#pseudogoth

[genderkoolaid]

sorry for the celebrity drama but i just do not care about jojo siwas rebrand. i didn't even know she had (supposedly) stolen a song until my friend explained it to me because all i saw were people going like "omg look at her CRINGE makeup!!!!!!!!!!!!"

like man. how many times does a child star have to go through this before we just learn to let them be cringe for a while. i do not care if this young queer girl, who has been screamed at by adults on television since she was like 7, then was the target of so much public mockery throughout her teens specifically focused on her being seen as annoying and stupid, is being cringe in public. becoming an adult is already hellish & having to do that when your entire identity has been a child friendly brand for your whole life? the only criticisms of her ive found at all interesting are like, how she is seemingly disconnected to past and present queer culture, how she and her mother treated their girl group dancers. but god if she wants to wear sparkly pseudogoth outfits and hump girls in a music video fucking Who Cares. "cringe culture is dead" was a fucking joke literally nothing has changed wrt how we as a society treat weirdness esp of queers, kids, and girls. "cringe" is not and will never be a good critique of anyone's behavior!!!!!!

[unhingedkinfessions]

i was willing to pass off my mother's "i'm just like daria"-ing as her being just like every other pseudogoth brunette with glasses and undiagnosed autism that watched mtv in the 90s, but i will be honest here, her saying "i think i was velma dinkley in a past life" multiple times has me questioning some things. look up what fictionkin means mom it won't hurt you. absolutely do not ask who roxy lalonde is

i think your mom is fictionkin, anon

[lizbethborden]

Wait... I've been following you for a whole ass while and i just found out now that your url isn't a supercorp reference? Supercorp is basically ubiquitous on lesbian tumblr. Lmao what Danvers is it referencing?

Mrs. Danvers is a character in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's a Gothic psychological horror about a young unnamed female narrator who enters a whirlwind marriage with Maxim de Winter, a widowed aristocrat, who brings her to his family home, Manderley. Mrs. Danvers is the housekeeper there. She is obsessed with the memory of de Winter's dead first wife, Rebecca, and torments the narrator with Rebecca's memory in ways alternately subtle and overt. The Danvers character in the original novel is geriatric and was Rebecca's childhood nurse, but in the 1940 film, she is young enough that her obsession reframes their relationship as homoerotic rather than maternal.

Judith Anderson's Danvers is considered one of the icons of gay-coded cinema. Check out 5:28 in the video above for one of the most famous scenes, where Danvers shows the narrator Rebecca's bedroom, clothes, and lingerie. The film and character were included in the groundbreaking documentary The Celluloid Closet. IMO (and I probably got this from some criticism I read, I don't claim this as an original idea) Danvers is the archetypal image of the psychoanalytic lesbian, which is lesbian-as-neurotic, lesbian in arrested development.

The 2020 remake of Rebecca pushes harder on the homoerotic implications of Danvers' character, also, for some reason, styling Danvers as a kind of red-lipstick pseudogoth business mommydomme. For a long while, I had pics of Lily James as the narrator and Kristin Scott Thomas as Danvers as my pfp and mobile banner. Here is the parallel room-viewing scene from the 2020 film:

Other scenes also push the predatory lesbian image, in parallel to the 1940 film, such as in the scene where Danvers tries to drive the narrator to suicide, urging her to jump out of the window and leave Maxim alone with his memories of the superior Rebecca.

At the end of the 2020 version of the film, Danvers explicitly names her relationship with Rebecca: "He killed the only person I loved... I can't let you have Manderley. It was ours, you see." Danvers then kills herself, this being the heterosexual's ideal conclusion to the tale of the psycho dyke. (She does not commit suicide in the book or 1940 film, btw. Which is funny because you'd really think stuff from the 1940s would be more, not less, homophobic!)

