JacobCoffinWrites, jacobcoffinwrites@slrpnk.net

The other Fully Automated devs are working on a new set of chase mechanics. We’ve been jokingly calling the create-an-obstacle-behind-yourself move “Summon Fruit Stand” and every time we say it I picture a walking robot fruit stand plodding slowly into the way, blocking the route. I don’t need much excuse to make solarpunk art so I photobashed this scene.

The other Fully Automated devs are working on a new set of chase mechanics. We’ve been jokingly calling the create-an-obstacle-behind-yourself move “Summon Fruit Stand” and every time we say it I picture a walking robot fruit stand plodding slowly into the way, blocking the route. I don’t need much excuse to make solarpunk art so I photobashed this scene.

This is another bit of art from an ongoing solarpunk fiction project: a flying crane cargo airship docked at a mooring mast made from a recycled wind turbine tower.

It's been awhile since I shared a Postcard from a Solarpunk Future. I've been working on a fiction project which kind of got away from me in scope and scale - you can read a bit more about it here if you're interested. That said, it's nearly complete so I thought I'd share a mostly-standalone photobash from the interior art.

Hi, I hope this is okay, I made some progress on a line art photobash to go with the scene I was describing and I was hoping to run it by you folks in case anything needs to change (scale, layout, etc) before I get into the detail work.

I was recently reading up on Beaver Dam Analogs for a fiction project and thought I'd share some of the links I found really interesting. I got started on it because I frequently go for walks in the woods and there's an old logging road/snowmobile trail the beavers frequently flood since it's a low spot between two water bodies. I don't mind and just walk into the woods below their dam to hop across but a nearby landowner keeps destroying their dam to keep the trail dry. I wondered if I couldn't build them the start of a dam on the uphill side of the trail so they'd build there instead and keep the guy from escalating.

I recently started setting up an intercom system between my workshop and the kitchen using a pair of antique Leich 901 telephones.

It appears to be a large pink cat surrounded by hearts holding some flowers in one paw

This is an unpaid magazine but I think they publish some good stuff (including one of my stories in their first edition!). If you have a solarpunk or otherwise anarchism-friendly story you're trying to find a home for, maybe give them a look!

I've got a coat I wore every winter for like eight years but didn't use this fall because a rain of macroplastics would follow me wherever I go. I can strip the pleather, flaking-paint material off to replace it with something but the fabric underneath is sort of thin and stretchy so I'd need to find something that'll help seal it against wind and rain again. I know they sell pleather paint but reviews said it's short lived or meant for patching lesser damage. It's probably a long shot but is there another option for doing the whole outside of the coat?

I think I've mentioned before that rural cyberpunk is just about my favorite setting and I always enjoy it whenever we get a glimpse. Gibson books are great for that, from Turner's brother's farm and Dog Solitude in the Sprawl, to the trailer park in the Bridge books, and basically all of the stub in The Peripheral. I love the way cyberpunk (realistically) rejects clean, fresh-start architecture and instead layers new over old, and I think rural areas provide even better contrast for that than the cities, despite how old some cities are. I've done a few rural cyberpunk scenes before, mostly for a webcomic. I love looking around my hometowns and trying to capture a type of location - not a specific place, but like an amalgamation of a category like 'farmhouse,' or 'junkyard,' and then adding kludged-on tech.

I’ve been working on some location art for the Buried Treasure campaign. 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.