The Steampunk Meme Logbook

A brass-bound record of chaos, corsets, and commentary.

Tag: time machine

A serious-looking Victorian man in a dark brown three-piece suit adjusts his cuffs with composed precision. Behind him, a glowing blue swirling temporal rift opens ominously. Caption reads: “TEMPORAL RIFT? AGAIN? Tidy your cuffs. One cannot time-travel with wrinkled sleeves.”

Time Travel Tip #42: Always Tidy Your Cuffs!

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On August 8, 2025

In Early memes

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

A serious-looking Victorian man in a dark brown three-piece suit adjusts his cuffs with composed precision. Behind him, a glowing blue swirling temporal rift opens ominously. Caption reads: “TEMPORAL RIFT? AGAIN? Tidy your cuffs. One cannot time-travel with wrinkled sleeves.”

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.

A close-up image of a steampunk-style Nixie tube clock with a glowing caged light bulb on top. A plaque behind it, surrounded by dark pipes and gauges, has a humorous caption. The Nixie tubes display "02:38", and the plaque reads: "COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY COUNTDOWN: 02:38 PREPARE FOR UNEXPECTED VICTORIAN HIJINKS".

Unleash Time Travel: Discover the Quirky Steampunk Lamp That Summons Alternate Timelines

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On August 4, 2025

In Early memes, Oddities you can own

“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

A close-up image of a steampunk-style Nixie tube clock with a glowing caged light bulb on top. A plaque behind it, surrounded by dark pipes and gauges, has a humorous caption. The Nixie tubes display "02:38", and the plaque reads: "COMMENCE CHAOTIC TIME-ANOMALY COUNTDOWN: 02:38 PREPARE FOR UNEXPECTED VICTORIAN HIJINKS".

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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I stayed for the air fryers!

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On July 19, 2025

In Early memes

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. 😀

Welcome post in image format

📜 Welcome to The Steampunk Meme Logbook

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On July 2, 2025

In Behind the Gears, Captain's Log

Welcome post in image format

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:

  • Longtime followers looking to revisit old favourites like The Corset Incident or The Laundry Chute Wormhole Theory
  • New readers curious about why Jenkins is always to blame
  • Search engines, who may appreciate that these are original, lightly toasted, and mostly coherent steampunk memes

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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