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i never understood what made steampunk punk. romanticizing georgian era england and industrial revolutions are some of the least punk things ever. youre putting gears on a top hat
i genuinely believe that you can directly blame steampunk directly cribbing from cyberpunk for the fact that solarpunk is an aesthetic and not an ideology. the roots of considering a civilization for its trappings and appearance rather than what it does goes back to that. cyberpunk was punk* because of the stories it told** not because of its aesthetics***
*extremely debatable depending on which punk you ask.
**objectively debatable depending on the game and system
***cyberpunk as a modern franchise not a genre is absolutely a prioritization of aesthetics over punk ideology. you cannot be punk if youre a fuckin franchise of a corporation idk i feel like this should be obvious
Hi hello, Steampunk here: the 19th century was punk as fuck actually, and the active steampunk scene in 2005-2010 was very much aware of and into it. You're citing the Spirit Halloween version.
Way back in November 2013 I made a post about the aestheticization of the subculture that STILL stands:
Steampunk: VICTORIAN LONDON VICTORIAN LONDON TOP HATS CORSETS ARISTOCRACY GLORIOUS BRITISH EMPIRE AIRSHIP PIRATES RAY GUNS APOCALYPSE APOCALYPSE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
Me: …Industrialization, colonialism, imperialism, exploitation of the working class and oppression of POC culminating in violent socialist revolution because fuck yeah the working class and don’t you dare forget it?
Steampunk: ::crickets::
[Steampunk]: THE GREAT GAME COGS GEARS VAMPIRES BUSTLES EXOSKELETON GOGGLES ANGLOPHILIA SUPER CREEPY OBSESSION WITH ORIENTALISM INCLUDING CLOCKWORK GEISHAS MANOR HOUSES TEA!
Me: ::sigh::
^ you are doing exactly this.
The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action, and not "selling out". That is what 'punk' means, in terms of subculture.
When steampunk arose as a subculture, out of Goth mind you, it was entirely a DIY and small business scene.
What steampunk music, fiction, craft groups, or meetups have you been to? Steampunk is, like cyberpunk, about the stories it told/is telling. Often stories of revolution (often violent), the overthrowing of governments and toppling of monarchies, civil rights movements (emancipation from chattel slavery! Indian wars! Rising against colonial powers!), the dawn of first wave feminism and women's suffrage, the original source of communist and socialist thought, workers' rights movements, the fucking enlightenment...
What is more punk than The Communist Manifesto(1848)
What is more punk than The Battle of Greasy Grass(1876)
Who's a more OG Punk than John Brown?
Steampunk literally music and fiction set in and about the Age of Revolution.
Judging Steampunk as a subculture by the part that was heavily commercialized is like judging all of Goth and a subculture by Hot Topic (which is not punk rock).
Go read China Mieville's Bas Lag cycle.
Go read Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Go read Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Go read Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (crossover with dieselpunk and biopunk!)
Go read Steeplejack by AJ Hartley
Go listen to some The Cog is Dead and some Abney Park and some Rasputina and some Steam Powered Giraffe and, hey, let me link Painless Parker one more time. You will note that that recording is from Occupy Wallstreet.
Also keep in mind that labor/union songs are wildly popular steampunk standards; you will hear Solidarity Forever and other songs from The Little Red Songbook at steampunk song circles. You will hear marching band and orchestral covers of The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen and The Clash's London Calling. You'll hear songs from Chumbawumba's album English Rebel Songs 1381-1984.
I'm gonna linkspam a bunch of my older writings on this:
#50 Overcoming the Noble Savage & the Sexy Squaw: Native Steampunk–Guest Blog by Monique Poirier
#98 Musing about Native Steampunk-Guest blog by Monique Poirier
Some of you already know Monique Poirier, either from her Beyond Victoriana essay , or from Tumblr , or you know her from cons and stuff. S
Other steampunks of my followers, please reblog with more recommendations about Steampunk stuff that's actually PUNK.
@sapphoandvanzetti , would love to hear you chime in.
Well shit yknow what I retract my statements because I had no idea about any of this! And the fact that the Spirit Halloween version was the only one I'd heard about is actually insulting with how cool a lot of this stuff sounds! Thank you for spending the time to drop all this, it's really appreciated!
Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested
I'm a South African fashion writer, researcher and designer exploring African fashion history, design thinking and cultural sustainability.
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"Halloween adults are just as bad as disney adults" "Furries are worse than disney adults"
I gotta be real, I thought we were critical of disney adults for aggressive loyalty to a really gross mega-corporation, or refusal to engage with media that isn't for kids, not because people... have hobbies?
Things in a video that make me instantly skip it the second I see it:
"Watch til the end" (unless it's for like a fundraiser)
"THIS-"
Shocked emojis or someone making an exaggerated shocked face
"You NEED to try-" / "you NEED to buy-"
the word "viral" in any capacity
"Sponsored"
Where there's no indication that the person in the video is sponsored but they suspiciously keep putting a specific product with the label front & center for the camera in multiple, long shots
People who yell everything they say to try make the content seem more exciting than it is
The video doing any kind of guilt tripping or reverse psychology shit to try get me to watch it or buy a product etc (like "scroll away. I know you won't support my music-" you're right, I won't. Bye.)
Starting the video off with ragebait specifically for engagement as a hook before switching up, especially if it's bigotry. Like something like "gay people shouldn't have jobs....... is something I WOULD say if I was an asshole!"
The poster purposely mispronouncing a word specifically so that viewers will wither A) laugh about it in the comments or B) correct them, bc the algorithm means any kind of engagement = their account is pushed into more audiences
People who do the fucking aggressive point at text or photos in the screen
Accounts that do book reviews or talk about literature and then self promote their book at the end of the video. I'll never read your book now because I hate sneaky advertisement or engagement tactics
Artists or book vloggers who start the video by showing you the back of the canvas or the paper side of the spine instead of just showing you the title/artwork once again, to meet the engagement timer
"I didn't expect THIS-"
aggressive finger wagging and pointing at literally everything
“all the most viral producers on spotify are using this sound”
reaction sfx where none is needed
meandering on their own advertising bullshit before getting to the actual topic of the video (once saw a guy do this for over 2/3 of the whole runtime)
anyone that doesn’t put their promotional stuff at the end of their videos
when people in any capacity tell me what to do. "Watch this!" I'm definitely not watching now. "Don't skip this video if-" I'm scrolling (exceptions again are usually fundraisers)
Videos with that loud ass fucking bell ding and giant arrows that point at everything
Those stupid ass accounts that post movie/show clips intercut with fucking ai narration as if it's a book (esp if the actor's voice has been fed into the generator to make it sound like they're narrarating a pov from a book)
Those ai generated guilt trip "save my failing business" scams with dropshipped items that they pretend are handmade & usually steal from people who actually handmade those items
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'why is so much politically-focused genre fiction centred on monarchies' many reasons, but one which I think deserves attention: monarchy is an obvious way of tying together the dysfunctions of the domestic to those of the state
Bloggers of color: Talking about, venting, or bringing up racism in a community and how bad it is
White Tumblr users: Ah yeah but only if its ACTUALLY racism going on, you shouldn't call out something unless its ACTUALLY racist, you could insight harssment, sometimes everything is made about race when it shouldn't be ya know, you see my friend gets harassed online for no reason beacuse of this, if something ACTUALLY racist is happening sure call it out but most of the time-
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Mind you, I think starting with before her birth, the wish of her mother, should be effectively a prologue.
But now I'm pondering how to skip ahead most effectively from that wish to her life under her Stepmother's rule with startlingly little in between, to emphasize how far apart the wish and the result are, without the slippery slope between them.
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"Why are my parents suddenly trying to be my friend now that I'm an adult??" Is crazymaking but putting together "oh, because children aren't seen as fully human so they're acceptable to abuse in a way that I'm not anymore. It was never actually about me as a person it was about children being property" may or may not feel Better. Makes sense though lol. Lmao. Everyone get more youthlib now
Like once you really understand Being A Minor as an axis of oppression & look at things through this framework a lot of really jarring things about the transition to adulthood start making sense. Like. Damn you guys told me there was something fundamentally wrong with me but it was just because I was a child this whole time? The fuck?
