Steampunk, in its many and sundry forms, evokes a feeling of an alternate 19th century world where high technology is built from low materials, where grand ideals are expressed in simple actions, where outrageous theories are common truth.
Essentially, where modern technology, sensibilities, and desires are expressed with artful craftsmanship, creative fashions, and engaging entertainment. It is a world of anachronism, physically, philosophically, and behaviorally.
often in but not limited to Victorian England, and including real world devices created ahead of their time and/or imaginary devices based on prevailing theories of the era and/or prevalent ideas of the supernatural.
