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This was in the Goth tag.
Don’t look away. Take it, take the medicine.
The pain means it’s working.
Reblogged purely to make Amanda smile.
Now you see why my warnings against reading do not exclude comics.
I wish I could procreate with david vanian so we could have the Children of the Damned.
THAT’S WHY EMILY’S BLOND
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I heard you knew where vampires were.
I do keep a file of possible vampires, but haven’t found any covens yet.
From a modern sense (say 2005 and after) I tend to agree. It reinforces the ‘everything is goth’ and ‘goth is whatever you want it to be’ things. I’m amazed they haven’t added stuff like pastel goth and nu goth to it yet to be honest.
Plus it takes the emphasis off the music which is pretty silly as goth is a music subculture. Sure its grown and diversified in ways but the music is still the core.
Is it just me or are events in general polarising more and not playing industrial/EBM beside goth as much as it used to be done? Real goth events are focusing on real goth music and mixed genre events try to avoid the dreaded goth word. I see this as a good thing. While both are dark alternative only one is goth.
But lets look at it realistically. Most goths don’t stick to a single style anyway and that is why fashion is less important. Types of goth are irrelevant - you either are or you aren’t. Black or white. Shades of grey and splashes of colour are irrelevant as is the need to label everything exactly.
Plus it seems the terms perky goth and candy goth are used interchangeably now. Perky goth has nothing to do with fashion - its merely a goth who tends to be more upbeat and positive. In effect the opposite of mopey goth. At least thats what it meant in the 90s, back then a cyber goth was merely a goth who is on the internet a lot.
But people take terms, misinterpret them and twist their meaning. Then more people do the same, it spreads and suddenly you have everyone believing the term has always meant what the misinterpretation says, especially if a couple of prominent people who are considered ‘experts’ jump on board too.
Hell years ago the term ‘babybat’ wasn’t even a thing now people debate whether its a nice term or an insult.
But the biggest part people forget (or are too young to even know or remember) is that these descriptive labels of goths were originally made as a joke. A joke people now take seriously. Come on people! Why so gullible?!?
Because it is no joke and everyone should take it super seriously! Then you’ll all get so upset and frustrated that you’ll run to your nearest ambercrombie and fitch!
Mua ha ha ha!
And I’m still looking at Cave’s hair. Is that really his natural colour? He bursts out laughing. “I’ve been dyeing my hair since I was 16.”
What colour would it be? “I hate to think.”
What about the tache and sideboards? “You have a special little brush and stuff. Look, I’m a high-maintenance kind of guy.”
Will he ever stop dyeing his hair? God no, he says.
“No, I’ll dye it till I die.”
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Who knew Nick Cave was little Miss Scare-all? |
Listening to Joy Division, bauhaus and Christian Death. Me and my dad are driving this guy to a hospital out of town for his surgery and his daughter is with us. She asks to listen to my music, I tell her she probably won’t like it(she’s a girly 5 year old) and she tells me she loves my music. I’m creating a little baby Goth right now. :3
Awh. :3
YOU. BASTARD,
Ok, not for the driving a man out of town to his surgery part… that’s pretty generous, and not the part where you’re comforting and bonding with his daughter… that is incredibly sweet, BUT THE OTHER PART WHERE YOU CORRUPT THE CHILD!
