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From Sinnocence Boards

“What happens to Goths when they reach their mid-to-late thirties? Does the look transfer smoothly into some other style? Or do they generally give it up altogether?

Do they give their old choke chains to the family dog? Does the old black lipstick now only come out for Halloween parties?

What happens when they can no longer hide the wrinkles under the pancake makeup, and they begin feeling like a clown -- Do they just pack up their neon hair extensions and start shopping for clothes at Sears?

I mean, we can't all be Stevie Nicks, prancing about in lacy witch clothing well into our senior citizen years.

The answer lies in the Internet…. It has provided a final refuge for aging Goths! The ones with enough sense to realize how silly they look doing deathdances to the Damned on darkened dancefloors in smoky clubs, sagging tits and asses jiggling obscenely. It allows them to live long past their shelf life by providing a community, the only place where they can still out-goth the next generation of Hot Topic neophytes. Chatrooms, so they can go on about how the younger generation ain’t keepin’ it real.

Like the ‘vampyres’ they imitate, they obtain immortality -- through the magick of Photoshop and high-contrast webcams. Skin forever porcelain, lips forever black, eyebrows forever gone…. Forever Goth.”

It's kinda funny. :)

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Posted by Kim @ 10:03 PM PST