#atompunk fashion

[spacenoirdetective]

Hubert Rogers, "Astounding Science Fiction", July 1940

I'm going to give this cover massive props for their outfits, which look like they're going to Burning Man with some silver lame nighties and kitchy Rudolph antlers. That dude's headcap says he is ready to bottom NOW. The fish are also a nice touch.

[thegoddessprose]

It's been a while since I've made some pictures of just Chiasa, so here you are. The theme here seems to be Sci-Fi... Honestly fitting for a former stylist for District 3.

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[artfromsaturn]

Oh! I remembered to post art! 🎊

Was watching MST3k's Rocky Jones episodes, ended up going for a digital gouache atompunk look. I'm a giant sucker for early sci-fi and space aesthetics that make no sense. :D

[infiniteartmachine]

a painting of a woman in a space suit holding a knife

[popfishjr]

Okay, but we REALLY need more punk aesthetics out there.

Like, there's steampunk and cyberpunk yes.

But everyone is ignoring the potential that hydropunk, biopunk, dieselpunk, atompunk and raypunk has

Theres so much fashion for steampunk, but I FEEL LIKE CYBERPUNK LACKS THE CYBERPUNK CLOTHING?

And wheres the hydropunk fashion, huh?

This is probably just me being weird but i really want to explore this side of fashion and aesthetics more

[racefortheironthrone]

There's a lot of punks out there like cyberpunk, steam punk, and etc. If you had to invent a punk, what would it be?

See, I think between Clockpunk, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk, the "punk punk" genre space has a pretty comprehensive list of referents when it comes to time periods, fashions and artistic movements, and the main technologies of the day. So I don't know a new "punk" necessarily need to be added to the list.

Rather, I would argue that the genre needs to pay more attention to the political/cultural referents that give rise to the "punk" half - because I get annoyed when I see authors ignore the actual socioeconomic and political conflicts of the periods in question in favor of a kind of presentist social liberalism on the part of the protagonists without explalining why and how they came to this position, and then just move on very perfunctorarily from the worldbuilding.

[austin-meowers]

a list of hyperfixations i have had over the years

current/ lifelong

winnie the pooh

vampires

obsolete technology

halloween

cryptids

retrofuturism/ googie architecture/ raygun gothic/ atompunk

late 90s/early 2000s fashion (y2k, mcbling, scemo, streetwear)

my chemical romance

nirvana (band)

minecraft

0-5

thomas the tank engine

cars (the movie)

hello kitty

6-10

pirates of the caribbean (especially lego)

pirates in general

american girl dolls (catalogues specifically)

hippie subculture/ 1960s-70s fashion and culture

adventure time

11-13

harry potter (books)

cults/ serial killers (i was fascinated by their psychology i did not idolize them)

monster high dolls

napolean dynamite (movie)

"day in my life" vids on youtube ( i was obsessed with figuring out how to be "normal")

emergency preparedness (evacuation routes, first aid kits, etc)

the simpsons

14-16

dan and phil

supernatural (show)

early 90s fashion (grunge)

history of punk (decline of western civilisation)

futurama

the sopranos

17-19

1950s american idealism (american dream, nuclear families, car culture)

tourism industry in beach towns

record stores (specifically a few local ones)

the big lebowski (movie)

bobs burgers

[the-l-spacer]

Dors-12 and Bayta-14 for the character ask?

12 (for Dors): What's a headcanon you have for this character?

Ooh I think that she’s asexual and demiromantic - she always assumed that physical intimacy was something people did out of like. obligation and when she realises that sexual attraction is a Thing she literally short circuits (and Hari panics and has to call Daneel for help)

14 (for Bayta): Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

YAYYYYY BAYTA!!!!! Thanks for asking abt her shes fr one of my faves even if I don’t talk that much about her dndbmfbfn

Anyways I’ve always imagined the foundationers (in the early, pre-Trevize years) to have kinda atompunk fashion, a little like the aesthetics in the Jetsons?

I think Bayta could rock any one of these lol

Character ask game!

