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Tel
@thechompunk.bsky.social
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She/her, INFP, lover of the arts, animals, Indian food. Singer/keyboardist in The Striped Bananas. Published poet. Fan of anime, horror, sci-fi, and cute things.
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Tel @thechompunk.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and enjoyed Eternity Forest ! 🎵🎶😎✌️ if you haven't heard it whacha waiting for?? Thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com
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"She Waits for the Sunrise" is filled with spiraling vocal harmonies, anchored by acetone organ, buzzing sitar, and grooving bass. Vibe into the mesmerizing and surreal.
💜 This is our psychedelic symphony 💜

#musicsky #psychedelicrock #indie #MusicChallenge #surreal #trippy #hippie #music
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Hope hides in a lush forest on Nariah IV, a planet colonized by a technocratic regime. Cowboy & Christa flee into the perilous woods seeking meaning & love. Rescued by an Afro-futurist group, they must use creativity & science to survive a harsh winter, or die trying.
#OS #HopePit #Hopepunk #Novella
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 9d
#Hopepit pitch/ promote
post up to 3 times Sun, Nov 9 (your time zone)
🌱
Use #Hopepit tag
we highly encourage: #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks, if applicable
🌞
any media, any stage, including:
#P : Published: drop links!
#SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community
background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social text: #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 Share your writing, music, and/or art telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community 🌱≤ 3 posts per participant 🌞Please use ALT text on images 🌱NO generative AI 🌞build community & help uplift these genres background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social GENRE #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks encouraged #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote STAGE #WIP : Work In Progress #Q : Querying #OS: On Submission/ in process of publication #P : Published / Available: drop links! #SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community AUDIENCE #C : Children #YA: Young Adult #A : Adult
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"Numbness from years of war began cracking apart. I had hope... hope that there was a life outside of all the destruction I lived through. Anemoia; I was homesick for a home I'd never known." #hopepit
Excerpt from Vedma Returning, a weird story you can read free:
www.electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
thechompunk.bsky.social
@untidyradio.bsky.social I just tuned in! I like what I'm hearing 🎶🎵
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Art Share Day!

Would love to see pieces by:
@tonnerrecomics.bsky.social
@youaintnopunk.bsky.social
@babbittybabbitt.bsky.social
@ursadoomart.bsky.social
@emilyatplay.bsky.social
@jamesfineart.bsky.social
@iranzye.bsky.social

Use hashtag: #hopepit

#sfw
#artshare
#writers
#artistsonbluesky
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 11d
November 7 - Art Share Day!

Using the #HopePit hashtag, post a piece of human made art that reminds you of your writing
-or-
post a piece of your own artwork.

Like & Repost - Lift each other up & make friends!

#hopepit
#artshare
#writers
#artistsonbluesky
#artsky
art by @babbittybabbitt.bsky.social of pastoral hills, a house with smoke coming out the chimney words: November 7 - Art Share Day! Using the #HopePit hashtag, post a piece of human made art that reminds you of your writing -or- post a piece of your own artwork. Like & Repost - Lift each other up & make friends! Hashtags: #hopepit #artshare #writers #artistsonbluesky
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Forgotten World is a global inspired song, blending world music, punk, and reggae with a little help from our friends. The lyrics focus on nature, hope, and community.
Ifedayo from Nigeria joins on drums/vocals
Harsh from India plays table.
💜
#HopePit #worldmusic #postpunk #solarpunk
#MusicChallenge
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
thechompunk.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and enjoyed Eternity Forest ! 🎵🎶😎✌️ if you haven't heard it whacha waiting for?? Thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Joyful Union Cassette Resource has included our album Eternity Forest in their Top 10 albums released in October. This is an honor as they featured 185 different albums. Thanks so much for the support ☮️

#cassette #musicsky #psychedelicrock #newmusic #indie
Top 10 Translucent pink cassette
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Haunted Vortex is a dark portal in Eternity Forest. It features mellotron, harpsichord, glockenspiel, along with our usual assortment of instruments.

