This is not a cryptic nonpost because I have signed and returned the contract already

[kiya]

So I have been having a Massive Serotonin Shortage in this here brain this past week, not helped by getting a final-round rejection on the remaining story I had a hold on and basically having no sales this year and thus feeling a terrible burned-out wreck on a professional level. I have been feeling like whining about this in various writing locations and just have not had the spoons to complain about how much of a burned-out wreck I am.

BUT

I just signed and returned the contract to sell my story "Neptune's Due" to Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, which is an antho I really really wanted to sell to, so I am extremely happy about this. Lunarpunk as described in the CFS is 100% my absolute jam, and since it's a newish microgenre or subgenre or whatever I'm just thrilled to get to say something in one of the first collective works of trying to do the thing.

I would also wish to note that this story would not exist without neolithicsheep, whose greatness is such that he even inspires those who he maybe barely knows from Adam.

And I would like to thank brooksmoses for titling the damn thing.

Now if that lower back rib on the right would stop fucking spasming.... (Ow.)

Comments

[jenett]

I am so so glad this story gets more people reading it in the not too distant future!

[sovay]

I just signed and returned the contract to sell my story "Neptune's Due" to Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, which is an antho I really really wanted to sell to, so I am extremely happy about this.

Congratulations!

[mindways]

Woooo! Congrats! :D

[graydon]

Yay, sale!

[madgastronomer]

Wheeee!

[pameladean]

EEEEEEE! So excellent! P.

[kaifu]

\o/ congratulations!

[tiger_spot]

Hurrah!

[ivy]

Congratulations! What is lunarpunk, as a microgenre? It's got a good name....

[kiya]

It's a new offshoot of solarpunk - so organized around the science fiction optimism that we'll get our ecological shit together and manage a non-catastrophic future, with the -punk aspects landing in egalitarianism, awareness and respect for indigenous peoples, and anticapitalism. Where solarpunk tends towards art nouveau technoutopias with solar power and greenhouses, so a sort of brightly colored, Apollonian mode, lunarpunk's notion is "Okay, yes and" and bringing in the more Dionysian aspects: what is ecological fiction like in the dark. Often-paganesque spirituality, gently glowing plants, mycological ruminations.

(My story is organized around the core nugget of what would it be like to be on a scientific base at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, keeping in mind that people who deal with the sea at great length often have rather important spiritual and/or superstitious practices to deal with the instinctive understanding that the sea does not give a shit and can kill you on a whim.)