I’m finally going to Wave Gotik Treffen this year. Any tips?

Hi guys I've been in the scene for a long time now but just never did traditional goth makeup. I always have coloured hair so I never thought it would suit it but here it is… Let me know your feedback!

I have plenty of tips, I’ll leave some here and you guys can drop some in the comments so everyone can get ideas for diys while also teaching others :))

Here’s some tips:

• if you find jewelry at a store that has stones, and you want them not to be colored and make them more gothic, use black nail polish on the stone to give it that effect

• a simple black shirt can be make more gothic with some scissors and distressing, add patterns with the cuts

-if you have a patch/diy jacket or blazer, attach old earring or necklace charms to the fabric with safety pins to give it some flare

i dont know what to put here

I want to understand the subculture and what it means to be goth I know I have to listen to the music but I remember seeing somewhere there's an ideology to it aswell? I also might want to try and start dressing goth not sure I know that's not needed to be goth but it's for funsies, I love the whole "alt" (in quotation marks cuz not sure if I'll get attacked for it or not) fashion from emo to punk etc I would also like music suggestions but I could also just scroll through the subreddit

White foundation would definitely be a start but if anyone has any tips would massively appreciate

Dark greetings of the damned morning,

Too Long; Please Stop Being So Verbose

In short, I'd like to host a goth event at my place around WGD (22nd May, a monday sadly so I'm thinking celebrating on the 20th instead). The event would entail introducing some of my closer friends to the general vibe of both the music and other famous media via a dinner, a movie and then dancing/listening to music.

The Victims:

My friends/closer acquaintances are typically involved in some proximity to the local poetry slam scene, and one even listens to The Cure already, so that's fun. We're all artists of some shade, so I don't think dedicating a night to appreciating this subculture would go to waste. Also helps that we are generally a queer bunch living in a rural locale so there's already that element of outsider-ness running through our daily lives. Most of us are bilingual (EN/FR).

The Scene:

As far as I'm aware, there is no scene around here (and "here" as in "middle of buttfuck nowhere, Quebec, Canada"). Maybe a few individual "alt" people here and there, but none that I've encountered using the goth label personally. Boo.

I'm hosting at my place. It's a standalone house, and I did a speaker test the other day and I don't think noise will be much of an issue… hopefully.

The Crimes:

As mentioned above, I'm thinking a meal/movie/dance. Contents of the meal would be potluck/my cooking (this cannot go wrong), and as for the movie I was thinking Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi (for obvious reasons), but I'm open to changing this choice as I (regrettably) haven't watched it yet myself. A runner-up I considered was Metropolis (1927) but it has twice the runtime and is less directly relevant to the community.

I've begun a playlist some time ago of everything that might be interesting to play, and I'd like to put more thought into organising what goes in which order– by this I mean that I'm used to curating playlists of about an hour centred around a given thematic, and I was thinking of applying the same concept of thematic hours throughout the night, like subtly going through a musical odyssey of the goth subculture. I'd think we can organise this into roughly four thematics to start with, or each of the complete decades of music (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s). Open for recs of things to get people moving/chatting. Bonus points if there's franco-Canadian stuff in there (already love the 39 Steps, actually have them on vinyl) because my knowledge in this area is seriously lacking.

The Letter of Confession:

So my initial "in" to this group of friends was actually zine-making, then it spread to poetry, and the rest is history. As a result, I'd like to completely overextend myself and make a little invitation zine thing outlining the who/what/where/etc. Graphic design is my passion job, actually– for what little work it brings in, but that's a story for another day– so the actual layout of the thing is something I can handle, as well as maybe making a doodle or two to spice it up. I suppose I'm wondering if making a little physical invite to this damned thing is worth it or not, and why the answer is yes.

Just looking for validation in this section, don't mind me.

The Perpetrator:

Hi, I'm Mera. Baby bat of like 2-3 years by this point. My Spotify metrics are horrifying. They/she.

I have some experience in hosting events, but it's all pre-Plague so assume I know nothing. I've been reading what I can find on the Internet to help me out (see this series of articles which for now has a bigger net than what I'm trying to achieve), and since there's not really an established scene I'm essentially wondering if there's any best practices/things to watch out for when planning this sort of event.

Thanks for your input in advance!

I'm trying to add goth music to my playlist, (which I think I'm doing semi-well, but song recs are appreciated)I love Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus, so any similar songs are appreciated!I mostly listen to rock and metal bands if that helps

I know for fashion, thrifting and DIY are the best, so any clothes to look for when thrifting (I am a boy baby bat, so clothes in that section are appreciated)

I also love to read, so any gothic literature requests are great too! (My fave gothic lit pieces are Phantom of the Opera and Jekyll and Hyde)

Other facts about me: I dress pretty emo (and listen to the music) and I'm also getting into the punk scene (which if I remember correctly, Goth (music?) came from, but please correct me if I'm wrong)

Any other tips that I didn't ask for in this are also greatly appreciated! ^-^

does anyone have just general tips for baby bats?

Hello everyone! I'm new to the community and I've been wondering if any of you could give some tips on how to do a simple goth makeup maybe? Particularly something about eyeliners for people with hooded/heavily hooded eyelids.

Thank you!