Steampunk goodness
Love Felicia Day, love books, love the Victorian Era, what’s not to love about this post?
If you love books, you know that steampunk is a genre.
If you’re pretentious, you know three different ways of pronouncing “genre” and scoff — pish-posh! — at lowbrows who pronounce it incorrectly.
If you’re literary agent Cherry Weiner, you know that there are different branches of steampunk (cowboy, gaslight, etc), because YOU INVENTED IT and are too cool for school.
This is an interesting and worthy genre, and all good fun. I believe it is far, far superior to the over-used genres known as “sparkly vampire YA nonsense trying to ride the coattails of TWILIGHT” and “angry elves with lightsabers riding into battle against dinosaurs in spaceships” and yes, those two things basically exist.
As a man who’s only fashion instincts are “three piece suits” and “nothing that makes you look like a doofus,” I appreciate this little video of steampunk clothing, especially the line, “I want…
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Ritesh Kala said,
May 10, 2012 at 11:08 am
Thank you so much for letting me know of this show! I love Felicia Day, and now I’m wondering why I had not heard of this earlier!