Steam-Powered Social Networks: A Manifesto
Imagine if likes were brass tokens, manually delivered by pneumatic tube. Would we be more thoughtful about our digital applause? A meditation on meaningful connection.
Lady Millicent Sterling
15 min read
Reflective Essays from Our Philosophical Parlour
Where brass gears meet brainy discourse. Explore how our pink-steampunk world mirrors, mocks, and reimagines modern anxieties through thoughtful analysis and whimsical speculation.
What if our digital communications followed Victorian calling card protocols? An exploration of privacy, propriety, and personal boundaries through pastel-tinted goggles.
By Professor Algernon Brassfield
December 15, 2024 • 12 min read
Imagine if likes were brass tokens, manually delivered by pneumatic tube. Would we be more thoughtful about our digital applause? A meditation on meaningful connection.
Lady Millicent Sterling
15 min read
How cotton-candy hues challenge the masculine coding of mechanical spaces. An examination of gender, color theory, and the radical act of painting gears pink.
Captain Rosalind Gearwright
18 min read
When everything happens now, what becomes of patience? Exploring how Victorian time-keeping rituals might restore rhythm to our breathless digital dance.
Dr. Cornelius Tickworth
20 min read
If Victorian inventors had created social media, would brass telescopes peer into our parlours? A speculative history of privacy and its pink-tinted future.
Professor Algernon Brassfield
16 min read
How the restrictive becomes the generative. Drawing parallels between Victorian fashion and modern programming paradigms through a steampink lens.
Ada Brassington
14 min read
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