Heyy! I love the different ways people view the gothic element and implement it in their lives and, many times, according to their own culture. I was wondering how an Indian would tie the "standard gothic" element with their culture. Or what gothic even feels like when you grow up Indian. (I understand that Indians are a diverse people, so answer this for your own experience, if you like).
To open my heart first: Apart from the standard elements that make someone "gothic", in Greece I feel it in the ambiance of abandoned rotting neoclassics, in the low ceiling stone houses with their earthly smell, in the untreated forests in the mountains and in the sharp rocks of dangerous cliffs, in the dancing of pain and death songs on happy occasions, in the calming sight of tall cypress over white polished graves, in the ancient messages on marble amongst busy modern cities or the forgotten ancient ruins in a green valley, in the darkness illuminated by candlelight in our churches while I hear chanting and see the thin faces of the saints. I also remember the wishes of my relatives, most of them simply being "may you live", reminding me of Charon's close presence even in happiness because generations of us have lived this way. Charon means "the happy one", ironically. We always viewed Death and Life very tightly intertwined, as the story of Hades and Persephone shows.
I like our flavor of "gothic" and I want to see more facets of gothic around the world. That's way I thought of sending you this ask. I hope I didn't tire you with this long message and I also wish you a good day 💜
idk about gothic but like this one time my grand-aunt was on a rickshaw going home and they passed by the Lower Circular Road cemetery under a large, supposedly haunted tree and my grand-aunt went EeeeeEeeeeEE and began laughing like she was possessed, so long story short the local rickshaw pullers union decided to never carry any of our family members by the LCR cemetery route ever again
