Phlogistical Lightsabers?

[andygates]

Yup, it's Steampunk Starwars.  Does it work?  I'm not so sure, but a clockwork Vader makes me smile.

Comments

[jonnycowbells.livejournal.com]

Some people's innate wit and coolness just transcend their geekdom:

"He boasts that of all the men he's shot, not a single one was able to shoot first"

I do think, however, that the dog in the hat should have had a cross-bow.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That much is true. Good hat, though. I rather look forward to Crimean-style Stormtroopers...

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why that's witty. Why is that witty? It just looks grammatically dodgy to me.

[jonnycowbells.livejournal.com]

It's a sly reference to George Lucas' 'special edition' and the way he made Greedo shoot first.

Well, I assume it's a sly reference. I've been wrong before.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I'm just SO not geeky enogh to get that.

Or even care!

;)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Han shot first.

It's a cult out there. Google it. If you can stand the tortured wails of poor thirtysomethings who just don't like the latest movies and frankly overrate the first three, and whose reaction to you saying "They're just movies, dammit" would be blank incomprehension.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

That's not transcending geekdom.

That's ineffably sad.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

It's the favicon that does it.

http://www.hanshootsfirst.org/

[andygates.livejournal.com]

No, it's the petition.

The favicon is fannish in the extreme. It's the right blaster. But the petition... oy veh, my Universal Hero already.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

That's cool. Even I like that and I don't get all moist over steampunk the way you do.