Teen Gothic

I remember randomly stumbling across this blog in my teens and I remember reading it all of the time. The blog has been dead for years now but does anyone else remember this blog and reading it?

suspect it may be mick mercer?

Just curious :*)

This is just a general warning, not a political post!

Just saw an invite to r/gothconservative. Boy, did they reach out to the wrong person. I checked the username and it was just created yesterday so I’m thinking it’s a bot.

Either way, I looked at the sub and it looks like a haven for right wing ideology. Saw a post speaking against wokeness, etc. I’m not sure if this is normal for Reddit on U.S. federal election years or what, so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Again, not trying to make waves, just wanted to keep people informed.

Please correct me if I am wrong about this and I am fully open to criticism:

For a while now I have seen a rise in berating others, especially baby bats, for interpreting a band or song as goth that another person disagrees with it/makes fun of them for thinking it is goth. I have seen legitimate harassment level messages such as death threats due to someone interpreting something as goth that another person deems incorrect. Music genres, especially this one with so many genres and subgenres, get incredibly blurry in some areas with other music (such as new wave and non-goth postpunk) and it feels wrong to say that there is an exact hard line everyone has to agree on between what is and isn’t be considered goth. Obviously not saying that BTS or Arianna Grande are goth due to interpretation as that would be straight up wrong, but for example the debates on Molchat Doma and similar seem to go wayyyy further than should. Why can’t we just “I interpret this song/band as goth” “I interpret this song differently and not as goth” “that is okay”?. The subculture is very important to me so I know that keeping the genres meanings are important, but the recent rise has kind of concerned me and a lot of the “protecting the meaning” has gone way off the rail. Has anyone noticed a similar trend? Is this a common sentiment and I’m just late to the party? How can we better approach this issue and help prevent toxicity?

Thank you!

I pre-ordered Twin Tribes's Pendulum in the pink and black color, and it came in looking purple and cloudy, and the edges were blunt and sharp with strings of vinyl coming off. Most of my records are smooth and tapered at the ends. Did anyone else have this issue? I'm hesitant to buy another Twin Tribes record in the future because in the past I had a record come in with the sleeve torn and grease stains on the record itself. Am I an outlier?

Not looking for anything specific, just anything u think sounds good! Ive been taking more of a liking to Russian goth songs and was wondering if anyone knew of some good Polish ones too :⁾

I go through this sometimes. I listen to the music, participate in everything that’s with the subculture/community, etc. I usually get called a poser at school because I listen to J-goth and other random reasons. but I listen to all the goth classics. Sometimes I think these things happen more often ever since the term “tik tok goth police” became a thing. Just a random thought. What are your thoughts and comments about this? (Hopefully this entire thing I type doesn’t confuse anyone I barely post on here)