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Imaginary Steampunk🔒
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Steampunk Art - Brass, Leather, and Cogs
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I just realized this can be considered "not imaginary" but... it's SO GOOD! :)
Feel free to remove, as always.
i don't know, i was contemplating it
but i did somewhat anticipate this just encompassing the content that would normally be posted to !steampunk@lemmy as that doesn't exist yet
goddammit you're making me think again crul i hate thinking
I see it as a place for sharing art and not "drawings" so I say 100% allow this type of content as long it's quality.
Oops :D, I can only say that it wasn't on purpose. By (my subjective) definition I consider all steampunk to be imaginary because it's an invented aesthetic that never was a real thing.
But I can also see why a "real object" can be viewed as non-imaginary. As others have said, it's up to you to decide.
i mean, i guess it is technically an art piece so it scrapes by. and also because there's currently no better lemmysphere for it and it's cool
but i don't think it'd wash in, say, !imaginarywastelands
no-one has said that but you (unless you mean martineski; and i tend to do the opposite of anything he says)
Drawings, sculptures, models etc. fit imo as long it's quality art. But it's really up to the head mod to decide what he wants to have here.