David Bowie dolls
Created by katyok on deviantart
Source your god damn art.
I’ve never had these feelings for dolls before…
… DAMN YOU, DAVID BOWIE!
That’s how I felt when people would assume I was a “fan” of Charles Manson.
Oh, you read me, I said “Charles.” Yeah, that is much worse.
With a childhood like this, i keep relapsing, but there’s hope…right? My 12 year old self and my family in 2002.
Whenever people started using the term “Nu-Goth” I pictured something like this; people who listen to NuMetal or have that look about them.
I’m so ancient that I can’t even keep up with the stuff I curmudgeonly complain about anymore.
Too far gone to recover?
Here’s a before, early photo, partially recovered, and fully relapsed set of photos. I’m probably a lost cause at this point. It must have been the trauma of my childhood haircut that made me this way.  
Its like watching a Cancer spread over you, if Cancer was cute.
I lived through the 80’s as well, mullets happened, and zobaz and words shaved in hair. Those were some truly dark times.
I prescribe 3 months of nothing but Rush Limbaugh, Up With People!, and 7th Heaven reruns.
Uploading this because I made it and it’s dumb.
Eldritch don’t like your terminology.
I know it’s stupid, but I never get tired of these
I hate how much I love these. >-<
I pronounced his name Van-ee-an (not Vein-ee-an)for years, because I had never heard it spoken and was all alone in my Damned fanhood.
Then I moved to Pennsylvania and made friends with gothy-types who pronounced it correctly- OMG LIKE TRANSYLVANIAN!!!!
You would think even moving to Pennsylvania would make the proverbial lightbulb turn on, but no. :(
It was made POPULAR at that time. The lifestyle and ideology existed well before.
Submitted by FreakshowD’Horreur
This is why I hate everything
The genre of MUSIC started in the 70s for sure, the fashion is always secondary. That’s like saying metal started the moment someone let their hair grow out.
When other’s informed snarkiness makes you very happy. ^-^
(They may have meant Gothic art and literature started earlier? AH! No! Don’t draw me in you harpies!)
Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
The Damned - 13th Floor Vendetta
“…revenge has come sweetly and death is his mate…”
Released in October 1980.
Stop, you had me at organ music.
Manners
Being the only Goth in a small town I must remember my manners when going to the local craft store- which happens to be a gathering spot for elderly woman 50+. Many make very rude remarks and treat me like the plague. More often than not I find myself biting my cheek/lip to keep from retorting but when I do give my two cents to the insults I remember to be kind- Like I learned from Lady of the Manner’s videos and book. It’s not easy, and no matter how badly I want to go into a store with an expression of “don’t mess with me” while clad in the heaviest Goth wear I own- it wouldn’t bode well if a lil old granny had a heart attack after catching sight of me being fed up with their behavior. Sometimes the elderly aren’t aware they’re being insulting but it’s easier to kindly notify them of such instead of being just as rude as they are.