[ntls-24722]

i may have gotten pretty silly today

So one thing about Comet is that he isn't an OC of DJMM, he's the DJMM from an alternate universe of SB. However said AU is so convoluted in lore and weird shit and so much disconnection from SB and FNAF in general that he's more of an OC at this point.

like for reference I've had Comet/SOS(AU where comet comes from) for a little over a year now and only today have i thought about literally the entire rest of the Security Breach cast.

AND I'M SO GLAD I DID!!! THESE GUYS GO HARD!!

The plex is actually wholly atompunk/spacethemed and directed for more mature audiences, with the band's "story" being that Freddy, the last bear alive along with his best friend Chica, are space cadets stuck on Mars and face off with Roxy the Robot and Monty the Martian, who want to eat them in typical martian fashion, but eventually befriend them in order to get back home. Their shows are less concerts but outright small musicals.

Freddy is a bit more stupid than his Glamrock counterpart but he still means well, even though he's a bit of a coward initially.

Chica is more adventurous and more mission-focused than her glamrock counterpart but she still sometimes gets carried away from her objective.

Roxy is still arrogant but she's much more reserved than she is in SB. However, she's also dripping with sarcasm and I realize she's kind of like Karen from Spongebob, except a little scarier.

Monty is... pretty much the same actually. He does lean into appearing more scary, though.

The Daycare attendant, since, yknow, he's already the sun and moon, in this AU he's actually the attendant for a planetarium exhibit in the plex. He appears monotone, but his job is to get to infodump about stars and planets and how cool space is, so he's actually pretty excited about that.

Then there's Comet. He's still a DJ in the West Arcade (I dont draw him with his headphones since I usually draw him in the state he left the Plex), but he also works as a stagehand, and composes the music for the band.

Interestingly, the "Bouncer Mode" feature of his isn't experimental - It's fully developed and comes in use, escorting out patrons from the plex for whatever trouble they've found themselves in. And with other strange things about him, he comes from a seperate company that Fazbear entertainment regularly collaborates and works alongside, and has his own mechanics that come every week to check on him, one of those mechanics actually being Vanessa, who plays a drastically different role here.

Though, there's another animatronic too - @artastic-friend's Rudy!

I've actually been meaning to draw your little guy for a while now! He's very silly

[deafmangoes]

It's a real minor gripe but the number of folk who conflate steampunk, dieselpunk, cyberpunk and atompunk/raygun gothic together as if they're interchangeable is maddening to me. So here's my rough guide:

Steampunk

- Your core technology is the steam engine, with an allowance for clockwork.

- Everything runs on coal, gas and oil. Things are analogue.

- The aesthetic is largely Victorian/industrial/colonial, with gothic designs competing against neo-classical, and the marriage of "foreign" with "domestic". Expect wars between empires, the twilight days of royalty and the Gentleman Adventurer.

Dieselpunk

- Your core technology is the internal combustion engine.

- Everything runs on oil, petrol and gas. Analogue is still king, but electrics are taking off. Nothing is digital - yet.

- Your aesthetic is distinctly American and capitalist, wildly optimistic, blind to the writing on the wall. Particularly the Roaring 20s, with Art Deco and Art Nouveau the two major drivers of fashion. "Foreign" styles are out of place, an eccentricity. It's sweeping romance, crminal intrigue and noir.

Cyberpunk

- Your core technology is computers, the network, the Internet, the digital world.

- Everything runs on electricity, and nobody gives a shit where it comes from. Everything is digital, even the people. Analogue is for the rich and the weird.

- Your aesthetic is capitalism run wild, and it has stripped away anything that can't be marketed or profited from. Culture is homogenous and stale, or tribal and feral. Conspiracies, corporate wars, humanity on (or past) the brink.

Atompunk/Raygun Gothic

- Your core technology is nuclear power.

- What little isn't electric is run directly by radiation. Clunky robots dominate. Computers are here but primitive, and most things are still analogue or partly digital.

- Your aesthetic is 50s Americana or the general feel of the Cold War. Happy suburban lives hide a cancerous paranoia that poisons every element of society like the radiation it sits on. No one's hopeful about the future. Everyone's on drugs. Culture is packaged and sold by corporations barely held in check by an incompetent, war-hungry government.

