Before Gothic/Before Industrial.

Pathogen. · 06-10-2005, 12:33 PM

Gothic.net Forums folks: What were you like before you became Gothics or Rivetheads? Call it curiosity--

tekajo · 06-10-2005, 02:06 PM

:?:

Well. i don't recall being anything else than what i am right now. Albeit a few years ago i was alot slimmer and slightly less annoyed by idiotic questions.

:?

Deadhymn · 06-10-2005, 07:39 PM

I think this falls inside of the forbidden zone of thread topics right along side "whats goth" "how goth R U", "what does it mean 2 B Goth", etc...

BUT I'll leave it open for punishment's sake....unless someone requests it be banished to the bottom of the page.

winged_dreams · 06-10-2005, 07:54 PM

I was a geeky girl whose geekiness only increases with time. XD

edible_eye · 06-10-2005, 08:18 PM

winged - you're a liar.

you were a geeky girl who turned hot as hell.
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as for - what i was - i'm pretty much the same "then" as i am "now", i guess. i haven't changed much over the years.

i wouldn't say i'm a goth, period - although, after being at this site, and meeting so many awesome and so many shitty people claiming to be goths, i guess i now have a better understanding of some of my "gothic-like" characteristics.

i like beer.

Pathogen. · 06-14-2005, 05:58 PM

Before I became a Gothic, I was a Punk. Before that, a Metalhead [even in those days, I've been attracted to dark, esoteric things, wore all black & sported a trench]. Before that, a junior high school prankster, a Black Bart Simpson. And even before that, an odd little boy with a bad case of A.D.D. & no friends. My evolution in a nutshell.

CptSternn · 06-15-2005, 02:51 AM

Punk rock, then came the MiSFiTS, and the rest is history.

WolfMoon · 06-15-2005, 11:16 AM

Quote:

=> It takes a village to raise a child to hate all of the people in the next village <=

It takes a Viking to raze a village.

:P

Jane13 · 09-02-2005, 07:31 PM

I was a morbid kid who didn't want to seem morbid, so I tried being a hippy... but I hate the idea of doing drugs and I get anxiety attacks around people and I love wearing socks.

How many boards would the Mongols hoard of the Mongol hoards got bored?

winged_dreams · 09-02-2005, 08:55 PM

I can't say I'm a gothic or a rivethead. I do enjoy goth music but that's about it. And I'm still a nerd (just thought I update you).

ElendarSilvermoon · 09-02-2005, 09:41 PM

I used to be the ultimate wigger, but now I'm more like, Legolas meets Lestat or some shit. My official nickname around school is elfy, for obvious reasons. :P

Spazik · 09-02-2005, 10:07 PM

I was just your typical hooded-sweater wearing Nor-cal kid. I didn't start dressing goth until I grew up and started going clubbing/raving.

Loy · 09-03-2005, 06:47 PM

What was I before I was goth/rivet/whatever retarded name people come up with nowadays? That would assume that I AM goth/rivet/whatever. However, I hate cloves, I like wearing primary colors, I think Tim Burton and David Lynch are worthless hacks (as well as Marylin Manson and all those damend date-**** rock bands), I know how to put on make-up properly, and I don't pull the "I'm so depressed" line whenever I wanna get laid.

As far as what I was/am...who the fuck cares? Are you really THAT insecure that you not only need to label yourself, but need to see how others define(d) themselves just so you have a template you can copy?

Bodnoirbabe · 09-03-2005, 08:19 PM

i wasn't anything i guess. I mean, in high school, my friends and i were just ourselves. We didn't wear trendy clothes, but we didn't dress like freaks. I mean, sometimes i would get into an odd mood and want to dress weird. So i would get black leggings and wear black shorts over them with a black t-shirt. i guess that was the start of my goth clothing. heh.

Anyhow, it wasn't really until college that i even knew what "goth" was. And i started wanting to learn more about it, because it seemed to be how i felt quite often. Not the depressed psuedo-goth mope, but the artistic, philisophical aspect. And i loved the style. i thought it was romantic and beutifully individual. A lot of the Goths that i knew created their own clothes. And i liked that.

