Sarah Palin vs. Nazis from the Dark Side of the Moon

[greygirlbeast]

Over the last two or three weeks the fear and anger and depression have been far more prominent, and have been so for a more extended period of time, than they have since the Spring of 2010. I find myself sleeping at odd hours of the day and have little desire (to which I can here confess, decorum being what it is) to do anything other than sleep.

Comments

[readingthedark]

I just felt a frisson of terror considering how a story killing steampunk might only lead to someone claiming to write the first post-steampunk story.

Then I rested easier when I realized that you'd kill it so well that there'd be no point.

[greygirlbeast]

I just felt a frisson of terror considering how a story killing steampunk might only lead to someone claiming to write the first post-steampunk story.

Then I rested easier when I realized that you'd kill it so well that there'd be no point.

Let us hope. It is a comfort to know the editor knows what she's getting and approves.

[sovay]

I just felt a frisson of terror considering how a story killing steampunk might only lead to someone claiming to write the first post-steampunk story.

To be distinguished eventually, I'm sure, from steampost-punk . . .

[greygirlbeast]

steampost-punk . . .

Ugh.

[sovay]

This is my post-apocalyptic swan song to that world. It's also my comment on the bizarrely rosy worldview beloved by steampunk devotees, as they embrace their revisionist Victorian world, almost always ignoring the hideous price tag it would bear.

Rose-colored goggles. I look forward to their breaking.

Is there anything I can do about the rest?

[greygirlbeast]

Rose-colored goggles.

Yep.

Is there anything I can do about the rest?

I wish there were. But thank you, regardless.

[opalblack]

I used to be a queen of the steampunks. There was another woman in my house, and I went into voluntary exile rather than go to war

[papersteven]

This story sounds very cool, and I look forward to reading it. Enjoy writing your final steampunk piece!

[ext_1126078]

I have been very lucky to have avoided all of the cheery steampunk, though I'm aware that it is out there. The stuff I've read or seen (Mutant Chronicles) was all pretty grim. But it is curious how it becomes a form of faux nostalgia rather than a way of exploring the horrors of exploitation, despoliation, and the ways technology can shape our bodies and culture in unlooked for, and largely regrettable, ways.

Sorry about the rotten insomnia and the wretchedness it leaves you exposed to. Sucks.

I forgot to say hello last time, with my first post. So belatedly, and largely pointlessly now, hello.