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Giga · 04-22-2004, 08:43 AM

Well, I'm not a real goth but I believe most people who are creative and like dark things by nature have a possibility of evolving into goth culture.

I grew up in a "normal" (normal in: non-goth, non-molesting, non-junkie, non-ultrarich, just classical middle class family) and from my earliest ages I loved horror movies, I liked undead, I liked all those terrible things that made the rest of my family shudder. I always liked to draw and at the age of 7 I began drawing comics which quickly evolved. I was always creative, making campaigns for WarCraft II and StarCraft and always trying to bring in something new. I loved music very much too. Eventualy I went to writting and today I'm quite close to publishing my first book.

During my whole life I loved bloody dark things, my comics are full of slaughters and evil guys, my pictures are no different, my role playing campaigns (I was a GM for a few years) and my books are all aiming to shock and inspire fear and are all populated by different (usualy psychologicaly instable) characters.

So yes, you could say I like dark things.

So with time, as I found out I like "evil" music (black metal, MM etc.) more then the usual stuff that's popular in Serbia, I started hanging out at goth (as far as any Serbian goth can be considered goth) and realized that people won't care much about the way I act. There are the usual "truer then thou" morons but fuck them, I don't hang around with that kind of people, they're as shallow as typical goth-haters.

Now I'm pretty much wearing clothes and living the life I like. I don't think I was born as a goth, no way, I found a taste for it and eventualy evolved into it (although, I repeat, I'm not a true goth, I'm just Mijat Vujacic, nothing more nothing less).

EDIT:
Another thing that could in a way support my theory that people evolve into goths is plain proof. There are many people who, by their characteristics could be considered goths yet they simply aren't goths. Par example:

Stephen King - a great writer, horror specialists, has a gargolye on his house gate, is very creative, adores dark things and is into leather wear, motors, hard rock and metal music etc. All the things "needed" for a regular goth. Yet he simply isn't a goth, he's just a man who has all those properties yet doesn't dress and act like a goth. He could but he didn't evolve into a goth.

Marilyn Manson - of all people he is creative in so many ways, he's very individualistic, you could say that the way he dresses is very unique and, I daresay, gothish. But hey, he doesn't consider himself a goth and would never want to be a goth, he's just himself.

They're the first people that come to mind, both fit the "Goth With A Sledgehammer" goth properties (I read it very carefuly yesterday) yet neither are goth. They just havent "evolved".

04-22-2004, 08:43 AM	#4
Giga Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 104	Well, I'm not a real goth but I believe most people who are creative and like dark things by nature have a possibility of evolving into goth culture. I grew up in a "normal" (normal in: non-goth, non-molesting, non-junkie, non-ultrarich, just classical middle class family) and from my earliest ages I loved horror movies, I liked undead, I liked all those terrible things that made the rest of my family shudder. I always liked to draw and at the age of 7 I began drawing comics which quickly evolved. I was always creative, making campaigns for WarCraft II and StarCraft and always trying to bring in something new. I loved music very much too. Eventualy I went to writting and today I'm quite close to publishing my first book. During my whole life I loved bloody dark things, my comics are full of slaughters and evil guys, my pictures are no different, my role playing campaigns (I was a GM for a few years) and my books are all aiming to shock and inspire fear and are all populated by different (usualy psychologicaly instable) characters. So yes, you could say I like dark things. So with time, as I found out I like "evil" music (black metal, MM etc.) more then the usual stuff that's popular in Serbia, I started hanging out at goth (as far as any Serbian goth can be considered goth) and realized that people won't care much about the way I act. There are the usual "truer then thou" morons but fuck them, I don't hang around with that kind of people, they're as shallow as typical goth-haters. Now I'm pretty much wearing clothes and living the life I like. I don't think I was born as a goth, no way, I found a taste for it and eventualy evolved into it (although, I repeat, I'm not a true goth, I'm just Mijat Vujacic, nothing more nothing less). EDIT: Another thing that could in a way support my theory that people evolve into goths is plain proof. There are many people who, by their characteristics could be considered goths yet they simply aren't goths. Par example: Stephen King - a great writer, horror specialists, has a gargolye on his house gate, is very creative, adores dark things and is into leather wear, motors, hard rock and metal music etc. All the things "needed" for a regular goth. Yet he simply isn't a goth, he's just a man who has all those properties yet doesn't dress and act like a goth. He could but he didn't evolve into a goth. Marilyn Manson - of all people he is creative in so many ways, he's very individualistic, you could say that the way he dresses is very unique and, I daresay, gothish. But hey, he doesn't consider himself a goth and would never want to be a goth, he's just himself. They're the first people that come to mind, both fit the "Goth With A Sledgehammer" goth properties (I read it very carefuly yesterday) yet neither are goth. They just havent "evolved".