“When you’re late, caffeinated, and mildly radioactive:
‘Can I walk fast enough to activate my Flux Capacitor
Temporal travel is now available at a brisk pace.
Brian Lippincott, thank you for your suggestion, and I have more ideas to follow.
Walking didn’t quite cut it… so I upgraded to feline velocity.The
Flux Capacitor is now fully engaged because time waits for no gentleman.
“I’ve released the polarity…”
I reached out to you for your meme ideas, and some of you went even further and turned your ideas into reality (for lack of a better term) and went the full hog.
Thank you, Gary Stenning, for your contribution of the great Dr Who Tardis-themed steampunk meme.
Temporal Rift? Again?
Tidy your cuffs. One cannot time-travel with wrinkled sleeves.
This image was created with the assistance of machines far too polite to take credit. No paradoxes were harmed in the making.
Facebook, 13th May 2025
In this meme titled “Temporal Rift? Again?”, we are introduced to a quintessentially composed Victorian gentleman calmly adjusting his cuffs while a swirling temporal rift looms ominously behind him. The contrast between chaotic time anomalies and his unwavering sense of decorum plays into the humour of steampunk culture — where refinement and absurdity coexist in perfect harmony.
This piece pokes fun at the idea of repeated time-travel emergencies being met not with panic, but with sartorial composure. The caption, “Tidy your cuffs. One cannot time travel with wrinkled sleeves,” satirises the obsession with appearance and etiquette often found in both Victorian society and modern cosplay subcultures. It’s not just a visual gag — it’s a manifesto for the chronologically adventurous: dignity first, even when the timeline collapses.
The underlying joke is a love letter to the steampunk aesthetic, which blends high-stakes sci-fi tropes with genteel manners, impeccable tailoring, and a touch of British absurdity. Whether facing tea shortages or tachyon surges, proper attire is non-negotiable.
This meme sits comfortably within the “Steampunk Composure Protocol” series, where formality always trumps chaos.
“Warning: Activating this lamp may summon alternate timelines.”
Perfect for timekeepers, chaos engineers, or anyone who thinks standard table lamps are cowardly.
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Image assembled with the assistance of curious contraptions and questionable algorithms. No artisans were harmed. Probably.
Facebook 10th May 2025
The image is a digitally rendered steampunk-style composition that mimics a real-world object. It features a chaotic, industrial background of dark metal pipes, valves, and gauges, suggesting a complex, old-fashioned machine.
In the foreground, there is an ornate, retro-futuristic steampunk device. It consists of a large, glowing Edison-style light bulb housed in a metal cage on top of a boxy mechanism with brass gears, knobs, and switches. Below this, there is a digital clock display made of glowing, orange Nixie tubes that shows the time “02:38”.
Mounted on the wall behind the device is a plaque with text that adds to the humorous, meme-like nature of the image. The text reads:
❖ COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY❖
COUNTDOWN:
02:38
PREPARE FOR
UNEXPECTED
VICTORIAN
HIJINKS”
The meaning of the meme is to set up a humorous, impending event. The serious, dramatic tone of “COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY” is undercut by the playful and absurd outcome of “UNEXPECTED VICTORIAN HIJINKS.” The image is a lighthearted joke about the genre of steampunk itself, taking its dramatic, intricate machinery and applying it to a trivial, funny outcome. The fact that the Nixie tube clock is a real, available product on Etsy adds another layer of a real-world object being transformed into a meme, blurring the lines between a product, a piece of art, and a joke.
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Original caption.
I came to stop a catastrophe. I stayed for the air fryers!
Meme created with the help of ChatGPT AI.
A meme concerning time travel, but as I am typing this entry, I have realised that I haven’t explained that fact so well. The fact that the chaps were dressed in Victorian garb and the meme was posted as intended on a Steampunk-themed page. OH well, maybe it needs work. But one of the originals. 😀
Tea has been spilled. Corsets misplaced. Goats… unaccounted for.
And now—at last—the chaos is being properly filed.
The Steampunk Meme Logbook is the official archive of our long-running meme misadventures, previously confined to the aetheric scrolls of Facebook. Here you’ll find a chronological record of original steampunk memes: visual nonsense, poetic ramblings, etiquette violations, time machine failures, and the occasional airship cat.
This site exists for:
Posts may include commentary, behind-the-scenes notes, and updated formatting for proper digital preservation (and SEO, naturally). The tone? Somewhere between a ship’s log, a public scandal, and a penny dreadful gone slightly feral.
🗂️ Start with the earliest log entries and follow along as the nonsense escalates.
Welcome aboard.
Mind the gears. And never trust Jenkins with the kettle.
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