^I never understand that- I do see people say it a lot. But then, I don't see goth as just what people wear, although it is clearly also a fashion category. Besides... black comes in all price ranges. I think people must be referring to particular styles that fall under the goth umbrella.
Personally, I don't see Steampunk as falling under the goth umbrella- it can go there, but it's not automatically. I do see dark Victorian and dark neoVic as that, because of the Dark part. But there is a reason why most goth lists and groups have been banning the 'what is goth' question since the 90s. It has no simple answer.
I didn't start this thread- if I had, I think I'd have asked if there were any dark-subculture or dark-aesthetic mers, because it covers so much more, and so many more people. Still, don't take that wrong. I'm glad for this thread.
On FB, there is this thing people call Throwback Thursday. I posted a pic of me at 16, and I was thinking of how long it's been my subculture, the one I always came back to, no matter how many changes my life and self took. And why- because while I have *never* fit in anywhere, and always feel out of place everywhere, and I am used to that- even here, I don't feel I fit in and I don't mesh with other mers like some do- the goth subculture is the one place that I didn't feel so different. So while I never tried to fit in anywhere, and I didn't change who I was because of feeling so out of place, actually coming to a place where I don't feel like I'm sticking out like a sore thumb just feels nice now and then. I don't actually like attention. I've always accepted that if I look something out of the mainstream (something that is so common now, but when I was in my teens colorful hair got us kicked out of school, not to mention- ideas of what is mainstream have seriously changed over time) I would have to accept attention, even if I didn't like it. I love the goth subculture, and other dark aesthetic subcultural realms, for having allowed me to not feel like I'm being stared at just for wearing what I like. I needed that back then. Heck, I like it now, too.
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