#halloween #musicsky #mellotron #newmusic #psychedelic #promosky #trippy
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
thechompunk.bsky.social
Happy spooky day 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
thestripedbananas.bsky.social The Striped Bananas @thestripedbananas.bsky.social · 18d
Spookiness 🎃
H.P. Pumpkincraft

A cosmic horror that cannot be described without going mad sprouted from our pumpkin patch and knocked on the front door.

#halloween #hplovecraft #horror #writersky #pumpkin #lovecraft
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Surfer Girls Drive Wicked Cars - is a fun garage rock song beaming sunshine out of the speakers with some Cramps vibes thrown in. Our friend Bruce Hendrickson of the cult Oklahoma hardcore band N.O.T.A. is guesting on bass.

#surfer #indie #60s #70s #musicsky #promosky
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
thechompunk.bsky.social
I love when we get on the radio 🎶🎵
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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America's Child is a punk garage rocker off our new album. The lyrics were written by my dad in August 1977. We loved paying tribute to him and some of my guitar heroes like Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure, and the MC5 on this.

#nokings #notyrants #newmusic #punk #70s #musicsky #garagerock
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Magick Raga for love and good vibes on the #sitar 💜☮️💜

#hopepunk #hopepit #musicsky
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
thechompunk.bsky.social
This song gets stuck in my head all the time! 🎶🎵
thestripedbananas.bsky.social The Striped Bananas @thestripedbananas.bsky.social · Oct 10
Over the Lily Pads is a wistful yet hopeful psych song. It features slide guitar, acetone organ, and piano. Background: I'd been listening to a lot of Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd when writing it.
Hope you dig 💜💜💜
#newmusic #musicsky #psychedelicrock #hippie #promosky #pinkfloyd
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Attention writers, artists, and musicians of uplifting and hopeful works! We're helping run this BlueSky event in November 🌻
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · Oct 9
Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!

🌞🌱

We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.

#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky
Flier for #Hopepit Sunday, Nov 9 community connect Nov 5 - 8 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness. Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation #Hopepit 🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art 🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc 🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway! 🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads! @hopepit.bsky.social climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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thestripedbananas.bsky.social
Over the Lily Pads is a wistful yet hopeful psych song. It features slide guitar, acetone organ, and piano. Background: I'd been listening to a lot of Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd when writing it.
Hope you dig 💜💜💜
#newmusic #musicsky #psychedelicrock #hippie #promosky #pinkfloyd
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Magenta Dream is a bedroom pop song featuring Tel's lead vocals and keyboards anchored by Duncan's melodic counterpoint bassline and harmonies.
Sometimes you just want to dream😭
⭐Instrumentation includes everything from mellotron to autoharp.⭐
#bedroompop #newmusicalert #baroquepop
#hippiegirl
October 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Hey, #Listen to this - just in time for #BandcampFriday there's a new track from @thestripedbananas.bsky.social
thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com/album/eterni...
Eternity Forest, by The Striped Bananas
14 track album
thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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acidcrab.bsky.social
About to check out the new album by @thestripedbananas.bsky.social and play Ticket to Ride!

open.spotify.com/album/0I0GtV...
Eternity Forest
open.spotify.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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tsauro.bsky.social
New song from the just out today new album via the @thestripedbananas.bsky.social

It's wicked. (entire album is terrific)

youtu.be/eT4BVUh5hxM?...
Surfer Girls Drive Wicked Cars
YouTube video by The Striped Bananas - Topic
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#NowPlaying the new album by The Striped Bananas - Eternity Forest. It's giving good cheer!
A psychedelic image
October 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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annsalo.bsky.social
Why wait? #NP
October 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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julesette.bsky.social
the new striped bananas album will make ya smile thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com/album/eterni...?
Eternity Forest, by The Striped Bananas
14 track album
thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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florgoth.bsky.social
#JustListened

@thestripedbananas.bsky.social have a new album out and it's just as groovy and fun as expected.
I will never not be impressed by how many instruments they and their friends manage to put into each song and make everything sound great.
A real labor of love!

Highly recommended!
Eternity Forest, by The Striped Bananas
14 track album
thestripedbananas.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM