She Is Herself A Haunted Building.

Goths aren't "true to seed" in the sense that the biological offspring of two goths do not necessarily grow up to be goth, though inheriting the inclination for it from both parents increases the odds significantly. That is not how goths naturally reproduce.

The process is actually quite sophisticated, and requires the presence of a full-grown goth to trigger it. A pupal-stage proto-goth, at this point completely indistinguishable from any other small human child, only needs to encounter a mature specimen once - and while the initial imprinting that ensues will only take seconds, the incubation period often takes more than a decade, even several.

The first visible step of the transformation is triggered when the dormant goth suddenly gains awareness that they have free will and can do whatever they want with their appearance. While the progress may be gradual, or seem like the transformation happened all at once overnight, the initial seed was planted years ago. And now, in full bloom, a fully-fledged mature adult goth may finally be happy.

And that's why it's important to sometimes look goth as fuck in the grocery store. You might be seen by small child who had previously hoped to die before adulthood because everything they've heard about becoming a grownup is just pure misery, who will then consequently think to themselves "actually nevermind, that's what I want to be when I grow up."

Hear that bud? That's the title track being incorporated under my leitmotif. You are so fucked.

no no bro you don’t understand. i’m not romanticizing murder. i’m sexualizing it.

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

Still thinking about painting that one pic of AB in Leyendecker style... if I only knew Leyendecker style...

Inktober day 06 : drooling

how it feels to be in your 20s with the same interests you had when you were 10

My Local Gas Station

Bats drawn by Edward Gorey.

(From the back-cover illustration for “The Doom of the Haunted Opera.”)

I've been trying to play OFF the indie game and for whatever reason I can't run it on my computer and the fixes simply don't do shit. This suuuuuuuuucks