Goth-Adjacent

A scrapbook

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If you’re trying to figure out if it’s a crow or a raven, remember that smaller bird=smaller word, so crows are the little guys. If you’re wondering, huh, is that big enough to be a raven? It’s a crow.  Ravens are startlingly large if you’re used to crows. Ravens are real big. Ravens are hawk sized. Ravens are bigger than your head. 

Here’s a size comparison.

and here is a crow with a human

versus a raven

So if there is any doubt that that croaky black bird is big enough to be a raven, it’s probably a crow.

[gothiccharmschool]

Auntie Jilli, do you or any of your followers know of any naturally curly haired goths? I've been wearing my natural ringlets for a few years and never really know what to do with it when I get dressed up aside from down (aka Sirius Black Straight Outta Azkaban edition) or in a messy bun (aka is my hair growing sentience and trying to absord me). Thanks a bunch! <3

The one naturally curly haired gothy type I know always did the two types of styles you’ve described. (She recently cut her hair short-ish, because having curls on the top is the style she likes best.)

If *I* had your hair texture (oh, I wish I had your hair texture!), I would also go with the two styles you described. I feel a big messy bun is always a Good Look, but I may be biased.

Okay peeps, you know the routine. Curly hair advice for the anon? 

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I too wish I had curly hair. My suggestion would either be down and marvelous or half up and marvelous. I’m imagining either Helena Bonham Carter hair or Sarah Brightman hair here. Which means practically anything and it would look fab. But then maybe I’ve just always wanted dark curly hair so I might just be jealous.

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The before: 20+ years of articles and advice for goth and goth-curious folks!

The now: more articles, plus new short gothic fiction, stories of Eldergoth life, gothic romance discussion, bi-monthly online salons, and much more! www.patreon.com/JillianVenters

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A darkly glamourous long veil that would suit different dress lengths and styles. Ive decorated it with a posy of handmade silk roses and an

Not for me, but this is gorgeous nonetheless

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Horror film legend Vincent Price rides a roller coaster in a full suit and tie. (1984)

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That expression of pure joy. I want that when I’m that age.

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How is the tie not hitting him in the face?

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​Héctor San Andrés, hittouch

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Top Ten Spookiest Classical Pieces

Perhaps I’m feeling macabre, but tonight I’m digging out my favorite spooky classical pieces and listening to them. So I thought putting together a top ten list of these would be fun while I drink my scotch. Note: These are not really in any particular order. I love them all.

1. Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, op. 70 no. 1, “Ghost” - 2nd movement. Rattling of chains, shrieking of spirits; the nickname of this trio fits it well. The first and third movements are good as well, but only the second movement is really spooky. 2. Schubert: Der Leiermann (from Winterreise). A heartbroken young man sings about the hurdy-gurdy, an outcast who sits just outside the village and plays his instrument while dogs snarl at him and people ignore him. Particularly chilling is that this is the last song of an hour-long cycle, and it drones on without clear resolution, ending with the line: “Strange old man, should I go with you? Will you accompany my songs on your hurdy-gurdy?”  3. Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain. You may know this one from Disney’s Fantasia, which is featured during the Witches’ Sabbath sequence. 4. Schubert: Der Erlkönig. Based on a poem by Goethe, this song tells the chilling story of a father and his ailing child riding through the woods on horseback, while a malicious spirit tries to lure the boy away, unseen and unheard by the father. 5. Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre. Death plays his fiddle in the cemetery, rousing all the skeletons from their graves and dancing with them until they have to slink back at the first light of dawn. 6. Brahms: Ballade in D minor, op. 10 no. 1, “Edward.” Based on a Scottish ballade, the story is of a mother who knows that her son has murdered his father - she just wants to hear him say it himself. 7. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata. Shostakovich composed during the height of Soviet censorship, and his music almost always has a hunted, almost panicked feel to it. He composed this viola sonata just a month before his death. 8. Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110. Between the frenzy of the second movement and the insistent “knocking on the door” of the fourth, this quartet can really put you on edge. What makes this music even freakier is Shostakovich’s musical signature (D E-flat C B) throughout the work. 9. Mussorgsky: The Hut of Baba Yaga the Witch (from Pictures at an Exhibition). This one always sounds like Baba Yaga’s “Hut On Chicken’s Legs” is chasing me through the woods, but that might just be my wild imagination. 10. Scriabin: Piano Sonata no. 9, “Black Mass.” Some of the directions that Scriabin writes in the score are “mysteriously murmuring”, and “with a sweetness that becomes increasingly poisonous,” which is a pretty apt description for much of this work. It begins mysteriously, then builds in tension until it all explodes in some kind of orgiastic climax. It ends just as enigmatically as it begins.

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A History of Death by Clothing

What not to wear.

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“Happy haunts materialize and begin to vocalize.” Halloween’s coming up soon & it got me in the mood to draw the beating heart bride from Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride!

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New post time at Gothic Charm School! The Never-Ending Goth Debate. 

Because “What is goth” is a topic that will never, ever die.

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The Chemistry of the Odour of Decomposition

Continuing this week’s Halloween theme, today we’re looking at death - more specifically, the chemical agents behind the smell of it. De

From @compoundchem

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Look I love Raoul, I really do, but his Masquerade costume really kills me. Everyone else is committed to their aesthetic. Extravagant costumes, gorgeous masks, and then he shows up in his little black and gold suit, just excited to be there.

Raoul is that guy who wears a black tuxedo to the Met Gala.

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Wait if Raoul is “that guy who wears a black tuxedo to the Met Gala,” that makes him Colin Firth, and oh my goodness we may have just determined why I am a Raoul fan...

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