Steampunk
Absinthe, La Fée Verte, The Green Fairy. So-called because late Victorians drank this stuff and claimed to have hallucinations. In truth, it was likely that the hallucinations, if any, were caused by toxic chemicals put in the drink to turn it as green as possible. Thujone was thought to be a psychoactive compound found in [...]
Brass, brass, wonderful brass. It’s Victorian and steampunk and all industrial-revolutiony. Let’s build a rod-logic brass analytical engine! A hundred years from now, someone will take this design and actually build it, putting it in a museum as “an example of an early 21st century computation device in the style of the alternate-reality subgenre known [...]
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