• stebo
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    881 month ago

    Literally just a woman

    hot!

    (too lazy to edit the comic so this will do)

  • @LouNeko
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    781 month ago

    pale white woman

    There’s a difference

  • Pennomi
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    421 month ago

    I have a friend who gives off moderate goth vibes, but she says she couldn’t hope to be goth - they are far too expert at accessorizing!

    • spicy pancake
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      91 month ago

      minimalist goth? that’s what I go for. I’m too impatient to put on a bunch of accessories. the fake eyelashes, black lipstick, and all black outfit gotta do

        • @I_Fart_Glitter
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          51 month ago

          If it’s a nickel allergy you can paint the metal part that touches your skin with nail polish to protect yourself.

  • nifty
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    301 month ago

    At its core being a goth is about being non-conformist.

    And reading Poe while sitting like a gargoyle on a tall church spire, and drinking coffee without any milk.

    • I Cast Fist
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      429 days ago

      I thought punks were the non conformists and goths were just… Goths?

      • nifty
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        329 days ago

        The counterculture has different subgroups, but they fall under the same happy non-conformist family, for example hippies, bikers, otaku etc. Or at least that’s how I think of it.

        • @Bacano
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          229 days ago

          I like this take. There could be a venn diagram of these and punks and goths would both be likely to wear black.

      • @andros_rex
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        Goths are non conformists too. Isn’t shouting “conformist!” the whole joke every time the Goth kids show up in South Park?

        I like the South Park breakdown actually. Goths hate the world and just kinda feel and vibe with the suffering; punks hate the world and are screwing “fuck you” at it.

        For goths, I think the Smiths. “Meat is Murder,” working sucks, life sucks, I’m going to sing and feel bad about it and maybe kill myself. Get me out of this place! (Hating Morrissey is 100% valid, regardless of one’s opinions on veganism, if this is one’s first encounter with the man.)

        Punks, Dead Kennedys. You think your life is bad? Well why don’t you take a “Cambodian Holiday”? Hang out with Pol Pot? Isn’t everything fucked? Let’s break shit. “Don’t forget to pack a wife?” There’s also an element of sexual aggression.

        Emos, maybe American Football. The lyrics are less easy to read because they’re fuzzy and personal and emotional. >tfw no gf because I “Never Meant” to say that I just thought of her as a friend. To be “emo” really also needs to also have some math rock-ish elements, because it’s personal and about showing the guitarist’s individual skills somewhat.

        Policing subcultures is like trying to hold oobleck though. I’m sure you can find counter examples, but I think this works in broad strokes.

  • @dufkm
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    241 month ago

    She seems nice.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    231 month ago

    Mary Shelly, original Goth Girl

    She ran away from home, lost her virginity in a graveyard - probably on her mother’s grave, and kept her husband’s bone-encrusted heart in a box. Fuck your eyeliner.

    • I Cast Fist
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      629 days ago

      An even surer sign is when she talks about sacking visiting Rome

  • @gmtom
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    131 month ago

    Or a white woman in black clothes, or nail Polish, or eyeliner, or in fishnets, or an e-girl or…

  • Justin
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    121 month ago

    you dont have to be white to have light skin or be goth

  • @hark
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    101 month ago

    I have nothing to say except I fucking love black hair!!!

  • metaStatic
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    61 month ago

    This is exactly why I love Japanese subcultures. Because their mainstream society is so rigid there is still a level of buy in that isn’t just aesthetics.