The Goth Challenge: Day Four

Day IV: Name a stereotype or cliche that you relate to.

   There are kind of a lot.
   Here's a list, in no particular order:

• I'm not obsessed or anything, but I like vampires. I really like fangs. In fact, if I become successful enough at fashion design and art (to the point where I don't have to rely on whether anyone will hire me or not), I want to get my canines permanently pointed. Not because I think I'm a vampire, I just love how very pointed canines look.
• I write dark/gloomy/sad/morbid poetry.
• I'm artistic.
• I love Halloween and almost everything to do with it. When I go into stores with Halloween stuff, I get the biggest smile on my face and I want everything in sight.
• My favourite colour is black. I'm often heard saying things like "Well I'd LOVE this shirt if it was black..." "If it were cheaper, I'd buy it and dye it black." "I'm going to paint ____ black."
• I like being as pale as possible. 
• I hate the sun and prefer darkness and night to light and day.
• I love graveyards.

 There are probably a lot more that I can't think of at the moment, but those are a few. 

The Goth Challenge: Day Three

Day III: When did you come out the Goth closet (If you didn't, then simply discuss the topic)?


  I guess I'm just discussing the topic, then.


  I didn't really hide the fact that I was interested in gothic fashion/culture/anything. I did have to ease my mother into the fashion slowly, for a while she kept wanting me to wear the things I used to wear (regular, coloured clothes and little/no makeup). But I really don't think that counts. Most goths probably have to go through the same sort of thing with their parents.


  I think hiding your interests is extremely silly. There CAN be reasons to, like if you're going to get executed for wearing black or listening to goth music... but that's highly irrational and unlikely. I think everyone should gather up self-confidence enough to be themselves... If you live to please other people, you'll never be truly happy. 


   But, easing friends or family into your new interests definitely makes sense. But, remember that those who just won't accept who you truly are do not matter.  One of my favourite quotes is of Dr. Seuss: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." 

The Goth Challenge: Day Two

  Day II: Share photos and experiences from your babybat days.

Yay, I love looking at old pictures of myself.

Summer 2009, with my top hat that I had just bought from a costume shop on vacation in Arizona

Fall 2009, My friend and I posing for a picture. Oh, aren't we scary?

Fall 2009.  Crow eyes!  I don't like how I looked in black lipstick. My face has lost SO MUCH fat since then.

Winter 2009 (before the snow). Ah, graveyard photo shoots.

February 2010, when my mother FINALLY let me dye my hair black.

February 2010. Experimental lipstick. First REAL self-photo shoot. Yes, I wanted this picture to be upside-down.

October 2010. My friend and I going to see Wicked.

2010

May 29th 2010 (my birthday)! I just heaped on accessories that day.

May 2010, with a snake I found in my yard. Awww, I think snakes are cute.

May 2010. I actually still really like this makeup. I just wish I'd bothered to draw on my eyebrows before taking this picture :/

July 2010, at Canobie Lake Park. I wore that lace shirt and camisole all the time.

August 2010, on a beach in Hawaii taking picture of a turtle. I love this picture a lot, actually. The whole time I was in Hawaii it was pretty cloudy and cool ♥. I think the gods did that just for me.

August 2010. Paradise Lost quote: "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven". The eyes are edited red. I WISH I had red contacts.

August 2010, my "Summerween" party. There's a hilarious story behind this photo. I need to post about it sometime.

August 2010, in Hawaii (these pictures are out of order >.<) 

My first corset ♥ which I am looking to sell as I need a new one because I've lost weight. 

Black roses 

 October 2010

   I literally have thousands more photos. These were just a few. Perhaps I shall post more at a later date, I quite enjoy them.

   After Summer 2010, I didn't really dress babybat-ish anymore and I had actually gained some makeup skills, so it's a little hard to differentiate the pictures that came after from my current pictures, although now I look older- my face is thinner, I've lost some weight, and I have red hair. 

   I consider myself to be just growing out of the babybat stage. I'm more mature than most babybats, but, I'm still figuring certain things out. I think it's been too short of a time since I was really a babybat to consider myself completely out of that stage.

The Goth Challenge: Day One

 Day I: How did you come across the subculture?

     Even when I was young, wanted to be a pop singer, and wore pink on a daily basis, I had always been sort of curious about “dark” things and the beauty in them, they just weren’t a part of my life yet.

      In 6^th  grade, my father introduced me to more alternative types of music. I became interested in alternative fashion, but I didn't yet have the confidence or knowledge to begin wearing it myself.

       In 7^th grade, I started wearing whatever I wanted- at the time, mainly neon colours, interesting leggings, skirts, skinny jeans, and various coloured shirts. It was interesting, but I still didn't feel quite myself yet.

