Teen Gothic

I'm really happy that this happened to me and I never thought I'd ever be noticed by a favorite member of one of my favorite goth groups ever so this is just so exciting to me and I really wanted to share 😀

Everywhere I go on there you're either wading through AI generated album covers that instantly makes me not want to ever listen to your music, or it's tagged so poorly that I often find rap or just pop music being labeled as 'goth'. Bandcamp was and continues to be the easiest way to find goth music for me and have found some great bands on there that are still some of my favorites, but in recent months it's become a minefield to peruse anything there and a stroke of luck to find anything that hits.

The AI generated images just feel like a betrayal of the DIY ethos that should be integral to goth and deathrock and no goth musician should ever succumb to the diminishing and quick returns you get from them.

Just needed to vent. This shit is demoralizing.

I've been interested in the goth subculture for a while, a few days ago, I decided to listen to the music and, omg, I've feel in love with it, I've easliy spend several hours just listening to goth music, it's one of my favorite genres now and I'm even planning on watching some goth movies. I'm also planning on dressing in goth style, but here's the problem, I'm mostly an indoors person, so I've very few friends and the only people I talk with frequency is my family. I decided to reveal my interests and my plan for my goth outfit today, expecting support and unfortunaley, as you've guessed, all I was meet with is mockery, harsh judgement and them claiming them won't help me with anything, they even said that I'll look "horrifiying" or a "freak" or even saying stuff like "imagine you going out like this in public, looking like a vampire, if you want it, fine, but let's agree that's weird and I don't want any part of that", this has made me very sad and also very lonely, it's makes me think that I'll never meet someone that respects or have the same interests as me and that people are only going to see me as a "weirdo" (not helping that I've only meet like, 2 alt ppl besides me in my entire life), I can't put in words how this has broken my heart. I'm planning on revealing my goth interests to my very few friends, I hope they understand me and don't judge or mock me. Sorry in case my english is broken (I'm brazilian) and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to vent

Hey everyone, kind of an odd question. If you (or a goth in general) were in a bookstore and saw someone reading something you find interesting (true crime, occult stuff, etc) would you be likely to start a chat with that person? I’m asking because I’ve found that my local bookstore hosts a bunch of goth/alt customers and I wanna make some friends hanging out there. Thanks for reading 🙂

As the title says I'm currently making a playlist for my mom, I do really like goth music but I'm more of a punk myself so I really don't know any good songs. Here are some examples of songs I know we both like and I plan on looking into the bands further and seeing what else they have made but yeah. Please help 🙂 song or band recommendations would be very greatly appreciated.

(And apologies if any of the screenshotted songs aren't actually goth, I really don't know)

hi i’m (f19) located in an area where there’s literally no goth nights/clubs/events at all and i really want to go to one. the closest one that i’ve heard about are hours away and it’s not that frequent so that’s just not an option for me. i was watching one of my favorite youtubers and she said something along the lines of “if there’s no goth nights near you, consider just making your own.” and i was like “yeah let’s do it.” i asked some of my other alternative friends (metal heads,grunge,emo,etc) if they’d be interested and they’re down too. i guess it’ll just be more of an alternative party now since everyone has their own niche. anyways enough rambling, i don’t know how to go about this. i can’t have it at my house and i’m pretty sure they can’t have it at theirs. i don’t have enough money to rent out a space and it’s too cold to have it outside at like a park or something. i’m also very shy i’ve always just kept to myself growing up although i really did want more friends, i’m nervous that people would say that they’d show up and then it’s only me and my best friend there (that’s happened to me before). the people i invited it’s like we talk every now and then but that’s really all yk ? i’m feeling quite discouraged idk what to do i’ve never done this before. i’m working on the playlist and atm it’s mostly goth songs that i like, but now i’m worried that everyone else won’t like it and then they won’t dance. i’m so confused 😭 i apologize for this being all over the place i just- yeah.

TLDR: i don’t have a place to have the party, i’m not sure if anyone would come, and i’m not sure if they’d like the music. i’m very confused and conflicted.

I dunno if it's me, but I have the hardest time making goth friends. I'm newish to my local scene, it's very active and I go to alot of the same events, I dance, I sit amongst the crowds, but besides the passing compliment on my outfit, that's as far as it goes. I've observed people stick to their friends group and not venture out. Some regulars have recognized my attendance and say hi, maybe add on social media but go back to their friends group.

I went out recently and almost none talked to me besides compliments on my fashion. It's nice and i say thank you but I crave more.

I admit I'm shy and I should take the first move but last night literally everyone was already in a conversation with their friend group or couples so I ended up talking to no one.

Help? What am I doing wrong? Its getting quite lonely in these bat caves.

i saw someone making diy patches for their jacket on r/punk and i wanted to do the same but mainly featuring the goth bands i like.

i got an old jean jacket from my stepdad to put the patches on, and also some old black denim jeans to cut up to actually make into the patches. i’m gonna use acrylic paint but i am kinda worried that it will flake off, so i might hold off on the painting part.

also the first patch i’m making is the cure, i cannot help it. they’re too good.