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[stavros]

As the date of my birth approaches, I must express solemn regret. Not just because Alex is gone and Marisa lost her numbers a while ago and now I basically have one or two friends. Seriously. That's shallow. Shallow is for preps and football players. No, I must express the melancholy of something that plagues the entire world, or at least that of the goth kids.

It's hot.

And my entire wardrobe is black or close to that, as well as very heavy and often covering a lot. Truly this is a struggle for the ages. Air conditioning in the mall is a glimmer of pitch black hope in the false, bedazzling brightness of this world.

Also, I am called by duty to take exception to a post making its foul rounds upon the Internet. Steampunk is not just brown goth. It is its own aesthetic with its own themes. You would not catch a goth wearing goggles and gratuitous gears, well, unless they wanted to. More importantly, any aesthetic and/or subculture based upon the historical period in which society at large decided that yellow was finally a colour that could be applied to clothing is the antithesis of goth.

Good day.

Comments

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Wait, isn't Batman fairly goth? He usually has a fair bit of yellow on him.

Never mind that Steampunk's not especially based on Victorian era, so much as an intentionally strange interpretation thereof.

[stavros]

Only a little! That doesn't count!

What would you call it?

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

I'd call it an extension of high-fantasy concepts of dress, which are an intentionally strange interpretation of a hybrid of medieval and renaissance garb styles.

[stavros]

You really seem to understand this kind of thing.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

I just kinda read some on it one day, is all...

[stavros]

But are you not the type who knows a lot on many subjects? I believe so.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Well, yeah.

I had nothing better to do than read Wikipedia for years.

[video]

[scarlet_devil]

[An unimpressed girl with red eyes and the possible hint of fangs appears on a feed. She is, of course, dressed appropriately for the heat in something light and probably designer.]

Has it ever occurred to you to get yourself some lighter clothes? Frankly, wearing black in this heat is madness.

[video]

[stavros]

*Tessa is taking shelter inside her room with the curtains drawn. Even without much light, one can still see the goth band posters on her wall and the fact that her closet has beaded skeleton curtains instead of doors... and is piled high with bottles of holy water.*

I would look like a poser.

[video]

[scarlet_devil]

[This vampire has yet to regain her weaknesses. Holy water, for some reason, isn't one of her past self's weaknesses, and neither are crosses.]

A white summer dress won't kill you. [Which she happens to be wearing. In fact, her room pretty much looks the part of one belonging to a rich kid like Emilia.]

[video]

[stavros]

*Good, because Tessa's wardrobe alone would kill her.*

It would betray my true dark persona.

Re: [video]

[scarlet_devil]

[Emi snorts, then grins mockingly, of course putting her fangs on display.]

Really? That must be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard all day.

[stavros]

*Glare.* A vampire and a prep, then. It is as if we are destined foes.

[scarlet_devil]

Is that supposed to be a threat?

[And of course she'll make sure not to mention her cousin, who is also a vampire.]

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[saviorsoul]

what's steampunk

[stavros]

You've never seen it before?

[saviorsoul]

i'm not really into a lot of that stuff

[stavros]

It is an aesthetic, subculture, and genre of works relating to alternate interpretations of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Steam, gears, goggles, and other such things are involved.

And it is not brown goth.

[saviorsoul]

sounds really boring

[stavros]

It is exciting for those who follow it. However, I prefer to explore the darkness of the soul!

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[sjokolade]

[Meanwhile, Abby just staring at said post. No seriously, what?]

So what? You just want some new clothes?

[stavros]

I shall obtain some, but that was not the point. Besides, they'll probably be black too, anyway.

[sjokolade]

Why all black? That’s kind of boring don’t you think?

Why not add some color to that like pink or orange or even yellow? There’s nothing wrong with colors you know!

[stavros]

I wear colours! Just not cutesy sunny ones!

[sjokolade]

Yeah but you need some kind of happy colors! Otherwise it would just be too boring! And weird!

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