Raven <raven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Welcome! I am in the same boat as you - after living right on the edge
of
> goth style and goth interests for years, I finally gave up my fear of
> labels, and am exploring my 'black' side. And having a blast, I might
add.
Well, it all looks like fun ;)
A lot of it for me is kind of a search for identity. After many years
of being what I thought I should be, rather than what I want to be, I
want to find my niche before I end up well and truly too old!
> I do empathize about the nursery school parents - my son (3 1/2) goes to
a
> Catholic preschool, (it's really just a good school, not for religious
> reasons - I am not Xian myself) and I do get the odd looks!
Oddly enough my son goes to a church school too. I actually am a
Christian - a fairly faltering and uncertain one, though. I'm really
not sure of what my fellow churchgoers will make of my emergence from
the goth closet - I'll let you know!
> I am lucky to be a graphic designer, so I can always fall back on the
old
> 'creative types wear lots of black' stereotype at work. My son shows no
> predilection for black himself, but he thinks Mommy's clothes (and
music,
> BTW) are neat and fun. And except maybe for that year or so when I
totally
> frumped out, my hubby is pretty open to any style I have ever chosen to
> experiment with. Of course my in-laws are another story...... LOL
I wear a uniform at work, so not much scope there. I realised recently
that there is nowhere near enough black in my wardrobe, so I'm
building up a stock! I think my wife will be fine if I don't go to
extremes, and my mum is quite laid back. Only my father-in-law will be
particularly freaked - he's strictly a ****rt and tie man - but he
lives 400 miles away anyway.
> I would love to meet and chat, but I am in the US. Still, I am always
happy
> to share the laughs and pitfalls of goth life as a) a parent, b) a
> non-teenager c) a 'late-bloomer'
I'm greatly encouraged by this. I was worried that I might have missed
the boat and that only people much younger than me were goths, but I'm
happy to have met (online at least) plenty of older ones in their 30s,
a number of whom are new to the whole thing. It's good to see that
there are people out there who love being part of a particular
culture. It's deeper than just the teenagers who try to spook their
parents. This is A Good Thing!
As regards my continuing adventures...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/splee
. Mostly public entries,
although some are friends-only. If you have a livejournal ID, tell me
what it is and I'll add you.
> There are some great threads here, but sadly, isn't a very active group.
Are
> you alt.gothic.fa****on? Lots more activity there, and off-topic posts
are
> generally well received (as long as they are marked, of course ;-)
Yeah...shame this group is fairly inactive. My ISP doesn't carry it,
and I have to access it via Google. Ah well. I also hang around at
alt.gothic and uk.people.gothic. Look out for "Splee" - that's me.
> Welcome, again, and I hope I see more of you around.
>
> Raven
You may well do ;).
Thanks a lot for replying.
Lee
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