Set in a world
where intrepid Seafarers carefully drew coiling Sea Monsters
into the waters of their maps....
The Dollmaker shall now attempt to define
Well! It's... Mad Science! Preposterous Inventions! Top Hats!
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Time Machines! Propeller-driven Flying Airships and Submarines! |
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Genius Misfit Daredevils bubbling about at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!
Similarly intrepid adventurers Voyaging to the Center of the Earth! Hot!
By Jove, a whole ticking, clacking, popping movement risen up around Pressurized Steam!
ah! The Romance of Locomotives belching smoke,
gear-driven clockworks, adjustable goggles! Vacuum tubes, monocles, pistons!
Flywheels! Flicker-movies!!
A miniature derringer hidden in a secret compartment
in the heel of a boot belonging to a shadowy stranger...
It's about grunge leather, brass-studded, somewhat utopian, somewhat hooligan, strapped-on, spring-propelled gadgets...
OK... AND! Cool Villians! Solar deathrays fueled by crystal and copper, ionized force domes generated by a tuning fork.... (evil chuckle)
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Flying bicycles... Victorian, Vaudeville, Fantastical...
.... proper fashion for a proper revolution, a brass distillery in every home... giant vegetables and man-eating squid!
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it's all this and more... but
this is the Dollmaker's favorite definition:
"Steampunk is a balance of
"What was"
"What should've been" and
"What the hell!"
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a genuinely awesome Steampunkish movie: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2391802137/
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It's a Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic
frequently featuring watch parts and clockworks
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06/20