Teen Gothic

I was very active in the goth scene in my late teen / 20s and then started a career and just had no time. I’m in my 40s and started going out to dance nights and there to reconnect with this part of my world. I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of elder goths out there and felt very welcome. Many of us are bringing it with style! Dancing again was really good for my dark and neglected soul.

If you’re in your 40s-50s do you still go out dancing? What has your experience been like?

Based on the information that has come out, has anyone tried getting a refund? and did it work? I bought my ticket last year and feel uncomfortable going, I should’ve listened to my gut feeling and now I’m stuck with a ticket. I love the bands and wanna go see them but I’d prefer if I could get a refund. I don’t want the organizers to have my money.

Has anyone recently been to The Castle in Ybor and gotten drugged? I know my friend had only 2 drinks, now I know they are strong drinks but I've never seen a reaction like that from her while drunk before in the 8 years ive known her. It was scary. When we started to head back to the car she started running into walls and becoming incoherent and then violent towards us, i thought the cops were gonna get called. We were eventually able to calm her enough to get her home and the next day she told me she blacked out but she didnt just go to sleep when we got back like you'd think when drunk, she was still having a really hard time for like over another hour. The only think I can think it could have been was she was drugged. I saw a post from 10 months ago about it being a problem there but hadn't seen anything about it recently. I'm wondering if anyone else has had issues here?

Hey, this might just be me and I’m not sure this is the right place to talk about this but lately I feel the harassment against emo/goth/alternative people has gotten a lot worse. Maybe because the influence of TikTok? People filming everyone randomly just because they look “different?” I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this, or if it’s just the place I live/my environment

a little while ago i posted in here because i wanted to get more into goth culture but i was having a hard time. just wanted to share i’ve been getting into more goth music as of late! i listen to a lot of stuff, usually leaning towards alt/hard rock and art rock/pop (muse and radiohead are two of my favorite bands atm), but i’ve been listening to more goth music! groups i’ve been enjoying are the cure, cocteau twins, london after midnight, siouxsie and the banshees, and twin tribes! i’ve been having a good time and i hope to find more!

I realized that I had started listening to the whole goth scene for nearly 2 years now without actually knowing about it being goth. But for those that did. When did you start? And how did you know you were real into it. My bad for the dumb questions!

it was a box containing Gothic Beauty Magazine and makeup.

I’m very new to goth music, although I’ve listened a bit to some goth and goth-adjacent bands (including Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, and Joy Division). I’m trying to find new bands to listen to, but I always get a little nervous when looking into new bands of any sort, since a lot of musicians (especially more “edgy” artists) tend to lean into more blasphemous/anti-religious themes/motifs either for political reasons or as an outlet for religious trauma.

While I understand why this might appeal to some people, I’m a Christian with a history of really bad religious OCD, and I’m worried that listening to artists who lean too far into those sort of themes/motifs could cause me to have a relapse. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some “safe” bands for me to listen to, with that in mind. (I’m find with songs that criticize aspects of my religion, but not ones that are just outright mocking it or saying my religion is fake, since those could be legitimately dangerous to my mental health).