I think hopepunk works better as a genre, myself. Although, like chantress, I've seen it more as a genre where we've driven ourselves right up to the brink of no return and no hope, only to find that we've managed to plant the seeds of something that could redeem us, with some doing and some organizing and some repurposing of the mechanisms of capitalism. It certainly wants to be about the D.I.Y. part of punk, that much seems certain.
I'm also a bit "hey, wait" about Change Your Mind, because in the very end bits of that episode, I saw Season 6 fly by in a couple of minutes, where we could get more of that digging in to how change is difficult, and especially for the Diamonds, and watch them have to do the work of accepting Steven and all of his friends (especially Garnet) until you might believe they meant it, rather than what seems to have been a pretty pat solution. So maybe I would class Steven Universe not as hopepunk, but as a fairy tale?
A good read all the same. Thanks for letting it be shared more widely.
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I think hopepunk works better as a genre, myself. Although, like
I'm also a bit "hey, wait" about Change Your Mind, because in the very end bits of that episode, I saw Season 6 fly by in a couple of minutes, where we could get more of that digging in to how change is difficult, and especially for the Diamonds, and watch them have to do the work of accepting Steven and all of his friends (especially Garnet) until you might believe they meant it, rather than what seems to have been a pretty pat solution. So maybe I would class Steven Universe not as hopepunk, but as a fairy tale?
A good read all the same. Thanks for letting it be shared more widely.