Confusion And Happiness

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thats-not-victorian:

Hey, guys!  So, we’re all familiar with Cyberpunk and Steampunk, but there are so many more alternate histories/speculative science fiction genres out there!  I came across this handy-dandy infographic and figured I could share a bit of these punk genres for anyone interested.

• Steampunk
  Roughly covers the Western world during the mid- to late-19th century (ie:  Victorian era, US wild west, etc.), and sometimes up to the Edwardian era.
• Dieselpunk
  1920s up through WWII, ending at just about the Cold War.
• Decopunk
  A cleaner, artistic, more “optimistic” version of Dieselpunk (same time period)
• Clockpunk
  Covers the time of the Renaissance (think da Vinci)
• Atompunk
  Cold War era, ie: the Space Race
• Teslapunk
  Derivative of Steampunk, but focuses on electricity rather than steam.
• Splatterpunk
  Explicit horror and gore
• Biopunk
  Biotechnology, genetics (part science fiction, part real life)
• Nanopunk
  Nanotechnology, sometimes overlaps with Biopunk
• Cyberpunk
  The granddaddy of them all:  computer technology, the internet, hackers, etc. 

Others not included in the infographic

• Elfpunk
  Fantasy-based, features creatures like elves and fairies.
• Mythpunk
  Mythology and folklore, includes urban fantasy.
• Seapunk?
• Stonepunk, Bronzepunk, Plaguepunk

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cunninglinguist0:

Leviathan Art - The Grand Map (by Keith Thompson)

Full res: http://tinyurl.com/5sm4hgl

The Clanker Powers

“Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one.

“Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border.

“The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses.

“The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out.”

The Darwinist Powers

“Britain is an militaristic lion beast with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.

“France’s elephant beast (wearing the French kepi they started the war with before adapting their firefighter helmets) is influenced by the Elephantine Collossus built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris (later it ended up going to the Moulin Rouge.) It also represents France’s huge significance in WWI, which is something that tends to get a little glossed over.

“Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots. (Russia collapsed during the real war.)

“Serbia’s imagery (a skeleton) is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they’ll find themselves subject to.

“Norway and Sweden are both Scandinavian trolls in the style of John Bauer, an incredible and inspirational illustrator from the time who produced a lot of phenomenal work during the war.

“Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war (this was based on something from a contemporary map and I’m not totally sure about the viewpoint’s veracity, but I couldn’t resist the image, and it seemed to match up with what I knew of the situation.)

“Ireland looks askance to Britain and brandishes a shillelagh. An indicator of their very rough relationship at the time, and of their upcoming involvement with the Central powers.

“Italy is a clutch of snakes with intents on the Central powers despite existing agreements. A foreshadowing of their arrangements at the secret 1915 Treaty of London where they were promised land in exchange for involvement. It was heavily influenced by Italian Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra’s open policy of serving Italy’s self-interest (there’s a great quote where the notion of ‘divine self-interest’ is invoked, but I can’t dig it up unfortunately.)”

I really dig the Leviathan series. You should look it up.

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