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yulsbabymama · 3 months

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Disventure Camp Headcanons Part 1

AIDEN

Half Argentinian Half French Canadian

Had a huge TOP phase in middle school

Only child

Super good singer but hates hearing his voice

ALEC

Afro-Turkish and Japanese

Diagnosed w Autism when he was a child

Smokes

Started drinking shortly after he got married; relapsed after his separation w his ex

Has an older sister by 7 years

ALLY

Transgirl; came out to her grandfather and he was the only supporter she had

Definitely had obsessive love disorder when meeting Hunter the first time

Super fucking bad at dancing

Likes K-pop (Fromis_9, Stray Kids, Billlie, P1harmony, Enhypen, Stayc, aespa, ITZY)

ASHLEY

Country music defender

will actually die on the Country Music hill

like she's from Texas but she's FROM TEXAS ykwim

Transgirl; realized she was a girl at a young age and transitioned w a supporting family

Would probably roll her eyes at u if u assume she loved AppleJack when she was younger

I mean, she did

but not as much as ppl assume

CONNOR

Jewish

Despite having a booming business, he still doesn't understand technology

but he WAS a boss at programming his MySpace page

"programming is my passion" college dude

Nickelback liker

I'm so sorry

DAN

He and his sister shared a bedroom until she moved out

Actually convinced her to come back home bc he missed her

crying on his knees

"PLEASE COME HOME IT'S SO MISERABLE WITHOUT U THERE I MISS U"

blasting a radio to her favorite songs

did i mention he loves his sister

Pokemon kid

Oh, he's also autistic

DEREK

Half Filipino and half Columbian

Transguy; was an unhappy "girl" growing up and would refuse to listen to anyone who didn't call "her" by Derek

Facebook user

only to troll, tho

He tried trolling on Twitter too but Trevor had to pry the phone out of his hands

Secretly likes Trevor

and by secretly I mean he angry-cried while writing drafted emails of his confession

Barely cries or anything like that, emotionally, but angry-crying is his #1 basically

Is not a registered gun owner

DREW

Other than the notebook, he has a communication device

Adopted

Video games hurt his eyes

so do mobile games

Honestly i think he just needs glasses

likes dogs :)

ELLIE

Half Irish and Half Singaporean

Transgirl; came out in her last year of junior high

Middle child w two sisters

While struggling w her identity, she was a Pick Me girl to fit in #sad!

she ended up giving up on fitting in #gogirl

Malay's her first language

Mom passed when she was little

tolerates cats

FIORE

3/4th Italian 1/4th Chinese

hates horror movies

not bc she's scared of them or anything

she just thinks they suck

forced into a ton of shit to become normal

girlscouts, ballet, soccer, etc

she hated everything

but she can make a good cookie deal

GABBY

Has an unhealthy obsession w watching drag shows

she doesn't understand any of the lingo

she just thinks the outfits r pretty

LPS kid

also watches too much animal documentaries

will actually sit down and say "im bored, time to watch a 6 hour doc on cheetahs"

she just cray cray like that #loveher

unhealthy addiction to stickers

GRETT

Transgirl #slay

was a Toddlers & Tiaras kid

passenger princess

forces Yul to drive her places

they have almost broken up 5 times bc of this

she also genuinely forgot to tell him she was #trans

u should've seen the look on his face

when

yeah

#hedidnotcare

that's ooc but idc

she's bi :3

HUNTER

Half Chinese Half White

Dad left after his youngest sister was born

Lived in China until he was 8

He has autism

Christian btw

like pslam bunch-of-numbers in his bio

can quickly change languages like that

will talk to u in english then will answer his phone in cantonese

texts like a millennial

:/ sorry

smokes

the killers, staind, blink-182, and r.e.m fan

plays the guitar

JAKE

Half Korean Half Japanese

cannot speak those languages fluently, tho

sorry

he and his brother wrestled a lot

his brother would always win

anyways he was a theater kid

but quit bc of some drama

haha. get it ?

one of those gays who cries to mitski & ricky montgomery

but only listens to them when he needs to cry

which is often

JAMES

has been in cringe compilations before

imagine if i just ended this w just that hc

would that be funny

anyways

one of those middle schoolers who was violently supportive of the lgbtq+

like everyone knew he liked boys

except him

loves his younger sister

like a lot

they r bffies

will call her in the middle of the night randomly

"i just posted a new tiktok, go like it."

JENSEN

genuinely have nothing for him

can i just say he's dreamed of men shirtless before and end it at that

um so yeah

#disventure camp

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musings-from-an-elder-goth · 2 years

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Goth Must-Have Electronics of the 80's

"1980's: not a time period but a state of mind." - Carrie Vaughn

We goths of the 1980's certainly didn't have anything approaching the tech that's around today, but we weren't completely techless. As my goth friends and I were fairly tech savvy, we pounced on the latest gadgets whenever they seemed well suited to our needs. Most of our personal worlds revolved around goth music, and our medium of choice was the compact cassette tape. These had been around since the early 60's but they really took off in the late 70's - just in time for the arrival of goth music. Of course, there were plenty of folks who still preferred long playing records (LP's) but those had some disadvantages in our eyes - they were big and not easily carried about, it was more difficult to copy them, and they required a large record player. Since my friends and I were all preteens in the early 80's, living in our folks' houses within our small bedrooms, we didn't have much space (or money) to spare for large stereos. Best to collectively buy an album on cassette and make cheap copies. Within a few years, portability would became paramount. But first things first - boom boxes!

