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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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Lightning88
Skunk Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 05, 2006
Age: 19
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Even though I'm classified as a prep at my school, I'll hang out with just about anyone as long as they're nice.
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Hanwag
Sea Gull
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Age: 31
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I am always somehow intrigued by a subculture like this. How can so many people who think it's very important to be original express this by basically trying to be exactly the same? Why are all these subcultures so full of rules while they should be free from the rest?
Still a pity since a lot of subcultures bring us something. On the other hand Ian Curtis (Joy Division for the culture barbarians  ) did not need to dress up anything while singing Atrocity Exhibition to be more intense than any goth, ever.
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 3113
Location: California
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| Hanwag wrote: | | I am always somehow intrigued by a subculture like this. How can so many people who think it's very important to be original express this by basically trying to be exactly the same? |
Actually, there's a LOT of variety among the different goth types (compare the victorian romantic to the rivethead in the neon-dreadlocks), and few goths claim to be original these days. Most that do are in places where goths are so uncommon that there's no goth culture to conform to. |
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 3113
Location: California
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| Purplefluffychainsaw wrote: | Grunge ftw.
Apparently my boyfriend's workmates think I'm "sort of mostly" goth though because I have a leather jacket. And, hey, I like the Crow, I must be dedgoffic. |
Hah.
Whether or not your "goffic," you have a funny as hell screen name. XD |
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Purplefluffychainsaw
Deinonychus
Joined: Jul 28, 2005
Age: 19
Posts: 339
Location: Oxford
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| Veresae wrote: |
Hah.
Whether or not your "goffic," you have a funny as hell screen name. XD |
Why, thank you. I'm rather fond of it myself, since I've been attached to it these last five years. ^_____^
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deathchibi
anime freak of nature!!!!
Joined: Oct 17, 2007
Age: 108
Posts: 6448
Location: earth
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i have a strange image in my head with a mass murderer with a Purple fluffy chainsaw.  |
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Deus_ex_machina
Mudliquor
Joined: May 20, 2006
Age: 19
Posts: 1413
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: ...Gothspies? |
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| gekitsu wrote: | | Veresae wrote: | | I do consider myself a goth. I'm not a COMPLETE goth--I don't act exactly like every other goth, don't like every little thing that most goths like. And I also consider myself a geek. |
that sums me up quite well, veresae. 
id definitely say im associated to the scene somehow, but not to the degree of excluding everything else and being some kind of a goth conformist. its definitely a big part of me, but not all of me. theres geekdom, a fascination with japanese pop culture, and there also is music out there that isnt gothic but still interesting.
funny enough, i think thats more goth than following each and every patchouli rule although i dont really care about being more or less goth. |
One of the Gothest rules in is that you must have interests that aren't Goth. In fact some Goths go as far as not being into Goth at all and simply keeping the eclectic part, TheLadyMary is a good example of a Goth who isn't a Goth.
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Deus_ex_machina
Mudliquor
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Location: Australia
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| deathchibi wrote: | i guess im a happy goth (sorta) gothic architecture is excellent   |
My house was "accidentally" built in the gothic style.
Of course I did have to take up 666 jobs, but I consider that a bonus that I can live with.
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spudnik
The Dude Abides
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I feel a Goth joke coming on.
How do you get a Goth out of a tree?????
Cut the rope.
How many Goths does it take to turn on a light bulb??
Whats a light bulb.
Why is it so hard for Goths to get work?
Because all they can do is mope the floors are depress the buttons. |
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Hanwag
Sea Gull
Joined: Mar 04, 2008
Age: 31
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Veresae wrote: | | Hanwag wrote: | | I am always somehow intrigued by a subculture like this. How can so many people who think it's very important to be original express this by basically trying to be exactly the same? |
Actually, there's a LOT of variety among the different goth types (compare the victorian romantic to the rivethead in the neon-dreadlocks), and few goths claim to be original these days. Most that do are in places where goths are so uncommon that there's no goth culture to conform to. |
Ofcourse there are different types. If a subculture becomes too big there are subsubcultures etcetera. In the early 80s all Goths (don't know if the name existed in this way then, so the Avant-la-Lettres). To be more precise I have nothing against Goths as people and as a subculture as such there is nothing wrong with it. I am just always surprised by people saying things like 'to be a real .... you have to ....' or 'you can't do....'. That seems like binding oneself.
Hmmm, basically I am just saying I like eclectisism .
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0_equals_true
Quack!
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Location: London
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| Well I like cold/dark wave, etherial, phychobilly and some old school goth like The Cure. I wouldn't really call myself a goth. I like the music, not that fussed about the culture and besides I like a wide range of styles of music. |
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spudnik
The Dude Abides
Joined: Feb 20, 2008
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| People would always assume I was Goth, I thought they were very confused, I was into the Ramones and always wore black jeans and the Black Ramones t-shirt, its all I wore for 20 years, I do like some goth music, but consider goths to be to dramatic |
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Aridarr
the Homicidal Maniac
Joined: Oct 01, 2005
Age: 20
Posts: 1293
Location: Over the stars...?
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A bit, but not exactly. It's too complicated to explain.
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Kirov
Blue Jay
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Joined: Feb 05, 2008
Age: 21
Posts: 81
Location: Rzhev
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| I plead the Foamy Amendment. <_< |
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MrFrancisAndrew
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Apr 06, 2008
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| I don't claim to be anything. |
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