things I've been told vs. partytime in my bloomers

If someone tells you that steampunks have to wear lots of brown and glue gears to their hats and have very good posture and sip tea with their pinky fingers sticking out and anyway, they're a bunch of stuffy jerks who live in sepia and don't have any fun …

… kindly reply with your middle finger.

I reject your reality and replace it with my own!

[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]