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.
im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged
the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.
“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless
Slave labor and borderline slave labor allow cheap junk to be made for so little that some companies can make up for the loss several times over by claiming it on insurance, getting government subsidies, or even selling certain things as scrap or filler to other industries. Companies are so frequently part of some vast network of brands owned by the same entity that they can waste a billion dollars without batting an eye. Just saturating a market with *your* unsellable shit can be seen as advantageous if it helps push out a competitor. Someone buying one new pair of shoes for $20 can mean they just covered the manufacturing cost for 500 pairs. Passive boycotting isn’t going to work ever again at this point. The only ways any of this can change will unfortunately require vastly, vastly more work from more people than just telling Twitter to stop buying pants or switching a fast food chain to paper straws.
Funny how as economic inequality increases capitalist society starts to look more and more like the dysfunctions we associate with the Soviet Union. Like, “socialism is bad because it causes production to become decoupled from demand” is one of the biggest right-wing and libertarian anti-socialist talking points.
Violence is among the appropriate responses to such a violent order of things
Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it’s not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?
It’s like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I’m like ah okay so I’m clearly overthinking this
This restaurant is absolute chaos and I’m giving it 5 stars
(ID: a comic on a white background. first panel is a rectangle with a gray-ish blue background, with two phones on each side. on the left, a profile that has a rainbow as a profile picture, and the time above it reads “11:59”. on the other phone, the profile picture is black and the time is “12:00”. in between the phones, reads: “Brands turn back into pumpkins,”
next panel is a rectangle, showing an online store. visible, but cut off, is a large, light blue “sale” sign on the top of the page. below it, two white squares, one with a rainbow flag and the other with white socks with rainbow stripes on top. a white square next to the rainbow flag reads: “colors go on clearance,”
next, 4 vertical rectangles panels with people in them, each with a word above it. the first has two elderly people, both with brown skin. the one on the left has dark brown, curly hair and has their lips ready for a kiss. the one on the right, who has long, straight, gray hair, smiles. there are laundry products on shelves in the background.
second has three people with a birthday cake in front of them. one is white and has a bracelet with the trans colors- blue, pink and white. they laugh as the person behind them pushes their gray beanie down. said person is white, with spiky, short, black hair, and wears a black ring. they smile, wink, and wave. the third person has dark skin, dark brown, curly hair, a thin beard, and wears a white shirt with a stripe with the bi flag colors: pink, purple and blue. they smile.
next is two people snuggling in bed, a laptop in front of them and the trans flag behind them, which is blue, pink, white, pink and blue. one is a black person with short, curly, black hair with shaved sides, and the other is a fat person with white skin and short, straight, black hair with some accessories. both smile.
final panel, two people hug each other in a kitchen. both have short, straight hair. one is pale and has light brown hair, the other is tanned and has dark brown hair with gray streaks. the latter looks tired.
from left to right, reads: but you’re still here.
on the white space left, below that, reads: “I’m glad you’re still here”. End ID)
