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JacobCoffin
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I write science fiction and pester magazines with it

https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com

https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net

https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/the-frozen-generation-jacob-coffin/
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Today from Reckoning 9, "Repurposed Parking Garage", solarpunk design art by @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social depicting a post-car-culture future, brutalist infrastructure converted to practical use, with bike shop, fruit stand, rooftop orchard, and 1910s-era streetcar! reckoning.press/repurposed-p...
Heavily modified photo of a three-story concrete parking garage, where each bay has been replaced with a different style window, hanging plants, murals, and on the ground level, also a bike shop, a tienda selling produce, and a mural of a deer. In the foreground, a modified streetcar passes on railroad tracks. On the roof, fruit trees grow.
July 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
I'm very excited to announce that one of my Postcards from a Solarpunk Future has been published in Reckoning Press!

Reading short stories in Reckoning was I think the main thing that got me to give solarpunk another look.

reckoning.press/repurposed-p...

#solarpunk #art #photobash #collage
Repurposed Parking Garage | Reckoning
I imagine this building is somewhat well known in this fictional place. I think it was probably converted into living space while the world was busy being a little more post-apoclyptic than solarpunk,...
reckoning.press
July 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
#bookbinding #diy

Does anyone know of an online library of open-license, interposed, print-ready books?

Is there already a site for them? If not, it's something I'll try to do, eventually

I know prepping the files is part of the fun but if it lowers the barrier for entry I think it's worth it
May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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#Solarpunk Cargo Ship

Full text post here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/s...

#art #photobash #hopepunk #ocean #scifi
The image shows a strange container cargo ship, with junk-rigged sails on masts offset from the centerline, arranged in a sort of zigzag pattern with two masts to each side. The ship is red and white, similar to modern day cargo vessels, with colorful containers on the deck. The bridge is located in the front and is painted white. Two blue whales swim alongside in the foreground, one is spouting.
May 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
A softcover copy of the Fully Automated solarpunk TTRPG rulebook, made by hand following the Pretty Perfect Paperback Guide. Bookbinding is much easier than you think!

My guide: movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobco...

Penrose Press: www.penrosepress.ca/blogs/nerd-t...

#solarpunk #diy #bookbinding #TTRPG
A photograph of a softcover copy of the Fully Automated Solarpunk TTRPG rulebook, which I made by hand following the Penrose Press Pretty Perfect softcover bookbinding guide. The pages were printed in full color on 11x17" paper, sewn and glued together, and attached to a cover printed on canvas fabric. It's sitting on a wooden table. The cover is printed on canvas (similar to what you'd use for a wall hanging or banner) using a plotter printer and shows a color scene of a chase through a pedestrianized overpass which now hosts a community and market. The same book from a lower angle to show the spine with the folded and stitched signatures, and how closely the fabric cover fits to it. A closeup of the folded paper signatures, visible at the top of the spine, just inside the cover. I wanted to showcase the fairly even binding, crisp corners, and close fit of the cover as it's an improvement over my previous attempt.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
If you're looking for Creative Commons Solarpunk artwork there's a new repository of it at storyseedlibrary.org/art/

They're still starting out and gathering up art so if you have something to contribute it's a good time to reach out!

#creativecommons #solarpunk #art #copyleft
Welcome to Story Seed Library!
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!
storyseedlibrary.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
Solarpunk Cargo Ship in a Storm - a steel-hulled, four-masted barque with an open-source variant of dynarig sails tries to escape a storm.

This image and (all the Postcards from a #Solarpunk Future) is CC-BY, use it how you like.

Full post: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/s...

#art
The image shows a steel-hulled four-masted barque (sailing ship) with modern dynarig sails trying to escape a storm perilously close to an offshore windmill. The sky and ocean are mostly grey, the sea is heaving with waves as tall as the ship, and a driving rain fills the sky.
April 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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brklyndragon.bsky.social
More and more people have at least heard of the #solarpunk movement. I say "movement" not genre because it didn't begin on the page.
April 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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My first #bookbinding project - a hardcover version of the Fully Automated! #solarpunk #TTRPG Rulebook

As with most of my DIY projects, I wrote up a step-by-step here: movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobco...
You can also get the interposed, ready-to-print files here: fullyautomatedrpg.com/resources/

#DIY
The image shows a hardcover copy of the Fully Automated Solarpunk Tabletop RPG, which I made by hand.
April 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
A Bike Kitchen and Sunken Greenhouse Behind a Reclaimed/Repurposed McMansion

This was both part of my postcard series and part of the art for the #solarpunk Buried Treasure #TTRPG campagin

Full post here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/08/09/a...

