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Hi all, I am an old punk but I was around a lot of Goths around probably 1993 '94. From what I remember it was kind of the very beginning of a scene that got bigger later on in the '90s.

I'm writing a country album about my experiences and couple of the characters are goth kids. The setting is a small town, the type of place where weirdos who grew up in the surrounding rural counties would have congregated. Think college towns or tourist towns that ended up with like an LGBT community or other weirdos. I was personally in Asheville at the time but that was not at all like Asheville is today. At the time there were a very small number of weirdos/artsy types in small towns, as it was a lot harder to find subculture since there wasn't really an internet.

The folks I actually knew back in the mid '90s are no longer reachable.

Help me out with some memories: What did you do that was part of Goth subculture when you were being romantic, flirty, mysterious seductive with your significant other "back in the day"?

Was your significant other also part of the that scene? What would date night have looked like? What about if you lived together and had a date night at your place?

I dated one of these pagan goth folks for a while and we were part of a scene that was into the occult. Kinda remember a lot of tarot cards and candles and red wine but I wasn't very serious about the occult part which makes my memories kind of hazy about what my significant other was doing much of the time when we were hanging out.

We and lots of other weirdos used to go to an old cemetery, not that all surprisingly. There was some hanging out on rooftops downtown and a little bit of 'by the railroad tracks' stuff but I'm really looking for suggestions on what to make my characters do indoors on date night because it's relevant to a song. Right now I have a couple of different songs where people are messing around with tarot cards in the candle light but I can't reuse that same image for multiple songs

I love The Cure, but they are very different to a lot of goth bands, I was wandering if there were any similar bands you'd reccomend?

I moved alone from Argentina to Italy when I was 18, got dropped by my girlfriend, started hating my job, being careless about everything and enjoying being alone for weeks. Since I was 14 (now I’m 22) I write my own songs and record them on the computer. I’ve learned a few tricks along the way, and this is my final product.

Luckily after a while, my best friend decided to join my project on the bass and we found a local drummer to complete the band we named “Eucaristia”. This project is finally making me see a light at the end of the tunnel. For me it would mean a lot if you give it a listen and let me know what you think.

I’ve always had this problem & I’m not sure what to do anymore. There are very few goths in our country & I’m desperate for a party buddy, my fav gigs are coming up soon and I have no one to go with

Everytime that I put a goth t-shirt or sweater my mom makes comments about how I'm weird/should stop wearing that "garbage". What should I do?