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 Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:38 pm
My short and sweet answer: I believe you may be overthinking things a bit. You like steampunk, right? Well that seems to be enough for me. Share and enjoy, i always say.
31 candles on the ol' birthday cake, btw.
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:13 am
Im the same, dont worry so much and pick it up as you go along! Stop seeing it as a culture to fit in with and more as something you enjoy, its not a religion no normal person will be in any way offended by your lack of knowledge and im pretty sure anyone here would answer your questions without a hint of asshattery.
At least i hope so as i know absolutely naff all about the subject and am here for a good nose about, the closest thing to steampunk i have ever gleaned any knowledge from is that Will Smith film with the mechanical spider* (name escapes me) See? Im clueless 3nodding
*sorry if that made anyone cringe...
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:43 am
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:00 pm
You enjoy the community and you enjoy the clothing. Not sure what more is really needed.
Not everyone has the ability or skills to create.
And don't beat yourself up over not having time to read.
I have a confession. I really can't stand to read Jules Verne. He's truly a boring writer. Fantastic ideas that are still amazing in the 21st century. But a boring read.
But I still feel very Steampunky.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:30 pm
There are quite a few facets when it comes to the Steampunk community, but you are right when you say it's a community. Oh it's a label to be sure, and as such it will have people taking part because they think it will be "cool." But it's not just a label, and it isn't always about the fiction genre or fashion.
I like to think that it's a community that welcomes interest in subjects, not one that forces you to conform to an idea. Yes, there are people who will insist that you have to dress or think a certain way, but it's a much smaller number than those in other communities that are part of a subculture.
Here's to you, good sir. I'll gladly embrace any common ground that steampunk gives us. This is a community that brings people together to gleefully discuss things that you might not talk about with common folk, and introduces people that might not normally realize they have so much in common.
-Signed that strange neighbor girl with granny boots and her nose in a comic book.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:04 am
Son, you're just trying too hard. Being SteamPunk isn't about andything so simple as finding a proper niche for yourself in dress style, or a state of mind.
SteamPunk is about the willingness to indulge in the flagrant disregard of what others in this continuity refer to as normalcy. It's finding a sense of aesthetic or intellectual delight in the principal concept of flaunting impossibility in the face of reality, by looking 'What Is' in the eye and saying, "I reject your reality, and substitute my own". Pardon the Mythbuster's quote, but it seemed appropriate.
The movement's roots come from the minds of some of the most . . . unusual minds, geniuses in the most unconventional, or straight up bizzare, of ways. Stop thinking that one day you will wake up and go "I am SteamPunk", or that you will not feel this intangible 'ping' in the back of your head and realize you are or you are not.
If you came here and like the content, then indulge. If you don't, move on. But don't treat the prospect as if it were something so mundane as a change of clothes or a job interview. You don't have to test the waters, or develop an acquired taste, you just embrace and accept, or smile and go on. There is less logical rationalization to the aspect than you realize.
SteamPunk itself is an illogical view of logic, and unscientific rendering of science. It defies itself in its definition. Stop trying to solve it, and enjoy the question.
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