#Stempunk

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 18: Ancient History VIII and Earlier

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[stemfighers]

Raise your hoofs for the the and only Ailcorn Princess (or Queen 💞😏)

Twilight Sparkle 🌚✨💖is my Pony Princess and Amy is What are name means Beloved Rose 🌹

I made this blog for Twilight 🌝 , Aesthetics and underrated Subcultures

Goth 🦇🐺🐗🐝🕷🌑

Scene Kid 👽☠️👽🪐🌹🌈

MushroomCore🍄

Natural Philosophy 🍃👑🌿🍁🍀🍂

CuteCore 💖💋💄🐵🐸🙈

Sl8tCore🫦💅🏽🫶🏽👯

Princess core/QueenCore/KingCore/RoyalCores👑👸🏽🤴🏿🫅🤴🏿🫅🏽🤺⚔️🗡️

Furries🦊🐹🦆🦕🦀🐙

AnimeCore🎃🙀👺

NatureCore🐢🐍🍒

Cryptidcore 🎃👹👻

ArtCore🎨🤓(I’m a Furry and And ArtNerd)

[labellenouvelle]

EYE WATCH YOU

This is what I do when I’m bored,,,,

19th c large pocket watch case / 19th c pocket watch guts and 1950s doll glass eye.  Necklace pendant

Item No. E5680

Dimensions: 2 1/4″ diameter

List Price: $ 225

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[confusionnation5]

Stem Punk doodle

[lilareviewsbooks]

“Senlin Ascends”’ Odd Choices For A Romance

3/5 stars

448 pages 

Contains: a shy nerd; a tower full of crazy things; steampunk! Let’s go steampunk!

Senlin Ascends required stepping outside my bubble, something I’ve been periodically doing this past year in hopes of reading all the fantasy “classics” or important works in the genre. My bubble, of course, being my little gay SFF books. Senlin Ascends is most definitely not queer, not in the slightest. In fact, it is so straight I feel like I need to make a proper complaint: there’s no gay people! Not to mention the shocking absence of people of color from the cast of characters, save for the occasionally ambiguous “olive skin”. And this was published in 2013!

Anyway, before I go on my tirade: what is this book about? It follows Thomas Senlin, the headmaster of a school in a tiny village, and his wife Marya. They’ve just gotten married and chosen a fantastic honeymoon destination – the Tower Of Babel, which Thomas idolizes as the pinnacle of civilization. Tragedy strikes, though, as soon as they arrive – Thomas and Marya lose each other at the base of the Tower, and it’s up to Thomas to navigate its many floors in search of her. However, his previous impressions about the Tower might be completely wrong – maybe it’s not all that civilized, after all.

When it comes to social concerns, I have an even bigger one. The main relationship in the book – Senlin and his new wife Marya – has a 10 year age gap, which I guess is fine if both parties were consenting adults when the relationship began (which, as I understand, they were). The problem I have is that they were teacher and student when they met, and Marya was a minor at the time. And listen: I hate student teacher relationships with a passion. I don’t care if it’s fictional – do you know how many kids will read these kinds of books while still in school and internalize that this is normal? Like, no! This is bad! 

But even without this social issue, I think this is just so, so avoidable. In Chapter 13 of Part 2, it’s established that Marya was a student at the school when Senlin became headmaster – that is, he wasn’t teaching there when she was first enrolled in the school. Now, this makes sense because Senlin is a headmaster and the only teacher in a small town, which only has one multi-serial school. He must’ve taught almost all the village’s younger citizens. But if Marya was already a student, why not age her up a little bit (a matter of 2 years, or some such, so the big age gap between Senlin and Marya can be kept, in case that’s important) so that she wasn’t in school at the time Senlin took the helm there? Why must they have been student and teacher at some point? It’s just so incredibly predatory – the age difference might already raise a few eyebrows, but the fact that he knew her since she was underage, and had power over her? That’s so weird!

And although this book and its series are very popular in the fantasy sphere of BookTube, for example, I haven’t heard comments on this at all. I had no idea that they were student and teacher, at all, because I’d never heard anyone mention it. I think this isn’t something we can ignore, and it says something about the message the book is trying to convey. 

