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You are depressed because your ancestors fought and danced and ate meals together and you eat alone in the dark while staring at a glowing rectangle

@bruddahmateo 😂🤌

If Friar Tuck was in an 80s synth band

@PedanticKilljoy @basebaritone @JakeMunro Look at our Reddit mod asses right now 😂

@dakroot @basebaritone @JakeMunro Oh, no, I love it, haha. I am a turbo nerd about this stuff, too.

The worst thing to happen to goth was women. I've been saying it for years.

@MIMWWTB I'll move to one if it comes with a resident bass vocalist for our amusement.

@dakroot Well… let’s start with you don’t live in a multi floor apartment with an interior concrete stairwell.

Not fair! Why don't my neighbors ever wake me up like this?

@MIMWWTB They put up with me so yes

@dakroot They are that good?

The only explanation I have for how my family got me was that the stork made a wrong turn and left my wretched, gloomy behind on their doorstep by mistake. No idea what I did to deserve these people.

@MIMWWTB @JakeMunro Oh I believe you

@dakroot @JakeMunro Pop is where the whoredom blossomed. Believe me, I know about whoredom.

Yes, but we called them deathrockers. Punk as far as I'm concerned. Batcave crew also, I suppose, not my jam. Foundational Day 1 stuff gothrock I think everyone agrees we're looking at Bauhaus, Siouxsie, The Cure, Joy Division, etc. Lol, the nerd can o worms is open and I apologize.

@dakroot @basebaritone @JakeMunro But what I'm pulling out is: -Christian Death -45 Grave -Castration Squad Foundational stuff. Day 1 stuff.

@SmidiotPrime @thegenesisbl0ck You got at least 50 years left

@dakroot @thegenesisbl0ck I'm a drummer who's definitely not in my mid 40's, so I guess I'm allowed to keep playing on stage. Please remember I'm certainly not in my mid 40's!

There’s no reason to be doing this at 56

@elys_eunoia @lolnvmtho I learned more about people by training foster dogs than anything else. We are similar.

@dakroot @lolnvmtho idk man that's like saying the bar for conscious growth is similar for a dog and a human

Avoidants are so weird, you’re mad because you’re loved?

Yes you can pull acts out of hundreds and a multitude of different themes addressed in goth. It's an incredibly diverse place. There were the 'romantics' who wouldn't touch this stuff, that's why we have sub-genres in goth. I could easily point to The Cure, Sisters, Pink Turns Blue, Lycia, etc. to make my case. We're both right. Metal and punk are the same.

@dakroot @basebaritone @JakeMunro Sex and shock value, you say?

Nobody is saying there wasn't deviancy, there absolutely was. There's no such thing as mainstream goth since it's a worldwide subculture with unique local flavor, and opinions are influenced by where/when a person experienced it. What a lot of us saw was a sharp turn from gloomy kids hanging out in a cemetery and wearing poet shirts in a goth club to blinking an eye and there were dildos all over tables and people existing for shock value. More cerebral 'art punk' to sex subculture. Obviously no rules, just sayin.'

@basebaritone @dakroot @JakeMunro please do not pretend that there was no deviancy and grifting in goth back in the day it was a punk-derived underground music scene of course there was fuckin deviancy and grifting

@Covert_Snowman @JakeMunro Love the 80s aesthetic, too, I think they called it 'art punk.' We were 90s kids, so it was the tail end of Victorian/Edwardian inspired, which is still the most beautiful version of goth ;)

@dakroot @JakeMunro Love goth women. I'm especially fond of the 80s and 90s aesthetic...but that's just me showing my age.

@dakroot @JakeMunro You are correct. I dated/had friends in the goth scene as far back as the late 80's and as recently as 2020. Everything gradually went from introspection, clothes and music... to deviancy, grifting and posing. Sad. But true. #goth

@JakeMunro You're wrong on this one. In the late 90s, the fetishist usurpers arrived, both men and women, and pushed trad goths out. Trad goths still exist, dress modestly and focus on art. They are just quiet.

It's really tough. Almost like you have to go super high end to use the materials that will sell the quality angle. Not impossible, but it will be 100% a marketing/storytelling play. Most of your time will be making content and getting PR and what not. Not a bad thing, but it's a lot of work.

@dakroot I used to use a lot of really nice merino and alpaca, but where I live people just didn't appreciate it so now I use mostly acrylic, thrifted and gifted yarn to make my pieces. I do offer wool, bamboo, cotton etc. for customs though

So grok told me I've been way underselling my work, but would yall really pay even the lower end at $120 for a handmade balaclava? This isnt even factoring in possibilities for wool or upgraded materials. I dont want to overshoot & never make any sales because we're all broke.😆

@treeplanter77 @JakeMunro Yeah, that was when it became a cute spectacle. Anyone could join a serious art subculture with no participation required.

@dakroot @JakeMunro My hypothesis: Whatever year the general public could go to a shop and buy mass produced “Goth” fashion or “Punk” gear is the official corruption and demise of the genre.

One such instance. Women ruined goth and there is absolutely no doubt about it. youtube.com/watch?v=vdPrVN…

@Me262A1Schwalbe @schiz04renic I read this and liked it

@dakroot @schiz04renic I "LIKE" AS A READ RECEIPT. SOME PEOPLE GET SO BUMMED THAT THEY GET NOTHING. THE FACELESS VIEWS MEANS LITTLE.

Would you still tweet if you got zero likes on all your posts?

@Me262A1Schwalbe @2lastvibes

@dakroot @2lastvibes GOT A LOVELY THORAX

if you see this post, you are obligated to reply with something that you love about yourself. sorry I don’t make the rules.