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| I'm so goth my iTunes play count for "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is in the millions |
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| I'm so goth I don't just sh** bats. I EAT bats. Then send money to bat protection agencies because bats are kewl. |
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| I'm so goth I still use the word "deathrock." |
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| I'm so goth I troll around message boards looking for someone to say "Marilyn Manson" and "gothic" in the same sentence so I can scream "MARILYN MANSON ISN'T GOTHIC!" |
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| I'm so goth I don't like anything that isn't gothic. Not even pirates! |
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| I'm so goth I don't need to prove my gothness to myself or anyone else by being overly conformist or extreme about it. |
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| I'm only kinda goth. Sort of. Yeah. |
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| I'm not goth at all! |
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| FASTER, PUSSYKAT! KILL! KILL! |
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daveybaby
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Nov 25, 2006
Age: 23
Posts: 65
Location: East Brunswick, New Jersey
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I think you're really a goth when you stop claiming to be a goth even though you're obviously dressed like one, and when people aks you if you're a goth you say, "No f***ing way man! I'm just my dark, depressing, morbid self!"
But honestly, all those clothes, music, World of Darkness role-playing games, vampire movies, Queen Victoria wearing her funeral garments permamently after her husband's death and all of Europe following the trend, its all awesome and gets a thumbs up in my book. |
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Xelebes
Velociraptor
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
Age: 23
Posts: 456
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
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| I listen to industrial, but identify more with the cyberpunks and rivetheads. Oh well. |
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 3181
Location: California
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| I actually count rivetheads as a subgroup of goths, because the subcultures overlap so much. But seeing as I'm only a little bit of a rivethead I could be totally off...heheh. |
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KatieRose212
Sea Gull
Joined: Apr 15, 2008
Age: 18
Posts: 205
Location: The Land Of Chocolate
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| I am more an emo than a goth! |
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SpaceCase
Always Here,Never There...
Joined: Mar 15, 2005
Age: 18
Posts: 2669
Location: Mississippi,USA
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Back when I was around 13-16,I dressed "goth" and--to a certain extent--I considered myself one. D@MN,was I EVER naive.
I've realized now that I don't need a label to describe me. In fact,NO ONE should use labels to describe themselves OR other people. We're all too unique and complicated to need one.
To me"GOTH" is just another pointless high school label. I can remember being on a goth forum and having people say extremely rude things to me and bitch all the time about how much they hated "preps" and "emos".
-SpaceCase
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JimmyJazz
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 22, 2008
Age: 26
Posts: 52
Location: East PA
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I honestly think that once you say "I'm ____", you're no longer that thing.
That said, I'm sure a lot of people would call me goth. Amid my music collection is a lot of classic gothic stuff like Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend, etc... mostly in huge multi-disc compilations.
I don't dress like a Hot Topic threw up on me, but I am generally always in all black. Hell, my favorite RPGs are the World of Darkness stuff(Vampire, Werewolf, Changeling, etc).
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acannon
Snowy Owl
Joined: Sep 29, 2007
Age: 19
Posts: 131
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Catalyst wrote: | | I am somehow a hippie goth. |
Me too! I don't even know how that happens. I'm kind of geeky, too. Most of the hippiness comes in my parenting styles and most of the gothiness comes in for my appreciation for things that can be beautiful but also sad and/or slightly gory. I'd be more likely to wear hippieish clothing than Gothic clothing because hippie clothing looks cooler to me, and also because it's a lot less weirder to see a parent of a 4 month old baby walking around with their little one wearing hippie clothes than wearing all black with piercings and chains, etc.
FWIW, I don't walk around saying "I'm a hippie" to people or even really think about it. I just do what I do. Lots of people would consider that to be hippieish, like when I carry my little guy around in a carrier instead of in a stroller, and I think that skirts and shirts that are sometimes classified as hippie clothes are really pretty. I don't always wear that stuff and I don't really try to classify myself. I also hold a lot of views on politics, life, and drug usage (I don't do MJ but I don't see it as harmful) as people who were in the original hippie movement. When I go around saying that I'm a hippie, though, or slap on any other label, It makes me feel like I have to classify in every way with that certain group of people and discourages me from being myself. |
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Zane
Toucan
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
Age: 22
Posts: 263
Location: Tempe, Arizona
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I am more emotional than I am gothic.
I do respect the art. 16th-17th century architecture is some of the most amazing stuff. Sheer brilliance.
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Ryn
Velociraptor
Joined: Apr 10, 2008
Posts: 428
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| I like Gothic stuff and the subculture interests me. I'm a huge fan of Gothic Lolita clothing. I used to wear a lot more gothic clothes than I do now, I just wear whatever I like. My friends say that I'm "artsy" rather than gothic, though probably their views of gothic is stereotyped. |
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Yoshie777
Paragon
Joined: Apr 30, 2007
Age: 20
Posts: 2018
Location: Ellensburg, WA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Ryn wrote: | | I like Gothic stuff and the subculture interests me. I'm a huge fan of Gothic Lolita clothing. I used to wear a lot more gothic clothes than I do now, I just wear whatever I like. My friends say that I'm "artsy" rather than gothic, though probably their views of gothic is stereotyped. |
Probably TOO stereotyped. By the way, I really like your avatar. She's beautiful!
