Teen Gothic

My mother was pretty damn goth when I was growing up, and she still is. When I was young, I remember I had an iPod touch chock full of bands like Switchblade Symphony, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Angelspit, Nox Arcana, London After Midnight, and a bunch of other gothic rock, dark cabaret, darkwave, industrial bands and songs, and some from other genres that make up the subculture. When I was getting to be the same size as her between, like, 5th and 6th grade, we'd share a bunch of clothes, I also remember being really happy to wear her super nice black lace skirt to school or one of her many many sick graphic t-shirts. Plus I loved her jewelry, lots of snakes and skulls and the like that I thought was so cool. Gothic movies and books and a bunch of macabre artwork she made and bought also was around the house when I was a kid. Just… Everything, I guess!

Ended up distancing myself from the subculture as a teenager, as teenagers will do, but in my 20s I feel drawn back to it a bit. Honestly makes me really nostalgic, the music and the fashion and the pop culture and really everything! I was wondering if anybody else also grew up in it, just out of curiosity 🙂

Thanks you!!

Romanticism and sexuality seem fairly common within the goth subculture (whether of the music, band performances, conversations, fans, etc), and it can become too much and hard to avoid, like a lot of the content in mainstream media. It's somewhat alienating. It's as though indifference or adversity to such is quite rare, but curious if there are otherwise. If so, what are those thoughts on romantic and sexual matters in any aspect of the subculture?

I know it’s a single by Siouxsie, but she sings in german. The tilte is ‘mittageisen’ (on the back it says metal postcard. Does anyone know why this single is in german?

I've been vibing to this goth rock playlist on NTS radio & I particularly love the song that starts at 00:10:11 but it doesn't have a tracklist. I've tried Shazam & googling lyrics to no avail so I thought I'd ask the good people on his subreddit. Thanks :') https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/tales-from-graveyard-vol3-25th-july-2022

I got a free ticket and it was the last one left so I think I might be going by myself ๏_๏

like….not from hate to love or love to hate….both at the same time yk

Correct me if i’m wrong, but conservative goth seems like an oxymoron

On various social media I have seen people making posts about how they are “disgusted with people denying their political beliefs in goth culture” but I feel like when you get into a subculture that is well known to be anti establishment, anti-capitalism and pro human rights you would expect that.

What makes me really upset with this is that I have seen too often these “conservative goths” are transphobic when the culture was literally made to free people, like trans people who are oppressed societally.

It gets even worse with people trying to say they’re conservative punks which imo is an even more politicized subculture.

I was just thinking about the old websites we had in the early 2000's and remembered VF. I went back to look at it and it's been a shop since 2020? Heavily disappointed, I hope one day it's restored to its 8bit emoji bats for nostalgia purposes. Minus the creeps, though.