One problem that my woeful lack of organisation and forward planning skills often cause me is missing out on things I fancy doing because I don’t find out about them or get my shit together enough to arrange to do them until a couple of days before the event itself. This is particularly true of…

Despite my typing fingers being rather slow on the uptake when it comes to typing the date correctly (as always happens at the start of the new year when my brain seems determined to continue using the previous year’s date well into February) it’s now 2018. This means that people who weren’t even born in…

Christmas is literally just around the corner, whether you like it or not – so it’s time to talk presents, parties, and Gothing during the festive season once again. In this blog post, I’m going to share my picks of five of the best Christmas presents for Goths to request in your stocking this year,…

Ho ho ho bitches, it is December yet again, but don’t worry, this post won’t be all about Christmas –nah, I’m going to cover that in a totally separate post which naturally, you will also read diligently. I am still undecided (as is apparently everyone else) as to whether or not this winter is going…

 I spend most of my life on the internet, largely out of choice – it keeps me from having to interact down here in Meatworld too often, after all. It is funny how I have managed to turn the internet into a modern-day recreation of my bored teenaged years too – instead of channel-surfing…

According to all of the mainstream fashion publications and websites, when it comes to Autumn/winter 2017-18, red is the new black. Yes indeed, every winter some designer somewhere evidently decides that XXX-colour is the new black, and in recent years we’ve run the gamut of grey, brown and virtually any other dark, muted shade you…

HALLOWEEN SQUAD GOALS. Happy Gothmas, minions! Yes, it is nearly Halloween at last, although it still feels like the tail end of summer – and much like the muggles that go around saying that they don’t “feel Christmassy” in December, I’m finding it hard to equate the blazing sunshine and amount of electric I’m getting…

There are some really, really lazy plot devices in modern cinematography and culture, and I know you all know what I mean: Need to provide character development and background insights on your angry female lead? Don’t work too hard, just throw in a quick sexual assault. Want to rebrand your image as serious, dark and…

Welcome to September, oh happy month of joy… Why? The kids have all gone away again. You can now go shopping during the day, catch a bus without having to decode an Enigma’s worth of “school holiday” shorthand on timetables, and get a taxi without having to wait an hour. While this does of course…

I am pretty sure that a common Goth trait is greatly preferring animals to people in most situations, and I am no exception-in fact, I like to quietly tell myself that I am quite the pack leader in this respect. I never met an animal I didn’t like-spiders don’t count, and I even find them…

Sophie Lancaster is a name that resonates deeply with every Goth, from long-term lifers who have been part of the subculture for decades to the newest of teenage baby bats. The horrific and unprovoked attack on Sophie and her boyfriend Robert Maltby that ultimately resulted in Sophie’s death in hospital thirteen days later happened ten…

  Hey look it’s July already! We’re already a month past the longest day, which fits neatly into the Goth viewpoint from both perspectives-it means that we still have like, three painfully hot months still to come (if you hate that shit) and also, that Winter is Coming, and we’ve already peaked (if you love…

Perhaps one of the largest and most common assumptions that people make about Goths is that we are permanently miserable, and also as a result of this, have no sense of humour. This is obviously total bobbins, and when it comes to things that make me laugh (even when I’m not supposed to) my black-clad…

Black will always be the superior colour in gothic wear. It’s the perfect shade to represent the darkness and mysticism within this unique fashion subculture. But there are no rules to say that goths can’t indulge in colour every now and again, or work with flowery prints. Gothic floral has been seen on the many…

We’re now coming up to the end of June and fucking shit is it hot. That’s all I am saying on the subject, because I am aware that my regular monthly update posts have turned into something of a pattern that goes something like: SO COLD COLD AND DARK COLD, DARK and MISERABLE DARK AND LESS COLD…

Whilst my own relationship status currently stands at “two cats” and is only likely to change if I um, get a third cat, as soon as summer comes around, so do the obligatory flurry of invites to weddings of folk I know, who consequently also tend to be “folks who wear a lot of black….

What do you get when you mix heavy Goth makeup and blistering sunshine? The Goths in Hot Weather website obviously, and/or a truly miserable day sweating your face off like some kind of less-awesome surrealist artwork. Understandably, a lot of Goths take a wide swerve on the makeup front when it really is baking hot,other than perhaps for nights…

Been having a holiday from the internet? The can’t-be-arsed is particularly strong in you this month? Worry not. In this blog post, I’ll provide my usual quick-and-dirty round-up of what’s been happening in the world at large and the Goth world in particular over the course of the last few weeks. The Blogging Goth at Whitby Goth…

Woo-hoo it’s bank-holiday-arama, or May, as I believe it is more traditionally known. While it is persisting down outside of the window right now, I feel as if I am properly coming out of the winter doldrums-I have even considered spring cleaning, but I went and had a little lie down until the urge passed. So we are…

My father and to a somewhat lesser extent, me, have a seriously inappropriate sense of humour. I mean I’m not going to mince words-my father can be both hilariously funny and a total dickhead too,often at the same time. For instance, he let me know that my childhood dog had died (I knew she was pretty ill)…