Teen Gothic

Artoffact Records is having a free download event for some albums released before 2024- these events are rare so thought I’d post it here.

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Doors open at 2:00 PM, so come by early to see what local vendors have in shop. Later in the day we have performances by Evilization, Duderella and Casa De Brujas who will be showing off their new music video for their song "Queen of the Dead". This is a 21+ event, sorry kiddos.

Completely forgot to take a full body pic unfortunately </3

i know the contour is a bit out of place on one side but unfortunately my pigment refused to stick. first real time doing something like this so lots of firsts and learning to be done! (last pic is before)

This is the third time this has happened so I know it's not a coincidence.

I'm a babybat and only started becoming more visibly alternative in the past few years – I have black hair, snakebites, a septum piercing and very visibly tattooed arms and legs. Today I was walking through the shopping centre, just in shorts and a t-shirt, no alternative makeup on, and two adult-sized (but they certainly behaved like children) men saw me and made fake puking noises.

I try not to let it get to me because at the end of the day I'm very happy with my style, I finally feel like the outward me matches the way I always saw myself in my head, but I'm a sensitive bean and it's hard not to feel self-conscious and sad after something like this, especially since it's happened a few times in public now.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia for reference – I'd heard of boys barking at goth girls before but the puking thing seems to not be so common, at least when I've tried to search for similar experiences online.

Listening to the new Deceits album (which is really good, btw) as I'm pulling into the cemetery in which Anne Rice is buried and the chorus of the song playing is "Just bury, just bury me". I think life is having a giggle at my situation.