In all honesty my logic for using a 1910s via the 1960s aesthetic (see all the 60s-70s movies I posted to get an idea) is purely author appeal. I think the shit looks dope! End of story lol
But. If I was being forced to get a more in-depth answer, A Year in Hogenroe is about time as a literal and cultural thing; moving forward but also moving backward but also standing still, cycles, overlapping perfectly but not too perfectly. I've always loved stuff like that; like when electro-swing became big in the early 90s or especially The Teddy Boys of 50s - early 60s. These sub-cultures are confirmation (to me at least) that I'm not so off the mark.
Another motivation is my interest in consciousness and dreaming. Both eras have books upon books about connecting to higher planes of existence and "opening your mind", and while I gotta filter out a lot of offensive stuff (the past being interesting but imperfect is another theme haha) what remains is still so thought-provoking.
I’ve talked about this before but I feel obligated every now and then to talk about the time Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger from a Nepalese Buddhist monastery to America.
The Pangboche Hand was the skeletal hand of a yeti who was a disciple of Lama Sangwa Dorje, and the finger of the hand was stolen in 1959 by a Bigfoot researcher named Peter C. Byrne after the monks refused to let him take the hand for research. Once Byrne got the finger into India, “It’s A Wonderful Life” star Jimmy Stewart, James “Anatomy of a Murder” Stewart, smuggled the finger out of India and to the States by — allegedly — hiding it in his wife’s lingerie case, because no gentleman would ever check a woman's lingerie case.
Byrne, by the way, was hired to steal the finger by eccentric millionaire oil tycoon Tom Slick, who spent the ‘50s obsessed with cryptozoology before dying in a plane crash in Montana. Not important for the story, important to me personally that you know this.
And I tell you this because “Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger in his wife’s lingerie case” is a fun collection of words and also to remind you that cryptozoology is awash with colonial assholes who will step over other cultures to find the “proof” they feel entitled to.
hello everypony it’s time for my yearly oc redesigns/reboot yaaaay :] and by reboot i mean like. FULL fuckin reboot. basically forget anything i've ever said about these guys in the past because just about everything has changed in some way LMAO
these three are part of a story i’m currently calling Junkyard Phantoms! they're a trio of mechanics (well. two mechanics and one robot who isn't particularly good at anything) trying to rebuild their lives and explore the solar system after living as outcasts on the moon Callisto. ok cool bye (explodes)