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Mythpunk
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Mythpunk refers to "a Sub-Genre of mythic fiction" in which classical folklore and fairy tales get hyperpoetic postmodern makeovers. Coined by author Catherynne M. Valente, the term describes "a brand of speculative fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern fantastic techniques: urban fantasy, confessional poetry, non-linear storytelling, linguistic calisthenics, worldbuilding, and academic fantasy." Characterized by baroque multicultural fashion, alternative/ queer sexuality, bizarre retellings of familiar faerie tales, pervasive anxiety, fear of inevitable change, elaborate symbolism and radical reinterpretation, mythpunk is a cross-media movement. Although largely defined through literary works like Andrea Jones's Hook & Jill, Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series and Catherynne Valente's The Orphan's Tales, the mythpunk aesthetic occasionally manifests in music (The Decemberists), film (Pan's Labyrinth), jewelry and other media forms. Although this (sub)genre shares many elements with Urban Fantasy, mythpunk stories tend to avoid linear or obvious story structures, simple prose and easily-discernible character archetypes. You may find talking dance shoes or carnivorous zebra-satyrs in a mythpunk tale, but lovesick vampires are right out! (The name "mythpunk" also refers to a fiction blog; see below for details.) |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: Many mythpunk stories involve tales-within-tales. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Common in narrative, not as much among characters. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: As in traditional folklore, mythpunk animals are quite chatty. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Common in such stories. | |
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Worldbuilding | |
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Worldbuilding: Mythpunk stories often feature polycultural stews of elaborate degree. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: The genre's "linguistic calisthenics" can occasionally get rather thick. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Also humans could be the real monsters. | |
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Everyone Is Bi | |
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Everyone Is Bi: Sexuality and gender are often rather... um, fluid. | |
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Down the Rabbit Hole | |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Sometimes used to link the setting with the "real world". | |
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Cryptic Conversation | |
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Cryptic Conversation: Characters often speak in riddles, stories or baroque metaphors, often to the annoyance of other characters. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Monsters are often gentle, even heroic, and almost always misunderstood... yet still monsters. Also humans could be the real monsters. |
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Purple Prose | |
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Purple Prose: Often on the borderline and occasionally over the edge. | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale: And macabre buildings are raised over it. | |
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"Arabian Nights" Days | |
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"Arabian Nights" Days: Middle-Eastern influences (or outright homage) is common. | |
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Twice-Told Tale | |
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Twice Told Tales: Many mythpunk stories have origins in older tales, with a twist to the moral. | |
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Fairy Tale | |
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Fairy Tale: The foundation for this genre. Fractured Fairy Tale: And macabre buildings are raised over it. |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Almost a foundation for this genre. | |
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Our Fairies Are Different | |
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Our Fairies Are Different: Mythpunk authors hew closer to The Fair Folk than to Disneyfied pixies. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Faerieland often isn't a nice place to be... | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Andrea Jones's novel Hook & Jill features a poetically perverse Coming of Age tale. In it, Wendy Darling starts growing up and wanting someone a bit more... serious... than an increasingly callous Peter Pan... | |
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This Is Your Premise on Drugs | |
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This is Your Premise on Drugs: In-universe, the "punk" element of mythpunk often comes from the rampant symbolism and surreal atmosphere. | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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Urban Fantasy: Usually the starting-point of an adventure that gets stranger as it goes along. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Almost by default, this genre presents almost everything in surreal terms, sometimes to excess. | |
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Temple of Doom | |
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The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang Spoiler—click to revealAutons disguised as Romans, a Cyberman in the Temple of Doom, Pandora's Box, Stonehenge, and a Fez! | |
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Nightmare Fuel | |
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Nightmare Fuel: Disturbing, even horrific, imagery are used deliberately in-universe as a hallmark of these tales. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: Often overlaps with mythpunk, especially in its Victoriana trappings. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Many mythpunk characters are decidedly, often wonderfully and occasionally frighteningly eccentric. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Beauty and misery are close companions in this genre. | |
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Grimmification | |
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Grimmification: Especially notable in Block's works, but typical overall. | |
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