#subculture

[drivemix]

Bauhaus

#90s #60s 70s 80s 90s #1990s #70s #60s #80s #1970s music #post punk #bauhaus #subculture

[kikkorii]

𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖟𝖚🩸

#illustration #illust #subcul #subculture #jirai kei #vampire #anzuillust #イラスト #地雷系 #地雷系女子 #地雷系ファッション #サブカル

[meloyume]

メロディといっしょに　おめかし しちゃお♡

#sanrio #my melody #subculture #jirai #jirai kei #マイメロディ #cute

[orange-catsidy]

intergender wrestling is good because you get dani luna being the power base for her 2 twinks

#dani luna #mark andrews #flash morgan webster #subculture #<thats their team name #my gifs #tna

[zerospideyhere]

Never gets old and I love it

#emo #grunge #subculture #2000s #emo brainrot #mcr fanart #my chemical romance #fall out boy #emo boy #emo shit #emo stuff #emo bands #pierce the veil

[undergroundrockpress]

The Batcave club, London (1983) Photo : Pierre Terrasson.

#Pierre Terrasson #batcave club #subculture #1983 #1980s #goth girl

[gonzos-audacity]

i dont really consider myself to be punk or grunge or goth or whatever. just a vague alternative soup. but ive never felt myself more comfortable or fitting into subculture than when i started realizing i did not have to spend a ton of money to 'look the part.'

a good 85% of my wardrobe is shit i got at thrift stores. i've started making my own jewelry. the base of my battle jacket (a sturdy, oversized denim jacket) i got for free cuz it was (accidentally) stolen. the only time i really shell out any decent money is for good shoes and handmade patches/jewelry from people on etsy.

diy can take time and resources but i guarantee the stuff you make will look far more "punk" than any pre-patched $200 jacket you buy on torrid. also its fun.

#also!!! the love you have for the things you make!!! makes the experience richer!!! #my heavy denim battle jacket is so dear to me #joy in the act of creation and in being you #i have so many thoughts about 'alternative' style and the co-opting of it by coorporations #diy #punk #grunge #goth #subculture

[onekindredspirit]

This photo is the last remaining evidence that I once stood before the mystic portal of the O.K. Corral. Everything else except memory has been taken with time, and so I deposit this remnant here in salt and light and code. The O.K. Corral was a crumbling, condemned 5 bedroom Victorian villa that featured in my life when I was young. I rented it with a friend for, initially, $40 per week. That price was later negotiated down to 'rent free'. Mr. Fox, our landlord, was seen only once more, and on that occasion he tried to sell the place to us for $10,000. The current market value is around $1.5 million ... but money isn't everything. The O.K. Corral was a 'Dude Ranch' and the definition of that is "... an all-inclusive immersive vacation that includes lodgings, meals, horseback riding, fishing and hiking and more." Okay, there was no horseback riding, fishing or hiking but there were other things going on ... and more. Interestingly, the word 'dude' has changed meaning over the last 140 years. Today 'dude' means something like 'bro' but back in the 1880's, when 'Dude Ranches' first began, it was slang for an urbanite. As I write, things continue to fall into place.

I had known my friend since I was 6 years old. I don't think I liked him much back then. He was an extrovert and pushy when getting the painting resources at school. I didn't sit with him anyway because I was a 'foreigner' and I had to sit next to the only other foreigner in the class, Elizabeth Federinko, a Ukrainian girl who couldn't speak English and drew horses all day. I think it was the horse drawing that eventually drove me crazy or maybe it was something else ... possibly bad blood. Anyway, I'll call my friend 'Bukowski'. By the time we were 20 years old I quite liked the guy. Sure there were other arenas of male competition but I found myself better equipped to deal with those. The cool thing about pushy people is that they make thing happen and 'Bukowski' was no exception. For example, he could cook. We had a litany of weirdos and 'freaks' pass through the O.K. Corral. A note to the sensitive - to be called a freak back then was the highest form of compliment in our subculture. It was all a little crazy and you would be disappointed in me if I told you about life at the O.K. Corral, so I won't. Let's talk about something else. One day 'Bukowski' decided to move to another region of New Zealand, some place warmer that would better suit a boho gentleman with alcohol thinned blood. I have rarely lived alone but for a week I did until one morning I was woken at 1am by someone sitting on the end of my bed and talking to me. I wasn't clear as to what she was saying but I wasn't at all concerned as this was probably 'normal' when you don't lock your doors. Realising I was now awake she turned on the light.

