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Thursday, March 13, 2003

Of course, the secret of success in dating a non-goth is an open mind. If, when you try to share your excitement about the new Creatures CD (or new black article of clothing, something that happened at the club the other night, etc., etc.), your beloved just snorts derisively and rolls their eyes, that will obviously lead to some tension in the relationship. If your new romantic interest starts earnestly saying things like, “but you would look really good in a peach sweater,” “when are you going to get out of this morbid phase?” or other things that you would only expect intolerant relatives to come up with, you need to start examining how much the companionship of this person means to you.

Anna has opened up a second front by directing me to Gothic Miss Manners which, as a problem page, obviously again covers one of my fascinations with highly specific and highly constrained forms of text.

It also offers some very good advice. Jeans and t-shirts are goth, velvet is goth, the Powerpuff Girls are goth should definitely be on a T-shirt, and friends don't let friends dress like the Crow has a certain ring to it to boot.

I think I'm getting better at this.

Other recent links explored on this whistLestop tour of the darkness:

Gothic.Net

Am I Goth or Not?

Donna Ricci, Gothic Supermodel, and thence Drac-in-a-Box clothing, which scores about a zillion points for the disclaimer "Drac-in-a-Box Gothic clothing have been trading since 1999 and are eager to promote all things gothic and alternative(apart from patchouli oil which we are not keen on)". And they donate to the campaign to save Britain's bats, so yay them, really.

Slimelight.

Kim Elizabeth, Mistress of Horror, who has a flash intro to her page, but in HTML, which is just mighty.

Oh, and somebody has pointed out that you do have to pay to get into Highgate Cemetary, so don't go along there without change, dating fiends, unless you can reasonably convincingly maintain that you are in fact going to visit Great-Great-Uncle Karl.

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