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Now I am absolutely sure many of you younger members are quite the Goths. I'm sure you have your peers and locations and probably all look like proper little demons...ah to be young.

I also know there are many members that are older...perhaps didn't have the advantage of a large group of like minded Hell Spawn to socialize with...yes yes yes...I am included in this group...ah to be young. I imagine many of you are professionals of one sort or another and my question to you is...how much do you let your Vampire Rave life bleed into your waking world?

For me...it is greatly. Many call me Mr. Tu...oh sure...the occasional "Hey vampire dude" is howled...but then...I do not look any different than I do in this bloody bleeding womb of a site. I do not feel squeamish in the world over my vampire complex...in fact...I revel in it. As I've said every year this holiday comes near...everyday is Halloween for me.

So...how well do you bleed into the world?

I'm somewhat "normal" on the outside world. Some think that i am a little strange or something but i get along with most. Blending in is something i do best because when i blend into the background people tend to not notice me as much.

Those that do get me and get my personality don't mind what i like or anything. Those that don't do not understand me no matter how hard they try.

I am the same pretty much anywhere, though I think perhaps I am slightly quieter in my regular life having very little patience with most people. I can certainly be more sociable online when I can hit a little X at the corner of the screen to make everyone go away when I have had enough.

Otherwise, I probably look like someones mother I would imagine. Mellow and not at all goth like. I don't think the fake fangs and the capes really suit me at all:P

I don't wear "capes" dear...and the fangs...well...there's not much I can do about that!

I had the nickname vampire, since I started to work where I am, at school I was mainly teased with the dark and called vampire du to my pale skin. Apparently I look dead lol

I have so far not many trouble, I mean I work, eat, sleep ( ok sleep more then normal and seem to work really great at night and in slow motion during day) pretty much like anyone lese, but indeed I am anight person, I am into the darkness and into the cold, and the blood and stuff...


So far I never got issues, even if I am a lone like that in my area, it seems recently I saw a few, especially on the gothic fashion show, but still not many, most hide, I guess my comunity is a bit close minded on these subject,so it is hard to get around without being judge or noticed in a negative way.

The only way to go around and avoid problems is to perform at work or school better then expected and in the top 1 score level of 5.

At least that is how I made it and was able to have and keep a job since the age of 14 ( part time till school ended)

they treat me cool person theydo not know what is goth or yoga or darkness or meditation, andi do not adopt looks of the goth do nothave gothic hair style or do not have that look. But my inner is simply gothic.

the proof is worked on conscious and meditation and astral and dream and vision and energies of cosmos in the space. its I did not worked as any student of that field but i tried to develop my tools on which I can work in near future say start working within 2 years till then gothic mind process will go on in thinking regards and reading and learning regards....

already i have worked out mapping the particular gothic line of work.

in no wave in the silent room where no air moves, i can feel the sphere of energy and immense energy and very cool and airy aura too...

I think I'm exactly the same online as I am offline. I think my profile needs some serious updating, though. Actually I'm probably more normal online than off. I don't feel the need to have a different online persona, I like being who I am all the time. I express myself and walk around in broad daylight looking and acting as I like. I don't call myself a goth at all, although most would argue that, because I just... don't think I am one. I'm too much a weird mix of things to be put into one category. To be fair I'm usually sporting black, but in all sorts of creative styles.

I have fun in the real world divining for ghosts, dressing up in lots of different spooky styles, making my hair really big and wearing heaps of makeup, telling children that I'm going to put them into a pie, and telling adults that I'm actually 400 years old. I don't need an online outlet to express my inner weirdness, I inflict on the world outside! :D

I am always called "vampire lizzie". I have always been set apart the black sheep if you will. Often my parents would ask "why?" and my response would be "i don't know". That was the truth, I don't know why I am the way I am nor can I explain why the night has always called out to me nor the fact that I can read ppl's thoughts and "vibes". My parents know this occurs and just make fun of the "freak" in the family. I don't hide it and I am quite proud of it. I couldn't imagine living a "normal" life or what that would actually be. Do I blend in with the flow of society?? Hell no! But I conform at my work (to a degree) so I can get paid. But I am never by no means considered 'normal' by anyone not even my family.

I'm the same here as I am out there. Always gung ho about my Army career and doing what I can to help others.
My friends all tell me that if there was such a thing as a colorful happy cheerleader goth, I would be it.
*laughs*
They like to pick on me a lot.
I have a lot of different styles it just depends on what mood I'm in to what I'll wear, do, or say.

hmmm..*ponders the question of how well do I bleed into the world*....well...what I am in this VR world is the same as I am in the real world of where I live. My long black hair and all the rest of me is simply...well..just me. I have always liked black and red and enjoyed an almost raw steak...long before I ever heard of goth or the rave. I just do as I please and don't really give a thought to it all. I have to admit , though, my ex-husbands kids call me" Miss Vampire Rave Girl"...to which I simply...chuckle. I do not consider myself goth or dark or any one group...I am just me.

Never normal. I've always been considered weird but I wont lie have always been popular.

Vampire Rave is something fun for me, and "ME" that is the main thing here...what you see is what you get with me, I am no different here then in the "real world" lol

This isn't going to turn into one of those "pity me, I resemble a vampire" threads, is it?

Me I am less goth, more ghost. I "fit in" so well I am invisible, unless I wish to be seen , and even then I am still invisible sometimes.
Ah anonymity.
Remember to be accepted as a non conformist is a contradiction. Costume, pales to custom.

