The Goth Challenge - Day 6

(I skipped day 5 because there aren't any goth bands in my local area.)

Hand write your favourite lyric and take a picture.

I did Coma White by Marilyn Manson.

The Goth Challenge - Day 4

Name a stereotype or cliché you can relate to.

Well, number one would have to be...Ta da!

1. Absinthe

I mean, I am the Green Fairy after all ;) However I'm kind'a the biggest hypercrite when it comes to Absinthe. See, I love the concept and romanticism behind the stuff...It's green it comes in pretty bottles, it makes you see fairies, it has a rather complex drinking style, some awesome historical figures used to drink it, it's extremely alcoholic...I could go on..

But see, I don't actually like the taste of aniseed. *headdesk* I wish I did, and I continue to bombard myself with the flavour whenever and wherever I can (I keep my absinthe lipbalm and candies with me at all times) but unfortunately my body has yet to conform to my wishes :(



2. I can be counted on to be in love the antagonist of most stories..

Need I say more?



3. Vampires

Don't have the same fervour for them now as I used to, (I blame Twilight for ruining everything) there was a time when this little Green Fairy was obsessed with those little blood suckers. I've read pretty much anything Anne Rice has written (multiple times) and I even dissected 'The Vampire Lestat' as part of one of my texts for the HSC (along with a Cradle of Filth song, poetry by Byron, Browning and Keats and a Star Trek film - I'm sure they regret giving me the option of picking my own texts :P) I can also quote the entirety of 'The Queen of the Damned' film...word for freakin' word. >.<

I only ever drank grape juice when I was a kid because I felt like I was emulating my mother who was always drinking (very gross dry) red wines, but when this vampire obsession began it changed from me emulating my mother to me emulating my beloved Lestat De Lioncourt.

But seriously, what's not to love? The vampires I immersed myself in looked as though they'd minutes before been carved from the purest white marble, their crimson lips stained with the blood of their last victim, eyes that shone with the knowledge of eras past and adorning their Adonis-like statues were the finest fashions of a time when people really knew what style was.

You can understand why I might have been a wee bit smitten when I found creatures that haunted the night and encompassed everything I'd ever found pleasant in history.

But now - we have the Stephanie Meyer vampires who have shattered my childhood idols and almost sicken me when I think about how much time I devoted to adoring them.

Thanks Stephanie Meyer...Bitch..


4. Speaking of Poetry...

Yeah, I love poetry from the 19th century. It's pretty much name it and I've read everything they've ever written. I studied the Romantics in ext. English at school and have never looked back. I also took poetry at uni and so I was lucky enough to score me a textbook with Bible-esque tissue paper thin pages full of all kinds of famous poets' works that's about a brick and a half thick. It is my poetry bible. I could probably just get rid of all my other books on the subject now.

Here are some of the poets I keep close to my heart:

Byron
Keats
Robert Browning
Frost
Tennyson
Blake
Wordsworth
Shelley

Annddd I could go on forever but I'll cap it there.



5. Spiders...and more


Although I've never been one to adorn myself with spiders or bats or what not in my wardrobe (I find it a bit tacky), I absolutely loooveee the creatures in real life. I was a bit of a cruel child, the type you'd find sitting outside on the back veranda at our old house catching bugs and putting them in spider webs just so I could see the illustrious creatures emerge from their little dwellings to devour the innocent little bugs. I seem to have this equal feeling of fascination and terror when I see an exotic spider.

I have very vivid memories as a child when my parents took me to a spider exhibition at a museum in Sydney (I think they wanted me to be able to learn about them but without the chance I'd be bitten like at home...plus I was obsessed with Alice Cooper's 'The Black Widow' song at this time). It was probably one of the best times of my childhood life (only rivalled by another exhibition they took me to that was Star Trek themed :D) aaaand I got to hold a tarantula! It was freakin' awesome.

And not to mention snakes...I used to pretend I could speak parseltongue :P Plus we've had several pet snakes in my lifetime (RIP Salazar). I've never been afraid of them one iota and I've known how to bandage a snake bite wound from about the age of 8.



6. Braaaiiiiinnnzzzz...Err, I mean Zombies..

I love Zombies. I love zombie films, be they gorefests, b-graders, realistic rage-virus versions, Shaun of the Dead-esque or what. I love the idea of painting myself up to be skeletal, dousing myself in fake blood and running around trying to eat peoples' brains. I played (and was the second last to die!) in the first ever Australian game of Humans v.s Zombies and I just don't know how else to express my love of the little blighters.



