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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you! It's been a long project but I'm so glad it's made!

JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you'd like to read more about the research that went into this sprawling, 20+ hour campaign, I've written a good bit more about it here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/w...

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The players will search a mostly-abandoned town for industrial waste illegally dumped there sixty years before, so the land can be restored and the waste used to produce geopolymers. Their search will take them deep into a rewilding zone full of deconstruction crews, foresters, and locals #solarpunk

The image shows a white electric bus raised onto rail bogies, traveling along train tracks on a narrow strip of manmade land through a lake called a causeway. The causeway is mostly overgrown with trees and brush. In the background, a small sailboat with a rainbow flag sail is crossing a large lake with forested shores.

The image shows an old New England farm with a handfull of modifications. The farmhouse and barn are covered in antennas, solar panels, and homemade savonius turbines, a swarm of UAVs are flying out of a dormer on the barn roof, while a robotic tractor trundles down the driveway and a woodgas truck is parked, running, out front. There are chickens in the yard and an old ski groomer for packing down snow on the seasonal roads parked in a lean-to on the side of the barn.

The image is a different style of map, this one shows a village but is stylized like a course map for a golf course. It shows a village where a development of McMansions around a golf course has been turned into a agricultural community and food forest

The image shows a map of a fictional town and surrounding geographies, overlaid with a grid and lines of arrows which delineate watersheds. To avoid spoilers, this one only shows some of the locations and layers

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm very excited to announce that we've finally launched Buried Treasure, my #solarpunk #TTRPG campaign! Like all my solarpunk stuff, it's CC-BY, so you can get it absolutely free at: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... fully-automated-rpg.itch.io/fully-automa... or here: mega.nz/fm/DVsiDC7b

A photobash with an oil paint style, looking out over a landscape from the top of a steep hill with an extremely washed out road winding down it. The scene is framed by trees and brush. In the distance an irregular lake fills the bottom of a forested valley, with a small village along one side, and mountains rising up in the distance. A cargo airship is hovering somewhere above the scene. The text reads: Fully Automated the Thousand Year Cleanup Book One: Buried Treasure by Jacob Coffin

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wrote more about how items might be designed in a solarpunk society and library economy here: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:repa... This image (and all the Postcards from a Solarpunk Future) is CC-BY, use it how you like. jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-fr...

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writing:repairability_in_solarpunk [SLRPNK]

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another look at the industrial side of #solarpunk - a small scale appliance fabrication place. The folks here download open source designs and create things people need using standardized parts and stock materials. Their customers are library networks and individuals who want something custom #art

The image shows a repurposed warehouse from the side. It sits at the corner of a grassy tram track and a pedestrianized street with a grape vine shade canopy. A long raildock runs along the tram side of the building, and garage doors and regular doors show that multiple co-ops are set up inside. The raildock seems to double as a sidewalk and two men are hanging out and talking there. The building in the foreground has a mural on the side which reads 'Ten Friends Appliance Fabbery' 'Qualified Customizations of top Designs' and 'Ask Us About Our Part Sourcing Options'. There is also signage warning people not to leave stuff on the rail dock and indicating that the fabbery is a non-sodium battery collection point. The pedestrianized street has permeable pavers for a road surface.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Finally finished another #solarpunk #photobash! This one of traffic on a river, including an electric cargo barge, a house-shifting barge, a cargo sailboat, and a river cleanup craft. Details here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/s... This image, like all my postcards, is #CC-BY #art

A colorful river scene with an electric container ship in the foreground, a barge and tugboats moving an intact house, a small container sailboat, and a river cleanup craft. In the background, a reinforced embankment leads up to a forested park, with a dense city of five-ish story brick buildings and forested streets leads up into the hills.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Actually I just realized I never shared the new pages on landfill mining or rough mounding on bsky either: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:land... wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:roug... You can find the whole #solarpunk worldbuilding resource wiki here: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start #writing #worldbuilding

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We've added a new page on phytoremediation, mycoremediation, and bioremediation to the slrpnk.net/c/writing #solarpunk worldbuilding resource wiki: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:phyt... It's very much a work in progress so if you'd like to make additions or corrections feel free to reach out! #writing

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hey, sorry to miss this question! If we stuck to the original plan/sketch it'd be three - two partial figures, one full figure, and one large cat? Two figures facing away from the viewer, one partial figure facing back towards the viewer and waving them foward

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I think if we stuck with the original sketch, it'd be three - two partial figures, one full figure, and what looks like some kind of large cat. Two figures facing away from the viewer, one looking back towards the viewer and waving them forward

