 |
|
 |
| General General questions and meet 'n greet and welcome! |
|
View Poll Results: Do you consider yourself goth?
|
|
Yes
|
   
|
27 |
55.10% |
|
No
|
  
|
22 |
44.90% |
06-04-2007, 10:21 AM
|
#26
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
Posts: 37
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ratchet
I don't think that anyone meeting me on the street would call me goth. I don't consider myself goth. I guess I don't really have any category for myself...maybe I'm more of a geek? I don't know. Anyways, I love Gothic literature and I'm working on a Gothic writing project. There is definitely a "dark place" in my mind even if I don't always convey it to the world.
|
would you tell me about your gothic writing...?
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 10:36 AM
|
#27
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
Posts: 37
|
...looking for another quotation I found this one: when in doubt, wear black and be honest...  ...
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 10:56 AM
|
#28
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
|
[quote=MollyMac]It's not ironic as most of the conversation on this site is bent torwards defining Goth and defining what is goth. It's beating the spooky, undead horse.
*thwack*
I suppose so. After all, isn't that what all people on a site like this are trying to do; to wonder, not only what Goth is as a culture, but if they identify with the culture? You call it "beating the spooky, undead horse"; I call it hitting the nail on the head.
__________________
"Live for today, but know that tomorrow always comes- even if not for you."-MollyMac
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 11:00 AM
|
#29
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: So Cal
Posts: 124
|
I put no....
I love gothic literature, movies, art, clothing and design elements. But I don't want to BE any one thing all the time. I have days when I don't look or seem goth at all.
Plus, I'm deaf so I don't listen to goth music -- I prefer stuff I can sing along to (badly) so filk is more my thing -- and I don't go to goth clubs. Deaf people have a social scene all their own and that's twisted enough for me. You have to understand that we all grow up together, go to the same schools, date the same people....the relationships end up being very close, kind of incestuous, really, and sometimes quite dark as well.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 11:11 AM
|
#30
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
|
I would like to hope so. If people ask I just say " probably "
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 11:19 AM
|
#31
|
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 18
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by FireAndIce
would you tell me about your gothic writing...?
|
Sure. I'm working on a story that is kind of my take on a Vampire story only there are no traditional vampires, just vampire story themes. When I'm actually writing it and not being completely lazy, I enjoy it so much it could be considered sinful. I've been lacking motivation for a while though.
Anyways, I wanted to ask this question...I'm new so I don't really know where it is appropriate to ask technical questions, but here I go a-asking.
I see that a lot of people post poetry on the literature board, can stories be posted there too? Not like 70 page novellas or anything, but I was thinking like 3 paragraph chunks of a story at a time (in the same thread, of course).
sorry if that was OT.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 03:34 PM
|
#32
|
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 794
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ratchet
Anyways, I wanted to ask this question...I'm new so I don't really know where it is appropriate to ask technical questions, but here I go a-asking.
I see that a lot of people post poetry on the literature board, can stories be posted there too? Not like 70 page novellas or anything, but I was thinking like 3 paragraph chunks of a story at a time (in the same thread, of course).
sorry if that was OT.
|
Yes, people post short stories in the literature thread all the time. I'm slowly working on some to contribute. My writing is more socio-political than Goth, but it seems to be o.k. here. I look forward to reading your stories.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 03:59 PM
|
#33
|
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
Posts: 1,092
|
I don't often think of myself that way, though if I honestly consider it I'd have to say yes. I'm just terribly disconnected from everyone else...
__________________
No.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 04:07 PM
|
#34
|
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: The University of New Hampshire, Durham
Posts: 110
|
"The more you deny your gothness the more gothy you are"- I forget who said that but its how people around me work. Its annoying. But I don't follow that rule. I am goth.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 04:51 PM
|
#35
|
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, BC
Posts: 1,949
|
I know what you mean. I do not think admiting it makes you less goth, it just means you have enough fucking balls to say it.
__________________
Better to be strong than pretty and useless
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 04:55 PM
|
#36
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Canadia
Posts: 1,198
|
I do not self-identify as a 'goth'.
__________________
Holding you tied, holding you tied... and I feel so happy.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:29 PM
|
#37
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
|
I do call myself a goth, because I'm in love with goth music. I feel, I KNOW that goth is a musical genre and nothing else. The "dark mindset" usually comes with the territory, but it's just icing on the cake.