Of course, as always, I hold out hope that this will be some sort of critique, or that the narrating voice or the characters themselves will condemn or discuss this issue, in further installments of the series. But, judging from the lack of representation for any minority groups in this at all, I’m assuming social consciousness isn’t at the top of the author’s list of priorities – which I guess is fine? I don’t know, I don’t want to tell anyone how to live their lives or write their books. 

Apart from this concern, Senlin Ascends is – and I’ll put it as eloquently as I can – meh. 

It has strong characters, that’s for sure. Quirky ones that appear and reappear as Senlin goes through the Tower, whose personalities are convincing and well thought-out. Senlin himself evolves as a person throughout the story, which is satisfying to watch, especially when it intermingles with other characters’ arcs. But there’s something quite predictable about the structure, as Senlin continues to go up the Tower, find something odd and vaguely steampunk-y, and then leave to continue on upwards. This is held together by short chapters, which almost always end in either a cliff-hanger or in a revelation. This is a common tactic in popular writing, and I don’t think it’s necessarily bad, it just loses its efficacy and all meaning when it's done so much – not to mention how tiring it is. The short chapters sometimes fall flat, as it feels like there’s something missing and the atmosphere needs a little tending, which would’ve happened if Mr. Bancroft had opted for longer chapters.

Senlin Ascends is the first book in a series, The Books of Babel, which spans four books. From what I’ve heard from BookTube (specifically, I’m thinking of a video by Tall Guy Reads), the books become more epic, as the scope of the story shifts from “trying to get to Marya” to “saving the world”. This doesn’t really entice me. What led me to Senlin Ascends in the first place was its premise – and I liked how contained the story felt, how small it was in comparison to other fantasies. This was what would’ve kept me on track to finish the series. Unfortunately, given the mediocre experience I had with this first book, not to mention the weird origin of the main relationship, I think I’ll be calling it quits now. I’m really not interested in seeing this expand and become a “saving the world” story. I think the strength of the book lies in its protagonist and supporting cast, all of which don’t have much to do with saving the world, and whose backstory was compelling enough without it being fuel to do something heroic. 

If you’ve read this one, I’m curious to know your thoughts and would love to hear them! I’ve seen so many people love this one, so I’m wondering what I missed and if it was just a matter of not connecting with the story as much as others.

[somethingcooltolookat]

[lynaferns]

Steampunk AU Sketches that I never finished (but I hope one day)

I actually want to finish the Chica one. I'll have to adjust some things of Roxy's.

And some sketch of an out of order Sun that I didn't even finish because I couldn't get the pose how I wanted. Doesn't even have a face.

[lesterpubliclibrary]

Drawing a Crowd by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: STEMpunk #4531 Robitics, Two Rivers High School, creates art on the library lawn, Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

[ashthegreendragon]

[criptochecca]

The revolutionary army got this whole steampunk theme going on that wouldve been nice to see on Robin Post skip but nah. we gotta go with “she doesnt have a coherent sense of style anymore”

[legendarytragedynacho]

Meraluna market

[hoplessartist]

Jumping in on a trend for once by drawing a piece for an upcoming Pathfinder campaign i'm part of, set in a stempunk like 1920s

Our local metropolitan Cryptid enjoying the view od his favorite Billboard 🕷️🩷

[gameoftravel]

Ogre Bruiser for Stempunk skirmish game Wolsung. i love this game, easy to learn ruleset, amazing models, just pure fun. I hope I will get back to in in 2024

[yuellii]

HOLD ON WAIT WHAT KJHGFCVBNH

LKJHGFBGHNJ WAIT OML YOU DON'T HAVE TO-

but honestly though, i love the clockwork aesthetic you have going on. it gives me very lowkey stempunk vibes??? ikjhgvfcvfbhj idk how to word it. that and blue is my favorite color, so it's an instant win.

all the neuvillette posts. ALL OF THEM ARE GEMS LIKE SERIOUSLY I FEEL SO INDULGED. THE ONE WHERTE HE WAS CRYING TEARS OF JOY??? NO PLS MY HEART BE STILL-

and the red flags post istg juhygfcdvbn i hear you're doing a thing for zhongli KIJHBGVBGHN.

i just...want to take all this...and feral bite it because the violent appreciation i feel is mounting up.