#art #scifi #photobash
The image shows the backyard of a large building, formerly a mansion, now a communal living space. The swimming pool has been converted into a sunken greenhouse and the pool house is now a bike co-op. The sprawling lawns have grown into healthy forests, and a network of public paths runs right up to the house. The buildings have been painted with colorful murals.
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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fullyautomatedrpg.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy
One of our devs is attending the #neotropolis #cyberpunk #larp #festival and made this sick promo for FA!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3r4UmpjDrSwIKJfIH3Slsb1yj9zb8nZ/view?usp=sharing

@jack-gross.bsky.social is also going to run a one-shot while there, so if you're going and want to try […]
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April 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
Another Postcard from a Solarpunk Future: this time of a #solarpunk workshop built around multiple ways to use the sun, including several giant fresnel lenses beaming light down from the observatory-style dome on the roof

Full post here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/s...

#art #scifi
This digital drawing/photobash is styled like a watercolor painting/sketch of a brick building surrounded by trees. On the left side of the building is a short tower with an observatory-style dome on the top. The dome hosts a giant fresnel lens, similar to that found in a lighthouse. The front of the tower is a cutaway showing a metal staircase and catwalk, and a column of light traveling from the dome down to a second lens, where it is concentrated to a point, on the metal work surface of a CNC plasma cutter. Two people stand by and watch, one on the ground floor, one on the second level catwalk. The rest of the building is styled like an old brick mill, with large arched windows, and a fieldstone and concrete foundation. To the right, it supports a wooden water wheel. On the roof are several solar panels and a pair of fiberoptic daylighting systems, which capture sunlight and pipe it through fiberoptic cables to the workshop below.
March 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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grimrhiper.bsky.social
Alright folks, we are on the final 3 days of our Backerkit campaign for Why We Fight! If you haven't backed yet, your time to do so is running out! Let me tell you why you should...
bit.ly/whywefightrpg?ref=bsky #IndieTTRPG #Solarpunk #TTRPG #antifascist
Bright orange background with a rag tag crew of five people posting looking towards the camera. Behind them, graffiti like text reads: Join the Community Alliance Ending Soon! Back us on Backerkit
March 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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eruditelijah.bsky.social
Anybody know if there's any large repositories for Solarpunk, Utopian/Protopian, Anarchofuturist, and/or Afrofuturist media?

Looking for freely available images, video/gifs, and audio/music.

I eventually want to create my own media to add to the world, but that may take a while.

NO AI PLEASE!!
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
Some more transportation-based location #art for the #solarpunk #TTRPG campaign

It shows a scene from inside the starting village's food forest, where few public transit options happen to be in the same shot. The game system is Fully Automated (fullyautomatedrpg.com) but you could use any system!
March 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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aemarling.bsky.social
Corrupt #gavinNewsom is once again doing the bidding of PG$E, leveraging his cronies in the cpuc to attack rooftop solar. Join @solarrights.bsky.social in defending. You can also tell Gavin off to his face on April 24th. #rooftopsolar
April 25 March in Sac; abolish PG&E
March 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Postcard from a #Solarpunk Future: Deconstruction crews disassembling abandoned McMansions so the material can be reused, and #rewilding the site

Full post: slrpnk.net/post/9173975

This picture, and all the other postcards (jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/d...) are CC-BY
#art #photobash
The image shows an overgrown neighborhood of cheap, abandoned mansions in front of an overgrown golf course. Crews of workers and vehicles are gathered in front of them, dissasembling them. The leftmost image is just a filled-in foundation hole where workers are planting trees. the middle building is down to stick frame and plywood. And the rightmost building is fairly new-looking, and crews are carrying out furniture
March 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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fullyautomatedrpg.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy
Proud to be the 285th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/stop-drop-roll-games-studio/why-we-fight-a-solarpunk-narrative-ttrpg?ref=bk-social-pledge-button

