Very Normal, Ordinary Even (/lie/)

The moon fell in love with the sun

They craved being together

But they never got the chance,

The day never met the night.

Eclipses always ended up in someone blinded.

When the sun met the moon,

The fire burned a hole in miss M.

But she knew the feeling.

Way too familiar

The gravitation so strong

They couldn't help orbiting each other

(Blame it on Kepler)

There was a terrible crash

The destruction brought the end of the world as they knew it

All life is gone now.

Yelyah <3

Idk how to feel about this lol it kinda sucks but whatever

"Another band" LMAOOOOO

"Punk aesthetic"?

It really intrigues me to hear people talk about how it's important to "look punk" and stuff or how the way you present yourself (aesthetically, clothe-wise) is important or an important part of the countercouture when really - if we analyse it from the begining and its core - it isn't.

Why is that? Well, before I jump into the whole "why punk is anti-fashion to its core", I wanna start by saying that most people don't have the first idea what punk is nor what it looks like, because, to be fair, it doesn't have an uniform. This really brings me back to a discourse that existed within the uk punk scene in the 70s which was "Is there a 'punk uniform'? Are these kids all dressed like this, listening to this music, going to these shows because it's what's in?", and I really think if I were to point fingers, I'd say it's Malcolm McLaren and Vivianne Westwood (yes, high end, runway fashion designer, owner of the brand that bears her name. RIP) and the Sex Pistols; after all, when most people think of punk, the Pistols are the first to come to their minds - not because of their talent in song-making or in performing, nor their short lived success as a band, but because of their in-your-face marketing.

The Pistols were put together by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and Vivienne's shop, SEX, therefore making them a purely commercial band. Now, that doesn't mean they didn't have a past as musicians or that they were/are bad musicians by any means, I'm just telling you pure facts: the Sex Pistols were a commercial band put together and managed by McLaren to be dressed by his girlfriend, Vivienne. Their marketing was damn good and very loud and in-your-face, so much so that they are, wrongly, regarded as the pioneers of punk music.

But the reason why they dressed the way they did, and a lot of other big names in the scene *cough cough* Siouxsie Sioux *cough cough* was because they were little living, breathing mannequins for Vivienne. Their style wasn't original, wasn't genuine, wasn't theirs, it was just provocative and performative for the sake of it. All she wanted was to shock, to disturb (which is fine in art, but in this case was rather distasteful and greatly impactful): ripped clothing, tits out, full bush in a tule skirt, nazi symbols everywhere, you get the idea.

And they full on went with it, therefore making them just as responsible for the whole use of nazi paraphernalia and uniformization of punk style that was supposed to be anti-fashion and original, genuine. Because, to be fair, as much as I simpathise with them as humans, they were just a bunch of junkies who wanted to make it big, regardless of the price or impact on themselves and others.

If you take The Damned as example and analyse each member's style you notice just how diverse and genuine they are. Dave Vanian (vocalist) has always had the vampy, goth-y look, that of course evolved as he got older - whih is only natural -, Rat Scabies (drummer <3) wears usually jeans, work boots or sneakers, a jacket or blazers - nothing flashy and clothes you'd find in any working class boy in 1970s London -, Captain Sensible (bass, then guitar) has always been the flashiest and most loud with his fashion choices, not to push a product, but to express his own weirdness (still don't know where that fluffy set he uses in the cover of Machine Gun Etiquette and someother pictures came from lol), and Brian James (guitar) had always had the simple jean and jacket combo.

The Damned released the first uk punk single: New Rose on 22 of October, 1976, followed by their album Damned Damned Damned. They are otherworldly talented in my opinion and so important for the scene, even if they don't get as much recognition as they should; but the band was formed by for working class fellas from London who decided to make incredible music together, and so they did. At no point was any of their styles or attituded performatives, at no point did they use of any nazi paraphernalia, their name doesn't come from any nazi sexual exploitation wing *cough cough* Joy Division *cough cough*, in fact it comes from two 1960s films "The Damned" (1969) - admitedly, a historical drama set in 1930s nazi germany - and a horror film called "The Village Of The Damned" (1960).

To its core, punk has been formed by working class ladies and fellas who had their own clothes, styles and a lot of anger towards the system that throws and leaves them down where they are. Which brings us to why punk is inherently anti-fashion: because it is and has always been anti-capitalist, it is a leftist countercouture. Fashion is and has always been a way to uniformize physical appearence and and behavior, and to sell you things. If it can make you feel like you're less than because you don't dress in latest fashion, because you wear "out of date" clothes, because you behave in a way that is viewed as strange, unnusual or cringe, then it can make you feel like the only way to be accepted and to be seen as human is to buy the latest trend, regardless of how quick it changes, regarless of wether or not you like it, because it doesn't care about you. Fashion doesn't care about you. Fashion doesn't like you.