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I think this particular flavor of rural solarpunk - based pretty heavily on how the region looked before the automobile gained power. The way things shift and reconfigure and rebuild. Also lots and lots of rewilding, environmental restoration, phytoremediation, and deconstruction details

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

So this is the general genre we're aiming for - the campaign does its best to invert a lot of tropes from this stuff, but the DNA is there and I think it's worth playing with that too

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It's a @fullyautomatedrpg.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy project and we're aiming to release it for free through all their usual channels (if I have time, I'll make a bookbinding version incase anyone wants a hardcopy)

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

So the development of abandoned McMansions and golf course being turned into a self-sufficient agricultural community and food forest, the exurbs getting rewilded again, the return of trains to the region, and a ton of other stuff all suddenly had a home - the worldbuilding is my favorite part

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thank you! I'd had a bunch of concepts I wanted to use in a story because they wouldn't fit well in a single photobash and when I learned that certain industrial wastes can be used as an input in geopolymers, that kind of gave me the central hook to arrange them all around.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yes, I have the background (I was actually just working on painting it over as our backup plan in case we couldn't find another artist) and the somewhat-lower-res sketch. If you'd like I could share some examples of the style we're hoping to mimic

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

for the interior art I aimed for a more comic/Choose Your Own Adventure book -style made with lineart photobashes with color painted in underneath.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Even if we are breaking some of the composition rules the pulp artists seemed to follow - for example you almost never find covers where the protagonists have their back to the viewer even if they had to really mess with composition to make it happen. But then, these characters are stand-ins for PCs

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thank you! I've been having an absolute blast writing, running, and playing it! I'd be quite happy with a digital-painterly style that captures the same feel, that's what our first artist was skilled at. I mostly just want to evoke some of the same vibes but with solarpunk updates

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We'd be looking for a 8.5"x11" image with basically good enough resolution for a PDF. I tend to start at pretty high rez so the background resolution a little crazy (attached), but that was mostly an abundance of caution, wanting to make things easy for the artist who was planning to paint over it.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hi! So we have a bit of a start (I photobashed a background and our first artist worked out a sketch of the figures with us). We were hoping to hit a sort of painterly style used by pulp adventure stories in the 50s and 60s as this campaign inverts a lot of lost-city tropes.

The image shows a group of three adventurous looking humans and a large cat gathered up at the top of a steep hill looking out over distant scenery. The background is a photobash I put together before contacting our first artist. The line art was done by our first artist and has one person holding a bird-like drone, one holding binoculars, and one gesturing the viewer forward excitedly.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We've still got most of the funds from the first commission attempt available, and can flex a bit to get this made. For a bit of an idea what we're looking for, I've attached a sketch from when we were talking things out with our first artist.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If you know (or are!) someone who can work in the sort of painterly, exaggerated but realistic-ish style frequently used by pulp adventure books and magazines in the 50s and 60s we'd love to talk! We've still got most of the funds from the first commission attempt available, and can flex a bit

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I had hired an artist to paint the cover art in the style of pulp adventure novels, as the campaign inverts and riffs on those sort of lost city tropes. Unfortunately they had to drop out for life-happened reasons. So we're looking for an artist! #art #solarpunk #scifi #digitalart

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

For the last 3 years I've been working on a #solarpunk TTRPG treasure hunting adventure where the players search a mostly-abandoned town (undergoing deconstruction and rewilding) for industrial waste illegally dumped there decades before. We've nearly finished the book & plan to release it CC-BY-SA

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Also if you're looking for solarpunk artists, there's a collection of Creative Commons-licensed solarpunk artwork here: storyseedlibrary.org/art/ pretty much all my favorites are here!

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Solarpunk Art

A gallery of free-to-use Solarpunk art under open licenses

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I would really like to wrap up the comic at some point. I'm very fond of it

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hey thank you for the link! I also do some straight-up solarpunk photobashes (prez deer might be more cyberpunk/ecofiction) though I tend to have more interest in the industrial side of things even then jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-fr... There's a bunch in prezdeer style at the bottom

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Postcards from a Solarpunk Future

Postcards from a Solarpunk Future A collection of photobashes I’ve been making around a fictional solarpunk society. They might not show the width and breadth of this world, but bits and piec…

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

But solarpunk is way too big and encompasses too many domains for any one person to gather a full guide. So if you're a writer with notes to add, or someone with a solarpunk special interest you'd just like to see writers get right, I hope you'll consider contributing something!

