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A romantic goth look for Valentine’s Day

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It was hard to draw the scales.

(2021)

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new video out :3 its all about budget tips for goths/alternative people in the subculture, with a free/pay-what-you-want PDF accompanying it, check it out here!

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Been playing with making miniature things lately and this is my tiny vampire hunting kit! (bottle cap for scale)

Materials under cut :-)

Box - cardboard and lace

Rope - hemp cord

Garlic - clay and jute cord

Dagger - pen nib, cardboard, rhinestones, beads, wire

Holy water - beads, chain, nail charm

Teeth - straw, beads, coarse salt painted red

Rosary - chain, wire

Candles - toothpicks, thread

Cross - charm, beads, wire

Mallet - bead, toothpick

Stakes - toothpicks, leather

Pentacle - hot glue, silver paint

Mirror - cardboard , mirror tape

Blood - beads, nail charm, thread

Salt pouch - ribbon, gem, thread , salt

Scroll - tea dipped paper, hot glue

Book - cardstock , leather, bead

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Made a video all about alt diy techniques (with accompanying PDF) feel free to check it out here (PDF is free/pay-what-you-want)

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One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

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My African Flower Turtle 🌸 Made in cotton! by lacielaplante

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Plug/gauge collection

I stretched my right ear up to 16mm (5/8 for those of you from the US) about 12 years ago. A little over a year back I decided to stretch my left up to match. It's now at 14mm so I'm very close to being done, and this is all the jewellery I've been collecting so I have some to choose from when I get there.

All the ones on the right are resin inside metal tunnels (wearing resin directly touching your ear may not be safe since chemicals can leach into your skin and cause adverse reactions).

Apart from the butterflies which are paper, all the flowers, leaves, shells and even the mushrooms are real. They are from two Etsy sellers, Aperture Artistry, who did the three at the bottom, and Til Death Studios. For those from Til Death I only had one of each for ages, then when I decided to stretch my other ear I contacted her to ask for matching ones, and she did an outstanding job!

The ones on the other side are (top to bottom) snakes and onyx from stretchitbodyjewellery.co.uk, bloodstone, crazy lace agate, and labradorite from Witches Plugs, blue tigers eye from Customplugs.com and dragon's blood jasper from Urbanbodyjewelry.com.

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I think I did a post a while ago saying I was updating my piercing jewellery, and since I got a package today with a couple of new bits in it I thought I'd share.

The new ones are the crow's skull and the snake, both from stretchitbodyjewellery.co.uk but I have seen similar ones on other websites. A couple of different angles so everything can be seen clearly. I'm also really pleased with my arrangement of the bat, ankh, and the tiny onyx stud between them. I just need something a little more interesting for the rook piercing now.

The crows skull is supposed to be a captive bead/BCR, but because of its shape it's super difficult to clip the skull into place, so instead I've threaded a hinged ring through the eye holes and I think it looks just as good.

This is my other ear. Much less going on here (no piercings in the upper ear though I might get some in the future) and the lobe isn't yet the right size for the matching snake tunnel, but I do really love the spider and the rose. I have a small quartz stud on the way to go between them, similar to the onyx one above. The holes are too close together to wear larger studs in the middle ones!

All my studs are internally threaded labrets as the flat backs are much more comfortable.

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Another Black Metal vest update

A little more added to this. The back is now finished unless I decide to add anything to the shoulders on either side of the Morbid patch. 8 of these were hand-painted and the large one in the middle was done with printer transfer paper.

The front is looking pretty full now too, though there is plenty of space to fit more on - as long as they're the right shape! Only 3 of these were home made.

I figured I'd show a close-up of the badges I got too, since they can't be seen very well in the photo above. I'm only really into two Mayhem albums (Deatchcrush and Live in Leipzig) so it didn't seem right to have a full patch, but I wanted to acknowledge their importance to the genre. And Dead is there because of both Mayhem and Morbid, and because of the almost mythic status he has in the scene. I've shown the Norwegian flag as an inverted cross in previous posts - I'm neither a Satanist, nor a Norwegian, I just saw others do it and I think it looks cool 😁

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Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

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I was there, up in the Royal Circle! Thanks for filming, I had my phone switched off 😁

utterly iconic

Final Macbeth curtain call - Saturday 14th December 2024

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Well, I love Agalloch, and I'm a big fan of both black and doom metal, so thanks for the rec!

Guelph’s Nepenthe are a phenomenal band. Their blend of doom metal and black metal is absolutely gorgeous and reminds me a lot of groups like Woods of Ypres and Agalloch. It was a pleasure to join them at the Jimmy Jazz for the release of their new EP, ‘The Fading Promise of Tomorrow’, which you should definitely check out.