Cyberpunk
"High tech, low life."
"The street finds its own uses for things."
We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.
The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.
The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.
This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).
Welcome in, choom.
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This is my favorite currently running fanfic. You don't have to have knowledge of the crossover series Worm, beyond that the main character is Taylor, and that ~~interdimensional~~ multidimensional space whales give people superpowers in an attempt to figure out how to survive the heat death of the universe. It's a pretty good web serial on its own.
It’s pretty much my favourite worm fic rn too haha, although Here comes the new boss takes a close second!
If you like Skitterdoc, you might also like Ghost in the City. It's a self-insert, which I usually avoid, but this one is really good.
Oh damn I read through the backlog of chapters for this a month ago and then completely forgot about it! Guess I know what I am reading this weekend now lol
There's also Neon Noire, which is a series of hard-boiled crime stories set in Night City with a few recurring characters. I think that's the last Cyberpunk 2020/2077 fic that I know of and really like.
Yes yes! Fics for the fic god, fics for the fic throne!!!