She is also my poor little meow meow, so there's that :)

[godstiel]

a senior at my highschool made their yrbook quote carry on my wayward son and like. those words will literally jumpscare you..anyway i was side eying their pseudogoth/hot topic wardrobe very hard

OH YOU KNOW WHY THEY DID THAT:( sorry but i am judging that. im all for funny yearbook quotes but thats not even funny. carry on wayward son was only funny once and it was when we played it in the lesbian bar

[petshopbodyfarm]

i love drawing boots they will never make me stop drawing big chunky boots. 2000s cartoon network pseudogoths did this to me

[starfxckersinc]

my bassist and one of the only friends I’ve made in my new city is now ghosting me and someone who invited me out to the school musical ghosted me and nobody’s talking to me or communicating to me at all so i canceled a guitarist audition that I had lined up for around 1PM at my place bc I need a couple weeks to reassess and just take a break. losing my bassist, if that’s what’s up, is really shit. so I cancelled the guitarist at 10 AM and told him I needed to reschedule and if he wanted to jam in a couple weeks when I come back from break to start work we can. and yknow what why am I even describing this I don’t care

and I looked at his profile bc I thought he hadnt posted any pics of himself and he’s some 5’8” pseudogoth 19 yr old like get over yourself. why do you need my lore as justification for canceling 3 hours ahead of time on a Sunday when we go to the same school

[scorpeonis]

nobody fucking talks about the pseudogoth to prep back to pseudogoth pipeline & i’m sick. i stole so many fucking polo shirts

[lengthenedshadows]

tag system

#adulthood - valuable tutorials, helpful tips n general survival info

#alcohol mention

#alice tag - to show my friend

#ask - paired with either #anon or the url of the asker

#ask to tag - general catchall, just in case

#bugposting - catchall for those potentially disturbed by any and all creepy-crawlies

#craft tag - hoard of craft ideas and tutorials

#drug mention

#fashion tag - i'm a weird pseudogoth sorry not sorry

#financial - for donation and crowdfunding posts so i can categorize them without potentially getting the posts nuked

#food - for your comfort and convenience as well as my own

#ink tag - tattoo/piercing related

#interior design tag - gathering inspo for my living space

#ivy.txt - all my original posts

#ivy.jpg - face & body tag (possible nsfw within)

#lookit! - showoff tag for stuff i crafted, baked, etc

#men dni - to denote that op does not want men interacting with their content. disrespect this and get instablocked. i love and respect lesbians and their boundaries and curate my followers thoroughly. you have been warned.

#nsfw

#nsfw text

#nudity

#plots and plans - where i organize extraneous thoughts about various projects

#recipe box - actual recipes and cooking/baking tips only

#scribbles - my original writing

#sharps - catchall for those potentially triggered by sharp objects such as needles or knives

#smile tag - positivity, encouragement and soft things

#wishlist - a place i save things i want to get for myself, but also a great spot for gift ideas if you're so inclined ;)

i also talk in the tags a lot lol

[sinister-kitteh]

Winona Ryder 1990s black hair pseudogoth masterpost.

[lffsigfakkskshlsakg]

Another teenage Carmine today. She was very goth when she was 18, but I feel like I missed the mark with the coloring in terms of blacks. • posted on Instagram - https://ift.tt/36gqWSo

[wanderingaffect]

Cut my hair off ✨✨ #newhair #bobhaircut #bobwithfringe #beetlipstick #avaquinns #therighttouchsalon #pseudogoth #witchhair #✨ #selfieperception https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ZjQb2BvhqqsY3evBr7z4j9ktGt09ogQfE8DE0/?igshid=yazo49zscloc

[handsupradio]

draw literally anything with a rainbow gradient

bweeep

[thepoisonroom]

I know a trans man named Charlotte with orange dyed hair that does theatre tech for a living.

okay i have to admit a techie could probably take me in a fight i'll concede this one

[petshopbodyfarm]

im watching final destination and the pseudogoth mechanic girl who Believes In Fate said the word "transition" im gonna cry

[malkaviians-archive]

🌸🍯🌧

🌸- what is your favorite flower? 

I’m pretty sure mine would have to be lotuses. I also like cherry blossoms and oleander

Already done favorite smell and I can’t think of another smell I could use

🌧️- favorite thing to do on rainy days? 

When its raining I usually do one of three or four things. I read, sleep, watch a movie, or I end up writing something. I think my favorite thing to do is read since the background noise helps me relax.

[i-do-not-mean-it]

Tsaritsyno royal palace, Moscow