Becoming A Goth

[Corvus]

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[thalassa]

Re: Becoming A Goth

I always sort of thought that you couldn't become a goth so much as have to be born as one. It's sort of hard to change your ancestral DNA ...

Wrong goth....

[Cynica the Ageless]

Re: Becoming A Goth

Well it's a form of expression, isn't it. Similar to how I like to etch Lambda's and Latin phrases onto my things.

But please don't start with the music.

[Medusa]

Re: Becoming A Goth

Let's share our gothic what was I thinking pics!
Goth not smiling

Goth smiling (yes. that's a bottle of empty Alize. Right before I saw A Perfect Circle perform!) Look at that chubby face. Even my smile looks evil. Tee hee.

[Jembru]

Re: Becoming A Goth

Let's share our gothic what was I thinking pics!

Great idea! I never had much of a goth phase, although I did have a 'wear black because I'm a witch' phase in my teens. I was more general rock until about 5 years ago when I started this weird girly phase I'm going through.

Not goth, but here's me in a goth-ish outfit 6 years ago,;



Again not gothic, but definitely a 'what was I thinking' style... this is me just after I returned from Japan; I used to wear my hair like this all through uni but had to take it out for Japan. A week before I came home, I got this done in a salon in Shabuya!

[Vanish]

Re: Becoming A Goth

Replying to some others on this thread, the difference between goth and emo is that they are two different subcultures based around two different styles of music originating from a similar place and time, though emo didn't really emerge as a genre till the 90's/00s.

If you're interested in being goth in the traditional sense, I can send you a list of bands?

*is absolute goth trash*