I have an inherent recoil from the term "grimdark" because I so often see it used to belittle works of art that I firstly love and secondly don't find horrifically depressing or devoid of all hope/textured human emotions/etc. So I'm probably unfairly wary of anything deliberately set up in opposition.
But at the same time, I really like this set of criteria, and I think it could actually reasonably used to select a core set of hopepunk texts that would make for interesting discussion. (I feel like eglantiere had something calling this kind of setting a clair universe? I like that phrasing a lot.) And I like all these factors, which seem like they'd produce a story that's warm and nuanced without being unrealistically one-note sunny or devoid of conflict.
Other possible works I'd say are good examples of this, sticking to SFF: Big Hero 6 and pretty much all of Susan Palwick.
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Date: 2019-05-29 08:21 pm (UTC)But at the same time, I really like this set of criteria, and I think it could actually reasonably used to select a core set of hopepunk texts that would make for interesting discussion. (I feel like
Other possible works I'd say are good examples of this, sticking to SFF: Big Hero 6 and pretty much all of Susan Palwick.