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alisx) wrote2025-11-25 11:39 pm
Periodic reminder that UGG, the brand, is an American company that trademarked the term ugg, the Australian word for a type of Australian sheepskin boot, out from underneath the original local makers, and aggressively send lawyers after other companies using the term.
alisx) wrote2025-11-25 10:36 amListening to Clan of Xymox in 2025 has reminded me that one of my Foundational Goth Sins is not particularly liking Clan of Xymox.
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queenofmemes) wrote in addme_fandom2025-11-23 06:35 pmalisx) wrote2025-11-23 11:09 amDevoured (har har) while manning the CSFG‘s booth at the Geek Markets yesterday. Some heavy themes, but good shit. Available as a zine, printed or electronic, directly from the author.
flareonfury) wrote in fandom_icons2025-11-21 11:46 pmvampiremedia 20in20 challenge. The theme is women. So below are 20 icons for the challenge plus all the extras I made.
alisx) wrote2025-11-22 02:16 pmBusiness is, at its core, selling you something worth two dollars for four dollars because you think it’s on sale from six dollars.
When the freakin’ accidentally (?) discovers Marxism.
alisx) wrote2025-11-21 11:57 amBut fourteen years ago, the racist and hateful media falsely called President Obama’s private birthday party a “hip-hop BBQ”. And as I said years later, you should just have the damn hip-hop BBQ — they’re going to accuse you of it anyway. Lean into who you are, own it, and let the haters stay mad.
Anil Dash on .
cupcake_goth) wrote2025-11-20 11:13 am- The new Florence + the Machine album continues to have me in its clutches. My favorite song right now is "Sympathy Magic" (especially the chamber version). It's the first F+tM song that has lyrics that call to me for a tattoo: "So I don't have to be worthy / I no longer try to be good / It didn't keep me safe / like you told me that it would". This makes two song lyric tattoos I want, the first being "My childhood spat back up the monster that I am" from a Fall Out Boy song. Let's just handwave the psychological underpinnings of why those lyrics resonate with me, okay?
- Oooh, did I mention I got tickets to the Florence + the Machine concert in May? It'll be the first time I've seen her live, so I'm very excited. This means I have three concerts to look forward to in 2026: Ghost, Florence + the Machine, and My Chemical Romance. I LOVE live shows; the physical push of the live music soothes something in my body and brain.
- I've decided that I need to knuckle down and take photos of things I want to sell and get started on Poshmark. I HATE mailing things, but I need to do it. Any profits will be spent on that gorgeous custom dress from the Ukrainian designer.
So how are you folks doing?
alisx) wrote2025-11-19 05:46 pmUnderrated goth skills: Being able to reach into a largely undifferentiated pile of black fabric to pull out the one specific item of clothing you were looking for.
chrysalid) wrote in fandom_icons2025-11-17 08:03 pm
caleidoscope.alisx) wrote2025-11-17 08:59 am
Was talking to someone the other day and they mentioned Rogue Trader had DLC out. Apparently when I bought it I did so with the season pass, so . . . time for a re-play!
cupcake_goth) wrote2025-11-15 01:14 pmI'm once again thinking of going to the permanent makeup tattooist who did my brows to get a star-shaped permanent beauty mark. I'm trying to decide between bright BRIGHT fuchsia, or the darkest brown she has (I'd prefer black, but I don't know what color black cosmetic tattooing pigment fades to. I don't want a blue star eventually on my face.
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heartsfate) wrote in fandom_icons2025-11-14 10:20 pm
alisx) wrote2025-11-15 05:43 amI’ve noticed — especially in my life, I’m not sure if it’s commonplace for everyone else — you kind of go in a circle. You start off liking all this shit as a kid, and then you’re told to grow up a little bit, and you go until you reach a point. Then you go back to the shit you used to like as a kid and realize, Hey, you know what? This is more me than I have been for the past couple years.
Giallo Julian on becoming .
The next lines of this quote link this feeling to nostalgia, which . . . kinda? But as someone who is a known Nostalgia Disliker, I actually think this whole phenomenon is something else.
When I was a kid I had this folder of quotes, and one of them — which, ironically given the above, I think I got from a Vampire: the Masquerade sourcebook, and they got from somewhere else in turn — was something along the lines of we don’t really change as we get older, we just become more the people we are. And I think this progression some people go through, of “enjoy The Thing, discard The Thing as cringe/childish, rediscover The Thing,” is more related to that than it is nostalgia per se. Particularly for people who were in some sort of alt subculture in their teens, then shed that to “fit into” the corporate adult world in their twenties, before realising that was making them feel miserable and false, to the point that, by the time they’re in their thirties or later, they run out of fucks and just go back to what they really had always enjoyed.1
The reason I wouldn’t call this “nostalgia” exactly, is because nowadays “nostalgia” tends to be a toxic force in pop culture. It’s wanting things to return to a false past, to a childish lack of accountability, and to undo aspects of (specifically) social progress. But the rediscovery I’m talking about isn’t that. People who go through it — and I’d say Grim Beard, the guy being interviewed in the linked article, is a pretty Ur-example — are usually pretty upfront about the fact that a lot of the things they enjoyed as a kid were, uh. Not always great? Both in quality and in attitude to, for example, marginalised people. And rediscovery isn’t a return to how things were so much as it is picking the things that were cool and did work and bringing them forward in ways that discard the parts that weren’t and didn’t. Like, you can wear leather coats in summer and sunglasses at night without all the weird fucking racism and misogyny and shit. You can enjoy your old 90s eXXXtreeeme!!! media for the fun schlock it is without going to bat to defend its gross bits and/or creators. Like. I promise these are things you can do. That people are doing! And, importantly, you can make new things with modern sensibilities that nonetheless have the same vibe and joy as whatever it was that made your heart go hell yeah as a child.2
Like I said, I don’t think this is nostalgia, exactly. I don’t think we really have a word for whatever this is. But it is definitely a thing, as I think a bunch of middle-aged Millennial goths, punks, emos, metalheads, weebs, and furries are discovering . . .
