I'd wear it on my lapel, with the nice pocket watch on my vest and my jeweled monocle.
I know. I'm a slob. But I could change! I've been reading fantasy regency novels
Also, I've been wondering…there are a lot of steampunk novels out there, stories about alternative histories in which the industrial revolution leads to elaborate technologies involving mechanical gears and steam engines. Has anyone written any biopunk novels, where 19th century Europe is revolutionized by radical biological technologies? That would be fun.
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