So, yeah, i immersed myself in it. I'm still friends with the same old girls, and i'm the only one who is gothic.

MondoHeather · 09-03-2005, 11:37 PM

I've always been into art that leaned more towards the darker side of life. But I also grew up loving Cyndi Lauper and He-Man. In my teen years, I was more into researching early punk, new wave, and 70's power pop music. But I also tried to look like a vampy 20's flapper, with not much success.

In other words, I'm not quite sure what the hell I was.

1TOOMANY · 09-07-2005, 01:44 PM

I got into punk and goth through skating and continue to skate and listen to the same and still skate. That was since I was 11.
I remember my first punk rock song I heard was Code Blue(fuck the dead) by T.S.O.L. at age 10 I was like WTF, I couldn't quite wrap my lil head around it! Then on I was addicted!

MrMaelstrom · 09-08-2005, 08:57 AM

I was God, and then I repented treating you guys like this, I also got bored of listening to worthless prayers (I hate junk mail), so I joined the ranks of the desilusioned. I just hate it that I gave you free will and you still blame me fore the shit you pull.

Yes, I really was God. Why do you think my appearance is still called THE BIG BANG?

GAAAHHHH · 09-11-2005, 07:21 PM

Nobody considers me goth, but most of my friends think I'm creepy. I think I've always been that way.

Selena · 09-12-2005, 03:31 PM

Difficult to say, since I don't consider myself a goth.

But I used to be a hippie...

xxMusicAddictxx · 09-21-2005, 02:21 PM

well, I was more of a punk when I was in middle school. But I liked the whole "gothic" thing when I found out what it was. I don't label myself as a goth but all the people at my high school say I am. Oh well.

(-$|N-) · 09-21-2005, 02:41 PM

I was heavily into sports and stuff until I lost the most important person in the world, my mother. She died when I was 7 and I kind of just shut myself off from the rest of the world. Created a small group of friends in my catholic school who had similiar expeariances when I moved to Pittsburgh. My friend Joe had his father commit suicide, so we kind of knew what the other was going through. Anyways when I went to high school with entirely different people there were very few people who I could relate to and they were into punk and related material, so I got hooked by alot of what they had around. Then the main person I looked up to got kicked out of our high school due to these assholes fucking with him constantly. After that I started to get more into harder music and alot of the people I hung out with came and went until I graduated and now my ass is constantly trying to get a electrical job which is difficult due to the lack of automobile, I have also seperated myself from the people in high school so I am rather a loner. So thats what I did before I was and while becoming, dont get me wrong theres alot more that went on but it is not worth getting into.

Black Gestalt · 09-21-2005, 05:53 PM

I am not labeled. Never was, never really could be.

Music wise, I used to be very into industrial. I guess thats were my music interest started. Thats maybe 6th grade, I dunno. I have branched out into too many genres to count.

Personality wise, I have always been a bit of a loner, an art nerd, somewhat hypocritical.

But not labeled.

demoncross · 09-26-2005, 05:22 PM

I was the pale kid that during recess that would sit behind a building, in the shade, read a book, wear heaphones and an overcoat (in mid July in Baja California), black sun glasses and I used to listen to heavy metal and punk but I never liked either style, I also listened to classical music. This is during 5th grade, when you begin to choose your own style. When I went to school I would cut across an abandoned cemetary and when I ditched I almost always went there. This is way before I knew what goth was.

Frozeninside · 09-28-2005, 10:48 AM

I've pretty much had the same style/look since I was atleast 15. With a few changes you know hair, size and the what not.

demoncross · 09-28-2005, 03:01 PM

Yes Frozeninside, I have found that for some reason on most cases one sorta chooses a style and then we find a subculture that fits the style/music and presto. Its almost like the style chooses you. You don't wake up one morning and say "Ok, this winter I will be Goth and then in the summer i'll be a pinky-snob"

Well there is Jamie, but we love her anyway