I didn't know her but I knew who she was. I'd seen her riding around the city on a Norton Commando motorcycle which had impressed me because of her small size and once she had smiled at me as we passed each other on a city street. I remember that smile, it was powerful enough to stop and turn me around. It was a beautiful smile. The following morning she returned with her possessions and we shared my bed. I feel I had been looking for this person most of my life but when you dream someone into your life there's a danger that the results may be "... reductive and diminutive and I think basically misogynistic ..." as the writer Zoe Kazan once said in an interview when discussing the 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' trope. Clementine, in the movie 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' warns Joel - "Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours". One thing though, I was never quite sure if she was my projection or if I was, in fact, the projection of her own desires. But I'm comfortable with that. We lived together. She taught me a lot. I gave her love in return. 'Clementine' eventually moved to Australia, a place better suited to her large personality. Years later I was sitting having an espresso at Fidel's Cafe on Cuba Street when 'Clementine' walked past the large plate-glass window. I had only a glimpse of her face but from that brief moment I sensed that she was not happy and that her health was not good. I didn't get up and rush out to catch up with her. I didn't run after her seeking some meaningful reunion. I let her go and watched as she disappeared into the crowd. Sometime in the not too distant past I had discovered that the person I had been looking for all through my youth and into later life was myself. I let 'Clementine' go. But the night I wrote this I dreamed of 'Clementine' and it was a beautiful dream.

- One Kindred Spirit

#original writing #photographers on tumblr #original photography #subculture

[skinheadforlife]

SKINHEAD Benitho Santos, London.

#oi! #boots #ska #bootboy #london #skinhead #skinheads #traditional skinhead #sharp skinhead #booted and proud #spanish skinhead #spanish #subculture

[53v3nfrn5]

Irina Pantaeva in ‘Escape of the Techno Vixens’ for US Harper’s Bazaar (1994) ph. Wayne Meser

#irina pantaeva #og supermodels #original supermodels #90s supermodels #90s #cyberpunk #cybercore #subway punk #subculture #urbancore #subway #city #citycore #90s fashion #futurism #futuristic fashion #aesthetic #y2k aesthetic #y2k #fashion #fashion editorial #high fashion #harpers bazaar #vogue #1994 #90s style #90s aesthetic #grunge #grungecore #urban

[xx-emowarz-xx]

Also here's the thing about Taylor Swift calling herself "goth punk". There is literally nothing stoping her from listening to a bunch of goth and punk music for inspiration and making a genre and aesthetic switch. None of us would listen to it and we'd all bully her for it but she's very rich she doesn't have to notice us doing that. But instead of putting on corpse paint she's putting on clown makeup and walking out here like "Better Than Revenge had an electric guitar in it so basically I'm super edgy." And then the egirl Swifties wonder why we gatekeep. It's because the scene is a rich subculture with audacious fashion and experimental music which pushes boundaries and y'all want to demean it until it means a girl in shien leggings who listens to Paramore but only Still Into You and Ain't It Fun. I know the same bitches who are drawing little black hearts on their cheeks and getting mad about us gatekeeping against people who have never even heard a Siouxie song are the same people who threw eraser bits into my hair in middle school when I had it teased up and bullied me for wearing a choker I made out of a belt. You want to be cool and jaded like us but you don't want to actually be cringey enough to dress like and listen to the same music as the freak tranny you went to school with who wore socks on his arms and safety pins in his ears, well guess what that's what goth and emo and punk is. When you're the outcast, and you've been singled out your whole life, dressing scary and listening to loud music and getting angry and using the aesthetics of pain and death become a way to take your power back. They can't accept and embrace that weirdo outsider element and that's why they'll never be genuine. They don't care about that shit they just want to be someone's goth gf.

#taylor swift #subculture

[drivemix]

Punk and “luber” in photo studio. Moscow. 1987. Misha Buster collection

#70s #moscow #russia #80s #90s #urss #style #fashion #punk #luber #60s 70s 80s 90s #60s #rambo #its hot #punk subculture #subculture

[kikkorii]

🐉🖤あけおめ🖤🐉

#illustration #illust #subcul #subculture #gyaru #rokku gyaru #rokku gal #gal #kimono #year of the dragon #pirceings #イラスト #ギャル #ロックギャル #きもの #あけおめ #年賀状イラスト #年賀状2024

[gothicrocks]

Credits to @m0tht33th on instagram i think

#goth #trad goth #alternative #style #subculture #goth subculture #alt subculture #bats nest #80s #gothic #gothic rock #goth fashion

[salmasfoggedforest]

Was out in some black clothes and leather with goth make up. This lil girl was staring at me so i smiled at her and she smiled back. Her mother after seeing me took her by the hand and she still looked at me as they walked away.

Hope you find your path soon, little bat <3

#goth #goth subculture #alt #alternative goth #alternative #grunge #2014 #bats #baby bat #mall goth #trad goth #subculture #subcultures #alternative subcultures #forestmurmurs #black fog

[dbs-design-by-spell]

HARAJUKU GIRL

#visual #harajuku #girl #fashion #art #hair #stylish #culture #subculture #retrospective #emotional #photo #photography #nostalgic #cute #pop #ai #midjourney #MidjourneyAI #midjourneyart #写真 #原宿 #少女 #アート #ファッション #カルチャー #サブカルチャー