In the Future, It Will Be a Suffix Simply Meaning ‘Genre’
Flinging together a Wordie list of -punk genres (cyberpunk, steampunk, etc.), I came across a discussion about the broad possibilities of the theme: naturally I'm tempted to add to the descent into total redundancy of the -punk element. (Though I wonder whether Plato's gadfly dialogues might qualify as philosophopunk. Philosopunk gets some search engine hits, but only one good English one; most seem to be German, possibly musical...) This isn't exactly a little-trodden path. Castlepunk? 'Final Fantasy – Castlepunk' has appeared in someone's Eyes On FF forum autosig. Hopepunk? Hopepunk.com. Torypunk? It's in camelcase, so it may not be intended as a single word, but it's still someone's YouTube username. Join the revolution—
- Dreampunk could be dream-related literature (Sandman, Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, etc.): the word seems to be in use in various places (and I especially like the Silk Cut approach), but not as a genre term.
- Foodpunk, as it turns out, also exists, but fails to denote the genre of gourmandising digressions in literature. (See also: Jacques, Brian.)
- Google keeps asking, when I enquire after squidpunk, whether I meant to search for 'squeedunk'; let's combine them and define squeepunk as that style characteristic of fangirl composition. (Only one search result: it's the first part of someone's Hotmail address.)
- Burrowpunk for stories set predominantly underground. (Yay, no hits—)
- Orcpunk: badly written elfpunk. (Or this person.)

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