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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year 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-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·1 year agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-squareShapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
minus-squareanyhow2503@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
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.
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)
Where does the white colonialism factor in.