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Esperanto and Steampunk

KetchupSoldier :lta, 6. syyskuuta 2010

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KetchupSoldier (Näytä profiilli) 6. syyskuuta 2010 5.12.36

On a previous thread, the compatibility of Eo and the steampunk subculture were brought up, and it actually got me quite excited (I'm young, everything excites me excessively).

I'm interested in discussing this further. How many of you esperantistoj are also fans and followers of steampunk? Have you made any attempts to incorporate Eo in your writings, if you write? How much does steampunk affect your everyday life?

For the uninitiated but interested, here's an excellent introduction to the subculture: Steampunk 101 (the one thing I disagree with in that particular article is the idea that steampunk isn't real "punk". Here's why.)

ceigered (Näytä profiilli) 6. syyskuuta 2010 13.59.16

I can't say steampunk affects my life majorly, but I love the concept, sort of due to my love for "alternate versions of history" (e.g. things like Valkyria Chronicles, etc). I must say, that there's something strangely alluring about both birth of the modern era, and the idea of an alternate version of humanity had it progressed just as far, but in a different way. In the same way, there's something alluring about Esperanto. It seems like it's from an alternate universe, at least lango.gif.

3rdblade (Näytä profiilli) 6. syyskuuta 2010 23.04.32

I love League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic, not the movie). Steamboy let me down, though my expectations had been built up sky high for that film. I like zeppelins, and have begun to develop a few ideas for a story set in the zeppelin era, but nothing concrete as yet. The closest I have got so far is a one-page comic set aboard the Graf Zeppelin.

Speaking of anime and Esperanto, you've seen Night on the Galactic Railroad? Esperanto-speaking cats dressed in 20s clothes fly into space on a steam train. It's surprisingly brilliant.

LyzTyphone (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 2.45.42

I love League too! But more for its play on classic literature, and less for the Steampunkness. I am myself an engineering major so History of Technology has always been one of my hobby. But a world without Internet is just a little dull for the net-addict I am. We should try to set up an internet using telegraph machine.

I also write SF stories but so far just in Chinese, and I can tell not so well. The point is, I also read too little. lango.gif
I am very into Japanese light-novel kind of genre and am thinking about working on a story of that type, blending in Esperanto so as to interest people..

KetchupSoldier (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 3.12.47

LyzTyphone:But a world without Internet is just a little dull for the net-addict I am. We should try to set up an internet using telegraph machine.
Oh, I'm sure some inspired young inventor in 1897 could figure out how to transmit complex data by a system of dots and dashes which could be displayed on an electronic viewing window of some sort. okulumo.gif

Alciona (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 5.11.04

I love steampunk. I dress that way in my free time and am slowly redecorating my home in that manner. My avatar photo is an academic headshot but now I'm thinking I should use one of my steampunk photos instead! I hadn't expected other steampunk fans at this forum.

I actually came to Esperanto via Steampunk. One of my friends at the Steampunk Empire suggested that Esperanto was perfect for our subculture. I checked it out and I was instantly hooked.

There is an Esperanto group at the Steampunk Empire. currently there are only five members and a couple of posts. We're always looking for new members if you'd like to join up!

ETA: My member name there is Miss Alice Wolfenden if anyone wants to join and add me as a friend.

ceigered (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 10.33.57

LyzTyphone: But a world without Internet is just a little dull for the net-addict I am. We should try to set up an internet using telegraph machine.
I've always found that the biggest problem about steam-punk style internet isn't so much the transmission, since when we consider it, the old copper wire the net was transmitted with was sort of archaic, and to an extent even satellites aren't exactly futuristic, I'm sure a steam powered rocket could do the trick for launching them okulumo.gif

I think the biggest problem is reimagining the computer/client-end internet accessing device. Perhaps instead of a monitor made of plastic and glass, a monitor made with rice-paper, wood, and some form of "pixel" system (I'm thinking something funny like an automated etch-a-sketch), and rather than having traditional styled computers, surely there's a way to reach the same technological level using seemingly historically archaic items...

Who knows, maybe these steam-punk people discovered quantum computing okulumo.gif Then again, I like my steam-punk themes when they have a little bit of mystery added to the technology, gives one something to explore (otherwise it's too transparent).

ekiatoui (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 13.31.43

Me and my friends play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons and one of our old games was set in a steampunky kind of world.

In the game, there is a common language (imaginatively) called common, which is a common tongue between everyone in the world. Its kind of like Esperanto.

Evildela (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 22.53.00

I just looked up steampunk, it looks like what the gnomes out of world of warcraft use for everything. Kind like it ^.^

KetchupSoldier (Näytä profiilli) 7. syyskuuta 2010 23.13.17

Alciona:I love steampunk. I dress that way in my free time and am slowly redecorating my home in that manner. My avatar photo is an academic headshot but now I'm thinking I should use one of my steampunk photos instead! I hadn't expected other steampunk fans at this forum.

I actually came to Esperanto via Steampunk. One of my friends at the Steampunk Empire suggested that Esperanto was perfect for our subculture. I checked it out and I was instantly hooked.

There is an Esperanto group at the Steampunk Empire. currently there are only five members and a couple of posts. We're always looking for new members if you'd like to join up!

ETA: My member name there is Miss Alice Wolfenden if anyone wants to join and add me as a friend.
Is the Steampunk Empire a means of bringing steampunks together, or does it have some other purpose? (it looks a lot like steampunk facebook... ridego.gif)

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