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of my ongoing goals is to start a culture of packaging up and sharing writer-level research to make writing grounded, aspirational fiction easier. The current wiki is essentially a cleaned-up version of my own notes (with a few small research projects done just for this).

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'm very excited to share that I've been working with the slrpnk.net/c/writing mods to set up a collection of resources and notes to make writing solarpunk easier: wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start #solarpunk #writing #fiction #sciencefiction

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thank you! I think this is the answer to the question I should have asked (basically for a list of design/goals requirements for long-lasting, fixable designs). I really appreciate the input!

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Today from Reckoning 9, "Repurposed Parking Garage", solarpunk design art by @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social depicting a post-car-culture future, brutalist infrastructure converted to practical use, with bike shop, fruit stand, rooftop orchard, and 1910s-era streetcar! reckoning.press/repurposed-p...

Heavily modified photo of a three-story concrete parking garage, where each bay has been replaced with a different style window, hanging plants, murals, and on the ground level, also a bike shop, a tienda selling produce, and a mural of a deer. In the foreground, a modified streetcar passes on railroad tracks. On the roof, fruit trees grow.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I'm very excited to announce that one of my Postcards from a Solarpunk Future has been published in Reckoning Press! Reading short stories in Reckoning was I think the main thing that got me to give solarpunk another look. reckoning.press/repurposed-p... #solarpunk #art #photobash #collage

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Repurposed Parking Garage | Reckoning

I imagine this building is somewhat well known in this fictional place. I think it was probably converted into living space while the world was busy being a little more post-apoclyptic than solarpunk,...

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Thanks! Sorry for the delay, I just saw this. This is great - I'd love to start hosting shared files! I have a folder with all my bookbinding stuff here, I'd be happy to give you access: mega.nz/folder/uMdGx... And sure! I've made some with libreoffice but I usually export to PDF and interpose those

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File folder on MEGA

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I think what I'm looking for (or considering trying to help make) is a sort of bookbinder's equivalent of standardebooks.org. A repository where people can share the files they've made for CC or public domain books, along with their alternative covers for trad published books and things like that.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

That's very kind! I actually really enjoy getting files ready and converting them into signatures, making my own covers etc. I just think it'd be cool to have a centralized spot to share them, someplace where copyleft indie authors/game devs could 'publish' print-and-bind versions of their books

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

That's really cool! The samples on your website look really great

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I have no idea if that could work, but I love bookbinding and making my files available, and reducing duplication of effort, maybe others do too.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I have this kind of half-imagined bookbinding repo in my mind, where people could post their covers, signatures, etc for #publicdomain or copyleft books, or where self-published authors (already publishing free on websites) could make their books available in a sort of direct-to-audience way.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I've been bookbinding copies of #copyleft books you can only get as PDFs, and helping some authors and a game dev group I know make their books available as binding-ready files.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#bookbinding #diy Does anyone know of an online library of open-license, interposed, print-ready books? Is there already a site for them? If not, it's something I'll try to do, eventually I know prepping the files is part of the fun but if it lowers the barrier for entry I think it's worth it

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Huge thanks to the folks on the Naval Architecture subreddit for talking through designs and providing a ton of useful advice and resources! I used them in this scene but also compiled them into the text post of info for nautical solarpunk!

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm hoping to promote a culture of resource-building when it comes to #writing /making #solarpunk #art so I've gathered this collection of notes, resources, & examples for any writers/artists interested in nautical solarpunk: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/n... slrpnk.net/post/14284744

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SLRPNK - Solarpunk imagines a world in which today’s existential threat - the climate crisis - is being approached with camaraderie and adaptive ingenuity.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I wanted to do a scene with a similar composition, but with the ship very clearly hauling cargo, and the two just sort of harmlessly crossing paths.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So I started looking for art of ships and whales to reference, and (of course) almost exclusively found of paintings of whalers killing and carving up whales (which put a kind of tragic tinge on that wholesome description of their curiosity). So I figured that was my next subject.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I was talking with a sailor in the comments of the ship in a storm photobash and I asked if they had anything they wanted to see, thinking they'd suggest some sail ship designs - and they described the way whales come right up to sail ships because they’re so quiet and the whales are curious.

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JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#Solarpunk Cargo Ship Full text post here: jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/s... #art #photobash #hopepunk #ocean #scifi

The image shows a strange container cargo ship, with junk-rigged sails on masts offset from the centerline, arranged in a sort of zigzag pattern with two masts to each side. The ship is red and white, similar to modern day cargo vessels, with colorful containers on the deck. The bridge is located in the front and is painted white. Two blue whales swim alongside in the foreground, one is spouting.

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