Of course you can mix and match elements of all this and play around with them as much as you like, I'm not your Mum, but they're different feelings - don't stick some gears on it and call it steampunk.

[innsyn]

Powerclash is a steampunk world-building and writing project that's open to anyone. There are no stupid questions, so today we're looking at:

What is steampunk?

Why pick steampunk for this project.

So... I've heard the word before, but what exactly is steampunk?

That’s a good question, because not everybody means the same thing.

Some people consider steampunk to be a ‘literary genre’ - often described as “Victorian Science Fiction” - and while the Victorian era and early sci-fi are certainly big influences, that doesn’t really cover it.

Film played just as large a role in the development of steampunk as literature, and it's now a label covering games, fashion and music. It's definitely not just a literary genre.

There are plenty of steampunk works set before and after the Victorian era - or in parts of the Earth (or entirely fictional worlds) where Victoria’s reign was irrelevant.

Loads of iconic steampunk works have more in common with fantasy than sci-fi

Other people get hung-up on the specific words - it’s not real steampunk unless it’s got steam-technology on it, or it’s not proper steampunk unless it’s got a punk ethos behind it. But the name has always been catchy branding - riffing off cyberpunk - rather than a particularly appropriate descriptor. Neither steam nor punk are actually essential. 

Attempts to try and define it further by narrow time periods and type of technology - dieselpunk, atompunk, gaslamp fantasy, etc - miss the point that steampunk is about remixing history AND science AND fantasy into something new. You don’t need a different label for each new combination - they’re all flavours of steampunk.

I like the definition outlined by the Steampunk Scholar (Mike Perschon). He argues convincingly that steampunk is more akin to a style than a genre, which is why it has translated to films, games and fashion so successfully.

Perschon highlights the three hallmarks of the steampunk style:

Hyper-vintage (evocative of the pre-digital but post-Renaissance past in broad and fanciful ways)

Techno-Fantasy (looks like science but works like magic)

Retrofuturism (how we imagine the past imagining the future)

If a story ticks two of those three boxes, it can probably be called steampunk. That doesn’t mean it can’t be called other things too, of course. Steampunk is an adjective you can tag onto anything. Steampunk adventure. Steampunk romance. Steampunk RPG. Steampunk hat.

Powerclash is a steampunk project.

Why pick steampunk for this project?

I didn’t sit down at the start of this project and specifically decide to create a steampunk world.

The idea of the overarching plot - a global battle royale with superpowers - came first.

The part about the secret alien symbiotes who were behind it all - that landed second.

Third was the concept that this was an alt-history version of Earth, with multiple branching points - from Pangea breaking up differently, through to the outbreak of the choke epidemic.

At this stage, it didn’t feel very steampunk - I’d have said it was a sci-fi concept.

I was tempted to set it in the far future, but because advanced technology would offer solutions similar to some of our character’s superpowers, it felt like there’d be less influence associated with the powers and it would be too easy for civilians to take control of the Powerclash.

I didn’t want to set it in a modern world, because the project is already focused on characters with unique individual superpowers - a modern setting would make it far too derivative of the contemporary Marvel/DC estates. 

Similarly, I didn’t want to set it too far in the past, such as the mediaeval or renaissance period, because I wasn’t aiming for a classic sword and sorcery fantasy.

That landed me in the appropriate time period bracket for steampunk; post-renaissance, but pre-digital. And because it’s an alternative timeline Earth, where we’re free to mess-around with any sense of historical accuracy - it fits neatly into this concept of ‘hyper-vintage’.

At this point we get to technology. I wanted this to be a global story, with characters drawn from all corners of the planet, but they needed to get close and interact for drama to happen. So I needed to give them easy access to means of travelling around the world relatively quickly. I needed boats, trains and flying machines - staples of the steampunk aesthetic. 

