I suspect that the people behind the event really REALLY want to wear pith helmets and feel like they're the heroes in a Rider Haggard novel.
yeahhh. You can glue a lot of cogs on a good pith helmet.
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
hippocampus - Oct 12, 2012 10:25:21 am PDT #25439 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - Oct 12, 2012 10:26:57 am PDT #25440 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, those made me laugh out loud.
everyone wants to be a lord/lady/airship pirate
OK, is it wrong that I feel like it's OK if everyone is dressing up as a lord/lady and swanning about in drawing rooms and whatever? Like, somehow I think it's acceptable to play just the far-away benefits of colonialism? Or is that just because I'm typing this on a computer while wearing cheaply-made clothing?
Atropa - Oct 12, 2012 10:34:56 am PDT #25441 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
OK, is it wrong that I feel like it's OK if everyone is dressing up as a lord/lady and swanning about in drawing rooms and whatever?
To be honest, it wouldn't bother me as much as it does if everyone doing it quit trying to put on a British accent. Pete won't go to steampunk things with me because he can last about 10 minutes before he wants to kill everyone with an affected accent.
amych - Oct 12, 2012 10:37:52 am PDT #25442 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I was much more excited about steampunk when it looked like there was going to be a stronger focus on the Maker Movement, and less about pretending to be someone else.
Also, apparently, about goggles.
Atropa - Oct 12, 2012 10:40:47 am PDT #25443 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Also, apparently, about goggles.
Bleah. Goggles on gear-encrusted top hats = UGH.
Cass - Oct 12, 2012 10:41:15 am PDT #25444 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And for the record, "safari" is the theme these people settled on AFTER realizing that their first choice of "Darkest Africa" was maybe not a good idea.
So they realized that they didn't want to seem quite so clearly creepy racist and maybe this is less ... obvious?
Because, no, none of their ideas are okay.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 12, 2012 10:43:21 am PDT #25445 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
And for the record, "safari" is the theme these people settled on AFTER realizing that their first choice of "Darkest Africa" was maybe not a good idea.
OMG WHITE PEOPLE WTF.
amych - Oct 12, 2012 10:46:23 am PDT #25446 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Goggles on gear-encrusted top hats = UGH.
BUT WHAT DO ALL YOUR GEARS CONNECT TO????
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2012 10:47:42 am PDT #25447 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmm, I've been forced by a work schedule to move my vacation up to the last week of October. I feel like Eureka Springs has become my routine vacation destination, but a staying in a haunted hotel on Halloween and going to a seance conducted by an illusionist/escape artist is a pretty unique opportunity, right?
Gudanov - Oct 12, 2012 10:47:55 am PDT #25448 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
But Steampunkish middle-grade fantasy novels are still cool, right?