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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8384179" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>You are correct, but I still think steampunk isn't a good fit for <em>Girl Genius</em> anyways. There's nothing related to the juxtaposition of punk attitudes and high (19th century) technology in GG. Nor much specifically urban, raw, ugly, obnoxious, disillusioned, or disenchanted about GG either. I guess there's a bit of 'rejecting the status quo and doing things your own way,' but only in that the protagonist is resisting following her ancestor's evil ways, the Baron's pragmatic despotism, marrying herself to a powerful family and uniting Europa under one of their banners, etc. She's as much punk as Daenerys Targaryen (hopefully with a better swansong). </p><p></p><p>Girl Genius is absolutely a fantasy, if by no other metric than it is a story of an woman from her timeframe forging her own destiny against some of the most powerful forces in the world, and the setting is the gaslamp era, technologically (with some wild leaps forward and back, as the storyline requires --there are a lot more crossbows and polearms than the real gaslamp era, and certainly more dimensional flux agitators ). It seems to fit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8384179, member: 6799660"] You are correct, but I still think steampunk isn't a good fit for [I]Girl Genius[/I] anyways. There's nothing related to the juxtaposition of punk attitudes and high (19th century) technology in GG. Nor much specifically urban, raw, ugly, obnoxious, disillusioned, or disenchanted about GG either. I guess there's a bit of 'rejecting the status quo and doing things your own way,' but only in that the protagonist is resisting following her ancestor's evil ways, the Baron's pragmatic despotism, marrying herself to a powerful family and uniting Europa under one of their banners, etc. She's as much punk as Daenerys Targaryen (hopefully with a better swansong). Girl Genius is absolutely a fantasy, if by no other metric than it is a story of an woman from her timeframe forging her own destiny against some of the most powerful forces in the world, and the setting is the gaslamp era, technologically (with some wild leaps forward and back, as the storyline requires --there are a lot more crossbows and polearms than the real gaslamp era, and certainly more dimensional flux agitators ). It seems to fit. [/QUOTE]
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