Hey btw idk who lied to some of yall but just to be totally clear you absolutely do not need to be pale or do pale makeup to be goth. You also don’t need to be thin or young. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is just some bigot and they’re not part of my subculture.
You don’t need clear skin. You don’t need to be white. You don’t need to be pale. You don’t need to fade your freckles. You don’t need an hourglass figure. You don’t need expensive clothing. You don’t need to hide your wrinkles. You don’t need to lose weight. You don’t need to conform to some set of gender roles. You don’t need to be able-bodied. You don’t need to dress up all macabre and elaborate every single day and put tons of effort into your appearance or wear anything that causes you discomfort.
You don’t need to act a certain way, you don’t need to look a certain way.
Just listen to the music and follow your heart from there and you’re in the club, it really is that simple.
every time i see someone talk broadly about how mental illness is ‘being destigmatized’ i’m like speak for yourself buddy. some of us still have brain disorders that if you google them the first 1000 responses are like ‘how to explode people with this condition with deadly bombs and fire and then douse the ashes in acid so they dont rise again craving the flesh of the living’
I desire to spend March reading new books, being gentle with myself , discovering new music i’d obsess over for like 2 weeks, opening my heart, writing more , eating better, drinking more water, forgiving self every night before bed, actually taking my medications, dancing with the wind, sharing more laughs with my friends, creating more art, existing in harmony. but most of all, i desire to spend it allowing the Selfs to simply, be. and I shall.
If you don’t hear this from anyone else today, let me say it: I’m proud of you. You’ve come far, and you’re going to go far, go great places, happy places. Someday, I promise, everything is gonna be okay.
Polyamorous relationships are not for everyone. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Romantic relationships are not for everyone!!! We are all different people with different needs, maybe just stop trying to condense the human experience into a homogenous gray monolith!!! aaaaaaaa
