Indeed, we were both quite honored that someone should chose us to name two suggested subgenres of dieselpunk after, and we elaborated on that concept in the article we co-wrote. “Self-pleasure”? Perhaps. But I’d like to think steampunk is about having some fun, and a little bombast should be understood as irony, not taken in all seriousness.

I hope you were at least able to appreciate the rest of our publication, and, if you’d care to discuss this further, would like to invite you to the message board partly dedicated to the Gazette, that is, the “Smoking Lounge,” found at http://www.ottens.co.uk/lounge/ for I’d rather not disrupt the fine atmosphere here at the Brass Goggles blog with a debate.

I suppose my opinionated response could have been more timely, however I plead ignorance, having just found this site.

I challenge anyone who has read the first article in this Gazette, to convince me that it exists for any reason other than self-pleasure of the (undoubtedly multiple) personalities who were responsible for its submission. After having sampled the pseudo-intellectual bolus emitted from our “Ottensian and Piecraftian” authors, it would take gallons of Otto Diesel’s finest brew to wash away the saccharine and self-congratulatory aftertaste left in my “Pieholian” orifice.

I do swear, on my brass balls, that should I find serious references to Ottensian and Piecraftian sub-genres, I will dis-avow the Steam/Diesel-Punk community for all time and turn my pursuits to more “McCraftian” adventures!

Hakujin McCrafty
Occidentalist, Inventor, Adventurer