Black Steam

A punk with love for Victorian sci-fi.

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A Flowchart for Thwarting Flywaymen

If your carriage is hijacked en route to finishing school (as carriages so often are) by flywaymen who aim to rob or kidnap you (as flywaymen so often do), this flowchart will help to define your fate.

View FULL SIZE here.

Beware the highwaymen of the skies! Even a properly finished lady thinks dark insults at these ill-mannered men—the type of slander learned from stable lads.

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My copy of Boneshaker fits just perfectly in my leather satchel.

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Can you draw a tiny lizard dragon that secretly hoards pennies?

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I will always reblog this.

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Ace Visibility Day

The Ace Community will be posting photos and graphics of Ace cards to correspond with their orientations. This is not intended to be a selfie day, however if you would like to post a selfie WITH your card, that’s your prerogative.The delegations are as follows:

Ace of Hearts: Alloromantic Asexual - experiences romantic attraction regularly toward one or more genders. This includes orientations such as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, polyromantic, and panromantic.

Ace of Spades: Aromantic Asexual - does not experience romantic attraction toward any gender.

Ace of Diamonds: Demiromantic/Demisexual & Grey-aromantic/Grey-Asexual- Experiences romantic and/or sexual attraction only if a strong emotional bond is established. OR Experiences romantic/sexual attraction rarely, not strongly enough to act on, only under specific circumstances, or fluctuates between periods of experiencing attraction and not experiencing it.

Ace of Clubs: Questioning/Unsure of Orientation - Aware they fall on the aromantic and/or asexual spectrum, but not sure where. 

Please spread the word on this and if you’re participating, be sure to tag your photos: #AceDay.

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VOTE FOR YOUR PREFERRED DATES HERE

Voting ends Friday, April 17.

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The TEATORIAL: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tea

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Steampunk Girl http://steampunk-girl.tumblr.com/

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My two favourite things in the whole world.

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My current reading choices. Just need The Inexplicable, and I will have all of the Clockwork Century books.

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Just a few of the various things I have picked up at steampunk events in Toronto, from local artists and creators.

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Sometimes I play dress up with the clothes in my wardrobe. LET'S STEAL A TANK! *PEWPEW*

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Some snapshots from Suburban Steam at the Zion House. All taken with my mobile phone.

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Sometimes I do photo stuff. This is a preview of a set done with Nathan Sterner.

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Oh. Right.

I'm terribly awful at this blogging thing. There have been a few steampunk happenings going on, and I have quite a collection of photos I want to start posting up here, though I would like to get through at least one of the steampunk books I picked up last week, before doing anything else.

Things with the S.O.S. are going well though. Oh, by the way, I'm now a shiny new admin for the Southwest Ontario Steampunks. Yep. We had a tea at The Red Teabox, and there will be other events coming up in September and October.

Yup.

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Here’s the dirty little secret about this though: there is no such thing as withholding sex because there is no situation in which you owe another human being sex. Ever. Your body is 100% your own and you get to consent or not consent to other people doing things to or with your body for whatever the hell reason you would like. This includes because you’re pissed off at the person, because they did something you didn’t like, because you just don’t fucking feel like it, because you’re tired, because you don’t feel attractive, because you’d rather read a book…any of the above. And not wanting to have sex with someone because you have negative feelings towards them at a given moment is not in fact punishment. It’s actually a very natural human feeling not to want to be physically intimate with someone when you’re annoyed/angry/hurt/sad with them. Oddly enough letting someone be close to your body when you don’t feel emotionally close to them doesn’t always feel great (if that’s your thing then go for it, but for those who don’t like it then there is no fucking reason to apologize). But the idea that you can pull some sort of power play in a relationship by not giving the other person something which you don’t owe to them in the first place makes no sense. It would be like telling your partner that you’re going to punish them by not baking them chocolate chip cookies every day: sure, maybe they would like those cookies but in no way are you obligated to bake them cookies anyway, so they should probably be just fine getting along without it. The idea that you should feel as if the only way you can express that you’re angry or upset or unhappy in your relationship is by taking ownership over your body in a way that is so basic it should never have been a question is somewhat disgusting. If your partner has you so convinced that you owe them sex, no wonder you feel a little angry or vindictive towards them.

“Withholding Sex” and Other Lies | We Got So Far To Go (via keetsey)

Not steampunk. Just reblogging so I can grab this later and send it to a douchey ex.

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John Barrowman and steampunk? I'll take it!

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DIY mini top hat

How To Make A Mini Top Hat! Mini Top Hat Pattern …: http://youtu.be/zoN4K9wLi6M