RL things I love
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@Bobotron said:
She has something kinda like this going on
She weighs 15 pounds? Buy a goth a sammich!
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@hedgehog said:
Yeah. Your friend's doing the cybermuppet look. I'm pretty sure the whole gas mask thing was started by my old friend Andrew back in the early '90s because he got sick of breathing in all of the smoke at Kontrol Faktory. Somehow people decided this was a good look and perpetuated it through all sorts of weird permutations. Especially since the fashion ones are generally completely non-functional. Just like the fashion goggles with spikes all over the lenses and shit. Ugh.
Less tired/trendy male equivalent: tight black t-shirt, cropped/rolled black cargo pants, combat boots/Doc Martens, welding goggles, again with the shaved sides and back of the head. Wrist or upper arm cuffs. You could do the hanging down suspenders, too. There really isn't much of a need to go as all-out as your friend is, unless you've got a need to. The actual subculture seems to have propogated itself just fine with guys dressing more subtly and girls going out looking like Lip Service and Cyberdog threw up on them. But if that's what you really want to go for, you can improvise mesh/fishnet shirts out of a pair of tights by cutting the crotch and toes out of them. Wear that under the other things I advised you on. (This will be somewhat uncomfortable on your arm hair and upper chest, just fyi. ) You could use styling glue and temporary hair coloring to do something prickly and colorful to your hair.
People also really love Covenant. Who dress in suits and ties onstage. Tyske Ludder and FGFC820 wear military gear. Front 242 and Haujobb wear hoodies and cargoes. Einsturzende Neubauten and Clock DVA and William Control also go for suits and ties. Kevorkian Death Cycle and Assemblage 23 favor t-shirts and cargoes. Throbbing Gristle and Monte Cazzazza, the progenitors of the genre, wore either everyday clothes or industrial coveralls (before they switched to a more fetishistic military look, and well before Genesis was an intentional polygender). There are a ton of different looks out there, each one of them genuine to the scene.
Since I'm going for costume kitsch, it looks like, pulling from my friend's loaners:
- Oversized black cargo pants
- My Harley boots
- Black mesh shirt
- Black A-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark blue tribal symbol
- leather forearm cuffs
- leather upper arm bands
- black goggles
@Thenomain
LOL. I love you; I needed a laugh this morning.
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You should do just fine, then.
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@Thenomain said:
@Bobotron said:
She has something kinda like this going on
She weighs 15 pounds? Buy a goth a sammich!
Goths don't EAT! They live off of cigarettes and ennui. And sometimes coffee/booze.
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We eat. Well, I eat. Probably why I'm more 'goth-ish' than I am full-on 'goth' these days.
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Cherry pie and whipped cream for breakfast.
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The janitors cleaned off all the graffiti in the bathroom stall except for the preferred dicks size survey.
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Screw your cigs, I have my cache of cloves. walks away with an aristocratically dismissive gesture, desperately hoping hedgehog is paying attention
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@Misadventure
They still make those? Wow.Also...
Blue gatorade. So easy on the stomach and so cold on my empty hateful belly.
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hedgehog is not paying attention.
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I have hot water in my apartment. Finally.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin said:
I have hot water in my apartment. Finally.
Hot water and electricity. Damn one percenters.
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Well, after a ten-day hiatus because of a badly damaged hard drive and four (!) subtly-corrupted backups, I'm back online and I lost only about 2GB of data (out of 700GB). And, better, that data was lost entirely from the directory named, I kid you not, "junk".
Also, during that ten-day hiatus, that fucking neocon thug asshole Stephen Harper got his humiliating send-off from office and maybe, slowly, I can start forgiving Canadians for putting him into power in the first place.
Finally, music and tea got united in my home at last:
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You fix a mucked up hard drive only to bring liquids near your computer immediately after?
I salute this 'fear nothing' approach to life you take.
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It takes more than a near-700GB data loss to keep me down, motherfuckers!
Edited to add:
And, point of order, that photo was taken while I was recovering data. Yeah, I'm just that hard core. By which I mean, obviously, stupid.
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I love being able to say that everything is finally alright again after over a year of struggling.
"Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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@Apu said:
I love being able to say that everything is finally alright again after over a year of struggling.
Oh man, I never dare say that.
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Sure, it's one of those things that you say only to have things wind up going all tits-up again, but it's a risk I'll take if only for the joy being able to say it brings, temporary or otherwise.
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hardware design, call me weird but i love doing it.
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