Thinking of alt-history vehicles and machines really sparked my imagination. What if an outside force (such as our secret aliens) stopped these humans from taming electricity, or refining oil? How might other technologies have been refined if they weren’t replaced? It quickly became an essential part of the project. I was seeing beautifully mad clockwork and steam contraptions, many of which would need a helping hand to defy physics. I didn’t want to lean too far into outright techno-fantasy: no creating magical new energy sources or implausible materials - this is still supposed to be a realistic-adjacent alternative Earth. But we can certainly lean into that gap of what makes it ‘alternative’ and imagine geological, biological and cultural variations which could result in different resources for these people to work with. It may be a bit subtler than aether powered flapters, or adamantium claws, but it’s still an excuse for why X which wouldn’t work on our Earth, work here. It’s still techno-fantasy.

Having hit two of the three hallmarks, I had to admit that Powerclash was now a steampunk project.

But was it retrofuturist? Had I completed the steampunk clean sweep?

So far - no. Neither the overall concept, nor the worldbuilding as developed to date, are concerned with how the people of a specific time imagined the future. But that’s not to say that individual stories written within the Powerclash universe couldn’t tick that final box one day!

I didn't pick steampunk for the project - I just set about developing the concept, and then one day it stood up and told me that it was steampunk now - and I couldn't be prouder.

[affableboar-zero]

So I know I haven't posted much about these guys (yet) but I decided tonight to design a bunch of Parallel U characters in different punk aesthetics and I made it into an actual AU so here's what I have so far

Valerie (Atompunk)

Similar to her Parallel U counterpart, she's a part of a group of soldiers that managed to survive Nuclear Fallout. Her adopted mother is the leader of this group and assigns Valerie on a sentry job, basically acting as the base's police. She has a funky ray gun and a holographic hand-held ax that works similarly to a Lightsaber. She also writes poetry and acts as a sort of detective for the group and the base. She wants to go out and explore the ruins a bit more but after her first mission out gave her an x-scar across her face, her mother basically banned her from going out again.

Proxima (Solarpunk)

Absolutely living her best life, Proxima is being trained to be a Garden-Keeper. She loves plants and animals and spends her time learning about the species of plants and flowers in her assigned Garden, and she likes going for walks to see the foliage. She also likes to stargaze, often charting down constellations and documenting super moons and meteor showers or comets. She loves working outside and has a whole closet full of dresses and hats. She also likes stained-glass window art and wants to get into it more. Her obsession with the Gardens and plants do tend to alienate her since many see it as a way of life rather than the best part of life.

Zion (Hopepunk)

In their universe, Zion is his hometown's very own Magical Girl. After finding a gauntlet with a mystical gemstone inside of it, she gained the ability to transform, but also to see the real world and how people, including himself, we being mind controlled. So they set out to try and save the world with the power of the queers, the sun and the moon, and friendship.

Ezra (Cyberpunk)

Perhaps the one that didn't change at all, Ezra is still a bodyguard in this. Ezra is bodyguard to Erin, his sister, and he is his family's best hacker. Due to a raid that happened when he was younger, he ended up losing an arm and had to get it replaced with a mechanical one. Now Ezra works as a spy and assassin to his family. He also knows a lot of Parkour, despite the fact that his younger sister is undoubtedly better at it than him. (Almost exactly the same as Parallel U Ezra but like we speedran his trauma)

Oliver (Gothpunk/Gothicpunk)

Now here was one that was a complete deviation from the canon counterpart. In this timeline, Oliver's family specializes in fashion, specifically for celebrities. When Oliver was about 10, his family made a set of outfits for a Gothic band, and Oliver became obsessed with the style. As he got older, he also learned he had a passion and talent at the drums, and started a band of his own. He knows how to do makeup, pick the right outfit for you, and because he also wants to be a gymnast, he's surprisingly fit. And he knows how to walk in heels and stitch together clothes.

[wisteria-songs]

A Fallout ramble but this time a headcanon about the general world. this has to do with world building and stuff.

So pre-war Fallout takes place in 2077, 132 years after WW2 when Atompunk is inspired and this world starts using nuclear energy. My headcanon is about the time between 1945 and 2077 mostly using the fashion as evidence and partially the music.

