I have been naively assuming (on the basis of well curated tumblr feed) that there was in fact punk in hopepunk.
That hopepunk was more like - working to make hope possible in an apocalyptic situation as a radical act. There is nothing comfortable or comforting or easy or soft about it. To maintain hope in the face of overwhelming odds (Rogue One), to trust in the general goodness of humans in society as punk.
It is ok to not be punk! It is ok to want comfort and gentleness and promise of an easy future in one's life/fiction/consumables. In the moralising spaces is this seen as conservative? and therefore to maintain their sense of self identity as liberal/progressive they have to reframe their fiction choices and daily lives as also radical and progressive?
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That hopepunk was more like - working to make hope possible in an apocalyptic situation as a radical act. There is nothing comfortable or comforting or easy or soft about it. To maintain hope in the face of overwhelming odds (Rogue One), to trust in the general goodness of humans in society as punk.
It is ok to not be punk! It is ok to want comfort and gentleness and promise of an easy future in one's life/fiction/consumables. In the moralising spaces is this seen as conservative? and therefore to maintain their sense of self identity as liberal/progressive they have to reframe their fiction choices and daily lives as also radical and progressive?