Punk History Resources: Vol. 1
This is a compilation of resources found and recommended by various alternative bloggers, each of whom are credited for their contributions. This started because I was getting SO MANY asks about resources such as videos, books, and websites to use to learn about punk history. Admittedly, my own list isn't that long, so I thought it was best to reach out to some others and share their knowledge with everyone. So thank you again to everyone who helped out with this!!
@raggedyfink @lovintheaesthetic @punk-patches @my-chemical-ratz
YOUTUBE:
Punk/Goth Docs Playlist on Youtube (77 Videos) (raggedyfink)
1991 The Year Punk broke (lovintheaesthetic)
She's Real (Worse Than Queer) (lovintheaesthetic)
Don't Need You, The Herstory of Riot Grrrl (lovintheaesthetic)
The Long Queer History of Punk (lovintheaesthetic)
The very Black History of Punk Music (lovintheaesthetic)
Punk's Not Dead (lovintheaesthetic)
BOOKS:
Phantoms the Rise of La Deathrock (raggedyfink)
Too Tough to Love by Roxy Ramone (raggedyfink)
I Slept With Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh (raggedyfink)
Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock (punk-patches & lovintheaesthetic)
Encyclopedia of Punk (punk-patches)
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk, 1980-1984 (my-chemical-ratz)
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (my-chemical-ratz)
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (lovintheaesthetic & my-chemical-ratz)
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (my-chemical-ratz)
Punk Rock: An Oral History (my-chemical-ratz)
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (my-chemical-ratz)
Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture (my-chemical-ratz)
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History (my-chemical-ratz)
Spider-Punk: Banned in D.C.(this doesnt have anything to do with history but i love spider punk so) (my-chemical-ratz)
MOVIES / DOCUMENTARIES:
The Punk Singer (punk-patches)
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (punk-patches)
Punk's Not Dead (punk-patches)
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (punk-patches)
Queercore: How To Punk a Revolution (my-chemical-ratz)
Afropunk (my-chemical-ratz)
Punk in Africa (my-chemical-ratz)
A Band Called Death (my-chemical-ratz)) (link courtesy of @wrench-p, but is unavailable to watch in the US))
ARTICLES:
(some of these are found on JSTOR, but you can sign up for a free 100 articles per month)
Muslim Punk in an Alt-Right Era (my-chemical-ratz)
A History of Punk (my-chemical-ratz)
Jews, Punk and the Holocaust: From the Velvet Underground to the Ramones: The Jewish-American Story (my-chemical-ratz)
What is Punk and Why Did It Scare People So Much? (my-chemical-ratz)
An Account of a South African Punk Rock Music Collection (my-chemical-ratz)
Queer As Punk: A Guide To LGBTQIA+ Punk (my-chemical-ratz)
Did Punk Matter?: Analyzing the Practices of a Youth Subculture During the 1980s (my-chemical-ratz)
ZINES:
(some may not be *about* history, but they’re a huge part of it!)
Punk Planet archive (my-chemical-ratz & safety-pin-punk)
Queer Zine archive (I personally like the anon boy collection haha) (my-chemical-ratz)
Archive.org in general has a lot of zines :) (my-chemical-ratz)
ETC:
(These aren’t about punk history itself but could be helpful in learning about the politics that go with being punk)
A History of Punk from 1976-78: A Free Online Course from the University of Reading (safety-pin-punk)
Punk History Reading List (safety-pin-punk)
Essays about socialism (my-chemical-ratz)
Leftism 101 (my-chemical-ratz)
Rights as an American protester (my-chemical-ratz)
Social justice classes (I’m really excited to go through these!!) (my-chemical-ratz)
Stamped (my-chemical-ratz)
How To Be An Anti-Racist (my-chemical-ratz)
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (my-chemical-ratz)
I would love to make a Vol. 2 post at some point in the future, so if you have resources and want to share, PLEASE message me!!
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HIII THABK U FOR THE TRIVIA AND ASHE SONG before i take forever 2 answer those or forget here is a blank ticket to please please talk about prime defenders and their AWFUL emotional literacy and processing skills i would literally love to read that essay so much ive also been thinking about it incessantly. big eyes staring up at u.png. ok ok peace out GOODNIGHT !!!! <33
i lied actually im not going to bed im judt thinking about this ans listening to St. John on a loop now. hello catkiss.gif i forgot how youve filled me with so much joy. that cat is so fuckign cute
anyway. hi :) prime defenders huh. this is gonna be less of an essay and more of a sleepy ramble but ohhh i have so many thoughts. they all process things so differently and none of them are good at it they all need therapy so bad. ms.g where is the hero therapy why didnt you build that into w.a.t.c.h ma'am
vyncent is probably the best at actually processing things out of all of them, he just internalizes everything to the point where he wont talk about it unless hes pushed past the breaking point. vyncent is actually very.. emotionally intelligent? i want to say mature but that feels like im singling him out because hes the oldest. i just feel like because he grew up on Fauna and had to be in basically survival mode in a world full of monsters trying to kill you.. that makes a person grow up quicker than they should. i think vyncent had a good childhood and for the most part his parents took good care of him but just.. living in that world doesnt seem like it leaves room for a whole lot of expressing emotions. vyncent is good at quick analysis of a situation, but unless a problem directly interferes with the current goal he doesnt externalize it to everyone else. but bottling up his feelings and emotions just builds up pressure over time until something like the lich makes him blow up and let it all out at once, usually in a dramatic monologue format bc condi is really good at those god damn it. also they played off the fact that vyncent said all of that to the lich and then missed his attack as a funny thing but i like to think of it as. he got too overwhelmed w his emotions and lashed out too soon it made his fighting messy. vyncent is so angry and honestly after what hes been through he deserves to be !!!!