So we all know that fashion is evolving every day and there is no reasonable or possible way that the vintage styles has stayed with the entirety of America for 132 years. I think that the fashion adapted a lot like how real life did. I have two theories on how this could. have happened.

First one is around the time the in game war with Communist China and their allies was being threatened, the US once again put most of the resources into the military making the rest of fashion, regress into clothing that requires less resources meaning dresses and tighter clothing once again got popular.

My second theory for the change to vintage clothing styles is the US wanted to be able to control the people more and to make it easier they started with fashion, in dystopias you see a lot of the government controlling the fashion as part of controlling individuality.

Now the music in the fallout games. It would make sense that music from that era was preserved because they were all on records and the wastelanders found in tact records and found ways to play them on radio. Real world has a lot of our music on the internet instead of vinyls and records despite being able to buy them on those. I would assume it was the same once the fallout universe went to holotapes. The pre war modern music was lost because the lack of internet and holotapes not being accessible because I doubt that other than the super rare live terminal and the Pip-Boys in the post war world not a lot of things, like CDs and holotapes, would be able to be played even if they were found.

[theabstruseone]

I also personally blame steampunk for softening the word "punk" to just mean "style". Cyberpunk was called that because it was "cyber" as in the cutting edge of technology and "punk" as anti-authority rebellion. Very specifically, it was anti-capitalist because of the message against megacorporations having unchecked power over culture and people's lives (glad that warning was heeded *eyeroll*)

Then computers took a slightly different turn that cyberpunk predicted so a lot of it feels more "retro-neon" than "five minutes in the future"...and along comes a new subgenre about faux-Victorian steam-based advanced technology and someone thought "Hey, it's like cyberpunk but steam! Let's call it 'steampunk'!" And it became a genre all about the fashion with characters hobnobbing with famous people and the wealthy and nobility and taking fantastic adventures on expensive airships - y'know, the exact opposite of anything "punk".

Then "-punk" started getting used as a suffix to mean "fashion in the style of". Dieselpunk, solarpunk, atompunk, etc. etc. Fuck, I saw a TTRPG about being literal punk rockers in the late 1970s rebelling against the cops labeled (not by the designers) as "punkpunk".

Punk is rebellion. Punk is DIY. Punk is community organizing and collective action. Punk is not a goddamn fashion label.

PS. Goth and Emo both spawned from the punk scene so all of the above applies there too.

Actually I'll never forgive Punk Rave and Killstar and fast fashion brands for tricking people into thinking that being goth or punk or emo is expensive. Babygirl the only goth brand names you need to know are Rit, Good Will, Etsy, and Studs and Spikes, we used to shove safety pins through our ears and then they started selling earrings that look like safety pins for 15.99. We used to dye thrifted wedding dresses black and they started selling gothic gowns for 300 bucks. We used to put studs on boots we found in the back of the good will and they started making Demonias. DIY or die wasn't perfect it can be exclusionary to disabled people but whatever the fuck we've got going on right now is so much worse. It's not any more inclusive to the disabled and it is exclusionary to the people who made punk, to the people who made goth, to the people who made emo. If you've got the funds and you don't want to do diy pay someone else to do it for you but please let it be a small artist or a friend not some guy in a suit who's made it his business to gentrify punk. You can turn flats into platforms with flipflops, hotglue and gumption don't let anyone tell you different.

[infiniteartmachine]

a woman in a purple dress is dancing in the city

[chick-kin-nuggets]

hello! if you don't mind, i would quite like to request a fashion kit for a citizen of tomorrowland metropolis (magic kingdom, disney world)! if my source isn't one you can do, that is more than alright and i do apologize! otherwise, i would love the fashion kit to include retrofuturist/atompunk, techwear, and cyberprep aesthetics! my style is very androgynous, but slightly masc leaning- no skirts or dresses, if you don't mind. i do hope you're well! - @citizenoftmrrwlnd

I sat on this one for a long time, and I’m really sorry to have to deny it. I had a really hard time finding clothing. If you know of and could send some stores or sites you know of for those styles, I would love to try again! In the meantime or if that’s not possible, I hope you or someone else can find what you want. Wish you the best.