Teen Gothic

i wish there were more family friendly, non alcoholic goth events during the day time. im not fond of public drinking, and especially at night (being a woman in an unsafe area, its a terrible idea, but even if it was safe, im still against it), so meeting goths is impossible

i dont even want to make close friends, i just want to be around people who share my music taste for a few hours and just casually talk

the city were i live used to hold a goth picnic in 2016/2018 but we dont have any events anymore, outside of bars/clubs and emonite. its unfortunate that regular events arent a common thing

we need more goth fairs like how they have steampunk ones! come on!

on to concerts, im scared of them because most free ones are held around, well, bars, and serve alcohol. i wouldnt feel safe, and moshpits would kill my back, since i have several back problems

Just curious

For some reason in the subculture I've noticed goths being competitive towards eachother, mostly among the women. I may just haven't found my crowd but I've been goth for the past 7 years and I have yet to met a goth girl that doesn't have something against you for being goth too? What's the world's obsession with being the "token goth." Here recently I met this girl who loved me at first but everything she posts now is a direct attack at me. Doesn't offend me but I always think about it because I wonder why..I want to dissect these people's brains. Has anyone else ever experienced this as much as me? I wish it didn't annoy me so much.

This might be a shot in the dark! I’m autistic and ever since I was a little kid I’ve always been obsessively interested in dark things like death, skeletons, spiders, gothic horror etc. Now in my 20s instead of shaming my interests I’m embracing them and going fully goth. I love the style, the music, the themes, it just feels so me.

I just wanted to see if anyone else is in my boat. Even if you aren’t autistic necessarily, has this always felt like a deeper part of you?

Hello Goth people

I've been wondering, has there been any good or at least good-ish representation of Goths or Goth fashion in media in your opinion? I'm talking movies or tv shows mostly, but whatever you can think of, really. The last Goth I saw in anything was maybe Nico from Marvel's Runaways, but that's pretty much it.

Yo so long story short I've saved up some cash and am travelling across the the states from Salt lake city all the way into to Canada Toronto. Wonder if i could get any cool bars/ venues to hit up, scenes to check out n shit. Big into my old 80s new wave, Goth and Punk. ATM im hitting up Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and Toronto. I'm gonna be backpacking, getting lifts with friend's and staying in hostels and friend's couches. Any ideas or pointers would be amazing!

Any places to hit up to meet some cool people in general would be class. Big Love ta

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.