Casual Steampunk

A blog dedicated to integrating steampunk into your everyday life. Photographs of your elaborately decorated boudoir are just as welcome as your somewhat Victorian kitchen; and pictures of your prom dress with bustle skirt and corset are met with as much pleasure as the low steampunk outfit you decided to wear to work today. Let this blog be an inspiration & motivation for us to bring more steampunk into the everyday world.

[casualsteampunk]

I’m back from holiday and just found out that this blog reached over 500 followers in my absence. Thank you thank you thank you everyone! I’ll make sure to get active posting again :)

[knochenlied-blog]

Tomorrow, I’m going to leave for a camping trip to France with my boyfriend and my parents. So you’re not likely to hear from me for the next three weeks, but I’ll make sure to get around to answering all and any asks when I get back :)

[casualsteampunk]

Reblogging from my main just so you know.

[casualsteampunk]

Hi , I love your costumes , do you have a facebook or instagram where we can see other photos of you ?

Hey, thanks for the compliment :)

I have to disappoint you, though, because I’m one of the few people without a facebook account, and I don’t have instagram either. Tumblr is pretty much the only place where I post steampunk pictures of myself.

[casualsteampunk]

Sorry, not a steampunk related question, but I was wondering, where did you get your theme?

No need to apologize :)

This theme is called “Paper Walls 1.2“ and I think I just found it in the official free themes section on tumblr, but that was two or so years ago, so... sorry I can’t direct you to anything.Also, part of this theme (the ask and submit button, latter of which sadly is broken) was customized for me by a friend.

[casualsteampunk]

Hey, I saw you say that you got your corset from draculaclothing and I wondered what your experience with them was? They have such amazing stuff, but I´m a little wary because some of the prices seem just too good to be true, especially the corsets. So if you had some insight to share, it´d be greatly appreciated! ^^

I too was wary and thought the price for my corset from them was too good to be true, but I loved how it looked and mainly wanted it for one occasion, so I bought it anyway. I was actually really surprised by the quality. It’s fully steel-boned, the seems are thoroughly sewn and everything, plus it fits in a nice, mild hourglass shape, meaning it’s neither too cylindrical nor too hourglassy for someone without corset training.Keep in mind that is is only my personal experience with one corset, though, and I can’t make any general statements about their corsets (or other clothing).Here’s two more things you might find helpful though: A short exchange I had with rufflesandsteam in which she says she was happy with the quality of draculaclothing’s corsets, but not so much with their other clothing items and a picture of my draculaclothing corset because I tend to think it’s helpful seeing people’s personal pictures of items as opposed to the very polished pictures posted by the shops.Hope this was helpful!

[casualsteampunk]

My favourite picture from WGT (Wave Gotik Treffen), taken by my roomie :)

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Reblog if this is true for your blog

[six-foot-two-phanchild]

I waited to reblog til i saw asexual. Thank youuu

[casualsteampunk]

Not inherently steampunk, but nevertheless true.

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This stands to be posted again.

[casualsteampunk]

Welcome, my dear ones!

I noticed an influx of new followers these past few days, so I just wanted to take the time and say hi. This blog is meant to be a safe space and I want all of you to feel comfortable around here.

I generally don’t post stuff that lots of people get triggered by, but if you do have any specific triggers that you think I might not take into account by default, please let me know and I’ll make sure to tag things accordingly.

No matter your age, gender, sexual orientation, race, size, religion, and so on… please feel welcome. I’ll be more than happy to interact with you and receive your casual steampunk submissions :)

[casualsteampunk]

There’s a bunch of new followers again, so hi everyone :)

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1: If someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

Wow, that might be the hardest question from that list, but also the most interesting one. I’ll try my best.

Read

everything by Douglas Adams

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (and really, read it, don’t just watch the movie!)

The Yellow Wallpaper (!!!) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Haruki Murakami! Doesn’t really matter what.

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

any amount and combination of Poe, Shelley, Tolkien, Lovecraft

Greek, Roman, and Norse myths

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

the fragments there are left of Epicurus’ work

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Du bist was du schläfst by Tobias Hürter (a book about what happens within our minds and bodies while we’re asleep)

aaand the Romantically Apocalyptic webcomic :D

Watch

Nosferatu (the 1922 one)

Only Lovers Left Alive

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Silent Running (but only if you’re ready for an existential crisis)

Twin Peaks

Doctor Who

anything Hannibal Lecter, no matter if the movies or the series

Snatch

Matilda (the Roald Dahl movie adaptation)

Monty Python, preferrably some of their Flying Circus episodes

From Hell

Star Wars (the three older ones)

The Lord of The Rings trilogy (inevitably)

Barbarella

Dark Star

True Grit, because according to my dad the protagonist is essentially me as a teen

about any Coen brothers movie, really

The Wall (that Pink Floyd movie)

tons of documentaries about space and nature (Sir David Attenborough!)

