That One Babybat

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[thatonebabybat]

Some videos I thought might be helpful to newcomers to the Goth subculture!

A playlist for those who want to know what goth (and most of this blog) is all about! I thought it’d be nice to make something for newcomers who want to learn more about the subculture and its roots <3

[rivetgoth]

Had a dream there was this “goth diner” and all the food was like inedibly heavy and greasy and kinda disgusting, but Angel and I were looking through the menu and they had their list of burgers and each was named after a different musician, it was like “the Robert Smith” “the Carl McCoy” “the Andrew Eldritch” (I tried to ask what was on that one and they said it was only for the kids menu and wouldn’t tell me), then there was one called “the Nivek Ogre” and I asked what was in it. The menu didn’t have any info about any of them just their names. And they brought the chef out and he showed me that it was just a crispy chicken sandwich with a fried egg, but on top there was melted cheese and then a layer of real dollar bills melted over it, and it was wrapped up in barbed wire, so to get to the burger you had to rip through dollar bills and barbed wire to eat it. 😭

[freakinfur]

☠︎︎Wave Gotik Treffen ☠︎︎2003☠︎︎

[vorpalfae]

𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 - 𝔡𝔦𝔳𝔞 𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

[transmissionsfromcarcosa]

Are you a baby bat? Do you like music recommendations? Are you sick of every gothtok video and music recommendation thread only ever giving you the same ten or so bands that you've already had on your Spotify playlists for like the last sixth months?

Great, then here's a few goth and/or goth adjacent band recommendations that aren't just the most basic shit you've already been recommended a million times to expand your horizons a bit, with some of the classic bands being mentioned for the sake of comparison. Keep in mind any comparisons I make aren't meant to be 1:1, I'm just going off vibes.

Anyway, here goes:

-If you like Bauhaus, try Fahrenheit 451 -If you like The Cure, try Deceits -If you like Siouxsie and the Banshees, try Nox Novacula -If you like Joy Division, try O. Children -If you like London After Midnight, try Scary Black -If you like Sisters of Mercy, try Miazma -If you like Fields of the Nephilim, try Merciful Nuns -If you like She Wants Revenge, try Then Comes Silence -If you like Killing Joke, try Vision Video -If you like Skeletal Family, try Christ vs. Warhol -If you like Depeche Mode, try Urban Heat -If you like early Ministry, try Male Tears -If you like Christian Death, try Tears for the Dying -If you like Type O Negative, try Wisborg -If you like Clan of Xymox, try Ash Code -If you like The Cramps, try The Kentucky Vampires

[gh0stforest]

[thisblackcathedral]

Goth Posters

random personal project i decided to do, wanted to make a bunch of posters revolving around goth music i love

[callizinc]

Every time it's hot out and i complain about the summer sun and heat someone's always like "Well can't you wear something other than all black all day every single day" NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wampyrs]

Fᴏʟʟᴏᴡ Tʜᴇ Bᴏᴅʏ • Tᴏ Tʜᴇ Cᴏʀᴇ Zᴀɴɪᴀs Nᴏɪᴢᴛᴀɴᴋ (2016)

[thatonebabybat]

My goth hot take of the day is that I don't think it's misogynistic to call out women for participating in the widespread hypersexualization/fetishization of goth as a subculture and in fact I actually find it more misogynistic to reduce womens' interests in a music subculture down to a porn category.

Yes, sex work is real work. No, there's nothing wrong with doing sex work and being goth, or dressing any type of way you want. There is something wrong with conflating goth and sex work, reducing womens' participation in it to a caricature and telling us we're hysterical "overreacting" or that it's "not that deep, bro" for bringing up the legitimate harassment women in alternative spaces have to face because of it.

Not to even mention how unsafe this entire issue has made things for minors within the space. I feel like they're constantly left out of the conversation. I and most other goths I know discovered the scene when they were teenagers. You can "it's not that deep bro" "ur just a gatekeeper" all you want, but if children are being followed home and leered at and barked at and shouted at by grown men on their way home from school because they wore the wrong lipstick color or whatever, and there's a group of people egging them on to keep pushing it farther and farther, I'm GOING to say something.

I get it. There's been a rise in puritan and right wing politics in nearly every space recently, I understand being worried about the potential for harm in some of the takes people have on this subject. But the content creators participating in goth fetishization are NOT your allies. They don't give a shit about misogyny or other women or the rights of sex workers or even the broader kink community (the term "safe, sane, consensual" is NOT being applied by these folks). They're there to make a buck at the expense of everyone else, and more often than not, they're the same conservative grifters who used to mock and berate us for our nonconformity. They're no different from the ragebaiting pornbots on this website. Stop giving them a platform, stop giving them a seat at our table. Call me a gatekeeper, some gates are meant to be kept. I'll give you the key if you're genuinely interested in learning what's behind the door, but if you come screaming and making a scene, don't expect us to let you in. Plain and simple.

[gh0stforest]

why's there so much bland conservative gothic rock out there 😭 man shut up about how 'modernity is soulless' and get your covid vaccine

[thatonebabybat]

Some of it might be ai tbh </3 unfortunately ai slop has invaded a lot of niche music spaces and that includes goth. I try to avoid it as much as I can but sometimes you'll inevitably run into it if you're out hunting for new music. (I am fully aware of the irony in "return to tradition" being a common topic of conservative ai music/images/etc. btw LMAO)

[strawberrybutler]

[batterfang]

If anyone tries to say that the goth subculture or the music never has anything to do with politics, here's an album from one of my favorite 90s bands, Age of Heaven. The lyrics would say otherwise. You can find their lyrics and merch {here} ♥

[cemeterygirlscandy]

[thatonebabybat]

"goth isn't even political, it's just music, conservatives can enjoy it too!!!" the music in question:

[thatdu11razor]

I need more shirts I feel like a recycled rag..

[sigynpenniman]

But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”

[sigynpenniman]

“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult

[sigynpenniman]

This idea that maturity is conformity is everywhereeee if you look for even a moment