Key City Steampunk Festival 2019

07 09, 19

So we headed east to Key City Steampunk Festival to see how they do steampunk in Maryland. Lets see, let’s start with the magic hat, and no fewer than three pictures to explain it:

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First, the presentation. Second, turn the crank. Third, scary fuzzy Cthulhu pops out!

Now, how about some costumes?

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Yep, Loads of Amazing Costumes!

Unfortunately, we didn’t get many pictures of the phenomenon that shows the difference of our usual west coast from the east coast. Out west we have a lot of wild west outfits and pirate cross-over. On the east coast, they have a lot of fairy cross-over. We saw an incredible number of costumes with wings, many of them with real feathers. And really wide wings were the hot ticket, apparently.

Gloriously creative and hilarious gadgets? Check. By the way, Key City Steampunk Festival is heavily maker-oriented. It’s a good place to get makery ideas.

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Sure We Know What All of These Are

We even saw some familiar faces. It was wonderful to see Katie Radebaugh (and her dad, whom we met for the first time). We miss Katie’s warm presence out west. You east coast steampunks should count yourselves lucky to have her…for now. We’re going to be wanting her back.

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Drake, Katie’s Dad, Katie, and Sparky

Half of The Eternal Frontier, Professor Adam Smasher, was there. We’re hoping to see the two of them together again soon because their first-rate shenanigators, our kind of people.

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In Red is Professor Adam Smasher

Hutsell? Check. Wait, what? Yep, apparently you can’t hardly go to a steampunk convention without a Hutsell. This one is Heather; she’s an author too.

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Heather Hutsell showing Off the Books She Authored

We also entertained and vended as usual and made a few new fans. Because we traveled, we didn’t have our full booth set up. But we had a really good spot right near registration and made good use of it. We even had someone come by and do a dramatic reading of the introduction to London, Where It All Began. She was quite good.

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