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Pipepunk is an artistic movement related to the pipe aesthetic. I coined this term.

= Themes

• Complex piping systems.
• Wires, cords, ropes.
• Power lines.
• Brutalist architecture.
• Monumental architecture.
• Living inside things that were not meant for living, such as big empty pipes.
• Futility of struggle.

= My drawings See [[pipepunk gallery]] for the gallery of my pipepunk drawings.

[[Solinopolis]] is where most of the pipepunkery happens.

= A thread from the [[Fediverse]] @bx@tiny.tilde.website

i had no idea there was a word for this style! id often see one or two scenes in a cartoons as a kid that kinda matched this look and they really stuck with me, ended up doing allot of doodles like this

I'm glad you liked it! I coined the term. Will you share your doodles?

@bx@tiny.tilde.website

sadly most of them are in old books or loose paper that isn't at all well organised... I do kinda feel like doing some new ones though!

Maybe it's time to organize them?

@bx@tiny.tilde.website

I've definatly tried, before but gur best i have is them being semi chronological, but it doesnt really make it easy to search. and theres also those doodles that just get lost

P. S. They did share: [[https://tiny.tilde.website/@bx/107917592616829307]]

= Fitting works There are no people, except for me, who made any kind of fiction explicitly wanting to do pipepunk. Usually, they just like pipes. It's a descriptive term, after all. Here are some works I consider pipepunk enough.

• Girls' Last Tour by [[tkmiz]]. A big source of inspiration. I have all volumes physically.
• Anything by Tsutomu Nihei. I think he is //the// pipepunk author. Starting with //BLAME!//, he defined the classic tropes of the genre. It had extremely epic artwork but unclear storytelling. His storytelling improved over time, but his art never withered. I also consider his latest work, //Tower Dungeon//, to also be a pipepunk work, despite not having pipes per se.
• [[Chute system]] from [[Bionicle]]. A pipe system used for transportation across the City of Legends.
• //Submitted.// Riding tubes from Futurama. [[Video on YouTube]].
• Samosbor. This folklore story is probably inaccessible to you if you don't know Russian. Are there translations? There is also a wiki: [[https://samosborarchive.fandom.com/ru/wiki]]. Some site: [[https://samosb.org/]]
• Neauismetica by [[Devine Lu Linvega]]. [[xxiivv>neauismetica]].
• //what else?//