I'm also really adamant and defensive about goth. Call me an angry fanboy. If you said Bauhaus released "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in 1980, I'd probably kick your ass for your inaccuracy.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:40 PM
|
#38
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
|
[quote=Aaroneet]
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by MollyMac
It's beating the spooky, undead horse.
*thwack*
|
May I have the horse's skull when you are done with it? And no, I am not goth.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:42 PM
|
#39
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
|
Feel free to take the horse's skull...
__________________
"Live for today, but know that tomorrow always comes- even if not for you."-MollyMac
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:46 PM
|
#40
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Jax-FL
Posts: 106
|
I identify myself as gothic. If there's one thing I learned in high school before graduating, is that identifying with a sub-culture and accepting it's stereotypes ( not emulating those stereotypes, just accepting that they exist), laughing at the jokes people make about you ( which catches them off guard and then makes them interested in learning more about who you are instead of what you are), and daring to do what others will not, is that people will respect you. It's weird, but I was one of the most respected and influential persons at my school. Which shocked me.
It reminds me of something my 5th grade teacher posed to us. " Who are you?" We all answered with our names and stuff like that. I knew what I was and I knew my name, but I didn't grasp that those things were not who I am. "Gothic" is not who I am as it's too broad, but it's good step in learning who I am.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Draconysius
If you say "A.F.I." and "gothic" in the same sentence, I'll kick your ass.
|
What if the sentence is "AFI is not gothic"? Still gonna kick my ass? :C
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:52 PM
|
#41
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Philasphyxia
Posts: 156
|
LOL
That means probably not.
__________________
-Le Magnifique
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 06:53 PM
|
#42
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In between the gods of time
Posts: 1,334
|
Will I sound like a dumbass if I ask who AFI is? =S
__________________
To the somethingness
Which prevents the nothingness
Like Homer's wild boar
From trashing this way and that
Its white tusks
Through human beings
Like crackling stalks
And to nothing less
I offer this suffering of my father
"The Offering" - Stan Rice
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 07:02 PM
|
#43
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 574
|
I don't think I am a goth, but I could be confused with one. Many things goth make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
__________________
I'm sorry, I did not mean to throw up on your shoe.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 07:07 PM
|
#44
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In between the gods of time
Posts: 1,334
|
Well, Goth would be the only sub-culture I would fit in to.
Though, I am an individual and there are many things about me that aren't goth as well. I don't think there is nearley anyone who fits in to an exact stereo-type....
I don't like really use labels anyway- I am who I am- but if you were to place me anywhere, it would be here.
__________________
To the somethingness
Which prevents the nothingness
Like Homer's wild boar
From trashing this way and that
Its white tusks
Through human beings
Like crackling stalks
And to nothing less
I offer this suffering of my father
"The Offering" - Stan Rice
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 07:52 PM
|
#46
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In between the gods of time
Posts: 1,334
|
lol, I could see that [someone confusing you for a goth] =P
__________________
To the somethingness
Which prevents the nothingness
Like Homer's wild boar
From trashing this way and that
Its white tusks
Through human beings
Like crackling stalks
And to nothing less
I offer this suffering of my father
"The Offering" - Stan Rice
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 08:04 PM
|
#47
|
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 87
|
I call myself goth only so far as it helps me educate people. I won't go around saying I'm goth, but if I see teenagers talking about how goth Korn is, I will intervene and educate them. Self-identification helps with that. I actually find myself educating adults way too often. A 26-year-old tried to tell me once that goth had its peak in the 90s. I had to step in.
The thing I will never do is call myself a goth and nothing else. I prefer calling myself a fan of gothic things, because that allows me to be other things as well.
And besides, my friends call me a goth enough as is.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2007, 09:48 PM
|
#48
|
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, BC
Posts: 1,949
|
Lovely
people became brave
__________________
Better to be strong than pretty and useless
|
|
|
|
|
06-05-2007, 06:11 AM
|
#49
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
|
I identify myself as awesome.
|
|
|
|
|
06-05-2007, 09:57 AM
|
#50
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Seraphynth
What if the sentence is "AFI is not gothic"? Still gonna kick my ass? :C
|
Arrrgh! Technicality! I wouldn't kick your ass then.
Have you all noticed that it's very easy to tell the difference between a real goth and a baby bat?
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 04:15 PM.
|
|
The Council of Days - traditional goth rock