About 1981 or so, I dropped major cash (for an 11 year old, at least) on a Sanyo MW703 dual cassette & radio - it never broke and I was still using it well into the 90's, until I finally donated it to Goodwill. It ran on batteries, so it was portable, as well as having a plug in adapter. Although it was smaller than most boom boxes, it still had great sound quality, plus the relatively small size meant it could fit in my tiny room easily. The dual cassette feature allowed one to drop in any cassette album on one side and a blank tape on the other, press the high speed dubbing button, and that album was copied in mere minutes. Blank cassettes were about a dollar each, compared to about seven dollars for an album. The usual procedure when a new album came out was to pool our money (there were usually about 7 of us interested in any given album, so about a dollar each) and we'd assemble at someone's house to quickly copy and distribute. Shiver me timbers, but we became pirates at a young age! (Don't even get me started on how we would pirate early computer games - another story for another time.) Gothic, and some heavy metal music, were the ubiquitous sounds emanating from our rooms, usually with the added noise of a video game. (This remains the case even today - wonder when I'll grow out of this phase?)

Hot on the heals of boom boxes were the portable cassette players, in particular, the Sony Walkman. The first Walkmans were stupid expensive, but within a very short period of time, their price came within reach of us mere mortals and I quickly became more likely to forget my pants when heading out the door than to forget my Walkman. Those small, portable cassette tapes became priceless since I could carry several in the pockets of my long coat, along with spare batteries. We all quickly discovered the wonders of rechargeable batteries and with all this in place, we were the original, oblivious zombies shuffling through the mall or down the sidewalk on our way to Camelot Music or Sam Goodie for the latest release.

Digital watches had started out as clumsy train wrecks in the 70's, but by the early 80's they were finally refined into something useful. We tended to favor Casio digital watches of one variety or another, and it's quite remarkable that they still pretty much look and function the same today. They were modern, their batteries lasted forever, they were inexpensive, and they were black. Sold!

Another toy that some of us liked were cameras, either standard or instant. Several of my friends had the Polaroid OneStep, which gave instant photos to document whatever the owner thought important enough to take a pic of, although the quality was inferior to regular film cameras, the photos degraded within just a few years, and the Polaroid itself wasn't very portable.

I owned a Minolta Autopak, which took good quality photos and more importantly, fit in my pocket. Not that I ended up using it much. After the hassle of running the film in to get it developed a couple of times, my camera quickly became a forgotten paperweight. I regret not using it more, since I have almost no pictures from the 80's or 90's, but photography was so inconvenient compared to now, I can't really blame 80's me. I take more photos on any given day now with my phone than I did during all of 1985.

Rarer gizmos were the various pocket TV's that came out during the 80's. Only my wealthier friends owned these, but they were fine with loaning them out, so sometimes I became a temporary warden for one. The Sony Watchman was hands-down the best. It was pocket sized, light, possessed decent battery life and good reception. It's main drawback was that it was hard to watch in a moving vehicle since you had to keep adjusting the aerial to catch the signal, and it couldn't get cable TV, so no MTV. They were good for those family camping trips when you became so starved for media that you'd watch a farm futures report just to feel like you weren't marooned on a deserted island, but that was about it. All these small electronics became permanent additions to our wardrobes. I remember once emptying my coat pockets while looking for something in front of my Dad: Walkman, camera, batteries, cassettes, and a borrowed Watchman TV. My Dad, with a wry smirk, asked if Radio Shack had opened a new store in my pockets.

Then there was the VCR (only serial killers owned a betamax). My family didn't have one until about 1984, but a couple of my friend's families had them as early as 1981, so I was familiar enough with them fairly early. For myself, and most of my friends, there just wasn't enough to interest us on TV, so we really didn't have a need to tape much, with the rare exception such as the V mini-series or episodes of Tales from the Darkside. It wasn't until about 1985 or 1986 that video rental stores became common enough that you could rent movies (Blockbuster started in 1985) and that became a big hit with my little group of friends - suddenly, every horror movie ever made was available to rent and we were all over that! Plus, if you could get your hands on one of the catalogs from the video rental store, you'd discover there were videos of concerts and music video collections that could be purchased, albeit at a high price. I literally watched my Sisters of Mercy tape so much, it wore out. Then in 1986, MTV introduced the 120 Minutes show. Most of the videos for any given episode were not anything I was interested in, but there was always the potential to catch a goth video by The Cure, or The Damned, Sisters of Mercy, etc, so I would tape each episode then watch the next day to see if I'd caught anything good. If I had, I'd save that tape and eventually take several along with my VCR to a friend's house. We'd hook the VCR's to each other and copy the good videos onto one tape. Then copy that tape and share it. I did this for over two years, only finally stopping when I went to college. I'd still watch 120 Minutes from time to time, but I'd stopped by the time I finished school.

And, of course, there were video and computer games galore during the 80's. I personally owned an Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, and Commodore 64. I didn't own a Nintendo or a Sega, but most of my friends had one or the other, or both, so I still got to play those plenty. One acquaintance of mine owned a Vectrex, which I thought was amazing, but I just didn't have the money for yet another system. There were a few gothy games my friends and I were bananas about (see my previous blog - Top Ten Goth Console Games of the 80's) and dozens of others that were somewhat gothy. Hand held games were also ubiquitous amongst us, since they gave one something to do during two player games where you had to take turns. One called Split Second from 1980 was addictive enough that I think we each had one of our own and, years later, we all bought Game Boys within weeks of it being released. I still have a Game Boy, though the one I bought in 1989 broke around 2002, so I'm on my second one, a purple Game Boy Color. But the Tetris cartridge I have is the original one that came with the Game Boy and it still works just as well as the day I opened the box in October, 1989.

Today, all of that 80's hardware fits literally into the phone in the palm of your hand. It's a genuine marvel that all the music, TV shows, movies, music videos, and video games from that decade, can be found on the internet via a cell phone. In a very real sense, the 80's are still with us - just turn on your phone, and you're there.

creaturesfromelsewhere 3-17-2022

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