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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:16 pm
Watching Wild Wild West helped.
As well as looking on the internet and coming across people wearing clothes they made based around the Steampunk style.
I always thought the costume designs of Wild ARMS were just awesome.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:22 pm
I've always loved history, I mean, REALLY loved it.
But I never knew about anything like Steampunk growing up.
However I remember when I first saw the cartoon movie Atlantis.
It changed my life. I didn't know what it was then, but I knew I was hooked. I watched the movie until the tape worn thin, I bought the books, I was hopelessly obsessed. Then came Treasure Planet. Oh God, how many fond memories I have of Treasure Planet!
I had always been obsessed with the rougue-ish intrigue of pirates, and that is what moved me to the theatres yet again, and then to the video store, and then the book store; starting the cycle all over again; needing to be closer to the warm brass plated world I saw on the big screen.
I never knew what it was, but I could feel the movie moving something inside of me once again, I knew there was something there, I just didn't have a name for it.
It wasn't until my junior year in High School that I first came across the term "Steampunk". I was intruiged, having only heard it in passing conversation, and so I later looked it up on the internet.
There it was. That thing that I had been drawn to in my childhood.
History, fantasy, science, magic, leather, and brass!
I finally had a name for the fluttering in my heart everytime I saw Milo Thatch or B.E.N. or Jim Hawkins or any of my other familiar childhood characters on their perilous adventures in their marvelous worlds of clockwork and make believe.
It was Steampunk. I was Steampunk. :3
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:44 am
I'm not going to lie, that Wild Wild West movie got me into it initially. Then when I saw the Steampunk motivational poster with Abe Lincoln with the machine gun forearm, I researched, and fell in love. 4laugh
I'm also a history nerd, so I'm sure that helps. xd
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:18 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:14 pm
I'de have to say when i was a boy my grandmother would always read to e and i would imagine the people wearing Steampunk clothing. I never knew it had existed until i stumbled upon it while looking for some victorian clothing.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:19 pm
I've always liked the aesthetic, I just didn't know what to call it until I started getting more into the goth subculture. A couple people kept asking me if I was steampunk (my style is primarily Victorian) and so I decided to look it up. I liked what I found.
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High-functioning Shapeshifter
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:59 pm
What really got me into steampunk was the idea that it was something nobody was really into where I am. Not only that but the idea that I could more or less come up with my own idea of steampunk.
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:41 am
I think for me it is the art side. I found out steampunk through metal art. Which is my favorite hobby.
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:42 pm
I'd found myself loving anything that had a steampunk flavor to it though it wasn't really on a conscious level. Then I found the Steampunk Fashion thread here on Gaia and steampunk and I collided head-on.
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:47 pm
final fantasy, the earlier ones, 9 and 12 too, I didn't know untill last year that it was steampunk :] and wicked fair helps alot also.
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:25 am
To me, I've always been in love with Victorian clothing, and stuff like that. PLUS, I loved the way machinery-like stuff looked like on the clothes(also goggles XD).
When I got informed regarding SteamPunk, it was... like.. perfect xDD
Like the mixture between two stuff I've always loved.
I don't really remember when did it start.. or how D: ~ ♪
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:49 am
What inspired me? I was always into Victorianism and Victorian horror stories. I discovered Lolita about two years ago, but became sad because it isn't really a male fashion. At least I thought that until I discovered Malice Mizer. It showed me there is a male version, and so I leaped into Neovictorianism. That was about six months ago. I soon became more familiar with Steampunk, and found that the two cultures were so alike they could be brothers. Thus I joined this guild by writing this message:
I would like to participate in this establishment.
-Lord Ruthven
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:00 pm
Xeigrich My first inspiration probably came from the Wild Wild West movie with Will Smith, and assorted video games. I've always been fascinated with gears, clocks, springs, steam power and primitive-looking machinery, but that was probably the first time it came together in a very obvious way that I could definitively put my finger on. There may have been other early influences, but I can't recall anything specific. I've seen, played, and read so much steampunk since then, it all kind of blends together.
While steampunk is one interest amongst many for me, I love the intellectual challenge of re-imagining modern technology in Victorian terms is fun, and a little bit romantic to me--and you can't deny that this world needs some more romance and imagination! ^_^
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