#punk is dead

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Punk bands 40 years ago: Smash the state! Riot against the establishment! Fuck the government! Kill the Queen! It's time for the youth to take over! Punk bands today: If you don't vote for the 80 year old warmonger I might say a naughty word at you.

[mourntomidnight]

Me, at younger punks and goths:

YOUR FASHION CAME FROM SEX WORKERS AND THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW YOUR MUSIC IS LITERALLY YOUR FAVS RIPPING OFF BLACK AND BROWN MUSIC THE OG PUNKS OF THE 70S CREATED PUNK TO DELIBERATELY GO AGAINST THE HYPER CONSUMERIST MAINSTREAM EXCESSES OF 70S CULTURE AND THAT IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL WHETHER THE YT PUNKS REALIZED IT OR NOT!!!!!!!

[opiumpunxdeergirl]

Added a discharge patch to my back patch center, cause I put the first one on wonky #justGutterPunkThings

[vertigoartgore]

2024's Wolverine: Madripoor Knights Vol.1 #3 Stormbreakers variant cover by artist Nic Klein.

[punkrockhistory]

Recorded 47 years ago today

The Feeding of the 5000, the debut album by the anarcho-punk band Crass, featuring this track "Punk Is Dead"

Video by Church Of Punk *thx

[modoreadsttrpgs]

Game Reactions: Punk is Dead

Link: https://www.criticalkit.co.uk/collections/punk-is-dead-ttrpg

Punk is Dead is a Mork Borg compatible game by Tim Roberts. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic UK, now known as the Ununited Kingdom, split into 5 realms. The party plays a punk band, each with a specific role such as vocals, drums. I backed the Backerkit campaign in early 2024, and received the physical copy (with some very nice sharp-edged dice) in January of this year. I’ve finally managed to make time to read through it fully this weekend.

Thoughts will be relatively short on this one I think. As you might expect, it’s Mork Borg but punk and British. Mechanically, there are no real surprises. What makes this sing is the vibes and presentation. The book is full of fun UK pastiche, and functions well as essentially a unique Mork Borg setting. It’s a well-realised world, and I would look forward to exploring the Ununited Kingdom to meet the awful creatures that populate it, such as the Literal Corporate Vampires of Londinium, or the Stag Folk, guardians of The Fern Jungle (aka Scotland).

There’s a solid introductory adventure included, which would be easy to run since it revolves around a single location with a clear objective. Though I think that, after this adventure, there is a lot of work for the GM to build out the world with things for the players to do. The book is full of flavour, but light on details, which may work better for some GMs than others.

Interestingly, one spread is dedicated to songwriting. Players can accrue creativity points to spend improving their rolls. These are collected by contributing elements to songwriting. The songwriting itself is explicitly not mechanised, and that’s where I’m unsure how I feel. The game is partially structured around gigs, but otherwise I’m not clear when and how the songwriting works. How literal is this intended to be, should the party be actually creating music, just lightly discussing what the music sounds like, or something else? The reality is presumably that it’s up to the group, and I could see a group of creative people whose tastes align having a lot of fun with it. Myself, usually being the odd one out with my music tastes, not inclined to music creation in the slightest, and super anxious, I feel like I’d struggle with this aspect and may end up not using it a great deal. I’d prefer something more explicitly mechanised and abstract, to encourage more engagement with the concept without requiring me to actually write lyrics or music.

Overall though, it’s a really fun setting, and looks the part sitting alongside Mork Borg and Cy_Borg.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE '60s COUNTERCULTURE POKES FUN AT THE "NEW KID ON THE BLOCK," A.K.A., THE FIRST WAVE OF UK PUNK.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1400x2121 -- This month in "International Times" history -- Spotlight on cover page from the British underground counterculture newspaper "International Times" (IT) Vol. 2 #6, published February 1977 and titled "Punk is Dead," indicating it's publication during the heyday of first Wave UK punk rock.

Sources: https://x.com/PulpLibrarian/status/953703609476288513, Bummer California, various, etc...

[lavinia-pfigg]

I will never not be infuriated by a bunch of people who style themselves leftists - or "punks" (save me from self-important fucking gold star "punks" policing the boundaries of style and language) - circling like hyenas around some fucking prey object that dared to reveal its soft parts in public.

Reproducing the kyriarchy in the mirror universe doesn't look like a path out of fascism to me, brother. God help me, I'm going to end up at "leftists are the problem on the left."