Listen to

audiobooks of Lovecraft’s stories (I was going to just list Lovecraft under Read, but then realized that I have only ever listened to his writing in the form of audiobooks)

the Welcome to Nightvale podcast - you won’t regret it

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

PINK FLOYD

Pink Floyd

seriously, Pink Floyd

Judas Priest

Lana del Rey

Jex Thoth

Fever Ray

this song

The Alan Parsons Project

Edguy

Frank Zappa

actually, let’s jump to entire albums:

Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise

Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials

Zero Kama - The Secret Eye Of L. A. Y. L. A. H.

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Wardruna - Yggdrasil and Helvegen

The Only Lovers Left Alive OST

The Das Boot OST

… and honestly so many more, I need to stop here or I’ll freak myself out AND spam everyone else’s dashboard :D

[casualsteampunk]

For the anon who sent me the numbered ask :)

[casualsteampunk]

1, 12, 20, 22 for the ask thing? :) sweet blog btw, it always brightens my day!

Whaaat this must have been sitting in my ask box for days but I only saw it just now. Sorry for being so late! And I’m so happy to hear I’m brightening up people’s dashboards :)Anyway, here’s the answers:1: if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

I already answered this on my main blog a few days ago and since it’s a lengthy one, I just reblogged it.12: dog person or cat person?

Both, actually. I used to be completely mad about dogs as a child and my family had dogs ever since I was eight years old, so the dog person thing definitely came first. But over the past few years I developed more and more love for the cats of my friends, and cats in general. I’m allergic to most cats, so chances I’ll adopt one aren’t very good, but my boyfriend and I regularly take evening walks to pet the cats in our neighbourhood.20: would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else?

Unf… certainly not in Westeros nor in the Lovecraft universe, though I love both ASoIaF and the Lovecraft mythos. Middle Earth is exciting but doesn’t seem like a world in which you can live very happily (though it depends on where and what time, of course). And I’m neither a huge HP nor Narnia fan. Actually, come to think of it, the discworld would be pretty rad!22: list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order.

SLEEP. I’m very devoted to that.

uni stuff (I’m doing a double major teaching degree in philosophy and computer science, so there’s classes, homework, programming projects, papers, internships…)

my part-time job as a cook’s mate

spending quality time with my boyfriend (this includes but is not limited to: cooking and eating nice meals, playing board & card games, watching our favourite series, listening to the Welcome To Nightvale podcast and Lovecraft audiobooks, going for walks, giving each other massages, talking about just anything, lounging around on the sofa like no one’s business, …)

hobby stuff/spiritual shenanigans (lately there was a lot of crocheting, drawing, journalling, reading Tarot, meditating, and pen & paper RPGs - my current favourite being Call of Cthulhu)

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1907 Indian Tri Car from the E J Cole Collection 

[Via Just A Car Guy]

[sivadaim]

the quikest steampunk outfit i could come up with ^-^

[flamewatercircus]

Izzy Ivy from Flamewater Circus in Sydney, Australia, looking amazing in her Steampunk outfit! Costume provided by Zizzyfay.

See more of Izzy Ivy on her profile page: http://flamewatercircus.com.au/meet-the-team-sydney-fire-performers/izzy-ivy-byron-bay-fire-performer/

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EXCENTRIQUE Autumn 2009 Collection Nobles in Exile

[rufflesandsteam]

I think I haven’t posted this one yet: Casual steampunk for shopping :)

[casualsteampunk]

May I ask where you got that dress? It looks like the perfect base for so many amazing outfits.

[rufflesandsteam]

Sure: it’s from KiK (that super cheap textile company) but it was black and white stripes when I bought it and I dyed it with brown textile colour. 

(That’s actually one of my favourite ways to get steampunk-y stuff)

[knochenlied-blog]

Cool! There’s no KiK in my town unfortunately, but maybe this is of help to some of my German followers ;) Also, I’ve done the same thing with a pair of black/white striped trousers. Now they’re black/rust. Tea-staining white clothes looks pretty too.

[casualsteampunk]

Oh hey, I reblogged stuff to the wrong blog again. I’m a tumblr genius.

[belledysire]

I have grey eyes. =D

Also worked a special event at work and got to wear a steampunk outfit. Boyfriend loved it.

[casualsteampunk]

Is it just me or does anyone else get a little jealous at the thought of having a workplace that wants you wearing a steampunk outfit?

[rufflesandsteam]

I think I haven’t posted this one yet: Casual steampunk for shopping :)

[casualsteampunk]

May I ask where you got that dress? It looks like the perfect base for so many amazing outfits.