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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:39 pm
I'm still trying to learn much about steampunk. ^^ I first got interested in it after playing FFIX, which had many steampunk elements. I also LOVE airships! I got more into it shortly after when I watched almost all of Hayao Miyazaki's movies; Castle in the Sky left a big impression on me. I'm also fascinated by alchemists, those brilliant aether oscillators, and steampunk fashion!
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:43 pm
I'm more interested in steampunk for the mecha than anything else. My reason for getting interested is rather mundane; it wasn't from a game or movie or book or anything. 2-3 years ago, someone on Furrymuck mentioned the idea of me being a steampunk mechanical dragon to me (before that I was just a mechanical dragon there), and it just really...clicked. I always had a fondness for mecha animals/creatures, but this was a step better. In case you're curious, I've got two nice artist's impressions of the description: http://www.deviantart.com/view/22420822/http://www.deviantart.com/view/27757690/(they both had artistic lisence utilized, of course)
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:23 am
it was mostly reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea when i was younger. plus a general disdain for today's fashion, and i love brass, cogs, and machines that go *whril* *frzzzz* *ssssss* *pop* and then whistle with a release of steam.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:57 am
Ever since I was a child, I had a facination with Victorian clothing, books, art, etc. I was drawn to the elegant classic look that everything held, much unlike our modern society. The thing was, even though I was clearly in love with steampunk, I never had a name for it. But, thanks to fabulous Wikipedia and a most extraordinary Captain, I was able to finally have a name for my love.
Here's that Captain I spoke of: [x]
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:47 pm
I like being smart, I like layered clothing, and I like working with my hands. I can't think of anything more apropos.
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:47 am
Like, Vanghar, I sort of realized one day that I always had been one! I just didn't know what it was yet!
Two of my really good friends are even getting married at Burning Man next year!!! I'm SO excited! heart heart
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:15 pm
I'm new to it. Strictly speaking, I haven't actually joined it yet. I didn't even know that there was a Steampunk social movement until a couple of weeks ago. So I says to myself, "Self, you are awful fond of those suits and that clockwork," and here we are.
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:05 pm
I really have no idea. I mean I've liked Victorian whatsits and etiquette and being a dork for a while now, well different amounts for both, but I suppose one day I just found a definition for steampunk and didn't BECOME one so much as realize I was.
Er. Really I don't know if I get to qualify as a steampunk. I like steampunk as a genre, but.. am I one? Dunno.
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:36 pm
I've pretty much spent my whole life being a steampunk and never knowing it.
I'm in love with all things related to airships, victorian clothing, clocks, and trains. My favourite games growing up were the final fantasy series, and I've been in love with the miyazaki films since their introduction into western culture.
As it turns out, I was only introduced to the term " steampunk" early this year, and it seems the more I learn about steampunk, the more I see elements of the culture in my daily life.
I guess I was just born a steampunk.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:05 am
I have always felt fond of Industrial sorts of machines, but only really learned of this genre from an NPC in the game .hack//G.U.
Only recently have I spent much time researching the Victorian era, being influenced from my best friend, but I found myself becoming attached to both themes.
My Father works on cranes and can fix almost any machine, and I've always found the plant he works at magnificent. I've tried to lend him a hand with what he works on at home since I was young.
And then I watched Steam Boy. biggrin
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:21 pm
it was a mix of three thing the game skygunner jules vern and league of extraordinary gentlemen
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:10 pm
The late 19th/early 20th centuries' scientific revolution was always my favorite thing to learn about, as a child. For a long time, I was determined to become an inventor, to use my creative talents to... well... create... but sadly by now everything seems to be thought of, only becoming novelty items like the "pocket fisherman," or other such "enhancements" of previously-existant items.
But back then... oh, back then it was a whirlwind of ideas, and even the authors of the time were bursting with ideas that seemed almost POSSIBLE, as if only tomorrow we would hear in the papers how an eccentric genius developed a time travel machine, or a submarine to take people deep underwater, or - GOD FORBID - craft a vessel to travel all the way to the moon!
And hell, Airships were around for me long before I ever knew about Final Fantasy - or hell, even blimps and zeppelins.
Didn't Teddy Ruxpin have a friend who had an airship, which had some bigass balloon tethered to a regular ship or something? It's been years since I thought of those things, so it's blurry, but... I distinctly remember something like that.
Which is KINDA like Steampunk, right? sweatdrop
I think the movie version of Wild Wild West got me really into Steampunk, though I wish I could watch the show (why can't THAT be on TV Land?). Then Miyazaki's works probably sealed the deal (along with for "folklore" fantasy, haaa).
According to Wikipedia, at least, Fullmetal Alchemist has been my latest run into the Steampunk genre. xd
I only recently started dressing up for it on here, after seeing a thread about Steampunk items on Gaia (I do wish we had some bowlers). I might change soon for Halloween, though, and what I do for November is still in the air.
But I do kinda wanna make an outfit IRL, now.
And there's my rant on my history of Steampunk. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:26 pm
I simply am... I've been taking things apart and putting them back together since I was old enough to wield a screwdriver, dressing as though I belonged to an era past, making use of almost painful decorum, humming various and sundry of Gounod's and Wagner's pieces, generally driving people batty.
And then one day during secondary school, while I was disrupting the shop class with my noisy attempts to transform various discarded bits into a hoverchair, I was informed that I was steampunkish. Can't argue with that.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:25 pm
I'm not heavily into steampunk. what little of the literature I have read has fascinated me, and the Japanese take on it has produced soem visually wonderful animes....sakura wars, steamboy, howl's moving castle, etc. I've had a fascination for some time with industrial corrosion and the appearance of rust, as well as imagery of gears. I used to draw gears all the time. the thing is i'm not heavy into machinery, probably because my light sensitivity robbed me a couple years ago from taking any more machine shop courses in school(the teacher is an a*****e), but I have a few small gears here and there I've collected from broken watches ancd the like that I intend to work into something or other when the mood strikes me. I find the steampunk aesthetic in terms of everyday wear to be a bit too eccentric for me, though I'm planning on machining some industrial goggles for myself at some point or another based on my own designs.
I suppose when it comes down to it it's more of a literary and visual interest than anything else.
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:15 pm
Getting into Firefly and Full Metal Alchemist at the same time, somehow randomly stumbling across the word "steampunk", realizing it was the greatest thing man ever created, and falling in love.
Yup, that's about it. wink
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