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[channonyarrow]

Something is wrong with the entire world when the Wet Spot (Seattle's Sex-Positive Community Centre, if you prefer the long name) is having a steampunk-themed pansexual play party

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[jkivela]

yes, but are you going?

[channonyarrow]

Nooooo. I have given up completely on steampunk, and I don't have a membership at the Wet Spot at the moment, so it becomes prohibitive for many reasons.

Also, I've totally seen a Tesla coil before. (They have a Hall Of Wonders of the Steampunk variety, and I am just all "...seen it.")

[jkivela]

not even curious, huh?

[channonyarrow]

If it weren't for the "steampunk" modifier there, I'd be a LOT more interested. Pansexual play parties? COMPLETELY DOWN. Steampunk? Jumped the shark a loooooong time ago.

[the_siobhan]

I would be a lot more interested in steampunk if it meant actually building things out of clockwork and steam engines. As opposed to just hanging gears from one's piercings.

[channonyarrow]

I'm really interested in it as a design aesthetic and a fashion statement, and I totally admire the people who do, with varying degrees of successful steaminess, actual builds (I've seen everything from computers to cars) but that core of devotees is not enough to give the whole thing a spine and it's gonna collapse under the weight of its own hubris, exactly as any other unsupported fashion fad does - I've seen that discussed in context with grunge specifically, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's true - anything that has nothing it stands for in the end will fall, and quickly. This is a cheap commercial gimmick, and it's hastening the end.