both of these are based on what I saw on the Steampunk episode of the series Make1. It was said that Steampunk is an idealized Victorian era*, the way things should have been
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Went and wiki'd the term steampunk because I'd never heard of it before. Now, I've actually seen/own/read a few of the things classified as steampunk according to wiki (a novel about the South having AK-47s comes to mind), but I admit to sharing the confusion about the popularity of it.
The thing they say at the beginning of Gone with the Wind, about it being the last days of knights and their ladies fair comes to mind as well, but I've always found the Victorian time as a mass of contradiction and oppression. While the outward ideal was a very moral society with a great sense of destiny and potential, I would start to argue that it was extremely hypocritical time.
There's a quote used in a book by Robin Paige, from Daisy Warwick about society having rules about scandals. Apparently, for every one that got out, another five were suppressed.
So it's interesting that the time would be so idealized...
Sorry, Victorian times fascinate me, actually. If I studied history, I'd focus on that time, I think. I find society complex, the changes interesting, and the clothes were pretty. Wouldn't want to live then, though. The clothes, for one thing, are hard to wear on a day-to-day basis, and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then.
>the South having AK-47s comes to mind that's time travel.
steampunk is imagining if, instead of switching to oil and batteries, technology continued to advance - instead using lots and lots of gears and steam.
>and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then then don't be a traditional one - hell, one very nearly became the US President back then.
Yeah, I suppose that one is. I never did get very far with the book, but I think I had something else like it (but different as well.) I did read about Wild Wild West, and that I remembered seeing, as well as the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which were listed as examples.
Yes, well, I have no desire to be a politician, but I like to think I'd be different, not traditional.
The thing they say at the beginning of Gone with the Wind, about it being the last days of knights and their ladies fair comes to mind as well, but I've always found the Victorian time as a mass of contradiction and oppression. While the outward ideal was a very moral society with a great sense of destiny and potential, I would start to argue that it was extremely hypocritical time.
There's a quote used in a book by Robin Paige, from Daisy Warwick about society having rules about scandals. Apparently, for every one that got out, another five were suppressed.
So it's interesting that the time would be so idealized...
Sorry, Victorian times fascinate me, actually. If I studied history, I'd focus on that time, I think. I find society complex, the changes interesting, and the clothes were pretty. Wouldn't want to live then, though. The clothes, for one thing, are hard to wear on a day-to-day basis, and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then.
But the invention sounds interesting...
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that's time travel.
steampunk is imagining if, instead of switching to oil and batteries, technology continued to advance - instead using lots and lots of gears and steam.
>and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then
then don't be a traditional one - hell, one very nearly became the US President back then.
also, no need to apologize.
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Yes, well, I have no desire to be a politician, but I like to think I'd be different, not traditional.
:)
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