       Finally, the end of 7^th grade arrived, and my friend and I became interested in (what we saw as) goth. Of course, that was just when my "babybat" period began. I didn't realize quite yet what goth was actually about. I loved the dark clothes, and I discovered that black just felt so comfortable on me. But, I also liked scaring people and being "creepy”, and I mistakenly thought that those things were a big part of gothic culture. I also thought Evanescence, Slipknot, and Marilyn Manson were the most goth bands ever and that if I listened to them, it would get me recognized as a "cool goth person" or something.

    I didn't really come across the "Goth Scene Proper" (as I've heard it called) until this past summer. I think I discovered it so late because in 8^th grade, I was a typical babybat, content to blunder about and try my best to be “creepy”, and in 9^th  grade I just didn't care enough/have time enough to look around on the Internets for real goth culture, and there have only been a few other goths in my small town. So, being in 10^th grade as of now, I guess I'm sort of JUST departing from my babybat years.

    I don’t really think there’s much of a “goth scene” around where I live. Apparently they have a goth/industrial night in Salem, which is near where I live, but sadly it’s 21+ and it’s the only thing I’ve seen advertised here.  I rarely see other goths when I’m out places. I think they may all be hiding. 
   I believe that about sums it up, this was a difficult question to answer.


   

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

    Today I am not writing of the Goth Challenge (that shall come later tonight most likely), but I would like to write about how much I love German. I take a fancy German class in Boston (it's not actually  fancy , as you'll see I use the word "fancy" very loosely and arbitrarily) because my school only offers French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese (I take French). Ever since I'd first heard German spoken, I'd loved it very much. It's very comforting to me. It's not melodic as French is, but it's very beautiful and special to me. I think that I lived in Germany in a past life, because the language comes so easily to me, and I feel like the words express their meanings in a much deeper way than they do when I speak English.

A project I just finished for German class introducing Till Lindemann of Rammstein

  I really like German bands, or at least bands who sing in German. Rammstein was my first and favourite German band. Although they aren't a good teacher of German pronunciation (sadly, real Germans don't roll their R's), I have learned A LOT of German vocabulary and even some sentence structure from them.

  I want to buy all  of their CDs, but I'm picky and I'll only buy the real ones imported from Germany. I do not want ANY ENGLISH WHATSOEVER on my special Rammstein CDs. I know, I'm silly and ridiculous. 

  Right now, the one I want the very most is Mutter , because a few of my most favourite Rammstein songs are on that CD.

   One of my favourite Rammstein songs is Mein Herz brennt. Here it is, complete with English lyrics for you non-German-speakers:

   

The Goth Challenge

     I've decided to start the Goth Challenge from the lovely blog Juliet's Lace  (here) as an easy way to start my blog and have things to post about each day. I had tried doing a Lolita one a few months ago, but I rarely wear lolita as much as I admire it so it wasn't quite possible!
So, here is the list of days for the Goth Challenge:

Day 1 – How did you come across the subculture?
Day 2 – Share photos and experiences from your Baby Bat days.
Day 3 – When did you come out the Goth closet? (If you didn't then simply discuss the topic)
Day 4 – Name a stereotype or cliche you can relate to.
Day 5 – Is there a local Goth band or group in your area?
Day 6 – Hand write your favourite lyric and take a picture.
Day 7 – Ten of your favourite goth bands.
Day 8 – What's your worst and best experience with non-Goths?
Day 9 – What genre of music do you dislike?
Day 10 – What do you hate and love about the subculture?
Day 11 – Is Goth a lifestyle for you?
Day 12 – What's your gothic inspiration?
Day 13 – What was your first band t-shirt?
Day 14 – What was your best and worst DIY disaster.
Day 15 – Your favourite or most expensive item in your wardrobe.
Day 16 – What's the most casual you've ever dressed?
Day 17 – Your favourite Goth brand.
Day 18 – Worst hair experience.
Day 19 – Share beauty advise and take a photo of your make up.
Day 20 – If you could dye your hair any colour what would it be?
Day 21 – What body mod do you have or have you considered?
Day 22 – If you could attend any Goth event what would it be?
Day 23 – Your favourite artist or photographer.
Day 24 – Name the best websites for Goths.
Day 25 – Did you ever consider leaving the subculture?
Day 26 – Show a photo for every year (or month if you're new) that you've being into Goth.
Day 27 – The worst thing you ever did to a newbie.
Day 28 – Do you consider yourself an eldergoth?
Day 29 – What do you think will happen to Goth in the future?
Day 30 – Make a list of blogs you regularly read and link to them.


     

Hello ^-^

  Hello, I am Nephälia VonDämonen. I have decided to start a blogspot blog because I've changed quite a bit since my last post there, and I don't like my old blog at all anymore. It was also on my father's website, which had no option to subscribe, so I think this shall be better.

Me, 50 or so days ago, my most recent photo, oddly

This blog is going to be more based on fashion than my old one. I want to start doing daily outfit videos (or weekly... I'm usually too tired to wear anything interesting for school, but I dress up on the weekends when I go places) so I shall post those here, along with photos. 

I shall also talk about things and post artwork here occasionally.

Hopefully this will be interesting enough and I'll actually post every so often.