Teen Gothic

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

Is the owner of The Castle aware that his staff is banning guest that report their drinks being spiked? Or that members of his staff have been gaslighting victims and those defending victims?

I wasn’t at the castle last weekend when those people got banned after they filed a police report, I also do not know those people, but I’m aware of several victims getting their drinks spiked and several staff gaslighting.

I do not believe the owner is aware of what is going on, but something needs to be done before this ruins the local community.

there has been reports of someone hanging around the patio that had dropped something into drink

I suspect that a bar tender is involved, possibly other staff due to their past support of predators, and gaslighting.

I would like to see the security footage from that night, but I doubt we’ll get to see, it’s probably already been deleted.

post-punk / darkwave from the MS gulf coast

Basically, although I'm really into goth music and other dark genres (I listen to a lot of metal too for example), it's basically impossible to tell just by looking at me. I only wear pink Lolita stuff and I own maybe one or two gothy outfits which I'm always reluctant to wear unless I'm actually going to a concert. Even the vinyl turntable I use to listen to SoM is pink :')

And some metalheads or goths have called me a poser or thought I was messing with them when I told them what kind of music I listen to. So I'm getting a bit self conscious, especially when it comes to dating. If you're a goth who dresses the part, would you feel ridiculous being seen outside with me?