7. Halloween

I've never participated in it, but I love the idea. It's the one thing I wish Australia would rip off from the rest of the world.



8. Satanism and Witchcraft

Well considering that the true meaning behind Satanism is humanity attempting to reach equal power with God; hell yeah I'm a Satanist. Because no one's god is more important than the life of another person...I mean, no one has ever murdered anyone in my name (that I know of :p)...

And as for witchcraft, well muggles I got my letter when I was 11 so nerrr :P *blows raspberry*

(I hope I'm not going to get abused for this one :P)

...


9. Brian Warner

I love Marilyn Manson, his music is fantastic (I like all of it even his most recent albums) and he's hilarious. He does everything just for the sake of getting publicity (because let's face it, it's getting harder and harder to do something outlandish nowadays) and the public plays right into his hands by telling him off for it. Any publicity is good publicity, duh.

I mean this isn't so much the case any more, because well...Mr Manson isn't in his prime an ymore, but yeah...Funny man. Very talented. Bit of a child. Love it.



10. Morbid...stuff

I read criminal files for a living practically and I spend my free time on sites like People You'll See In Hell. I love gorey details. Sometimes I worry about it, but mostly I don't :P



Hope this has been interesting at least a little, I'm home from work today because my back pain is so bad it made me puke :( I love my blog for distracting me <3

Also, woo only 3 weeks till I move to the big city! :D


Over and Out my lovelies

The Green Fairy

xx

The Goth Challenge - Day 3

When did you come out the Goth closet?

Um, I don't think I ever was in this 'goth closet'; it's not like I showed up to a G.A. meeting and said "My name's Stephanie Julian and I'm a goth." :p It just kind'a...happened..



..Wow I'm not really good at answering these questions, am I?

The Goth Challenge - Day 2

Share photos and experiences from your Baby Bat days.

Well, I don't think I need to show you any more photos, as you can see them all here.

The Goth Challenge - Day 1

Well I spotted this challenge on Juliet's Lace (as did a lot of my fellow bloggers I see) and thought I'd take part! :)

How did you come across the subculture?

So, I probably have mentioned this before; if so I'm sorry for the repetition!

I became quite self conscious when I first started reading a lot of blogs from other gothie types around the world, this being because I didn't really get into the goth subculture until a lot later in my life than a lot of you lovelies. Although I did recognise elements in my childhood that a lot of my now goth friends describe as being part of the subculture (which made me feel a bit better :p). I was always obsessed with anything fantasy, horror or sci fi as a kid; I loved to dress up and I was never interested in being the 'princess' of the story.

But apart from that I wasn't really aware of the subculture to be perfectly honest, that was until I met a boy at a friend's birthday party when I was 16. He was a metal head and was generally interested in gothic...stuff :P

Needless to say we started dating not long after and he often listened to bands like Cradle of Filth, Nightwish and Wednesday 13. After we broke up I started listening to the aforementioned groups (as although I was interested in them immediantly, I didn't want to appear as though I was just into them because he was) as well as started trawling the internet for other bands that I might like. And so began my metal head phase...

This lasted for a few years until I started discovering bands that tended to be more melodic and well...goth :p I found I preferred these over the general cacophonous-ness of a lot of metal bands out there.

Furthermore I had worn black quite a lot from a young age because I'd always been quite self conscious about being fat and well...Black is slimming :p Plus other colours were a bit too girlie for me, and I was a bit of a tomboy.

In any case, the more gothic bands I discovered, the more exposure I got to the subculture and the older I got the more money I had to start investing in garments, music and literature involved in the gothic world.


And I think that about concludes my story of coming into goth :)



The Green Fairy

xx

Oh and p.s. Unfortunately I didn;t win a place in Black Milk's recent photo comp BUT I did find out today that I've scored myself a pair of Matrix leggings! I'm sooo happy as they're the style I've wanted for agesssss but they were release when I was on hiatus from BM for spending too much money >.> <.<


Over and out

Lack of a Better Name

Black Milk is having a little comp on it's facebook fanpage at the moment in which members post pics of themselves in BM leggings and any band t shirt with the best 5 photos winning a pair of Jellyfish Leggings. Here are my entries for today :)



Black Reptillians, Piggy D T-shirt and Jeffrey Campbell 'Back Off's





Black Reptillians, Piggy D T-shirt and Demonia stompy booties




Green Galaxies, Piggy D T-shirt


And the same as above but this photos has not been edited at all, as opposed to the other 3 that have been edited a lot :P

Um, Quick Question

Does anyone know of a widget to show people on blogger from you're currently listening to through Last.fm? >.>