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[[File:orphans-tale.jpg|frame|Curiouser and curiouser...]]
 
 
{{quote|''Sei had never been comfortable in the presence of books. Their natural state was to be shut, closed, to grin pagily from shelves, laughing at her, promising so much and delivering such meanness, such thinness. They displayed only men and women with dead eyes and rituals of living she could not understand. When closed, books gave impressions of perfection. They did not need her.''|Cathrynne M. Valente, ''Palimpsest''}}
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Common in such stores.
* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: Middle-Eastern influences (or outright) hommage is common.
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* [[World Building]]: Mythpunk stories often feature [[Culture Chop Suey|polycultural]] stews of elaborate degree.
 
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== Literature ==
 
* Most of the elements involved in this genre can be found in the writings of [[Angela Carter]], most obviously ''[[The Bloody Chamber]],'' ''[[Nights at the Circus]]'', and ''The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman''.
* Andrea Jones's novel ''Hook & Jill'' features a poetically perverse [[Coming of Age Story|Coming of Age]] tale. In it, Wendy Darling starts growing up and wanting someone a bit more... ''serious''... than an increasingly callous Peter Pan...
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* The writer of the webcomic ''[[Digger]]'', Ursula Vernon, obviously knows a LOT about comparative mythology, much of it apparently gained from doing research for a degree in anthropology, as shown by the story's mix of a variety of mostly Asian sources, but including influences from around the world,including in one memorable case a modification of a myth told by the children of Cuban refugees in Miami, as well as some Vernon made up on her own.
 
== Web Originals ==
* [[Mythpunk (blog)|The ''Mythpunk'' blog]].
 
== Real Life ==
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** Fans and performers were often painted with "tattoos" that recalled the mystical map-tattoos that appear on people who have been to Palimpsest. Several of them have gone on to make those tattoos permanent.
*** The [http://orphanstales.com/ajanabh/ Ajanabah] setting from the ''Orphan's Tales'' series has been spun off into artwork, jewelry, fire-spinning shows, costumes, and several albums.
 
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=== Mythpunk Fiction Blog ===
 
 
The name [http://mythpunk.blogspot.com/ Mythpunk] also refers to a fiction blog containing action-comedy stories combining alternate history and epics. Set in a world where historical figures regularly clash with dinosaurs, zombies, and alien gods with kung fu, the stories run off of [[Rule of Cool]] and sly historical and pop culture in-jokes.
 
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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: In full effect for the Founding Fathers.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Alexander Hamilton has one of these.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Pretty much every historical figure, ever.
* [[Buddhism]]: With Jane Austen as Siddhartha.
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: Radio Gaga.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: "''The British were fielding velociraptors. A full legion of them, clad in red coats and powdered wigs, advanced on the colonial army, reptilian eyes aglint with the cold malice of primeval hunger.''"
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: George Washington made a pact with the gods of firearms to become impervious to bullets.
* [[Doomsday Device]]: Benjamin Franklin built one of these.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[Lady Gaga]].
* [[The Empire]]: The British, naturally.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: ''Washington Invictus''.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Jane Austen's demon governess has these.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Gods, zombies, vampires, Buddhas, Lovecraftian horrors, mad scientists, dinosaurs, and presidents.
* [[George Washington]]: Is a total badass.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: George Washington.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Alexander Hamilton uses a katana forged by Adam Smith to defeat the god of economics.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Benjamin Franklin is one of these.
* [[Martial Arts and Crafts]]: Alexander Hamilton is a master of kung fu economomics.
* [[Metaphysical Fuel]]: Washington powers Benjamin Franklin's superweapon with the crystallized soul of Benedict Arnold.
* [[Mind Rape]]: [[Lady Gaga]] does this.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: They're manifestations of the inherent suffering of all life. Or at least, Dracula is.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The driving force of the stories.
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Benjamin Franklin is seen as a villainous figure because he's a scientist. On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson is a sorcerer and George Washington makes deals with various devils, and nothing is said of it.
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: Carefully danced around. While velociraptors appear, it's never mentioned whether they're realistically tiny, or the large-sized, Jurassic Park-style velociraptors.
** And beside that, they were created through [[Mad Science]].
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Anyone Died is one of these, and a Victorian-era zombie apocalypse is a minor detail in Virtue and Vampyrism.
 
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[[Category:Mythpunk]]
[[Category:Retro Tropes]]
[[Category:Punk Punk]]
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