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Demiromantic Black Steampunk Moodboard for anon

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Tag Game!

Rules: google your name + your favorite color + “aesthetic” and the first four (noncollage) photos make up your moodboard

I have 2 favourite colours and 4 aesthetics soooo I kinda did all of that... sorry I broke the rules!

I was tagged by the gorgeously amazing

@petersmocha Thank you for the tag 💕

I’m gonna tag @ocotopushugs, @katsotherworld, @teddymylove, and @plueschpop

! If anyone else wants to try, just say that I tagged you! 😊❤

#Shut Up Nika #Tag Game #Okay this one is fun #Aesthetic Tag Game #Explanation of photos:#(if you care)#top left image:#pink grunge #top right image:#black steampunk #bottom left image:#black lunar bohemian #bottom right image:#pink pastel babydoll

This essay was written for Racialicious, as a kind of primer for a PoC audience on what steampunk is and why PoC would be interested in it.

[...] Steampunk is still an emergent subculture, gaining ground fast with its DIY creativity and elegant nostalgia. Stephen H. Segal has a cute article on why steampunk is considered friendly, even optimistic despite drawing inspiration from what was a very oppressive era. As a genre that’s in its adolescence, the rules (if indeed any counter-culture has rules) haven’t been set in stone. But it’s getting attention anyway: the New York Times did an article on steampunk fashion last year. This is where being a Steampunk of Colour comes in. Problems Peculiar to Steampunk As an emergent subculture, steampunk has its various factions of participants. The steamfashion LiveJournal and Facebook community believe that “the ‘punk’ in steampunk is a cute turn of phrase used because it sounds interesting and exciting, without any deeper meaning than that.” Dr. Dru Pagliassotti asks if steampunk has politics, and if so, what its ideology is. Steampunk Scholar Mark Perschon wrests with the definition of steampunk through his reading. This is the most universal problem for steampunks: trying to define just what steampunk is (without limiting the discussion to what it is not). [...]

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The Gibbs Sisters | The Invention of E.J. Whitaker's Kicksater

The Gibbs Sisters | The Invention of E.J. Whitaker’s Kicksater

Conceived by indie comic book and animation sister-team, Shawnee´ and Shawnelle Gibbs, “The Invention of E.J. Whitaker” is a 24-page comic book tale mixing elements of Adventure, Historical Fiction, and Steampunk to tell the story of one heroine’s epic journey through the dicey cultural and gender land mines of the early 20th…

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