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Ann Arbor is going to allow multiple cannabis lounges, it will be interesting if places like Necto and City Club try to get the local political nod to get in on this industry, or if the lounges drive them out of business. I could see something like one or more Victorian houses getting bought and turned into dark alt cannabis lounges-- maybe with gothic Victorian and/or dark art punk and/or dark academia and/or horror interior, ect. Even with America's economy being horrible, the overhead of a house is less than a bar or club, so one or more people with the money and passion would be able to keep the dark 80's scene alive more easily, and the first cannabis lounge in Ann Arbor appears to be located in what was once a residential house. I think because there are so many wild effects with different strains of cannabis and that it is generally more trippy than alcohol, the future of cannabis bars will have more wild and imaginative architecture and/or interiors than bars that serve alcohol around the world today. I think cannabis takes less of a toll on most people's health in comparison to alcohol so it will encourage some older people to get back into recreational scenes they might've otherwise permanently left. I suppose a cannabis scene for intellectual or autodidactic discussion is more of a dream to me than a cannabis goth scene that fails to also move in the former's direction, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. How do you think legal cannabis will effect Michigan's overall alternative scene in the long term?

For me the problem with modern music lacking timbre is not the ability to distinguish between voices and instruments, although that can be important, but that modern music lacks timbre in the sense that it lacks a variety of differing sounds which compliment each other in a way that elicits emotion that most music otherwise wouldn't.

Thank you so much. You rock! Now the flowers sticking out of her face make sense, lol.

https://www.amazon.com/Vaporwave-Medusa-Aesthetic-Japanese-T-Shirt/dp/B0868MBC9G/ I tried drawing the kanji with jisho.com but I can't figure out what it says. I still took a risk and bought the shirt because I think it's pretty cool, I know the "no" or sideways 9 for non-speakers is probably turning the kanji on the left into an adjective for the kanji on the right. If you are bored maybe you will have more luck than me figuring out what this says.

I feel like there were always two main views on goth, the traditionalist/gatekeeper view and the more relaxed view, I am not against either. I'm not obsessed with being a "goth gatekeeper"; although I'm open to kindly educate people on dark post-punk and gothic rock if we cross paths and the topic comes up. I wanted to be part of the scene the most when I was younger and didn't have the money or transportation to be a part of it. I cared less and less as I got older, for example the times I went to Necto on a Factory night, back in my 20's, there was a feeling where I kind of wondered how superficial the whole alternative thing was to the vast majority of these people, and how much it even all meant to them. In my 30's now I kind of wonder, what the whole point is of even dressing up and going out. I love Victorian gothic literature because the gothic aesthetic serves some kind of intellectual function, it's not there just for the sake of itself, it's part of an identity that is somehow rooted in significant or severe mystery, but also not necessarily unsolvable mystery. If you take a Victorian gothic character and put them in blue jeans and a t-shirt, like everyday me, the substance is still there, the inner gothic-ness still lives in them, it's like their mind is dressed to the nines because of what they've learned and the strange experiences it has given them. I want more of the "mysteriousness" part of goth than just the clothing, the idea of people who are mysterious because they are actively struggling and suffering-- sometimes horribly, to improve themselves or find understanding, that's what I like; and when you dress dark and alternative with that mindset, there is more substance behind the style. I want to explore mysteries and become more mysterious and more intellectual in the process, and I want that in my dark music too. But I don't consider this the one right way to approach "goth" or being "gothic", however I personally see it as a version of goth with more substance, and it is simply the idea of goth that I have aspired to out of a general love for the culture.

About to go to sleep, wake up after midnight, and question my life choices as an adult.

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Thank you.

After 12 years and the hardest work of my life, I've released the final edition of my Gothic novel "Vibrant Night", where colorful "Literary Nonsense" meets "Goth" in a small Michigan city, trapped in eternal night, and filled with strange and memorable characters: A MODERN ALICE IN WONDERLAND Lacie is a college freshmen who is struggling with depression and anxiety. She mostly keeps to herself and feels alone. Until she falls asleep in an empty classroom and wakes up in a totally different place, in a city of monsters, lunatics, and gravity-defying donuts that is trapped in perpetual night, and threatens to tear her mind apart if it doesn't kill her first. Getting out won't be easy. But the answer Lacie seeks may lie with "my dear Uncle Herbert" in a massive and mysterious department store known as All-Mart. tHe NiGhT cAlLs FoR yOu https://www.amazon.com/Vibrant-Night-Okami-Carroll/dp/1492977586

I agree.

Man oh man with all this legal pot I'm going to end up looking just like my avatar!!!

I ordered Japanese food today and I made sure to say "itadakimas" but I didn't put my hands together because they were full. I scored some milk chocolate Pocky too; usually all you can find is the dark chocolate which I don't like, suki janai.

These were some of the best of the best in my opinion, I couldn't find any male ones I liked, people putting more detail into the females I guess.

Watashi is the only kanji in this I know. 私は裸足でした

Kutsushita ga hoshii.

Some of Boy Harsher's music gives me the feeling that the Goth subculture originally gave me when I was a teenager, a sense of not being welcomed, or a conflicting sense of something hidden and bad that's interesting enough to keep you engaged and curious. A sense of genuine creepiness mixed with genuine catchiness. I love that some of these songs I've heard are dark music that legitimately creep me out, while succeeding in making me want to play them over and over again.