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Steampunk Journal is extremely proud to present the newest project to go into development:
The Hellfire Club
(infernus omnia recipit)
Hellfire Club is a subscription based website linked to Steampunk Journal where readers can apply for exclusive membership that gives them unrestricted access to a large gallery of photographs unique to the website. The Hellfire Club will specialise in art nude portraiture in a steampunk style and feature both male and female models.
Investors will be able to support the development of the site through a crowdfunding campaign which is currently being arranged. This landing page is merely to register yourself as an interested party. It won’t take any money off of you or hold you to any promises. You will receive a number of emails updating you on what is going on with the project as it develops.
In order to register, simply fill in the field at the bottom of this page.
Censorship is removed in the Hellfire Club
Additional information:
What is a Hellfire Club?
Hellfire Clubs began in the 17th century. They were places where the upper class could go and indulge in behaviour not really befitting that of a society built on etiquette, manners and strict moral codes. They continue to this day, mostly in Ireland. It’s unlikely they have the same activities as their predecessors. There’s little known about the clubs because the original creators were so discreet. Clubs are usually connected to Universities.
What is steampunk?
This is an interesting question and there’s a saying in the culture that if you ask 10 steampunks to define steampunk, you’ll get 100 different answers. There’s no steady hard and fast “this is steampunk” rule because it’s so diverse and all welcoming. Steampunks share an appreciation of the late 19th century. Britain, it’s colonies and in parts of the infant USA knew this as the Victorian era.
Steampunk is a literary subgenre of Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk can be illustrated easily with films such as Bladerunner and Dune. The name “steam punk” was a tongue-in-cheek suggestion by the author KW Jeter in a letter to Locus magazine in 1987. He derived the name from Cyberpunk but adapted it to incorporate the main propulsion system of the era that it emulated. Steampunk – like Cyberpunk – has a large dollop of science fiction. If I were to describe it, it would be how the Victorians of yesterday would look today using technology of tomorrow. But there’s been lots of other descriptions, for example: neo-victorianism, retro futurism and victorian science fiction.
No one way of describing it is wrong. That’s because it’s personal to you and how you experience it. Steampunk has been illustrated very well in popular mainstream films such as Wild Wild West, Hugo and Steamboy. For more information, Steampunk Journal has multiple posts dedicated to cutting through the ambiguous descriptions of steampunk. Feel free to read the Guidelines of Steampunk for more information.
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