Teen Gothic

Just asking 😅

Some nice post-punk I think you guys would appreciate

Take this down if it doesn’t fit.

But what I found the most interesting was how many people with this Facebook group, utterly detest goth music to such a degree. They hate it. Hate its founders. And can’t understand why anyone would listen or form a community around it.

However, they are the type of people who will say that to be goth is not to listen to the music. They all say that it is a mindset, a style, an aesthetic, a historical group, spooky, scary, all of that, but refuse to ever say that the music means anything, and that’s why rhetoric which dismisses goth music as the key to the goth subculture is so harmful.

Goth music is quite literally the one thing which keeps these assholes out on the sidelines because they hate it, aesthetics and fashion does not! Nazi’s and conservatives are like those parasites which infect weak insects, control their bodies and lead them to their colony to continue the infection. The swatskia, totenkoph, skinheads, are just a few examples of Nazi’s co-opting and taking ahold of aesthetics to force their ideology.

They will use aesthetics to draw in the masses under a guise of the dark innocence and the they use it as a way to promote their ideology. Regardless of how you feel about goth and it’s relation to music, I think it’s quite obvious how decentralizing the music to replace it with a “mindset” or those who “feel goth”, just leaves more room for those who “feel goth”, but are also bigots. That’s what I gathered.

I read someone’s comment, and please take credit for it, but they said it isn’t gatekeeping we need, it’s standards and I must agree. That community hates goth and all it stands for, no room for them at all!

I (college student, M) just got a text from my little sister (13 y.o.) that shows her trying out some tradgoth makeup. She's always been the preppy, Lululemon, 'clean girl' type, but not because she liked it, just to fit in. Now she's finally trying to do things for herself. And even though it's my duty as an older brother to make fun of her, I can only make fun of her if she's actually happy.

I've already looked online for some goth band recommendations and sent them to her, since goth is a music subculture, but I don't know much about anything goth-related. She's still young, so I want to encourage her to get clothing items that can be used in non-goth outfits, and I also told her to check out whimsigoth, but that's as far as my knowledge extends.

What tips do you guys have? Should I get her to read some vampire literature? What should I buy her? Eyeliner? Foundation? We're brown, so she can't do that usual white base. How does one put together a casual goth outfit that can be worn at school without getting harassed?
I'm kinda grunge, a dude, and I dress like my hamper fell on me. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

My husband got me this dress and corset from this alternative store that is strictly only in Seattle. It’s so hard shopping there because I want the whole store. Most of things I do own are thrifted, given to me, or I purchase secondhand from depop. The same goes for any jewelry I own. They either were hand-me-downs, I found thrifting or purchased from antique malls.

one of my teachers asked where i got my jacket from! girl I made it !!