Whereas steampunk strikes me as an aesthetic rather than an attitude; and its etymology is pretty plainly modeled on cyberpunk.
There have been some pretty heated debates on steampunk communities about about how the steampunk aesthetic (translated: fashion) seems to be eclipsing all other aspects of steampunk. (The funniest comment I've seen about that so far was someone getting upset that steampunk seems to be turning into The New Goth, and that is WRONG!!11!!)
There's also splatterpunk, which I'd define as extreme horror fiction.
Yep. But the term is kinda considered an in-joke by the authors who were usually labled with it.
I, for one, am ready for no words to suffix themselves with "punk" and become cooler thereby. It is so DONE, people.
One of the cosmic ironies is that hip hop was far more cyberpunk than punk ever was. Sampling is cyberpunk in action.
I first saw that as emopunk and thought "isn't that a contradiction?"
You don't think Johnny Rotten was emotional? Hatred is an emotion.
Also, knowing one of the early participants in "emocore" (Lars Hanson, drummer in Embrace) I can vouch that the coinage was originally intended as a joke. The local DC hardcore punks were ironically indulging the same suffix abuse that Nutty objects to, except adding "-core" to everything instead of "-punk."
There's also splatterpunk, which I'd define as extreme horror fiction.
How extreme? Like
Hostel, Part 2
or something?
Can I be Indopunk?
Can I be Indopunk?
Dude, you are way more Twee Pop.
I feel like I should be offended.
Like Hostel, Part 2 or something?
Closer to early Clive Barker (who would be the William Gibson), but Hostel-type stuff probably fits. As Jilli notes, it was a mostly parodic appellation, though I do have a splatterpunk anthology somewhere in my library.
Early Peter Jackson probably would count too, film-wise.
I feel like I should be offended.
I own and love lots of Twee Pop. Embrace it. Be Twee as Fuck. Be a Monster of Twee. (It is just a subset of Indie Pop that's bit on the emo side.)
Closer to early Clive Barker (who would be the William Gibson), but Hostel-type stuff probably fits. As Jilli notes, it was a mostly parodic appellation, though I do have a splatterpunk anthology somewhere in my library.
Huh, I never think of Clive as a splatterpunk author, even tho' his early stuff certainly fits. When I think splatterpunk, I think of David J. Schow, and the Dynamic Duo of John Skipp and Craig Spector, back when they WERE a Dynamic Duo and still speaking to and writing books with each other.
Be Tweecore! Be A Tweehugger! There is unrest in the forest; there is trouble with the twees!
You mean emo used to mean something other than "I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I swoon."?
You may have noticed I don't make it much of a priority to stay au courant with the genres de jour.
And I suddenly seem to have gone French.
