations

Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope

Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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In a world where their faltering fertility ensues extinction, obeying orders has never been more vital. Or so the gods say.

🥀⚔️🪾🌲

A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x SERVANT OF EARTH.

#HopePit #HopePunk #F #A #Q
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Hope hides in a lush forest on Nariah IV, a planet colonized by a technocratic regime. Cowboy & Christa flee into the perilous woods seeking meaning & love. Rescued by an Afro-futurist group, they must use creativity & science to survive a harsh winter, or die trying.
#OS #HopePit #Hopepunk #Novella
#Hopepit pitch/ promote
post up to 3 times Sun, Nov 9 (your time zone)
🌱
Use #Hopepit tag
we highly encourage: #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks, if applicable
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any media, any stage, including:
#P : Published: drop links!
#SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A few snippets from my nomadpunk collection!

#HopePit #solarpunk #writersky
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#Hopepit Art Share! A Solarpunk Family. Credit Kel Carter.
Bao Li has three genetic parents. She's gene-spliced to balance out the health effects of sloppy genetic experiments done on her grandparents by a megacorporation, before the world FINALLY gave up on capitalism and focused on community.
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.

Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.

grist.org/indigenous/t...

#Tribes #Food #Indigenous #Farming
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Art share day! Here’s some doodles for the nomadpunk collections I’m querying

Show us some of your hopeful, human-made art too!

#HopePit #Artshare #solarpunk #clifi #hopepunk
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Each chapter of my novel is based on a major arcana tarot card, working through a heroine's journey.

So, of course I had to make tarot chapter art with my characters & settings.

This hermit card of my protagonist carrying light through the swamp is emblematic of her story.

#Hopepit #tarotsky
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Art share for #hopepit

Tel's Solarpunk self-portrait

#artshare #solarpunk #artsky
#psychedelic
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"Dirty hands, they can heal
Fertile soil feeds your soil
If you stand, you can grow" -Toni Hill

A local Portland activist group for neighborhood climate resilience & local artists created this hopeful song about the power of communities growing & sharing food
💚🌱
#Hopepit #MusicChallenge #UrbanFarms
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#MusicChallenge
#musicsky: post a song that hits on the theme of hope, adaptation, and resilience

#writersky: post a song that reminds you of your work, or inspires you

#booksky: what is your favorite #hopepunk, #solarpunk, and/or #clifi book that you'd recommend?

Use the tag #HopePit
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Music & Book recommendation day!

💗 Share a SONG or favorite BOOK

with a theme of #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #ecofiction, #IndigenousFuturism, climate change adaptation, or resilience 🎵

#hopepit #musicchallenge #musicchallenges #musicsky #booksky #clifi
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM