rajahthemighty:

fire-fly-in-the-dark:

buttsmcgutts:

xtoxictears:

degeneratess:

babydolldn:

You want the goth subculture to continue existing? Then accept that not everyone can be an 80s goth and a 90s goth. Those times are past. There will be 2000s goths and 2010s goths and hopefully goths for many, many years to come. And there will always be differences and the scubculture is going to evolve. Stop shitting on current goths just because you you can’t change and are suffocating in your stagnation and elitism.

Say it again for the elitists in the back

HINT HINT FUCKING HINT

I didn’t realize that people were so conscious and like analytical of something like goth culture and I feel like I’ve entered the twilight zone reading everything

It was always like this, which is one of the reasons I was always afraid to label myself as such when I was a kid in the 90s and early 2000s, because I had it beat into my head that I wasn’t good enough for it because I didn’t love Bauhaus and Evanescence and Nightwish didn’t count. I didn’t want people that I respected in the subculture to be mad at me, so I just complimented them on their outfits and worshipped them from afar rather than embarrassing myself and disrespecting the subculture. It wasn’t until I started seeing posts like this that I realized it was in me all along and I hadn’t allowed myself to acknowledge it because I didn’t feel “goth enough” or like I’d paid my dues. And this wasn’t till after college. It makes me kind of sad that I’ve spent so much of my life caring what elitists think. No one fucking elected you the authority. Stop getting high on your own farts and let people be happy. Take your disapproval and shove it up your ass for all I care. I don’t know why I have you so much credit in the first place if you treat newbies, or anyone for that matter, in that way.

Originally posted by repmet

Let’s not forget, being POC goth and not feeling accepted because we aren’t pale or fit the traditional idea of a goth. We’re already being made fun of by others for ‘wanting to be white’. Last thing we need is for the culture to reject us.