Flintpunk: Spread the Meme

[pfarley]

Now that Steampunk is passe, I'm looking to get the jump on the next retro-slipstream novelty: FLINTPUNK. But before I develop any new creative properties, it's only right to look back and give a shout-out to those early pioneers:

Comments

[juniper200]

It's Ayla. My reasoning is as follows: Whenever her flint-knapper paramour Jondalar starts banging rocks together, Auel always refers to "nodules" of flint. Not pieces, not chunks, flint nodules. "Nodule" is also the term she has chosen to assign to Ayla's love button during the formulaic every-75-pages sex scenes.

Bitch is so flintcore, her clit's a rock.

[pfarley]

FLINTCORE! You've made my epoch :-)

[pfarley]

That being said, Ika *did* invent the BJ.

[juniper200]

And Ayla is the one who made the sex=babies connection. I can't tell if that contributes to or detracts from her score.

i can only wish to be as flintpunk as ayla

[elena_marie]

the innovator of flint-spark fire-making
and animal husbandry
and smooshing the parents names together to make the kids name
and is/will be the first cross-species ambassador for those meany cro-magnons who stole the lascaux caves from the neanderthals

(i wonder how long it will take for the next book to come out)

but i havent seen the ika movie, so i have no basis for comparison either...

Re: i can only wish to be as flintpunk as ayla

[pfarley]

You can watch clips of "Quest for Fire" on Hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/quest-for-fire

[kineticfactory]

I'm still waiting for mid-20th-century modernist fetishism to come back, so I can call it Helvetipunk.

[squidb0i]

XD nice one

[stutefish]

At the very least, this needs to be a t-shirt.

[lunesse]

Wow, you live?

Flintpunk? HAH.

Wow, steampunk is passe already... amazing. that was fast.

[pfarley]

I do in fact live :) Sorry to have been out of touch for all this time... Your little boy must be driving already!

[agrumer]

Fast? It's been twenty goddamn years!

[lunesse]

Not that it's been "in." In existence...yes. :)

[bahboh]

Was steampunk EVER cool?

Steampunk is for people who got tired of D&D but don't want to give up their trenchcoats.

[pfarley]

"Was steampunk EVER cool?"

I'm told you can now buy steampunk merchandise at Hot Topic. Make of that what you will.

[lunesse]

Have you done a search on steampunk on etsy or ebay? oy.

[squidb0i]

Means its offciallly dead, and corporations are now sodomizing the corpse.