2026-09-25 18:42 UTC
@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art y'know, I haven't and it looks fantastic. I actually have been trying to finish writing a Greenpunk/Steampunk novel for 15+ years that has a similar premise of the US being a neo-victorian oligarchal system. The capital in this sense moves to New York instead and it's set 300-400 years in the future. There's a complex "casta" system and language that is a mix of Chinese and Russian characters/alphabet with English and Spanish grammar and syntax with variants in regions. I have old art and sketched maps it was absolutely an insane project of mine as a teenager but it just never went anywhere I guess...
I was inspired by books like Golden Compass, Brave New World, Leviathan series, the original Twilight Zone, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and just general pulpy steampunk and sci-fi.
I kinda want to get back into this but I have so many other lore pressing projects now 😅
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@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art 2026-09-25 19:16
@simplyxtata@c.im that seems indeed very interesting and very ambitious! For a long time I had a similar project (not the topic but the sizes of the universe and the cast) I finally put it on hold because I understood I can’t dedicate enough time to such a large project and when I imagined Esther & Erie, it was far more in adequacy with its reduced cast and timescale. Maybe a way to do it could be to do several short stories that would be ultimately connected?