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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally just a woman

hot!

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago (1 children)

pale white woman

There's a difference

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She just doesn't age, does she?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Like fine Wine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Stop turning us on like that

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Does it count when I put on black nail polish? 💅🏻🖤

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

It’s black lipstick. That’s where goth begins

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

No, that's emo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

As long as it's on the toenails too

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Black hair helps. Black lipstick is a sure sign.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wish I could get into the accessorizing. I bought studded bracelets and got a rash :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

apparel dermatitis SUCKS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I consider goth more a state of mind, myself.

[–] blockheadjt 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Classy 1 points 2 days ago

Goth is closer to metal and classical to me, too, artistically. Type O, Evanescence, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

"Leave me alewn, I just want coffeh!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why would a heart be bone-encrusted?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Iirc he had some condition or another that turned parts of his organs into bone. also iirc it was his liver, but they thought it was his heart.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

She seems nice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

or nail Polish

I didn't read that as you intended initially.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Goth e-girls are just Polish femboys

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Bring it, will not fix it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

All Latinas are goth

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