#Jon Sprague

[alex-lea-holder]

Classical The Jon and SPG

[ramenwithbroccoli]

Average night out on 31st October

[not-spiders]

the amount of gender envy i have for jon sprague is. not fair.

[jvstsleep]

Expect something The Jon related soon plus a really pretty photo of him :)

[steampoweredastronaut]

I know that people change and have real lives outside of their (former) job, but I find it really flabbergasting that Jonathan Sprague is a father. Imagine you’re his daughter and you learn you’re also part metal man

[wrong-alien]

I was just looking for some photos in official accounts of SPG members and I’m so excited

WHY THESE PEOPLE ARE SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL???

Like… Bunny is unbelievably beautiful. David has incredible charisma. Both of twins have perfect facial expressions. Chelsea and Camille have amazing hair. Bryan Barbarin is extremely cute. Sam Luke has wonderful moustache and sideburns. Jonathan Spraque is… idk very handsome??? I think those words don’t fit

They look like models who are ready to be photographed for bestselling magazines

[polly-w]

The random idea of The Jon being the headless horseman and having a horse made of quesadilla

As I know the headless horseman supposed to hold a jack-o-lantern and not his actual head, but I remembered it too late, so it is what it is

The horse here is definitely my favorite part, is was relly fun to draw and it turned out pretty much how I wanted

[cazador2077]

I don't remember posting these so here's another photo dump

[grubbylilgoblin]

Annual watch original love world of love video day

[theraphaelexperience]

Currently thinking of Jon's look for the 10 year anniversary don't mind me

[alex-lea-holder]

The Jon with other makeup

[ramenwithbroccoli]

Hey I know nothing about steam powered giraffe but ur mechs Ben diagram post intrigued me, could u explain it pls?

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Steam Powered Giraffe is a wonderful musical act with elements of comedy, pantomime and puppetry (shout out to GG the Giraffe).

Created in 1896 by Peter A. Walter I, the band consists of The Spine (David Michael Bennet), Rabbit (Isabella "Bunny" Bennet) and Zer0 (Bryan Barbarin).

Former members are Upgrade (Erin Burke) [from 2008 to 2011], The Jon (Jonathan Sprague) [from 2008 to 2012] and Hatchworth (Sam Luke) [from 2011 to 2016, although he 'became' a robot only after The Jon's departure].

RELEASED ALBUMS

please note that spg's style varies from album to album and sometimes even from song to song, so every new tune is a new adventure ;]

Album One - the first one, most old-timey in vibe. with that one song you might have heard. there's also a 2011 version of it without upgrade, but with Ice-Cream Man

The 2¢ Show - second album filled with train trips, cowboys, airplanes and this other song you might have heard (insect edition)

MK III - third album, with songs letting us know more about robots themselves (my personal favourite)

The Vice Quadrant part 1 and part 2 - fourth album, 2h space opera and a masterpiece, happening in two parallel universes. even most devoted fans have to check out the timeline sometimes to remember what's going on

Quintessential - fifth album with individual songs and the dnd anthem ever

1896 - sixth (and the newest!) album with absolute bops and foreshadowing for the new album. also, a song about a band sang by a band of people playing the robot band. bandception.

The Seventh - an upcoming album. all we have now is this trailer.

Bonus music

Music from SteamWorld Heist - new space-pirate themed songs and covers of older, popular tunes made for the SteamWorld Heist game. definitely deserves more recognition

covers and stand-alone songs not included on any of the albums

STUFF WORTH CHECKING OUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE

general info about the band/members

lore about creation of the band + timelines of both their fourth album "the vice quadrant" and the band itself

spg comics (now also on webtoon!)

@owlhari's youtube channel, with really fun early-performance compilations and more recent videos discussing lore, theories and the band itself

obviously the youtube channel of the band itself (if you dig around a bit you can find some pretty cool videos, such as these ones)

not to self-advertise, but spg community on tumblr is pretty neat. i've met wonderful people there and also found out that colonel walter ate dog food, so it's worth it to visit our tag sometime, i guess ;3

[steam-powered-smackdown]

Sound of Tomorrow artwork by Jon Sprague

Propaganda under the cut

Rex Marksley (Live) [WRE]:

No propaganda submitted :(

Sound of Tomorrow [2011]:

No propaganda submitted :(

[jvstsleep]

I CAN’T AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[the-robot-bracket]

You said i could submit more propaganda so here you go.

Steam powered giraffe propaganda time because i can so:

They are a band of steampunk robots. And a couple of months ago they celebrated their 15-year anniversary. They do a lot of different genres with their songs. For example, honeybee is slow and rips your heart out whenever you listen to it. Then you have fart patrol which is goofy and you can't help but smile. And there's the band lore. 

A guy called Peter A Walter built them in 1896 to impress this girl called Delilah Morreo

Who then died then got brought back as a vampire by the other guy trying to impress her

Then she killed the other guy and found a way to fix her being a vampire and became a wraith. 

(It is worth also mentioning that she is canonically a lesbian)

Other lore facts include

They are canonically war veterans and pretty much all of them have fought in multiple wars

The Beatles opened for them at one point

The robots run on QWERTY "The first truly intelligent computing device for the home of 1999"

Ok time for character facts

First up Rabbit (Played by Isabella Bunny Bennett)

She changes her appearance so much that it is hard to keep track sometimes

Was in love with a toaster her name was Jenny (Jenny got dropped 8 minutes after she was bought and Rabbit didn't have the warranty)

In a couple of the iterations of her costume, she has worn up to 6 belts

Next The Spine (Played by David Michael Bennett) (Probably worth noting that Isabella and David are twins)

He has a titanium alloy spine that's his backstory

He can detach his spine from his chassis 

He loves the wild west and cowboys

He has the brain cell (always)

Zer0 (Played by Bryan Barbarin)

Zer0 was built out of three incomplete systems

He was left in a basement for nearly 100 years 

Has his own cereal brand called ZER-0'S

Hachworth (Played by Sam Luke)

He has a moustache (That's all you need to know about him)

The Jon (Played by Jonathan Sprague)

The Jon is powered by crystal pepsi

He apparently has no brain, and inside his chassis is a void in which several hot dogs and a koi fish float around.

He has a cowboy mode

And last but not least Upgrade (Played by Erin Burke)

She has not received an upgrade since 1996

She left the band in 2011 to become a princess

Her existence was erased from the lore when she left the band then she got retconned back into the lore (I don't know when exactly but around the time of the band's 10th anniversary)

I would do things with the albums but that would take waaayyy too long. Thanks for letting me ramble they are all i have been able to think of for months. Yea so if you get a minute listen to their music and i hope I've convinced you to vote for them.

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[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.