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We all deal with problems and strife, but it's how we deal with them that makes all the difference in the world.
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 3181
Location: California
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| SpaceCase wrote: | Back when I was around 13-16,I dressed "goth" and--to a certain extent--I considered myself one. D@MN,was I EVER naive.
I've realized now that I don't need a label to describe me. In fact,NO ONE should use labels to describe themselves OR other people. We're all too unique and complicated to need one.
To me"GOTH" is just another pointless high school label. I can remember being on a goth forum and having people say extremely rude things to me and bitch all the time about how much they hated "preps" and "emos".
-SpaceCase |
IMO goth isn't a label as much as a subculture. Anybody who tries to be gothier-than-thou or is afraid to like things that aren't gothic, however, ARE treating it as a label and that is a bad thing. However, it's very possible to identify with the subculture while still being an INDIVIDUAL and not pretending to like the things that you don't like.
That said, there are a lot of goths who are assholes and idiots and DO treat it as a label. But there are horrible elitists in any subculture: it's unavoidable.
| JimmyJazz wrote: | I honestly think that once you say "I'm ____", you're no longer that thing.
That said, I'm sure a lot of people would call me goth. Amid my music collection is a lot of classic gothic stuff like Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend, etc... mostly in huge multi-disc compilations.
I don't dress like a Hot Topic threw up on me, but I am generally always in all black. Hell, my favorite RPGs are the World of Darkness stuff(Vampire, Werewolf, Changeling, etc).
Oh well. |
I really wish people would stop with the Hot Topic bullshit. Hot Topic isn't goth at all anymore, it's all emo sh**. And most goths hate it. |
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ShizzleMacDaddy
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 05, 2008
Age: 16
Posts: 62
Location: California
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I really wish people would stop with the Hot Topic bullshit. Hot Topic isn't goth at all anymore, it's all emo sh**. And most goths hate it. |
You stole the words out of my mouth...
Also thought this was worth posting
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 3181
Location: California
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| Yeah, I've seen that one before. Always loved it. XD |
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Deus_ex_machina
Mudliquor
Joined: May 20, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 1413
Location: Australia
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| Veresae wrote: | | SpaceCase wrote: | Back when I was around 13-16,I dressed "goth" and--to a certain extent--I considered myself one. D@MN,was I EVER naive.
I've realized now that I don't need a label to describe me. In fact,NO ONE should use labels to describe themselves OR other people. We're all too unique and complicated to need one.
To me"GOTH" is just another pointless high school label. I can remember being on a goth forum and having people say extremely rude things to me and bitch all the time about how much they hated "preps" and "emos".
-SpaceCase |
IMO goth isn't a label as much as a subculture. Anybody who tries to be gothier-than-thou or is afraid to like things that aren't gothic, however, ARE treating it as a label and that is a bad thing. However, it's very possible to identify with the subculture while still being an INDIVIDUAL and not pretending to like the things that you don't like.
That said, there are a lot of goths who are assholes and idiots and DO treat it as a label. But there are horrible elitists in any subculture: it's unavoidable.
| JimmyJazz wrote: | I honestly think that once you say "I'm ____", you're no longer that thing.
That said, I'm sure a lot of people would call me goth. Amid my music collection is a lot of classic gothic stuff like Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend, etc... mostly in huge multi-disc compilations.
I don't dress like a Hot Topic threw up on me, but I am generally always in all black. Hell, my favorite RPGs are the World of Darkness stuff(Vampire, Werewolf, Changeling, etc).
Oh well. |
I really wish people would stop with the Hot Topic bullshit. Hot Topic isn't goth at all anymore, it's all emo sh**. And most goths hate it. |
You can't declare that somebody is outside of a subculture just because you don't like them, that's like censoring certain content. You have to allow that every group has it's idiots otherwise you're just putting up vague proclamations about what is and what isn't considered Goth/Punk/Hip Hop or whatever and eventually it becomes diluteted because nobody has a clue what it's about, or how to be a part of it and in the end you get this bull**** about agreeing to disagree when deciding who's in and isn't. And yet it's so simple, just look at the deffinition of "Sub culture" then get an idea of what is common in the sub culture who sticks to those rules and who associates regularly with that kind of person as a part of the local scene. Of course you have to allow for regional differences. I didn't really put a lot of thought into that but you get the general idea.
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vimster
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Oct 17, 2007
Posts: 49
Location: south-west UK
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I have quite a few goth friends, they're my favourite people to be with. I love industrial and EBM, general goth stuff.
However, they wouldn't class me as goth, though. You could call me a goth admirerer or layman, I was nevera card-carrying goth in my youth (I regret that), though once again I had friends who were.
At 36 I'm at the age where the goths I meet have been goth for years, and it's impossible for me to get more goth without looking like some bandwagon-jumper. It's a shame as I really love the music, the clothes, the ideas.
Okay so it's all apropos of nothing really, but there you go. |
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