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minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·11 months agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 months agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·11 months agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-squareShapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months 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-down1·11 months agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
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.