There's that, and also one of the themes I've been mulling for the past couple of years is that one of the strong traits of (at least old-school) goths is a healthy, if not overdeveloped, sense of humour and self-mockery. The morbidity may have even stemmed from less gloom'n'doom than "I'm going to admire what you hold obscure and sacred, and laugh at what you fear." In any case, I like it a lot...
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Date: 2002-09-24 10:49 am (UTC)logo
Date: 2002-09-25 08:11 am (UTC)The very talented TSM came up with that idea. Expecting that we would hate it, 'cause we're like, Canadian ya'know.
I think he underestimates the blood-thirstiness of this particular crowd of Canadians.
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Date: 2002-09-25 08:33 am (UTC)