I’m not terribly into steampunk, so all I know is what bubbles up to my level. This is the first non-Western-based steampunk I’ve seen, and so I celebrate it. It may not be the actual first, it may not be the ‘best’ — however that may be judged — but it’s what I saw first, and I like it.
As to gears and cogs, I don’t see what the objection is to using them as decoration. Cogs and gears are as beautiful a thing as might be found in mundaneity. As precisely made as any diamond, as shiny as any diamond setting, with mathematical symmetry; what’s wrong with that? Especially as MakeupSiren has made the gears into actual Indian-styled jewelry and not just glued them to the side of her sandals or wherever.
