Trying to convince the drunk frat boy who is hitting on you that you really are a guy.
Big hair, small cars.
Airport metal detectors.
Nicknames such as "that gay devil worshiping freak that dyed his hair purple".
Getting your jewelry tangled in your clothes/hair.
When your pointy toe shoes/boots get caught in the holes in the hem of your skirt.
Wearing a black turtleneck when it's 90 degrees outside.
Accidentally removing someone's nose ring with your spiked bracelet while dancing.
Getting people to look you in the eyes when you talk to them.
Getting your slave bracelet caught in your fishnets.
People declaring that your eyes are yellow, when, in fact, they are green.
Having to reach for the salt with one hand while holding back your sleeve with the other so it doesn't drag in the gravy.
Trying to find your possessions in an all black room.
Trying to get the hair-dye stains out of your towels, sink, floors, doors, ceilings, carpets, pets, furniture.
Being asked to defend your entire existence in 30 seconds or less.
Finding a detergent to get those blacks blacker.
Having little kids tug on their parent's arm and say, "Look, Mommy, isn't she pretty? I want to look like her!" while the parents grab the child and run for it.
Trying to wash dishes with those flowing sleeves.
Going out in the winter and having all the metal stuff you are wearing freeze against your exposed skin.
Getting your skirt caught on anything and everything.
Lending your eyeliner to a friend and finding out later that he's returned it without mentioning that he completely emptied the entire brand new tube.
Trying to buy mundane clothes to go job hunting in and not being able to bring yourself to buy anything with enough color.
The salt stains on the hems of skirts in winter.
Not being able to climb really small stairs because the pointy toes on your pixie boots stick out past your toes enough that you can't get your actual toes on the steps.
Trying to stand up, and getting the hooks on your left boot caught in the fishnets on your right leg. And managing to look graceful while extricating yourself.
Dancing in a corset.
Attempting to explain Goth to anyone.
Driving in a rather large cloak.
Having to wash black lipstick off of your neck.
Wearing 24 rings and getting them all stuck in various bits of lace and fishnet (not all of it yours).
Having to rush out of bed the moment you wake up just so you can get to the bank before it closes.
Convincing someone that you are straight even though you are a man wearing a skirt and makeup.
Trying to find women's clothes that fit you without it looking too obvious that that is what you are trying to do.
Wearing that HUGE cross you just bought to the club, spinning around, and knocking yourself out.
Finding that your freshly washed black t-shirt is covered in bits of lint, which while undetectable by the naked eye, show up very well under UV, thereby making you appear to have terminal dandruff.
Waking up with the most painful hangover ever, walking to the little store to get aspirin, thinking "Damn even my feet hurt like hell". Then realizing that your wearing someone else's boot's.
Trying to get seated so that the eye that you made up just right will be the one facing outward.
Wanting to go and play out in the rain but fearing it'll ruin your hair.
Being unable to decide which rings look best over the black lace gloves.
Fearing your sharply filed nails will ruin your mesh shirt!
Finding that your cape gets in the way of your cleaning tools when going to work at the graveyard.
Getting a sunburn right through your t-shirt.
Trying to ride a bicycle with a long black skirt.
Trying to ride a bicycle without reminding the people you pass of Miss Elmira Gulch, forcing them to hum the wicked witch theme from The Wizard of Oz.
Trying to type with your lace gloves on.
Everybody still thinks you are a Devil-worshiper despite all your explanations, especially if you tell them you are Pagan.
Other Pagans/Wiccans don't take you seriously because of what you look like.
Menstrual blood doesn't show that well on black panties, so you might not notice your period's began before it's too late!
Accidentally kicking things and having parts fly off because you're wearing steel toes boots.
Brushing against walls and having chips fly off because of your spiked bracelet.
Having to avoid potential self-mutilation after just finishing filing one's nails to a point.
When it's cold, your nose will be red no matter how much make-up you have on.
Trying to explain to people that the scars up and down your arms really ARE from your cat.
The extensive hair loss caused from bleaching and re-bleaching hair.
Trying to find a soap that will remove the purple hair dye stains from your hands and face.
Flicking through a magazine or a newspaper with velvet gloves on.
Trying to tell someone that you admire their footwear without making it sound like a come-on.
Why do you dress like that? Wasn't Halloween last month? What's wrong with you? Such common questions, and all stem from the single biggest curiosity about gothic lifestyle: What is being Goth all about?
Well, the best source to check is probably -- other goths! Here are the musings of folks over on the forums of Goth Blog regarding the subject.
Being goth is not about fashion. It's about how you live your life and how you view life. It's appreciating the beauty in the darkness. Laughing at dark humor. It's NOT about wearing all black, painting your face white, and being depressed. If you want to paint your nails, do it. If you don't want to, then don't. You also sound like you think you have to wear white makeup and black eyeliner to be goth. Just so you know, you don't have to be pale as fuck to be goth. It's mainly just a personal preference. Personally I like being pale, but I know goths who are tan or have naturally dark skin. Bottom line is be who you want to be and fuck what everyone else thinks of you. As long as you are true to yourself and dress in things that you like, you can't go wrong.
