Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.47.6.95-20130609205603/@comment-5106672-20131019012757

TNOandXadric wrote: Could be a parallel (possibly steampunk-y?) universe that split off in the Victorian era and developed independently of us, so technology's different and fashions are more Victorianesque, but mental health care is much nicer than in the real Victorian era. Seems more plausible than a "permanent stasis" Victorian world, at any rate.

(If you don't mind my asking, why do you hate the books? Or is it just overexposure?) Yep, exactly because of overexposure. I think the Alice In Wonderland cliché is second only to Victoria Francés' vampires, it has totally gone out of hand. I've lost count of how many goth girls, from teenage up to their twenties, make up an "alice lost in the real world" persona online, with quotes and everything. Not to mention how many bands keep digging it up. By comparison, the low-budget-dandy-look-I'm-so-Dorian-Gray cliché I had built for myself is not even a cliché at all. I think Gwen Stefani, Kerli, the few references in OUAT and Kaori Yuki's works and Rushing Alice on my iPod are about as much as I can take of it.