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 Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:27 pm
Would simple jeans and a tee shirt by alright for the makeup of a steampunk outfit?
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:09 pm
It would be a little closer to punkish than Steampunk, but you could throw a military jacket over it and add a pocket watch or some doodads on chains from your belt to Steampunkify it. I've been restorting to steaming up jeans and a tee since I'm in the process of moving (yay college!).
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:13 pm
Amythyst Kimball The Lone Tardis I was playing around on those steampunk quizzes, that tell you who/what you are. Just for a bit of fun. And one answer came up as an 'aether badgerer' or something along those lines. I googled Aether/ether, but it only confused me. D: So, in steampunk terms, what is aether/ether? I am super new to Steam Punk so I could be wrong, in this context... but aether usually means like the heavens or sky, which given Steam Punk's love of airships, that would make sense... but I don't know why you would BADGER the sky? Perhaps, Badgering Heaven, literally? A professional God Botherer? (I am reading Subtle Knife so that is not completly impossible! mrgreen
Steampunks use aether as an imaginative alternative power source; you'll see a lot of aether powered laser guns and the like. Any glowing liquid on a steampunk weapon can be assumed to be aether.
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:41 pm
blue_lutra It would be a little closer to punkish than Steampunk, but you could throw a military jacket over it and add a pocket watch or some doodads on chains from your belt to Steampunkify it. I've been restorting to steaming up jeans and a tee since I'm in the process of moving (yay college!). One other posibility is a "Stoker/Grease Monkey" look; belt, cargos or slacks, stockyard/newsy hat, and a few punkish bits added in. It's what I use when I don't want to dress up that much, but still want to show my steampunk side.
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:09 pm
Jazzaram blue_lutra It would be a little closer to punkish than Steampunk, but you could throw a military jacket over it and add a pocket watch or some doodads on chains from your belt to Steampunkify it. I've been restorting to steaming up jeans and a tee since I'm in the process of moving (yay college!). One other posibility is a "Stoker/Grease Monkey" look; belt, cargos or slacks, stockyard/newsy hat, and a few punkish bits added in. It's what I use when I don't want to dress up that much, but still want to show my steampunk side. Exactly what I was aiming to do ^^
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:56 pm
Where might I find the fonts used in the guild banner? Are they free, and if not can I find similar steampunk-themed fonts someplace?
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:09 am
MercuryChaos Where might I find the fonts used in the guild banner? Are they free, and if not can I find similar steampunk-themed fonts someplace? my favorite steampunk font is the one from Outland Armour... im sure a bit of work out have to be done to recreate it, but i think its reallly pritty =3
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:52 am
I gotta question, well it's more of a statement actually. But when do you think the Steampunk timeline ended and how long was it? I mean of course the Victorian era, but how far into the next century did it expand. Personally I think it lasted until the Hindenburg incident, the early 1900's is my personal favorite Steampunk era, the airships, fighter planes, Nikola Tesla, well you get the idea. Don't get me wrong I love the Victorian era as well, and I love to see them both blended together, there's just not to many examples. I don't know just figured that I'd maybe spark some debate, and this seemed a good place for it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:18 am
Elias Aerhart I gotta question, well it's more of a statement actually. But when do you think the Steampunk timeline ended and how long was it? I mean of course the Victorian era, but how far into the next century did it expand. Personally I think it lasted until the Hindenburg incident, the early 1900's is my personal favorite Steampunk era, the airships, fighter planes, Nikola Tesla, well you get the idea. Don't get me wrong I love the Victorian era as well, and I love to see them both blended together, there's just not to many examples. I don't know just figured that I'd maybe spark some debate, and this seemed a good place for it. An excellent question! In my view, there is no real definitely 'end date' of the era we could call Steampunk (particularly since Steampunk does not convey real events). Rather, it was when (piston driven) steam power was replaced by Internal Combustion engines (heralding the age of 'Dieselpunk').Really, that's all there is to it. It's not a matter of time, more of technology. For instance, the majority of Dieselpunk could be said to take place during the World Wars [indeed, 1914 is taken by some as a convenient end date for SP]. However, there are a number of Steampunk works (such as the Pax Britannia series, which takes place in 1997) which follows alternate history, where the internal combustion engine never 'took off', and things continued to be steam powered (eventually achieving steampunk heights). I.e. these Steampunk works take place well after many Dieselpunk works (e.g. Sky Captain) do.Similarly, there are plenty of Steampunk works which take place entirely outside of conventional history, or indeed in some post apocalyptic wasteland in the far future. Summary: Steampunk only ends when Steam is replaced by Diesel. There is no set timeline.And, indeed, starts when Steam power replaced clockwork as the pinnacle of driving mechanism technology.~ Other related musings...For 'Anachropunks' - i.e., all the various Anachronisms which involve the -punk suffix (e.g. Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Clockpunk, Stonepunk)- it really is a case of the technology which has been 'super-advanced' beyond the abilities it achieved in reality. For instance, the Flintstones could be called 'stonepunk' - as stone remains the peak of technology. Internal Combustion = Dieselpunk Steam Engines = Steampunk Clockwork = Clockpunk Slaves in giant hamster wheels (i.e. the Romans) = Sandalpunk Stone work = Stonepunk In these sorts of situations, it is always the 'most advanced' predominant technology which determines the genre - e.g. an advanced Victorian setting would still be Steampunk, even though clockwork mechanisms may be present.Since Steampunk involves improving steam-power, it can advance to things which were well beyond its scope. To demonstrate my means of example: the first decent airships in reality were powered by diesel. However, in a steampunk setting, they might instead have been developed to run off steam engines (internal combustion never being developed). In this sense, it is hard to define a point in history at which it could be said to end, as things could have easily kept developing using steam-powered cars, planes etc. rather than I.C. engines. If you really wanted to you could go into all the minutiae of social attitudes, cultural features and the like; but these oft quite vary in works that are all decidedly Steampunk, rendering them more a moot point (but still worthy of note).
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:53 pm
Elias Aerhart I gotta question, well it's more of a statement actually. But when do you think the Steampunk timeline ended and how long was it? I mean of course the Victorian era, but how far into the next century did it expand. Personally I think it lasted until the Hindenburg incident, the early 1900's is my personal favorite Steampunk era, the airships, fighter planes, Nikola Tesla, well you get the idea. Don't get me wrong I love the Victorian era as well, and I love to see them both blended together, there's just not to many examples. I don't know just figured that I'd maybe spark some debate, and this seemed a good place for it.
I think it ends (in my opinion) at the rise of the great war. Alot of the early Edwardian age has things like the telsa coil that match the age, but the great war was when deisel-powered machines and aviation combat first made it's debue. Also, attitudes were changed drasticly by the disalusinment caused by the war.
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:51 pm
How do I get a group of people who have never heard about steam punk to join a steamy crew for a convention without scaring them all away and with out turning the explation into a book?
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:11 pm
Silly question maybe, but my cousin is way into steampunk (I think I kind of inspired him.) and he was asking if Fullmetal alchemist is steampunk at all. I'm not an expert, but I was wondering what you guys thought, so I came here! (I don't post here a lot. But that'll change!)
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:12 pm
Where might I find an artist willing to draw me a banner for Etsy involving an airship with a Cabbage on it?
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:50 pm
I have a white linen shirt, a pair of dark brown slacks, a tan linen vest, suspenders, and a tan duster coat.
Makes me look pretty steamy.
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