
| Icehawk #448520 10 months ago |
HAH!, I'm not a huge steampunk follower, but man she looks awesome like that. |
| Jackarunda #448522 10 months ago |
BIG BLACK BOOTS, LONG DARK HAIR
SHE'S SO SWEET WITH HER "GET BACK" STARE |
| NightJack #448560 10 months ago |
That cello design is the reason I can never understand what some steampunk fans are thinking, cellos where made long before the Victorian era so you don't need to make a steampunk style cello. |
| Anonymous #448562 10 months ago |
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought she was a Scratch/Octavia hybrid. |
| NightJack #448588 10 months ago |
^ Go look at the steampunk Scratch, she looks like she has Saint Seiya type armor. |
| your_waifu #448643 10 months ago |
nightjack it is called aesthetics. __punk genres aren't just about the time period and technology. it's a visual style. that's why in cyberpunk the world is covered in databoards and neon. steampunk =/= just victorian.
long story short, it looks neat |
| NightJack #448705 10 months ago |
^ It's to look like the style of the victorian era, in the victorian era thay didn't cut open a cello and put a gear in it.
In short, some steampunk fans over do it. |
| Marrock #448761 10 months ago |
It's looking back on a future that never was, imagine a Victorian era when technology provided things like massive airships, steam powered computing machines...
Consider a history where, instead of waiting till the 1960s, scientists got man to the moon in the 1800s with a steam powered rocketship.... Where H.G. Wells and Jules Verne were chroniclers and historians and not fiction writers... Give all that some thought and you may have the germ of a notion of what Steampunk aims for. |
| your_waifu #448773 10 months ago |
\:| but it looks cool. it's about style. it's a science fiction subgenre, not a jane austin novel.
i don't see how i can make this any simpler. |
| your_waifu #448801 10 months ago |
^what he said i guess |
| coyotecrow4 #449158 10 months ago |
I get what both Waifu and Nightjack are saying. Which is why I like Neo-Victorian aesthetics and only apply the Steampunk stuff to technology. But if a cog or gear has no function, it can be better utilized elsewhere. |
| NightJack #449362 10 months ago |
@Marrock I know that but pre-Victorian era technology that is considered works of art don't need to be butchers to fit the steampunk style, Captain Nemo played the orgen but it didn't have gears slapped on it for no reason. |
| NightJack #449373 10 months ago |
^^ That is the way I like it too. |
| Lancer #449869 10 months ago |
She needs a couple of extra lenses hinged to flip or swivel down over her glasses, and a long jacket with lots of pockets and tool loops... And a meter and a stove-pipe attached to her hat. |
| Martingale #472828 10 months ago |
Someone tagged it as "cello".
This is clearly a xylophone! |
| VariableRadius #828975 6 months ago |
I'd like to point out this entire picture is clockpunk as opposed to steampunk |