STEAMPUNK !! i was totally lowkey going for that but also like an old-timey thing esp with the desktop version of my blog hehe

pleaseee i been OBSESSED with writing neuvi lately i’m trying to hold back. and lately i’ve been fixating on zhongli……so seeing your post made me JUMP. and by ‘fixating on zhongli’ i totally meant… that kind of content soooo

HEHE YOURE SO SWEET 🫶

[gooddboygonebadd]

Tag Game once more~

This time in was tagged by the lovely davin (@noraecore) - Merry Christmas everyone! Hopefully you were able to spend your time with family and friends~

ANYWAYS- This tag game is ~Questions not usually seen~

A time period you feel you'd do well in...

If I am being completely honest, probably the 80s. Everyone seems so chill and the music, the styles, everything *chefs kiss*

A mythical animal you wish you could be...

A troll. They are SOO under appreciated. I'm not talking abt those big trolls that live under bridges, oh no no no, I am talking abt those trolls that steal your socks. Always the left ones...

(please smo tell me they got that reference)

Your favourite time of day...

2-4 am. I always wake up during that time. Idk why tho. There is just something magical feeling about that time. Everyone in the house is sleeping, its quiet... uk what I mean? I usually put on analog horror videos on my phone and just binge watch HOURS of them. They usually freak me out so i stay up until sunrise... or I go on tumblr. Either or.

The fictional tv show character that's the most like you...

I dont really know if I am being honest. I dont really watch tv shows or movies. But I would probably say Artemis from ready player one. Idk I just kinda have the same vibe I guess.

Your favourite flower...

Lavender. I love it so much. Nearly everything in my room smells like it too. My sister got me a lavender diffuser and I had it on all day. My deodorant smells like it, my clothes smell like it and my perfume used to be lavender too. Oh and my shampoo and conditioner- ....and possibly my body wash as well.... TO MUCH TMI I AM SO SORRY-

A fictional universe you would love to be in...

Easily the Sweet Tooth universe. If you havent watched it, (you really should... it's on Netflix) this deer-human hybrid kid (gus/sweet tooth) wants to find his mother. A big guy called big man/jeppard takes gus to red rock Colorado. BUT GUESS WHAT? (chicken bu-) there is a VERY lethal disease that they call the sick. SO its basically post-apocalyptic type world.

Also Bubble too. It's an anime movie where Tokyo was encapsulated by a bubble.

Both Sweet Tooth and Bubble are amazing. 10/10. They are on Netflix if anyone is interested~

Add stranger things to that list too

The aesthetic you wish you had...

I really like dark academia aesthetics. I really wish I suited that aesthetic. Like I LOVE it sm. And also stempunk too. Not to wear or have but just anyone who pulls off steampunk, immediate respect.

A kpop group you would love to be in...

Three words. MAMA MAMA MOOOOOOO

Kpop idol(s) you would be bestfriends with if you're an idol...

Your one and only Na Jaemin and Lee Jeno from NCT. They would be sooo much fun to hang out with. And Felix from skz. Imagine cooking brownies together 🥺

Your favourite outfit to wear...

I normally wear jeans, black tank top, and a light blue jacket I own. I do switch it up every once in a while by wearing a link (legend of zelda) sweatshirt. BUT FEAR NOT FOLKS! I went shopping and got quite a bit of clothes that made me feel good. So I'll be wearing those more often and building more ~~confidence~~

I had a lot of fun making doing this. Also thank you so much davin for putting all of the questions at the end to copy and paste them. It made the process soo much easier.

Anyways I will be tagging: @blizzardfluffykpop @kingdomtual @seohotonin @septicrebel and anyone else who wants to do it! Remember, you dont have to do it! It's there for grabs tho

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

[generalfestivalgalaxy]

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