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Steampunk (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 76 points 9 months ago

Steampunk is the healthiest way to eat your punk.

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I thought we were having steamed clams?

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Ohh no, I said steam punk. That's what I call industrial retrofuturistic aesthetics.

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

Uh, huh…and you call it that despite it obviously being a style of design and fashion that combines historical elements with anachronistic technological features inspired by science fiction?

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Yes, it's a regional dialect.

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

May I see it?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Well @HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world , you're an odd fellow, but I must say- you steam a good punk.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Maybe, but I had some really good frypunk at the State Fair...

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Frypunk doesn't have corsets and waist coats, it has Spanx and Rascal Scooters.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

What about Punk Fry?

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I think that was Norm MacDonald, right?

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 55 points 9 months ago

Steampunk asks the question “what if goth, only in brown?”

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Steampunk asks the question, "what if there was more white colonialism in history?"

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 9 months ago

Not sure how you get that, because it's either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Imagine dressing every day in green clothes covered in microchips and LCDs and li-ion batteries

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

If everyone covered themselves in lithium ion batteries, gun fights in movies would get way more spectacular.

flesh wound "I'm alright!" burst into flames

[-] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Hot

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Naomi Wu is typing...

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

Why would I imagine my workday?

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 32 points 9 months ago

I don't see where horny comes into this. Steampunk is generally Victorian dress, teched up a bit.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

Maybe it's just me, but when I think of steampunk, I imagine women wearing the bottom half of a dress and a corset. Usually corsets are worn under clothing and is similar to a bra. It doesn't help that lingerie is very similar in appearance to corsets

[-] GhostMatter@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 months ago

Also, useless gears on every single thing, even if they don't move. And tophats with a pair of goggles while also having a pair of goggles of the same type on the neck. And there are gears on the tophat of course.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

Still shuddering about Clockwork Planet where t hey somehow rebuild an another planet mostly with gears and everywhere are just gears stack on top of each other connecting to nothing. It's just gears all the way down, because, that's how it works.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 9 months ago

I love the casual disregard for questions about what happens when one of those gears jams.

[-] GoosLife@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is of course in addition to the goggles he wears over his eyes

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Naturally. You need goggles for your goggles!

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

When I think "steampunk costume" my mind kinda leaps to "Wild west technohooker."

[-] accidental@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

Jim West, Desperado

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

🎵 Just glue some gears on it, and call it steam punk 🎵

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

🎵 That's the trendy fashion nowadays! 🎵

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Its the women who put on a corset and use it to smash their tiddies way up under their chin... also a significant portion who decide that knee high high heeled boots, long skirts that have a split very high on the thigh and fishnets complete the ensemble.

Its less victorian and more cowboy era saloon prostitute, but you dont hear me complaining.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Horny "about" it. It's just slang that means people like it, possibly to an excessive degree. Like I would say I'm horny for SoulsBorne games...

[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Maybe that's what horny means to you Netherlands types but that's not what it means here! Here, it means wild west technohookers! Like that other guy said!

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[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

“Sir, we could use steam to power this-“
Hat.
“sigh…I’ll get the cog wheels.”

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

"Sir, you've run the steam pipes directly into your goggles."

"I have a theory that the steam will reheat the low levels of light to daylight brightness and provide night vision!"

"Sir, I don't know how scientifically sound that..."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

I’m not gonna lie. I would watch the hell out of a show where wacky steam punk inventors find out about the unfortunate laws of physics and thermodynamics.