Awwww

[andrewducker]

When I was young there were no goth kids, a fact which still saddens me - I could really have done with some kind of peer group.  Hell, there were hardly any geeky-kids in my school either.

*staples hand to forehead*

Seriously though, I do envy the fact that people nowadays can go online and find out that there are at least people like them out there somewhere - that maybe there aren't any other people obsessed by anime in their home town, but that some day they'll be able to live somewhere where there are.

Distributed communities can fracture the world - and that can only be a good thing.

Comments

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

You didn't know kids so addicted to The Cure and Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees that they died their hair black and ratted it up and wore black clothes and heavy eyeliner?

I remember quite a few kids when I was in high school (1983-1987) who were, I suppose, proto-goths. Our school was lousy with 'em.

[andrewducker]

Not, sadly, at my school in the middle of middle-class suburbia.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I do envy the fact that people nowadays can go online and find out that there are at least people like them out there somewhere

Yes, one of the great benefits created by the Net. Of course, it also means they can probably find people who enjoy torturing kittens like they do too, but on the whole it's a plus.