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Had “Mermaids” from Florence + the Machine in my head a lot lately and did a little comic of one of the verses 🧜🏻‍♀️

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And you know what else? Sure, you can dress like people from this or that music-based subculture without listening to the music and we won’t mind as long as you don’t pretend you’re part of it or spread misinformation about it.

But don’t you want to know the music that inspired the looks you’re so attracted to? Because, that’s the thing, at least speaking regarding goth, the fashion didn’t just occur to us, we started dressing the way we do inspired not only by musicians with an iconic form of dress, but by the music itself. Sound and appearance usually go hand in hand.

In the 90s Medieval and Renaissance inspired clothing was so popular not by mere coincidence, but because Ethereal Wave was at its peak. The girls dressed in long velvet gowns with dripping bell sleeves, who had impossibly long hair, were listening to a lot of Faith and the Muse, Mors Syphilitica, Dead Can Dance, Lycia and Sopor Aeternus.

The girls dressed in babydoll dresses, with pigtails, maryjanes and such are more than likely Switchblade Symphony fans.

The people dressed in leather and latex with a lot of fetish gear are most likely listening to a lot of Darkwave and/or to bands like Two Witches, Athamay or Umbra et Imago.

The people dressed like Victorian vampires are probably listening to a lot of Inkubus Sukkubus, Vampyrëan, Nosferatu, Paralysed Age and Witching Hour UK.

AND SO ON.

You don’t have to like it, if you don’t then you don’t, but if you haven’t given the music a proper chance AND you’re so intrigued by the fashion that is inspired by said music, how come you have such little interest and commitment as to not even dip your toes properly? Again, if it turns out to not be your thing, fine, just don’t spread misinfo. But who knows? You could be missing out on music you would fall in love with if you gave it a chance.

(Before there’s any misunderstandings, this does NOT mean that a goth who dresses a certain way 1) has to prefer goth music that is associated most with that style of clothing, or 2) can ONLY dress in that style, most goths mix and match or dress in different substyles depending on our moods.)

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i hate you e-tickets. give me a little keepsake or die

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still can't get over the fact that Spike was supposed to just be The Villain's Servant who was supposed to die after restoring her to power and then he accidentally built a cult fanbase and stayed on as a main cast member for 4 more seasons instead. king shit.

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Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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Brian Froud, Queen of the Bad Faeries

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

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Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?! Buffy the Vampire Slayer | spike + the scoobies

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think of vampires

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The Dark Crystal (1982)

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Between Ryan Gosling Ken and Benoit Blanc I'm starting to think that it's some sort of animal abuse to keep casting big name actors in stoic macho manly man rolls instead of giving them goofy little guys to play. Like look at them their coats are shiny, they seem so much more lively and energetic. We need to make sure all actors have enough goofy little guys to play before peta gets involved.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1.03 | "Witch"

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Bluebeard by Marjolaine Roller

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palazzo corsini, firenze, grotta

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冬眠