TL;DR contemplating about death and accepting it’s part in our lives, alongside connecting with the people we’ve lost and how we honour them/how to carry on their memory in a way that’s meaningful, and more than just having a funeral and leaving it at that.

I was listening to the ‘confessions from the cemetery’ podcast episode about death and death philosophy, and just overall death acceptance yesterday, and it’s been making me reflect a lot on not only what I choose to live for, but what I actually do to honour the dead loved ones in my life.

I feel like there are so many amazing practices around the world where people choose annually to honour their loved ones and use their death as a way to celebrate (day of the dead is what comes to mind), and I believe there are pagan practices that do similar things too (although I’m not well versed in that area, hence the emphasis on believe), and it just got me thinking a lot about how me and my family just unfortunately haven’t really been able to create those types of anniversaries, and how I’d like to change that.

I wanted to know if any of you guys would be willing to share what you do to honour your loved ones, and also if you have, how you were able to accept death as an inevitable part of life.

Open to any ideas and thoughts, this is an open space for conversation with no judgement☺️

I just wanna know if anyone has bought a cardigan from black craft cult not the kimono but I wanna know if the sizing is true to size or not and if I can wear a size a bit smaller due to it maybe being a bit bigger? From black craft cult clothing website cardigan only!

I finally enjoy the dark vibe, and am almost fully in touch with my dark side. Now, I have a question. Whenever I research darkly inclined groups, I mostly see emo, goth, and punk, but never metalhead. However, anytime I listen to a metal song, the lyrics are dark, demonic, violent, horror-related, and other things that one would associate with darkly inclined. So, are metalheads not darkly inclined? If not, then what makes them not?

My newest make 🖤💀

Has anyone seen this pictures of this outstanding man?

The text that says on this image ”Marja Kettner is a female photographer and doing a lot of fantasy stuff. She's done a lot of art works "similar as Anne Rice vampires." The photos had been a lot around in newspapers. Since the Lord of the Rings movie, she's done a lot of pics of Elf men

This is part of this ”panthera”series

Some people says ”the image resembles a Young Vlad from romance club”

If ya’ll seen him before tell me in the comments :)

Just wanted to share this cardigan I finished 🖤 I never wanna take it off!

Hello everyone, I don't use reddit…well, at all but my purpose for this post is to see if anyone would be willing to participate in an interview about the shift of perspective within the gothic subculture and how it has changed from its more early years. These interviews can be done either through either text or voice (admittedly text would be somewhat prefered because, funny social anxiety -.-). If you have any questions of your own please feel free to ask. I will leave my social here for anyone that would care to be interviewed, thank you for your time

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So I’ve been vaguely spooky and loved that stuff my whole life, I’ve been “Officially” Goth for a few years now and I’ve recent finally been able to decorate my space better and need advice on how I can make my bedroom more dark, spooky, Gothic, and comfortable. There’s a lot sort of in my way and I haven’t been satisfied with my space for years. What can I do to darken my space?

First of all, my furniture is all very plain and white. Someone else picked it out and bought it for me. I’m of course extremely grateful for it! But it’s what they would have wanted, not what I would have picked.

Second off, I can’t paint my walls. We rent, I can hang stuff up, pin things to the walls and ceiling but can’t paint.

Third, my room is very small. My bed which is only a twin takes up most of my space. So I don’t have a lot to work with.

Finally, clashing interests. I have collections that aren’t very spooky. That, while I love my collections, and take care of it all and display it, they sort of take away from the potential spookiness of other things. I have stuffed animals, monster high dolls, anime figurines, and stickers. It all seems to take away from everything else, and obviously I don’t want to get rid of any of it unless I’m struggling for cash. Which I’m not doing too bad currently.

I’m trying what I can but, it just hasn’t felt like enough yet. I have animal bones, candles, fake spider webs, black bed sheets, black storage bins, a black canopy, creep cloth, paper bats on the walls, I painted my lamp and book case black, but it’s not hitting. I don’t know what to do. It just all feels childish and sterile.

I don’t know if things clash too much or what. Where should I shop? What seems to be my issue?

I feel like my outfits are not giving what I want I wear chokers and corsets but it's still not making my outdits look gothic