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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Diesel Punk Goth Website

In 2018, which seems like forever ago, I wrote about a subclass of dieselpunk that I termed “Gothic Dieselpunk,” which I defined as “A subclass of Dark Dieselpunk that emphasizes the gothic or the macabre.” I will say that Gothic Dieselpunk is probably my favorite subclass, which should be evident by looking at my avatar in the About Me frame of this blog. 

In researching what to write, I found a website that I had bookmarked some time ago titled “Diesel Punk Goth.” I’m not sure how old the site is. The parent site is a website dedicated to the goth subculture. 

Diesel Punk Goth page focuses a lot on differentiating between steampunk and dieselpunk. Their descriptions of dieselpunk are generally good. The writer was either into dieselpunk or really did their research.

A major disappointment is that while the site references Diesel Punk Goth (i.e., Gothic Dieselpunk), it doesn’t spend much time on the Goth aspect. It doesn’t define the difference between “Diesel Punk” and “Diesel Punk Goth.” 

Another disappointing feature is that there are no images of Diesel Punk Goth. Let me include a few images that I would like to have seen:


One final critique of the page, and this is a minor one. While the page does a good job explaining dieselpunk and how it differs from steampunk, it spells the two genres oddly and inconsistently. Steampunk is at times spelled the standard “steampunk” while other times “Steam Punk.” And the use of the spelling “Diesel Punk” is bizarre.

I do recommend that you check out the website Diesel Punk Goth. If for no other reason, it does a good job explaining the difference between the genres and a good general explanation of dieselpunk.

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