THAT is NOT Steampunk!

[OtherMichael]

AAAAUGH THAT’S NOT STEAMPUNK!!! 

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[OtherMichael]

#AAAAUGH THAT’S NOT STEAMPUNK!!!

Except for Strawberry Shortcake. Their technology is a little kand-kolored steampunky…

[OtherMichael]

Kickstarting a next-gen steampunk nixie clock

Paging @nixiebunny - pick up the White Courtesy You’ve Been Outflanked Telephone, please. Sheesh! Disappointed to see this was not your stuff. Also, more video of the video-coat, please. From a distance, in the dark. OTOH, what’s steampunk about a nixietube? Dieselpunk, perhaps? …but that would be, mmmmmmm!, dials.   ##Probably cathodepunk. Crackle-paint finish, lots of buttons and blinky-lights. Waving needle-gauges. The size of a large desk, and twice as heavy.

[OtherMichael]

Subtle superhero jackets

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…

[anon29631895]

Steam Podunk?

[Drew_G]

I dunno, that looks locomotive or steam-tractor-y enough i’ll count it as steampunk.

[OtherMichael]

A rotary cellular phone

It IS a wonderful thing. But a trick was missed. If brass and wood had been used instead of white metal and black plastic, it could have been a steampunk rotary cellphone. Then he’d have ten times as many people beating a path to his door. (Not that he necessarily wants a path beaten to his door, at all.)

Well, maybe.

BUT NEEDS FUNCTIONING STEAM

[SteampunkBanana]

Wot’s all this then?

[OtherMichael]

Slap some gears on AND JUST LOOK AT IT!

[chenille]

[SteampunkBanana]

Always my philosophy!

[OtherMichael]

Steampunk 1/4" steel geared lightswitches

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/22/steampunk-14-steel-geared-l.html …

#NO STEAM