Goth

[Toxic.GummyBear]

okay so we all have a different in take on what we beleive goth is and meens so please enlighten me on your in take on the term goth also tell me where you first heard the term goth  

[The Dadalorian]

this is probably gonna get closed cause of all the topics we have about this  

[MortSanglant]

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[Toxic.GummyBear]

sweatdrop well i cant seem to find them  

[Resurrekt]

i first heard the term goth when i began studying my ancestors (both visigoth and ostragoth).
This of course was a long time ago, i was about 9 or 10 not to sure.
I came across a few articles on the goth subculture and to be honest it startled me at first, this was of course due to the bad sterotypes that were in the article.
I put it aside and didn't think much of it.
Then as time went on i became darker, more vile, more angry.
This of course was my gothic puberty or me going through the baby bat stage.
As it went on i came to realise that it wasn't goth at all, it was just being a poser.
So i calmed myself down an tried to find myself.
Here i am today, i listen to opera, i go to plays, i am inspired heavily by medieval, victorian and even ancient Gothic things.
I appreciate all aspects of life, even the darker things and i find beauty in the darker things of life and the stranger things of life.

To me that is what a true goth is, not someone who wears baggy pants and is obssessed with death and hate the world, that's just and angsty punk in my mind.  

[-Resurrected Writer-]

Though the question of "what is goth?" shows up too frequently for me to answer that, I'll answer where I first heard "goth"

It was in a Gameinformer Magazine, I think. In the April issue of 2002 their annual edition of Gameinfarcer (the parody) included a false editor named "December, the goth gamer" who basically didn't review games, just wrote deep, depressing poetry xd
Thankfully though, I did not cling to that being the goth mentality. smile  

[tamachan414]

ok i first thought of goths as like dark and gloomy, and just want to die. And then i started hanging out with "that group" and i realized that they aren't really like that. i mean. i don't really know what goth is. to me it's more like a person who not only embraces their happy parts of themself, but also the dark parts of themself, and humanity. i guess >_< *can't explain*  

[Plan-Galere]

I'm just here to alienate myself.  

[ketchakik]

goth is about finding the beauty in the darker things  

[Spooky Wasabi Princess]

Chaos A.D.

this is probably gonna get closed cause of all the topics we have about this

I hope it does. I'm so sick of this thread.  

[Resurrekt]

spooky_sez

Chaos A.D.

this is probably gonna get closed cause of all the topics we have about this

I hope it does. I'm so sick of this thread.

hey that's not nice...
someone has a question and she wants to get everyone's opinion on it  

[DreamerSpirit]

I don't want to put myself in a box, but there are certain behaviours, interests, and attitudes which I posess, and consider to be somewhat 'gothic', mind you many of these things can be categorized as other things as well, such as 'intellectual', 'artistic', or 'cultured'. However, here's my stance on the situation...

No one is purely a goth, just like no one is purely an artist. There are some aspects of the lifestyle which may have a strong hold on how you experience life, but it isn't the pure controlling factor of ones life. I am an artist. That makes me very aware of light, color, expression, texture, and whatnot. Art is important to me, but that dosn't mean that I am solely an artist, just like my affinity to the gothic subculture dosn't make me solely a goth.


As for 'what is goth'? I suppose it is all in the eye of the beholder.

To me it lies in many areas of life, and encompasses many tendancies I posessed far before I started dressing in black velvet and listening to Dead Can Dance. To me goth is about intellectualism and the ability to percieve things in a way which many cannot. It means that you can find beauty in things which many people fear. It involves a certain level of introspection as well. I spend a lot of time alone in reflection. I feel that I know myself byfar better than how well most people know themselves. Goth, in my opinion, emphasiazes intellectualism and a love of the arts and literature.
It also has a sort of hypocritical and humorus aspect to it. One reason I am so comfortable with the gothic mentality is that I reject a lot of the standards and ideals of society (ex. sterotypical gender roles, capitalism, the odd decorum that humans are supposed to keep, etc.), so I tend to mingle with alternative branches of society... goths, artists, intellectuals, devoute communists/socialists/anarchists... branches which have formed thier own set of societal rules, values, and hierarchies. It's sort of like saying "I reject your reality and substitute it with my own".  

[CapnAlex]

Problem is, there are all sorts of different types and classes of goth, each slightly different.

However, I must say I agree with ketchakik's definition:

ketchakik

goth is about finding the beauty in the darker things

That is, I believe, the fundamental defining factor of 'goth'

(Goths in this sense are, of course, completely different from visgoths etc.
I'm not sure, but I think the name goth came from the association of many with gothic architecture)  

[Corpse_Bride_131]

spooky_sez

Chaos A.D.

this is probably gonna get closed cause of all the topics we have about this

I hope it does. I'm so sick of this thread.

Ditto.  

[Devils_lilboy]

Toxic.GummyBear

okay so we all have a different in take on what we beleive goth is and meens so please enlighten me on your in take on the term goth also tell me where you first heard the term goth

In my opinion goth means someone who wears dark clothing, listens to goth style music, and does it to show/ express the dark side of themself.