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Hey, I recognize that guy with the rope! I honestly had no clue there was a steampunk/fetish connection, except maybe the long way ’round thru burlesque, but I guess it makes sense. Neat.
When can we declare steampunk dead? Seems like that day is overdue, though the Northwest is always the last to let stupid fashion trends go. Utilikilts, anyone?
It beats those guys in armor and wooden swords hacking away at each other over at Gas Works.
Steampunk needs to die already. It’s pathetic.
Barf.
what a surprise! fat people are into this!
So… the usual.
Oh look! Cynical hipsters posting on the internet! How odd for this town.
Gay ‘nineties, goggles, done. Do they do Dickensian caroling @ Xmas?
fat goth.
I have no idea how steampunk and perverts became an item, but good on them for putting on what looks like a real fun party.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
eyepatch has perhaps the most amazing body I’ve ever seen in a non-airbrushed photo.
@8:
I believe “Sky Captain” would fall more under the rubric of Dieselpunk, which is more of a early-to-mid 20th Century sub-genre.
Hey, how did the skinny dude sneak in there?
The final word on steampunk as far as I’m concerned:
http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/04/07/strip…
I was going to look into this a little deeper, but then I saw that somebody on the internet is too cool for steampunk! We should track the people in these photos down and tell them to stop having weird fun on their own time. Too bad, it looks like they’re smart, happy, creative, scientifically-bent, and getting laid A LOT.
BostonFont: Awesomeness.
Myself, I know that as a geek I should be supportive of these folks’ good time. However, I find the whole thing immensely irritating.
@20-
who cares? they are still horribly embarrassing to our city.
OH WAIT- I just read your name!
never mind.
When nerds try to be hipper-than-thou it’s really pathetic.
Why does everyone think goggle are a necessity?
On top of your top hat? serious overkill.
I agree its kind of lame. What bothers me is that they keep thinking they are a legitimate movement. Uhh….no. There is nothing “punk” about it.
The fact that you hate it tells me I’m doing it right. Thanks all!
For those curious: yes there are a lot of kinky people into steampunk. It’s costumes & corsets & protocol; think about it.
For the haters: thank-you for staying home trolling the internet and not coming to our party.
“When can we declare steampunk dead? Seems like that day is overdue, though the Northwest is always the last to let stupid fashion trends go. Utilikilts, anyone? “
“I was just discussing steampunk “fashion” the other night at…you guessed it : Grim’s. My conclusion is that steampunk is a very temporary…um, movement that lacks the long term staying power and dorky charm of goth or cosplay/anime/etc. It belongs in lower-tier nerdism along with LARPing. “
Steampunk has been around since around the 50’s and spans over different US states as well as different countries. Also, just because you want it to be dead doesn’t change the fact that’s it’s not going away anytime soon.
What amuses me most is the haters’ spew in The Stranger’s comments section when there have been no less than ten Stranger articles on Steampunk and two Steampunk-related Strangercrombie auctions *in just the last two months*.
Dead? Hardly. Ironic? As hell.
What amuses me most is the haters’ spew in The Stranger’s comments section, when there have been no less than ten Stranger articles on Steampunk and two Steampunk-related Strangercrombie auctions *in just the last two months*.
Dead? Hardly. Ironic? As hell.
I thought eye patches were for pirates?
It was fun. I can’t imagine what provokes those who are not interested to bother commenting.