minus-square@RizzRustboltlink16•10 months agoSteampunk asks the question, “what if there was more white colonialism in history?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•10 months agoNot sure how you get that, because it’s either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-210 months agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•10 months agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-square@Shapillonlink6•10 months agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
Steampunk asks the question, “what if there was more white colonialism in history?”
Not sure how you get that, because it’s either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.
Yeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
I know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
Where does the white colonialism factor in.
Kind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
It was an observation. Not a complaint.
Tbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream.
(e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
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