william wisp. my boy. god hes just like me fr so much so that it physically hurts sometimes. anyway. i always think back to the scene where theyre all in the cabin talking about themselves/sharing backstories and william keeps desperately trying not to talk about himself. the fact that hes so ashamed of his powers he hides wisp form every time. two of his powers are LITERALLY a) turning invisible and b) turning intangible, usually as an excuse to leave whatever situation hes in ("accidentally" falling through the floor at opportune moments in season 1) . theres. a thing that happens at the end of episode 13/beginning of epidode 14 that youre really close to and i wont spoil yet but god it has to do with this so extremely much please come back to my inbox when you get there. youll know what it is trust me. um. yeah. so anyway. i think a lot of this comes from a place of. he doesnt want anyone to be scared of him. williams not stupid hes incredibly smart and insightful he knows his powers are objectively SCARY. hes scared of himself constantly, he doesnt want anyone else to feel that way about him, so he shifts focus whenever those aspects of himself are brought up because if someone were to think about it for any amount of time theyd realize the truth that hes scary and dangerous to be around (<< william logic. hey remember how one of the reasons he originally left deadwood was because the monsters there were attracted to the wisps and therefore Him so he left to keep his friends/family out of danger)
i think a lot about williams death and the immediate aftermath, i dont know how much you actually know and how much of this comes later but . how does he go home after waking up from that. his parents know about his powers, so they MUST know what happened. what do you think he told them when he god home muddy and dirty and broken and probably bloody after being missing for. god knows how long. how does he look his mother in the eyes and tell her her little boy is dead. but hes also not because hes standing right in front of her. how the fuck do you think he felt the first time he went into wisp form and saw his body laying there !!! of course he wouldnt want to talk about that!!!! youre gonna have to pry william wisps emotions from his cold dead hands !!!!!!!
dakota's response to the ashe situation was to run away in the woods and do nothing but train for 10 months. he didnt think about it for 10 months. i dont even have a whole lot to say about dakota other than like. stunned silence whenever his inability to process trauma is brought up because grizzly does such an incredible job at being like "you ask dakota how hes doing and his face is just blank" << paraphrased actual quote from an episode i cannot remember which one. either 11 or 12 ?
also because im thinking about him im including ashe in this. we didnt get to see a whole lot of his canon reactions to extreme emotional situations so a lot of this is just coming from My Mind but ashe seems like hed be the type to repress a lot of his emotions too. being alone in your house/in your room for extended periods of time will do that to a guy. i think he feels a lot of things and will probably very openly cry/scream/get angry when hes alone but as soon as he knows another person is there he can immediately flip the switch to turn it all off like nothing happened. very much a deadpan "im fine." if someone asks how hes doing, even if hes got like. the remainder of tear tracks down his face. cannot physically express his emotions in the presence of someone else
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So Flowey, from all the characters in the game (or games if you want to add the FanMades) which is your favourite?
(AUs Flowey likes/ has friend in but would not like to say so I will hehe:
@pinkmistle06 (Pink) @the-white-soul (Kara) @foulphilosopherft (Gaster) @tremendouslamppaperhero (Goldy) @eandcheckmark-reblogs (I'm sorry he doesn't like anyone as much as the others but he is very interested in your varitions of how things work also UB!Flowey counts some)
(He has more friends don't worry!!! Those I did not tag do not get your hopes down because that's only because you don't have an undertale character he connects with. Hence why I did not tag @nyanthenyan or @grauntiemotersblog for that reason specifically even though you are friends (or for grauntie, his adoptive mother))
(So yeah, while some he feels don't matter, not everyone is just a copy!)
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Not sure if I’m doing this right but here it is. Took a lot longer than I thought it would.
I know humans and animatronics aren’t friends, but in my heart they are lol.
Sorry the Cheetah is garish. She’s my OC from like 5th grade or smth. Redesigned her for this
Aaahh!!! Friends against all odds!!!
Relations between the two kingdoms slowly calms down after the pry/ncess and moon are announced to be engaged, so this would def be possible!! (A little side eyed from ppl but who cares what they think FRIENDSHIP IS MORE IMPORTANT)
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cool so next question what is "arospike"?
AH HI I DID NOT SEE THIS LMAO
So, Im gonna guess you have an understanding of aromantic right? Where you dont feel romantic attraction.
Well, just like ace, aro has a spectrum. The ace equivalent of arospike is actually just called acespike.
But to put it simply, my ‘baseline’ attraction level is little to none. Im basically just aromantic 90% of the time. Every once in a while though, I will just get this ‘spike’ of romantic attraction targeted at a person. Usually it only lasts from a few days to like 2 weeks. But because I dont feel these emotions often, they can be REALLY overwhelming and usually (for me at least) all I can really focus on. And then once the spike is over I go back to my ‘baseline’ level
It took me a while to figure out I was a-spec actually because of that. I didnt start IDing as a-spec until half way through college, and found the term arospike existed about a year ago now? For a little while I used cupioromantic, but arospike is a LOT more accurate for me
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🥑🪲🧩
Questions from this list
🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?
Oof… probably @finntheehumaneater and @gloomysoup, my cheerleaders! ❤️ however I do know @doubledeckersofa irl and we 100% have a Pact. I’m helping her, no questions asked, and she’ll help me, no questions asked.
🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here
As my current WIP is If I Should Stay, and I’m working on part 72 currently, I won’t be sharing anything as I don’t want to spoil anything. However I did just post We’ll Help You! Can that count? 😂
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
I try never to click away immediately, but my biggest pet peeve is lack of punctuation or paragraph breaks. That’s also usually indicative of bad grammar/spelling, and I’m sorry, but I’m a grammar nerd; no matter how good the storyline may be, if the grammar is terrible, I just can’t get into it.
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