I am an English Major* - I am an expert on adjectives, and a few other parts of speech.
And, as an adjectival expert, I can state with no little authority that slapping the word “Steampunk” on any random object that strikes your fancy does not make that object “Steampunk-y” any more than adding the word “feminist” to a politician’s name makes them a feminist.
* an honor conferred upon me by a 4-person committee that included one man, and two people that looked over the edges of the glasses at me, and one who noted dryly that I should have taken more literature courses.
