>>98613735That's basically it.
Steampunk is an excuse to explore the industrial revolution and victorian england as a setting and the technological, sociological and cultural shifts therein through transparent metaphor and allegory without getting bogged down by postcolonial politics.
That's why ever reddit pseud reeeees about it, They forbid you from detailing that time period, even fictionally, without advancing a particular groupthink's political agenda.