Goth is so difficult to define. But what it means to me: enjoying the darker side of life, dark humor, appreciation of darker side of things in general.
To me, Goth is about freedom from convention, and an embrace of the intellect, literature and art, as individual as there are people who embrace it.
To me Goth is a state of mind, its somthing your born with. maybe you don't know it til you get older, but it is somthiogn you do not grow out of, its not a phase. we are artistic, free thinking people, who look at the darker side of life and laugh. Alot of adult goths end up in jobs where their allowed to be somewhat creative and be themselves, IT guys, engeneers, businessmen, artists. when i went on the cruise i met goths who had jobs i never could have imagined. and enjoyed listening to how they incorporated goth into their work and daily lives. No matter wher ei go in my life i will always be goth. its not all doom and gloom, its not all black. but those are parts of it too. so is music, art, books, goth has its hands everywhere. Anyways so thats what Goth is to me..whats it to you?
To me Goth is not only fashion or choice. You have people who make themselves goth and those who are natural goths. the ones that try to be goth are either trying to rebel against their parents or are trying to be something they are niot. you either are or you arnt. It's finding that instead of being afriad of dark things it's embracing them. for me, goth lets me live outside expectations of my family and teacher's and set my own expectations for myself.
Those who refuse to stray from death and gloom because they are so "goth" or they can't be happy because they are "goth as fuck", aren't really goth. That's not what being goth is about. Unfortunately there are a lot of douche bags out there giving goths a bad name.
Goth is someone who finds beauty in dark places.
i agree with pretty much every body on "goth is" because honestly I dont think there is a wrong answer... I believe it is being understand to everyone or trying to be at least... goth is who are are and what you do and every part of you... or maybe thats just me if so would not be the first time
This is Not Goth
Goth Love
- "Excuse me, sir/madame. Could I ask you, were we tortured and then burned at the stake as Agnostic Cathar Heretics by the Spanish Inquisition during intimately linked previous lives in the early 12th century?"
- "Hey, is that a really long black liner in your pocket or do you carry your own brand of black current all of the time?"
- "Go out with me or I'll kill us both."
- "You've stolen my heart away. Luckily, I've got another three or four in the freezer."
- "You should come home with me. We match."
- "Wow. That outfit must make a lot of noise in the dryer, huh."
- "Nice boots, wanna meaningful relationship?"
- "Tell me, is your heart as cold and black as your eyes?"
- "What do you think of the principles of Sacred Geometry with respect to Gothic Architecture?"
- "You're cute. Mind if I use you so I can impress my friends?"
- "Pardon me, but would you mind if I looked down your pants for a sec?"
- "Are you neurotic, too?"
- "Excuse me, but your veil is caught in my handcuffs..."
- "I'd kill myself for you, I'd kill you for myself."
- "Hi, I'm a necrophiliac. How well can you play dead?"
- "What's a nice goth like you doing in a place like this?"
- "My body is a temple -- take me home and desecrate me!"
- "The colour of your eyes remind me of the window cleaner I drink to cleanse my soul...[grab person]... CLEANSE ME!!"
- "I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave."
- "I have been dreaming of you, and writing erotic fantasies about you for the entire year since we met. Will you come and sit with me and let me tell you one of them?"
- "Want to be my Master for the night?"
- "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder."
- "Got a light? No? Well, then I'll just have to hold this clove cigarette up against you because you're hotter than the Inferno itself!"
- "Your hair is the color of my soul."
- "Hi, I seemed to have misplaced my black lipstick, can I borrow some off your mouth?"
- "Your pants are so shiny, I can see myself in them."
What self-respecting goth needs a pickup line? Life is pain! Here's a selection of goth breakup lines:"You're not weird enough."
"You have no more t-shirts I want to borrow."
"Ummm... I just realised something about my sexuality"
"Monogamy, what's that?"
"Will you marry me?"
"What? We're a couple?"
"Hmmm.. I thought you'd be dead by now."
"I much prefer coffee"
"I've been feeling a bit strange lately."
"You just look better than me in my skirts."
"I was hoping we could just go back to being enemies..."
"I'm really sorry, hon. But either we break up, or one of us dies."
"It's just not going to work. You're human, and I'm not."
"My parents don't hate you as much as I hoped they would."
"You're just too nice. More like a friend than a lover."
"You're not evil enough for me to have a serious relationship with."
"You have my permission to see other people if you want."
"I can't date anyone who has never heard of George Carlin."
"I can't go out with you because I actually like you."
"I know that breaking up will mean the death of us both"
"Would it upset you terribly if we were just . . . friends with benefits?"
"No, we're not going to break up."
"You bore me."
"You wore pink last Tuesday. Get out of my sight."
"You're actually starting to cheer me up."
"You don't like sex on gravestones?"
"You gave me live flowers, how tacky."
"You want to do what? Bowling?!"
"I think your an embarrassment to me and the rest of humankind, fucking hippie!"
"By the way, we broke up. About two months ago. I forgot to tell you."
"I love you but I want to date 3 other people to be sure if this is right for me."
"You don't have any more clothes that I want to borrow."
"I think we need to have a talk about you and I... You are aware that there is no You and I.
"No, you aren't really a vampire."