Fragments of Chronicles from South East Asia as It Might Have Been
steampunk_nusantara is a brilliant project. It is building a steampunk alternate-history Southeast Asia, at present framed as a catalogue of objects, with entries describing the objects from the point of view of either a cataloger or the creator of the object.
If you want to know more about how it works, there's the policies and guidelines post. Personally, I'm just lurking and reading--it is a wonderful thing if you like steampunk, history, languages, or catalog records (um, is my museum nerdiness showing?)
This sort of project--multicultural, thoughtful, creative, careful about cultural appropriation and -isms, not just another spinoff of Victorian romanticism and exoticism--is what I wish more steampunk were like.
(Also, I would pay good money for a novel in this world, just sayin'.)
Some recent posts:
Pickled & Poisoned Tongkat Ali
The Travel Qur'an
Pterandon bones
Clockwork Mouse
letter fragment
[I missed Friday, but oh well! Close enough for government work. Cross-posting because I'd imagine some LJ people might be interested in reading, too.]
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