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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally just a woman

hot!

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

[–] Caboose12000 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] LouNeko 78 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

pale white woman

There's a difference

[–] GraniteM 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] LouNeko 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She just doesn't age, does she?

[–] LouNeko 4 points 2 weeks ago

Like fine Wine.

[–] Noodle07 5 points 2 weeks ago

Stop turning us on like that

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] CaptainBlagbird 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] spankmonkey 17 points 2 weeks ago

No, that's emo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

As long as it's on the toenails too

[–] pennomi 42 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

apparel dermatitis SUCKS

[–] I_Fart_Glitter 5 points 2 weeks 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] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I consider goth more a state of mind, myself.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] nifty 30 points 2 weeks 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] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Leave me alewn, I just want coffeh!"

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

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

[–] nifty 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Bacano 2 points 2 weeks 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 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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[–] dufkm 24 points 2 weeks ago

She seems nice.

[–] LovableSidekick 23 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] ikidd 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would a heart be bone-encrusted?

[–] ComicalMayhem 8 points 2 weeks 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] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Black hair helps. Black lipstick is a sure sign.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] gmtom 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] IonAddis 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

or nail Polish

I didn't read that as you intended initially.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Goth e-girls are just Polish femboys

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

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] hark 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] devfuuu 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bring it, will not fix it.

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

All Latinas are goth

[–] workerONE 2 points 2 weeks ago

Don't be different in the US!

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