Mythpunk is 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.

Mythpunk can be found on Blogspot, but it appears to have been dead since 2009.

Tropes used in Mythpunk (blog) include:
  • 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.
  • Mythpunk: Naturally.
  • 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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