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r/goth like "how do i dress goth as a male" goth men used to wear women's clothes and got bullied for being too feminine. Continue doing that

@3liza I hope it’s okay if I share these.

Hey since we're in the 20s again can we bring back heavy eyeliner for all genders please. Those silent film guys knew what was what

Manifesting for 2025 everyone looking like they just got attacked by Theda Bara with a kohl pot

She regrets nothing.

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go is a doply complex strategic gwame, famously far more complicated than chess, with [the hypnosis activates], [for the next 30 seconds i believe i am a honeybee navigating a field of flowers]

the "dumbledore's army" to "punk is anti-establishment" pipeline

no, "punk" as people understand it originates as a fashion line by vivienne westwood that the sex pistols were created to promote

basically anything following this is mythology from people who weren't there, but heard one story of a dude with liberty spikes helping a child cross the street, which is nice if you can't identify the iron cross patches too. it's either that, or wank from people who want to believe that they are punk, but it's not a scene they were born into, and so they have to redefine it to include them. it's not a scene they care about beyond their capacity to be a part of it, since being a part of it is Morally Good, because they don't understand what shaped it and don't care to understand, because it is an object of desire.

people mistakenly believe punk somehow exists outside the system it was born from. let's say you don't care about the actual origin and just punk at its peak. london calling, the most critically acclaimed punk album of all time, the thing you think of when you think of punk rock, went platinum and was critically acclaimed, it sold millions of copies. this is only possible because london calling was not a threat to the establishment. and then the original line up for the clash fell apart because of capitalist forces.

the clash mark 2, ship of theseused into a worse group that would say dumb shit like "anyone who does drugs is a fucken hippie, and hippies can shove it" and pretend that's as radical a position as "carbomb margaret thatcher". they had to pretend that wasn't the baseline status quo opinion on recreational drug use because they were also performing punk-ness for an audience of paying customers. the clash mark 2 dissolved just a few weeks after releasing their only album, which sucked.

just 4 years later, we get nirvana's first album, bleach, praised as a "hybrid of punk and metal", and grunge takes over as "music for the counterculture". that struggle for authenticity and honesty about the self while also being milked fucking dry is what defines grunge's time in the mainstream, and ultimately, after kurt cobain's suicide in 1994, we get post-grunge with dave grohl's following group foo fighters, and foo fighters, good as it is, i do enjoy an everlong, a THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST, is radio-friendly, widely beloved rock music that is still geneaologically traced back to punk rock like the clash and sex pistols, and we are truly off to the races. in this wave, what we know now as "butt rock" starts popping up. nickelback, creed, three days grace, matchbox twenty. we get jam bands like dave matthews band and blues traveler, spin doctors and rusted root. we get ska and the ill-fated 90s swing revival. we get fucking smash mouth. and then we get pop punk, with green day, blink 182, fallout boy, mcr, panic, and any pretense of being counterculture was finally gone. it is just the culture. this is normally a process known as recuperation, a means of accepting and defanging radical ideas in order to make them not threatening to the establishment - hell, the wiki page for recuperation lists punk music directly.

the point here is that music scenes are, despite people's best wishes, despite how badly people want consumption to be a meaningful signifier of Goodness, not a political movement. they are artists that become market forces, and its scene becomes audiences. and if you're only interested in something because of how it reflects on your ability to Perform Goodness, you're the exact kind of person that terms like "poser" are meant to keep out. this is a tough thing to swallow for the "audiences are the same as communities" website, but i's true.

this gatekeeping is meant to protect that scene from people who do not care about it, but wants to reap the benefits of being a part of it. people who bring nothing, and demand it be watered down to appeal to their tastes, ironically defanging that which made it potent to begin with.

these days "culture vulture" is more in vogue than "poser", even though it is largely the same thing. kendrick spent this entire summer beating drake's ass to death for being a poser, and he was a poser with such power and support behind his posturing that the world of hip hop changed around him.

beyond snippy posts, i very rarely go further than just rolling my eyes when someone's like "protecting the status quo is punk, being wholesome uwu is punk, punk is not being provocative", because ultimately, if that's the lie you have to tell yourself to get through the day without shearing off your boss's skin, sure. i don't care. i am not a punk, and i am even less a cop. but like, do you want to share an in-group with drake? more importantly, would you even know if you did?

Dolce & Gabbana x Black . 2020 Alta Sartoria Pre-Fall Menswear .

A powerful potion.

Concept: Vampire character that represents strengthening ties to humanity and the natural world instead of dividing them

Vampire gets HEAVILY invested in eco conservation because they *can't* just shrug it off as the next generation's problems

A vampire that goes around eating oil tycoons and clear-cut logging CEOs and climate-denying politicians because their childhood village is a dirt pit now and the animals they saw growing up have become endangered

Immortal guys who anonymously donate huge sums of cash to wildlife preserves that oversee forests they used to hunt in

Fellow who, instead of succumbing to the boredom and waste of infinite time, has become feverishly obsessed with making sure this one specific species of snail will still be around in another hundred years

5000 year old woodsman who can still mimic the calls of extinct birds, who still remembers the mating calls of mammoths and wooly rhinos and wild horses

Ancient vampire who can still vaguely recall a cave somewhere with her whole family's hand prints in it, and not sure of it's precise location, keeps the whole area void of human activity so it doesn't become a tourist attraction

Vampire archeologist who digs up their old friend's remains and has the figure out how to prove, with evidence, how they know exactly who they were and what they looked like

Immortal anthropologist who reconstructs a face from a skull only to realize that they'd met them before a long, long time ago

My cotton ball sprouted wings!

Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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Being Autistic and not knowing what to do with your hands be like:

There is a downside to the popularisation of Remembrance Day, and it is the way it completely neglects the reason why we must remember the dead in the first place.

Armistice Day is not a contest of who shall wear the most poppies, or who shall comment “lest we forget” the most on social media, or even how many WWI photos you can view in a hour. It’s not simply about reminding yourself once a year that millions of men died more than a hundred years ago.

It’s about remembering that peace is NEVER granted.

The lessons learned in the last century matter because at every moment, every minute, every second, right as I write, conflicts over the world still kill thousands of innocents and political leaders will start new ones every time they get the chance.

While we should remember their faces, the dead of WWI are what they are: dead. And we must remember why; because if you promote violence, if you promote rejection, if you promote xenophobia, if you promote hatred, you are yourself stepping a little closer to seeing War ring the bell of your doorstep in much the same way it did in 1914.

The dead of WWI are no longer here. They will not rise or talk to us ever again. But what killed them in the first place still exists and will always exist.

You must strive to promote peace not just on the 11th of November, but every day of your life. Because, since hatred is always an easier instinct than compassion, anyone who does not oppose escalation in violence is condemning, a little bit more everyday, young people to forced conscription, civilians to mindless bombings, humans to human cruelty.

today i found out that my favorite vine has an extended version and i couldnt be happier

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this is what friendship looks like

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this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

ily, menswear guy

Remembering Tony Todd (December 4, 1954 - November 6, 2024).🕯

#Candyman

#horror

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