The Steampunk Thread

This site needs a Steampunk thread! Steampunks unite!

Steampunk offers us a retroactively futuristic glance at the untold future of an age that we passed by, a re-imagining of how the Victorian era may have progressed if technology had progressed into the mechanical rather than the technological. How would the world have turned out if things ran off of steam and cogs, rather than batteries? What would the people have been like? How would they dress?

Steampunk has been giving us tons of possible answers to those questions for decades, and become a subculture of its own right. This has extended to fashion, music, and everything in between.

So, without further ado -- full steam ahead!

*makes Sailor Lolita thread*

Cyberpunk 4 life

I find the steampunk subculture (or whatever we're calling those guys that go to conventions and the like dressed up in semi-victorian clothing with gears glued on) rather disappointing. For every person that seems to really get that steampunk is about the unbridled, fantastic potential of science in an industrial revolution era society, you get five more who are the aforementioned people that just glue random gears onto everything and don't seem to get the concept at all. I'd really like to see more people actually understanding that the damn gears have to actually do something if you're going to include them in an outfit.

@joygirl: Rise of Empires- Video Game with a Steampunk Civilization.

The Haunting of Alizeabel Cray- Horror book, with a Steampunk, Victorian feel.