EDIT: And also a painted portrait of little Prince Charles having recently assraped a small dog with a red chili pepper, a dismembered dog's penis or a dog dildo.
Mmm, I think Steampunk's still got some legs to it. It's starting to get some mainstream awareness, it seems, although just how far it'll penetrate is anybody's guess.
wait, what? Steampunk's NOT dead? It's built itself some piston-driven legs out of an angle-poise lamp and it's lurching into coolness like some kind of mecha-zombie nightmare? With goggles on its grinning Lego face? Will whoever's in charge of this stuff please tell me what's going on so I know which ephemeral subcultures to embrace and which ones to disregard. I thought steampunk had been scrapped for parts.
Nope, Steampunk's still hanging in there. If you go to cons for anime, scifi, comics, or even Renfaires, you'll see folks in pseudo-victorian/edwardian garb with brass clockwork bits and goggles on, and in sizable number. One of the major chicago scifi cons was entirely steampunk themed this year. The artists alley and dealer's room at Anime Central this year had lots of people selling steampunk gear. I've even had mundane relatives ask me about it -- apparently, there was some sort of museum exhibit in Denver recently that attracted a lot of steampunk fans, who went in garb. When your mundane relatives say, "Hey, I think I've heard of that, it's steampunk or something other?" That's a sign of penetration outside of geek circles.
Magnulus: I thought English was more of a latino-germanic language or something. Kasuaarit: taking that Kasuaarit: germanic germanic germanic germanic germanic germanic germanic latin-latin french germanic germanic Kasuaarit: (that's magnulus' sentence by etymon language)
to odd sex dreams (with a brief visit from Ziggy Freud):
HolyParable: In the last wet dream I had, I was fucking a ghost HolyParable: Just throwin that out there
to robots, drugs, food and cheese. I realize cheese is technically food, but it's so wonderful it deserves a mention of its own.