#solarpunk #gamedev #ttrpg #rpg #hopepunk
Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG
Why We Fight is a 1-5 player narrative TTRPG where you play a crew of eco-punks fighting fascism to build a brighter, greener future. But most of all, it’s about learning about each other, and the things that drive us to make change.
www.backerkit.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Another bit of location #art for the #solarpunk #TTRPG campaign book Buried Treasure - this time of a spring house. These (and cold houses) come up a few times in the story where they're used to collect water or for basic refrigeration. I've only seen one IRL that was this big/nice. Details in alt
The image is looking up a forested hill at a small stone and wood building with a fairly steep roof and a metal door. It's maybe six feet or two meters square. A small stream flows from below the stone under the door. A black pipe runs from one corner and down the hill. The building is a spring house, intended to keep a spring clean and to channel some of the water to a nearby building. It is also an effective means of storing food, using the cold from the spring to chill the space and preserve perishables.
March 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
Some more location #art for the Buried Treasure #solarpunk #TTRPG campaign book, showing the approach to the starting village (a repurposed development of McMansions around a golf course turned into an agricultural community and food forest). Last stop on the game's extensive public transit network
The image is a line-art style photobash showing the view from a ropeway (gondola) car descending towards a somewhat crude terminal station. Several simple rectangular ropeway cars dangle from cables leading to the terminal, going in either direction. Behind and below them is a wide forest dotted with several reclaimed/repurposed McMansions. This strange village was once an abandoned wealth enclave, a development of McMansions around a golf course. A faction called the Reclaimers have turned the overgrown golf course into a food forest and agroforestry exemplar, and the overlarge, cheap houses into a thriving mixed-use community which has recently become something of a salvage boomtown with the recent deconstruction effort. The view is framed by the window of the ropeway car the viewer is inside.
March 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
I've been working on some location #art for a #solarpunk #TTRPG campaign. This farm was part of the #meshnet for the mostly-abandoned town

Full text post here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/b...

The campaign will be published by @FullyAutomatedRPG.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy

#scifi
The image shows an old New England farm with a handfull of modifications. The farmhouse and barn are covered in antennas, solar panels, and homemade savonius turbines, a swarm of UAVs are flying out of a dormer on the barn roof, while a robotic tractor trundles down the driveway and a woodgas truck is parked, running, out front. There are chickens in the yard and an old ski groomer for packing down snow on the seasonal roads parked in a lean-to on the side of the barn. The farmer who lives here was a fan-favorite with my first group of players – he does a lot of work maintaining the meshnet for the mostly-abandoned town where the campaign takes place and he became good friends with the group's hacker character. His farm is pretty conservative for the setting. I wanted to play with how perspectives would shift in this utopian solarpunk setting, to have a farm that would seem both futuristic and kinda crunchy-progressive by our standards that would still be pretty stodgy and conservative compared to his neighbors. He’s relying on biochar, crop rotation, and pollarded trees providing radial chipped wood to replenish his soil instead of manufactured fertilizer, using alley cropping and a handful of other agroforestry techniques to shelter his crops. He cooks his food using a scheffler reflector, drives a woodgas truck he uses to produce his biochar, and generates his power with a mix of solar, wind, water, and woodgas. But compared to the elaborate food forests of a nearby community, Bob’s open fields and heavy reliance on tech makes his farm look downright traditional. I find the sort of cyberpunk mix of scavenged tech and a traditional-looking farmhouse to be both a lot of fun and pretty much in line with the farmers I’ve known and worked for, who were happy to bolt new stuff onto old if it got the job done. Bob’s farm is full of scavenged robotics, radio antennas, and other tech, mostly controlled using cybernetics linked to his brain. He’s added a drone hangar …
February 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
A postcard from a #solarpunk future - a caustic soda locomotive stopped at a solar drying station

I think these mostly-forgotten engines could pair with solar steam generators in a really cool, asynchronous way to create analogue solar-powered trains

jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/c...
The scene shows a scene of a train stopped at a way station on a grassy hillside. The is a forest and mountains in the distance. The train is a caustic soda locomotive, it looks like an old steam train with no smokestack, painted red. It's pulling six double-decker passenger cars. The waystation is a farmhouse, a workshop/warehouse, and a two-story building which partially overhangs the tracks, where the locomotive is currently parked. Next to it is a water stop (the elevated water tank/tower used to fill steam locomotives). Below the track, facing away from the train, is a large round solar concentrator (basically a wide, mirrored cone), which focuses light on a boiler, which is connected to the building above the tracks. This allows them to dry the diluted caustic soda used to power the train so it can be used again.
January 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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fullyautomatedrpg.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy
Here's a treat! We've got a new adventure coming out this spring, and you can get a first look in this awesome developer update from the lead writer @jacobcoffin !

https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/buried-treasure/

#solarpunk #ttrpg #rpg #hopepunk #cyberpunk #degrowth
Buried Treasure
The blog’s been quiet for a few weeks while I’ve been working on another project, so I thought I’d go ahead and write about that a little. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I&#8…
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January 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social
Hey #solarpunk #writers and #artists, I pulled together a list of car parts that can be reused in other contexts. This could be useful in set-dressing a community that gets by with a lot of salvage or where cars are less dominant in how we live.

jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/u...
Using Every Part Of The Car – A Resource For Solarpunk Writers And Artists
One of my ongoing goals is to emphasize reuse in solarpunk media – both through my own projects and whenever I get the chance while helping others through suggestions or editing. There’…
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January 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM