#subcultures

[ignoranceisparadise]

Fight the goth girl with her average BF propaganda!!!!!!!!!!!!

[victorian-ghost-bones]

the crows as alt subcultures:

- kaz: trad goth. obviously inspired by his signature dark outfits, but specifically I think he would enjoy the classic look of trad goth and the perk of intimidating most people around him.

-inej: might be a hot take, but I think she would love techwear. her main goal with clothes is mobility and practicality. and those cargo pants could hide so many knives

-jesper: scene. is this even a question? he would make and wear so many kandi, and his hair color/style would change constantly

-wylan: punk, especially for the politics of it. because of his dad, he hates authority figures and he is ready to fight people on his beliefs at any moment. hes a doc martens platforms warrior

-nina: romantic goth, because she loves feeling like an evil medieval queen. her makeup takes hours and it absolutely slays. those corsets are doing gods work and she wears them for the sole purpose of messing with matthias

matthias: grunge. he sticks to the classics, lots of flannel and band tees, but only of the bands hes obsessed with. and he will get into arguments over music

[queen-helmaroc]

the point of being alt is to break OUT of the box

hi so i keep seeing so so so many posts about people asking if they are punk because they do x,y,z or posts asking how to look more punk or more emo or more scene, and while theres nothing wrong with asking for fashion tips, music recs, advice, etc,

PLS REMEMBER, u should wear *WHAT YOU LIKE* and listen to music that *YOU* like!!

Labels are used to describe things! we shouldn't change our tastes and preferences to fit a label. that is literally the opposite of the point of being alternative. focus on becoming yourself, then worry about applying labels after! experiment, try new things! there is no rush.

i used to ask myself "does this outfit make me look emo/scene/punk/etc enough?" and i realized bruh what am i doing. it does not matter. labels describe me, not the other way around.

life is too short to constrict yourself to any label!!!

[kinfolkexe]

Hey, we’re K!nfolk

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[danightstars]

life is too short not to wear cute clothes (im gonna vomit from anxiety)

[bitter69uk]

Attention, leather jacket lovers! The great outsider Swiss photographer and aficionado of firm male flesh Karlheinz Weinberger (10 June 1921 – 10 December 2006) was born on this day 105 years ago. He specialized in documenting rockabilly and motorcycle gang subcultures in the sixties and seventies, taking smouldering homoerotic portraits of sullen leather-clad thugs posed like defiant peacocks. It was reading John Waters’ garrulous praise that turned me on to Weinberger’s work, and I am eternally grateful. One regret: I wish I’d snapped up Rebel Youth (the 2011 coffee table book compiling Weinberger’s photography) when it first came out. It’s slipped out of print since and copies now go for over £100 on eBay! If you’re curious to delve deeper, following the official Karlheinz Weinberger Instagram page is a must.

[cebra-gris]

Aesthetics 101

Based on what we talked to @shebrokemethen, who takes these artistic expressions as literal messages, what do we see here? Is it proselytizing to infantilize women? Is it a celebration of death? None of that, check the tags…

A tenor de lo hablado con @shebrokemethen , que toma estas expresiones artísticas como mensajes literales ¿Qué vemos aquí? ¿Es proselitismo de infantilizar a la mujer? ¿es celebración de la muerte? Nada de eso, comprueba las tags…

The last decade, Tumblr saw the birth of something called Aesthetics from interaction, jokes and poses, the self-portrait with those clothes to show off on the social network is a challenge to bring them together and expression, but it is similar to cosplay and not for life, just kidding, or at most longing for what cannot be, will not be and should not be. Sometimes it is critical even of one's own infantilization (and sexualization), sometimes it is laughing in the manner of how much of a girl and/or pink can I dress up with what I have at home without buying anything or barely anything?

La década pasada, Tumblr vio nacer de interacción, broma y pose algo llamado Aesthetics, el auto retrato con esas prendas para lucir en red social es reto de reunirlas y expresión, pero es parecido al cosplay y no para la vida, es broma, o como mucho anhelo de lo que no puede ser, no será y no debe serlo. A veces es crítica incluso a la propia infantilización (y sexualización) a veces es reírse en modo ¿Cuánto de niña y/o rosa puedo disfrazarme con lo que tengo por casa sin comprar nada o apenas nada?

Added to this are intentions to shock and/or the symbolic, superfashionable young people in the mud or in a puddle to express their spirit, another common layer is the contrast: strong phrases (sexual and/or self-harming) decorated with pink and hearts, I read in 2012 how they alarmedly accused this as a manifestation of pornifying popular culture, but the academics did not see the humor, art in it or how there were also memes like this about destructive thoughts or the loneliness of a ruined generation in expectations due to the 2008 crisis.

A esto se unen intenciones de epatar y/o lo simbólico, jóvenes superfashion en el barro o en un charco para exponer ánimo, otra capa habitual es el contraste: frases fuertes (sexuales y/o autolesivas) con decorado de rosa y corazones, leí en 2012 como acusaban alarmados esto como una manifestación de pornificarse la cultura popular, pero los académicos no veían el humor, arte en ello o como también había memes así sobre pensamientos destructivos o la soledad de una generación arruinada en expectativas por la crisis de 2008.

Does this celebrate death? No, it is shocking to expose the cemetery as a place for choreography, because the humor is sometimes implicit and not explicit. Here it is not about what its elements say separately, but how they come together to compose something. The morbid or creepy girl are two aesthetics of this type and both play with dissonance and what we would consider horrifying when posed as a young girl is part of their game, just as the professional Gothic once posed with spiders and skeletons. This is art and expression that has been macerating a community, online subcultures that only make sense online, temporary and virtual urban tribes, and I can tell you little else because I myself analyze what I was immersed in during those years, checking the echoes that remain of everything before Instagram took over and everyone wanted to be an influencer and monetize something.

¿Esto celebra la muerte? No, hace choque al exponer cementerio como lugar para coreografía, porque el humor a veces es ímplicito y no explicito. Aquí esta no en lo que dicen sus elementos en sí por separado, sino como quedan juntos componiendo algo. La morbid o creepy girl son dos estéticas de este tipo y ambas juegan con disonancia y lo que considerariamos horrido en posado de jovencita, es parte eso de su juego, tal como antaño posaba la gótica profesional con arañas y esqueletos. Esto es arte y expresión que ha ido macerando una comunidad, subculturas de la red y que solo en la red tienen sentido, tribus urbanas temporales y virtuales, y poco más puedo contarte porque yo misma analizo en que me vi sumergida esos años comprobando los ecos que quedan de todo aquello antes que tomara preferencia Instagram y todas quisieran ser influencer y monetizar algo.