Teen Gothic

I discovered the band through Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines that, after it assaulted every sense in my body with an overdose of 2000s that i didn't knew i so desperately needed to sate my nostalgia, introduced me to a plethora of incredible goth and non-goth artists and bands that i couldn't understand how i had never heard before given my interests in music were very closely aligned. I don't know if i qualify as goth but gothic imagery, films, literature, music, video & tabletop games and fashion captivate me to no end. Gothic influenced music in particular i was introduced to from a very young age thanks to my dad.

Among them was Darling Violetta and while their A Smaller God is pure eargasm, its Second Skin that left the deepest mark in me. Somber, sincere, intimate and full of adoration one can only dream of. Yet at the same time tragic, toxic, obsessive and desperate. Most people agree that it speaks of a ghoul (vampiric thrall) longing for her vampire master but in reality i think its simply about a relationship that has either fallen apart and at least one lover is still trying to dream about it OR its about a relationship fighting to become "too good to be true" but fails, yet it has some moments that reach very close to that goal, further fueling the unattainable dream. Depending on the mood i am happy to interpret it as either meaning or both. Still, to me it is an entrancing, romantic and dark. It preplexes me, it mesmerizes me. I want to share it with someone special. Its a piece of music that in these days fuels my inspiration to write and create and gives me comfort in my mandatory army service.

I'm back, baby!

Why was I gone? My laptop died and I had to use my DJ laptop to web browse until my new desktop PC arrived. I was able to access everything except my reddit account on the DJ laptop as reddit refused to acknowledge my backup codes on that or the mobile app. Set up the new PC, entered a backup code, worked first time. No idea why.

If you saw someone commenting as funmembership-somethingsomething that was me. Auto-generated usernames are weird.

Anyway… I'm sure you all have things to get off your chest or complain about so have at it!

I just got home from City Record Club and the Save The Cranker Rally. I didn't play a single goth song today though you could argue a couple are close. Love and Rockets So Alive single? Nope, I played the B side – Bike! And that sounds like some sort of weird blues/jazz/rock thing. Plus rock, techno, post punk, new wave, disco and a Yamaha 70s organ rendition of Popcorn. -10 goth points me.

The rally was a death march to Parliament House and onto the Crown and Anchor Hotel itself. And I stopped at a record store on the way. But what did I buy? $ 2 bargain bin K-Tel compilations for a Record Club set I'm calling "The worst sounding vinyl set ever" using nothing but K-Tel compilations.

6 hours on my feet mostly on concrete. My feet want to disown me, my back aches, I was getting stabbing pains in my leg and I have a pain in the diodes down my left side.

But we got word the planned demolition has been voided by the state premier so the pub is saved! The best alternative/live music venue in the city is here to stay.

How are you doing?

It's that time of the week again everyone. Time to expel those demons and force them onto all the readers right here. Will there be rage? Probably. Will there be sympathy? Possibly. Will you feel a little better after getting your ails out? Sure, why not.

THE SCREAM OF THE GOTH WILL RISE LIKE A MOTH! OH YEAH!

Bring out your dread!

*ding!*

Bring out your dread!

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Bring out your dread!

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…I've no dread! I don't want to go on the cart.

*looks in r/goth for 5 seconds, gets in the cart*

Bring out your dread!

*ding!*

Bring out your dread…

Got a gothic gripe? Managing a migraine induced by life's awfuil obstacles? Tired of ignorant people assuming they are an expert about everything even when they know nothing? Is the internet being the internet again?

Complain away!

(As you can see we're going a little more official though I plan on still doing the weekly post custom as I have since before I was a moderator here)

Fully aware a lot of bands make money through merch. Yet why be rude if people don't buy your merch. They're a band rather popular now in the scene that got rather upset at people not buying anything from their table. The lead went outside me and my friend were waiting guess he thought we were trying to talk to him we weren’t like geez how self entitled does one have to be.. like the amount of negative behavior is insane. The merch people deserve better like no one can make people buy band merch. Yet being rude isn't helping neither. I'm not calling this band out in hopes they do have respect for the audience and we caught them on a bad day just disappointing especially when they were trying to lecture the entire audience on being friends partially tired of seeing fraudulent bands get respect then lose it when no one buys merch from them. Even the main act didn't sell much merch. Any musician should know touring is hard and you can't always "win" a crowd. Thoughts on muscians/bands that do this?

this has probably come up in discussion but hopefully i’m not the only one who gets irritated by people on tiktok trying to say what gothic style/makeup is trad or not? i understand that certain gothic looks can “categorize” as trad/romantic/victorian/etc. but i feel as if they’ve sucked the creativity specifically out of trad style/makeup as if a lot of trad goths didn’t/don’t have their own personal style of clothes/makeup. literally the point (from what i’ve heard, i could be wrong) was to go against social norms, so now that they’re “policing” people’s styles/makeup feels weird. idk the superiority complex that people have on tiktok about “being trad goth” rubs me the wrong way. it feels very try hard, like all you gotta do is listen to the music and go from there… don’t even get me started about the whole “you need a white base to be goth” or thinking goths just wear black and white, no colors. opinions appreciated in the comments 🙂

Baby bat here and I was abruptly reminded of an infamous webtoon comic that was literally named Goth. They look like what you would get if you combined e-boy, punk, emo, and all sorts of “edgy” styles together into one unholy mess. Also turns out, the author says the “goth” character is their self-insert. And then proceeds to post photos of them in the most un-goth fashion style. I know goth isn’t about the way you dress but the way that person presented themselves was a complete misrepresentation of what goths actually are.

This kind of misrepresentation just makes me really frustrated because it erases the music part of what it means to be goth and waters it down to just wearing black and edgy things. Things like these also frustrate me a lot because music is extremely important to me because it is a powerful method of communicating and expressing emotions. Music is something very rich in expression and it pains me to see people remove goth music, the very thing that goth subculture is built upon, and replace it with this strange version of “goth” that is being presented.

Please don’t send hate to them if you know who they are. This is just a rant to blow off steam. I just think that goth music is beautiful and great and all I want is for other people to see that and appreciate it as well.

anyone else bothered by this? it doesn't really bother me but I just think it'd be nice to be friends with fellow goths, I don't have friends with the same tastes, but in my country (Tunisia, in north africa) there's barely any alt people yet alone goths, no scene no underground no nothing lol, the only person I found that listens to goth music ended up ghosting me too lmao, so basically I have no hope of making goth friends IRL, but at least there's the internet 🙂