Woot!

Well I'm still doing research for the other world I cooked up last weekend. So far I'm having a really hard time deciding exactly where I want these tribes to live. Plains, forest, mountains, near the sea, near the equator or far from it? *sigh* I dunno. And I want it to be mine. Not like other books I've read that had tribal type people. Grr. This is going to take a lot more research than I originally thought. Boo.
Anyway the exciting part is that I started watching The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and randomly wikipedia'd it. Apparently the original comic book by Alan Moore had elements of what they called steampunk. I'm at least aware of cyberpunk even though I'm not familiar with it. So I then clicked on that to see what wikipedia thought about that topic. (Yes at this point I'm very off task of what I originally was supposed to be researching, however these things tend to work out well for me. I was watching TV when the beginning of the muse story hit me.) I had kind of taken a break from the Xavier world let's call it because I was running into a problem with setting. I wanted it to be set in the future an alternate future kind of. But then I was like shit I'll have to deal with advanced technology. And honestly I don't want to have to get that creative and more advanced technology raises all kinds of questions, blah blah blah. A bunch of crap I don't want to deal with basically. Then I thought well I'll put it in the past then and make it an alternate history kind of thing. BUT!!! I wanted it to be modern too, because I want to raise questions about what's going on today. With global warming and world powers competing.... Anyway. NOW!!! If you look up steampunk its apparently a victorian setting with technology like todays but in victorian terms of steam power and clockworks. How cool?! Perfect for my world. Because it'll be modern day but not. The whole futuristic thing didn't have the right nostalgic kind of feel I wanted for certain things. Blah blah blah. Anyway. So I'm going to do some research on Victorian times. Maybe I can take a class on it! ...? or maybe not. I don't have to be an expert on it to be able to imagine it. So tonight's research came up with something useful. I love how these things tend to work themselves out over time.