Logbook Entry #008 – Tentacle Diplomacy Protocols

What’s your steampunk solution to unexpected sea monsters?

Drop it below

Deploying the diplomacy Kraken again… Or never mind the tentacles…?

Visuals are conjured with the help of machines. No krakens were harmed (or negotiated with) in the making of this image.

Facebook, 13th May 2025;

A steampunk-style etched illustration of a chaotic scene where a man in Victorian attire releases a large pigeon from a cylindrical canister marked “broadband.” In the background, another character appears alarmed by questionable events. The style is darkly whimsical and deliberately surreal.

Observed anomaly:

Unidentified leviathan encountered in the lower fog banks of the Thames-Sargasso Channel.

Standard torpedo etiquette is deemed insufficient.

Protocol Theta-8 enacted: Deploy the emergency diplomacy kraken.

Results: inconclusive, but impressively dramatic.

Meme context:

Originally posted to Facebook with the prompt:

🧭 What’s your steampunk solution to unexpected sea monsters?

The replies included everything from polite cannon-fire to “ask if it’s read Jules Verne.”

This image represents one of the more… tactile approaches.

Text reads:

“Deploying the emergency diplomacy kraken again.

Some days call for torpedoes. Other days call for tentacles.”

Because sometimes, even in steampunk diplomacy, things get grabby.