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Christopher R. Muscato
@chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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Writer of sff/solarpunk/nomadpunk, hope addict, dad of twins, constantly fighting writer’s block
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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · Nov 20
I’d love to build a community here on Bluesky- so please help me build this list!

go.bsky.app/Jm58kNg
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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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heliosail.bsky.social
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
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Checking in from Northern Colorado
Red-pink aurora with blue-green edges against a black night sky, with a few houses at the bottom of the image
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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hopepit.bsky.social
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
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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
Golden manu cornuto charm with words “All Roads Lead to Roam” Words: Move free and plant things Illustration: person reclining in an alpine valley next to a bicycle with a large photovoltaic display
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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otterkit.bsky.social
#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
Reposted by Christopher R. Muscato
otterkit.bsky.social
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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celticxpanda.bsky.social
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
a moodboard for Artificial Sunflowers including images of the Pacific Northwest, laboratories, and soldiers, along with relevant tropes and genre information like 'solarpunk', 'scifi romance' and 'enemies (?) to lovers'
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
“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
Illustration of a person on a horse, towing a hovering greenhouse cart. The text says “Unbarbing of Wire”
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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sjoneillauthor.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Christopher R. Muscato
jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
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
Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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
otterkit.bsky.social Olivia Wylie @otterkit.bsky.social · 7d
#Hopepit snippet share! Here's what Downtown Denver looks like when it goes solarpunk
#hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi
(edit to the last post)
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 7d
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!
background: photo of wind-patterned sand and coniferous trees in Columbia River Gorge by @arachnereid.bsky.social words: #Hopepit Sat Nov 8 share a snippet of your creations 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞 post a quote, zoom in of your art, song, anything you made with a #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc theme 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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rebeccaio.bsky.social
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
Background with dark green vines. Text in white in the middle: “An agents guide to Wilted Fate, adult fantasy with romance, 108.000 words” Background with dark green vines. Header: The Pitch, followed by two pictures. The first one of several women with white large bonnets and red capes, taken from the series The Handmaid’s Tale, and next to it is a picture of the myth The Wild Hunt from Norse mythology. On top of both pictures is text: The Handmaid’s Tale meets Norse mythology. Below is the pitch, which says: “Extinction is the inevitable next step. Their first breeding project failed, and now Astrid would do anything to prove her worth to the gods, even perform a damaging ritual to incite magic to the earth again. But the earth retaliates by showing the consequences of her blind obedience. But should she fail, the gods are desperate enough to take action again to restore their population. Only, they won’t ask this time.” Background with dark green vines. Header: Excerpt from the prologue called The Slave. “The Slave had never known peace. She had tried to find it, though. Through compliance. Silence. By fitting neatly into expectations and holding her tongue. But being a female was not only a menial experience. It was also violent. Vicious. It was a war started against her and the other females in the room, bound by invisible chains to their beds. As they waited in compliance, silence, for a name to be called. And hoping that name wasn’t their own. But war never knew peace. War only knew wrath. The fragile light that seeped in from the windows slowly unveiled the terror of dawn. And with it, muffled sobs filled the room. But even if the Slave wasn’t grieving, she didn’t blame the females for it. It was easier to lean into the soft embrace of sorrow than to turn to the violent claws of fury. To lose hope, because there was none. The Slave had never known peace. Until she found the blissful reprieve of rage in this proclaimed war, something she’d never allowed herself to feel. Until now. Background with dark green vines. Header: Comparative titles in the middle of the picture. Above it the text reads: The Norse lore and the slow-burn romance in “A fate inked in blood”. Below it, the text reads: The unyielding FMC and the dismantling of societal structures in “The servant of earth”.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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thestripedbananas.bsky.social
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.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 7d
#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
🌞
any media, any stage, including:
#P : Published: drop links!
#SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community
background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social text: #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 Share your writing, music, and/or art telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community 🌱≤ 3 posts per participant 🌞Please use ALT text on images 🌱NO generative AI 🌞build community & help uplift these genres background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social GENRE #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks encouraged #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote STAGE #WIP : Work In Progress #Q : Querying #OS: On Submission/ in process of publication #P : Published / Available: drop links! #SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community AUDIENCE #C : Children #YA: Young Adult #A : Adult
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
A few snippets from my nomadpunk collection!

#HopePit #solarpunk #writersky
"But her father always said that a utopia was not a place where things were perfect, only a place that was willing to address its own imperfections. And now she was part of that." "THE TIDES ROLLED IN" THEY TRIED TO CATCH ME ONCE OR TWICE/FOR CROSSING THEIR BORDERS/BUT WHAT ARE PAPER LINES/WHEN WINDS GIVE ME MY ORDERS? "PASSAGE MIGRANT" EVENTUALLY, I FOUND MY PLACE IN THE CIRCUS. IT WAS A NATURAL FIT. I BECAME AN ESCAPEARTIST "THE BALLAD OF GUAN ZONGYING"
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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otterkit.bsky.social
#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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grist.org
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
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
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
Illustration of me in a red shirt and yellow hat with the word “Hey” in yellow Illustration of a person reclining in an Alpine meadow, overlooking a river with mountains in the background. In the foreground is an e-bike with a flower-petal photovoltaic array Aerial view of a person in a cowboy hat, riding a horse that is pulling a hovering greenhouse. The ground is filled with swaying green and gold prairie grass
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
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
a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp Hermit card of a figure holding a lantern in a swamp caption title: "THROUGH DARKNESS EMERGES LIGHT"
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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thestripedbananas.bsky.social
Art share for #hopepit

Tel's Solarpunk self-portrait

#artshare #solarpunk #artsky
#psychedelic
Tel's self portrait
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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aliennextdoor.bsky.social
#hopepit Ten #ecofiction novels worth discussing ... climate-fiction.org/2021/09/21/t...
Ten Eco-Fiction Novels Worth Discussing by Nina Munteanu
In most fiction, environment plays a passive role that lies embedded in stability and an unchanging status quo. From Adam Smith’s 18th Century economic vision to the conceit of bankers who drove th…
climate-fiction.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
"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
Reposted by Christopher R. Muscato
thestripedbananas.bsky.social
#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
💜
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 9d
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
art by Haekel Wanderbilder of mountains, rocks, and trees Words: #Hopepit Nov 6Music & Book Day!! Using #hopepit hashtag, post books & music that tell stories of hope, adaptation, resilience, and sustainability #Hopepit hype event November 9 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM