#hellsquookie

The world may be a scary place, but I have a proposal.

I don’t think you need the play by play of the madness that has happened since I was last here. My head hurts just to think about it, but I have to deal with some things before we return to our goth focused posts.

  Photo from: Raising Sheep

Humans are terrible aren’t they? 

There are terrible people yes. People whose depth of depravity can turn the stomach of even the most profound lover of…

While Living the Strange Life, I've learned to embrace my demons.

I have new people in my life, and they probably don’t know that I have social anxiety. Well, that and a mild case of OCD, that I’ve also learned how to utilize fully. My good friend messaged me the other day while she was at club and said ” I want to be like Zakkarrii and make friends” which floored me with flattery. So here’s the thing, I made my anxiety, my bitch. 

Bit aggressive, wouldn’t you…

Let's have a little chat shall we? That is, if you can get in. #exclusive #goth

Sometimes the best thing about goth kids is our ability to be pretentious and laugh at ourselves in the same breath. Sometimes mainstream desires can shift the balance between the two and then I have to write something. Links are underlined.

The Good: I’m on the side that says exclusivity and elitism are two different things that sometimes go hand in hand. When I was a baby bat, getting rejected…

Today we see Pantheacon through Alex Mar's eyes, but it seems she kept them closed.

Chapter Four ticks me off a lot so this post is going to have a slightly different format than the other posts. We’re going in like rapid fire. Pantheacon is a convention for Pagans, and it’s something that’s kind of important to me. It’s important because many of my friends attend and I think in all that it offers there is a sort of reflection of the positive change in our time. So much can I…

When I woke up this morning, this is not what I planned on doing. New Post! #goth

If you don’t like to read the video is here!

I woke up this morning, optimistic about my task list today and was greeted by this in my Tumblr feed:

And I know what you’re thinking, Zakkarrii, it’s one person, they don’t deserve your attention. So I went looking and remembered this which is a comment someone posted on my own videos:

And this, which is a part of a larger thread and then there was…

Do you even #goth, tho?

In the past few years, we’ve seen a wave of new branches attempt to sprout from the tree of Goth. Typically, when we talk about goth in a general fashion two visions come to mind; Traditional Goth and Victorian Goth. The other variations? Well, that depends on who you ask.

The One True Goth

Look, I’m going to level with you. It is a beautiful thing that this culture has survived long enough to…

Aww we go, back through time in this chapter with Alex Mar. #witches #questionmark

In the next chapter, that gets a whole post to itself, Alex Mar unveils the primer version of Wiccan history and more specifically, Gerald Gardner.

Now, just for a second we’re going to look at this like every piece of information presented is true. It’s not the information I have a problem with (at least not entirely), it’s Mar’s defense of it and there are some holes. Let’s start with the…

We're off to meet the witches! New post on the blog!

A couple days ago, I picked up Alex Mar’s book Witches of America, and I knew it was going to piss me off, just not in the way I expected. I’m not faulting Mar for her healthy curiosity of something that has fascinated people for centuries. She had an experience, she wrote about it, awesome. It’s the lack of reverence for any of it, and I’m sure that’s why everyone calls her a “witchy tourist”.…