Fashion likes the rich, it likes the influencers, it likes the powerful, not you whose biggest acomplishment will be to die without debts. You are poor, after all, and the poor are not fashionable, the poor are not humans. You can only sell the poor in two ways: human traffic and performance. You can sell the poor the same way you can sell the alternative. Which is exactly what happened to punk already in its formative years. So, if you bring me that 70s question "[Were those] kids all dressed like [that], listening to [that] music, going to [those] shows because it's what [was] in?", I'd answer it's impossible to know that for each of the kids that were there in the 70s uk, dressed like that, behaving like that, but it's very clear how by the mid 80s punk was back underground and with a terrible reputation, and now it's buried deeper underground.

Honorable mentions:

The Damned, The Descendents, Buzzcocks and The Jam

I was just thinking how amazing it is that Ocean's catchphrase is "Democracy rocks!" But is the least democratic of all them untill the end lol

I NEED TO SEE THIS RIGHT NOW

mischa wearing one of those little heart lockets with a picture of talia inside

"Look at how beautiful those flowers are!"

"Yeah, maybe that's why they didn't cut 'em"

I like the idea of being so outstandingly beautiful

That you're freed from the world's destruction

But I knew from the beginning that's not how it works

'Cause we'll never be the most beautiful flowers in the train tracks

And the world's too ugly for dendelions like us

Maybe we're destined to be pluked by a kid

And blown into the opened arms of death herself

Only for the brief indulgence of someone else

Imagine being so perfect,

You have the world at your feet.

Flowers.

Yelyah <3

Y'know it really pisses me off as someone who is part of countercultures to see characters like Wednesday Addams who is quite something in goth subculture be changed in a way that I like to call "pleasant weird" (I'm sure there might be a term for it but hear me out), which would be taking a character and make just weird enough that it's accepted and liked by people who aren't part of the subculture or counterculture the character's part of.

One of the reasons for my disliking of those characters going to mainstream media is not by any means gatekeeping, but more my disgust towards the idea that, in order for something to be liked or good, it needs to be at least a little "normal".

Take for example Metal Lords, a lot of people love it, as someone in the metal scene (and I am certain that many metalheads and metal enjoyers can agrre with me), I find it a absolutely horrible film; you wanna know why? Because it wasn't made for me, just like Wednesday wasn't made for us (goths and people withing the scene and culture), it was made from "normal" people to "normal" people. Don't get me wrong there are great things about this adaptation such as comic accurate Gomez design, but there are also so out of character characters, like wtf. It genuinely is a fanfic of the Addams Family, and don't get me wrong I love fanfiction, it's just not well written one.

Another thing I'd like to add is that the people who go "oh I'm so Wednesday Addams" for wearing two braids and wearing a black dress or "oh I'm so goth! Look at my Wednesday Addams dance" when it is canonically inspired by goth icons such ass Siouxsie Soux and Lene lovich and sure you can like it, but you must understand that goth is a very rich subculture that consists not only of a certain make up style of way to dress, but very important history, music and political beliefs. Those people are the ones that, when they see a genuine goth person on the streets will make fun of them for being "weird", because it's only cool when they choose which aspects of a subculture to appropriate; and it can be really harmful at some point, take for example bone heads (which I'll make a whole post about later).

She was drowning so fast

In the bottom of the well with her fears and the ghosts of the ones she disappointed,

Alone with her tear.

She's been running for so long,

Avoiding her discussion with herself at all cost,

She had to face it

With a sword in her hands

She stared at the monster

So big, yet so small

A mere puppet

She was the puppet-tear

That was that

What would be its last words?

It was made of so many

But none of them made sense

Still oh, so scary

Yelyah<3

The fact that he's said multiple times that he believes himself to be the reincarnation of Joan of Arc makes this a thousand times better

Soldier and Saint

From the Moon

I've truly seen it all. Every human to ever exist, every plant, every animal, even the unicelular beings that came before them. I saw coincidences bring lovers together and I saw miscommunication and misunderstandings break them apart. I saw people cry for love and I saw people cry of pain

I saw so many humans love eachother beneath me. I saw wars fuled by love and by hate break out; all the blood spilled in the name of love and gods that will never see... All beneath me.

But none of the lovers I united matter, for I cannot be united with my one true love. No matter how much I chase after them, how long I stay after I'm supposed to leave, they're always so close yet so far.

Thair beauty is beyond compare, the most elegant the most perfect being to ever exist in this oh so big universe. I love them so much. I long for the day we may finally unite; untill then we must satisfy ourselves by only apreciating eachoter from such long distance.

Oh my love! In the end, we may surely die as star-crossed lover when we meet, for mithical shall be the day we finally unite.

Oh my love! From the moment I saw you I knew our impossible love would be fatal, but here I stand, with opened arms, at the altar of your maiden foot awaiting to be destroyed, for whole is the only thing I can possibly be when I at last have your live, even if it means my ultimate death. There is no better death than being chewed up and swallowed by the infinite rays of your love.

To my forever star-crossed lover, the sole reason of my existence and ultimate cause of my death, The Sun.

By yelyah