I am simply who I am. A little strange sometimes but it doesn't seem to bother my friends. I'm too old to be goth and too young to be dead. I like the discussions here but I can have discussions or debates anywhere. But, I have to admit, some of the better discussions occur here. There are some here that make it really interesting, fun, entertaining and sometimes educational. There are some here whose opinions and ideas I really respect, though sometimes I am not in complete agreement. But then again, sometimes I am.
I guess you might say I bleed both ways. I am bi-bleedible.

"I don't wear "capes" dear...and the fangs...well...there's not much I can do about that!"

I never said you did;) I was more responding to the tone of your original post.

I think I bleed well into the world. I'm pretty much a ghost anywhere I go so I think that I'm the same here as I am in "real life". There is no point in lying and saying you are something that you aren't. I am what I am and that's that.

I do not per say show my all in public, nor much to my family. Where I currently live even being somewhat different causes a huge stir and I am not one to like attention. Now with close family and friends, even then I will not show my true self to them. I would like to but the fear also involved is an aspect I must consider when I do show myself.

I wear my gothness with pride. Funny thing though i got lucky with my job, the dress code is all black, so that works out for me, and my mom fully supports my dark goth ways, hell she even went out of her way to find me some gothic curtain rods for the black curtains she bought for my apartment. People i work with and my friends know i'm into the gothic side of life. It' s waht make me well me, and if people don't like oh well. I have my fans and supporters. I don't go to the goth clubs and such, I live more of a private life.

what you get is what you see with me, my job uniform is black clothes. and as i work in a saolon my hair can be crazy too oh what fun

Fortunately my life doesn't force me out into the day very much so there isn't often a need for me to try to blend anywhere. I am currently unemployed but when I was working, I had to wear uniforms which didn't really allow much freedom to look any different that the rest of the people I worked around. I imagine when I do find work again it will pretty much be the same. As far as acting or looking different around family, I am sorry to have to say putting on a front somewhat is a requirement. I live in the bible belt of East Tennessee and most of my family are involved in that. Hence why I do not often hang out with family.

I am as i usually am, on or off VR. Many believed me weird but everyone always seemed to like me. i found this out just yesterday. i thought no one would notice i left school last year, so abruptly, with no warning.
one of the people from school said that everyone who knew me missed me. i was somewhat popular, as in everyone knew my name. even those i never talked too knew me. i didn't think anyone would notice i vanished. my whole gym class wanted me back. i think they were a little worried as well, since kay died in january and they probably thought (since she was a sister to me) i would try something too. everyone misses her too.

my fiance's family wanted me to stop this "phase" and his mother even threatened that she wouldn't allow me to see him if i "kept it up". she doesn't know that i still do. and by phase that includes my love for the dark things, vampirism and being a wiccan.

no matter how dark i could make myself, everyone always saw me as "cute". i was never able to scare anyone with the dark unless i was (very rarely) MBE (Miss Black Eyes, which my little brother so kindly calls me when my eyes get black *they're very light brown* and i lose control of my anger) but i am generally the same as usual on and off VR. and most don't mind it.

I sort of appear 'normal' as in looks because usually I am dressed in jeans, gym shoes, a horse tail, etc...but at the same time not, because I don't follow trends, so I can look weird too. In the weekends I sort of appear normal except for the fact that my clothing is all black. I choose black because I feel I look elegant. In the week days I wear some colors because I have the ' I wear whatever is clean attitude' but like to look a bit nice on weekends.

As for the gothic lifestyle, I try to go to every party it gets organised, when I can. I can't say I am in a gothic clique because I have friends of every subculture and most of them call themselves metalheads. I can get along with anyone, it is the personality that counts not the sub culture.

As for my personality, I don't hide from anyone what I like, and my opinions, it only happens in cases of jobs and with my family and when I am surrounded with people that would judge anything that is not considered normal in their eyes.

I am the same way I say I am.

I look normal on the outside, but if you look into my eyes you can see I'm a bit deeper and hide a lot of me from the outside world, afriad of regection.

I have the advantage of being a teenager, so it's a bit easier for me to express who I am through a broadcasted image. Though there's that element of peer pressure and the like that teens have to deal with, I've never really been the type to back down from a fight.

Rather I can call my image gothic or not is still under debate, but I've been sporting an all black persona since I was 12..so roughly 6 or so years now. it's sorta incorporated itself into my being. I'm pretty confident that even as I get older, i'll still be sporting black. though, I'm sure it'll be much classier that my chains, skinny jeans, and band T's. though my messy hair will probably stay ^ ^ It's too fun to let go of.

Personally, leading a duel life would be very tiring. I do have different ways of acting towards certain people, but even that is a strain. i would much rather wear what I am on the surface for all to see rather than hide myself away and hope my inner feelings don't explode.

So, you can pretty much garentee the person you meet here is who I really am. I'd rather be real with people and accept the consequences than give them what they want and feel fake.

That's a big problem in High Schools now-a-days btw. Everyone is too busy trying to be someone else they lose sight of who they are.

I try to as you would say "bleed" into the world by at most times bleend in with the mundains it tends to make feeding somwhat easer for me

To work for an employer with 2300 employees and probably being the only "Vampire", make me feel proud. Everybody that knows me, know that I belongs to Vampire Rave. When I go to the Sport Center,(Gymnasium) most of the time, I wear my VR tea-shirt and, like I said, I feel good about it. I am not telling people that I am a vampire and that I l love to bite beautiful neck, but, that is another subject.

I've grown wary, as have my friends, of hearing me say things like, "On Vr . . . ." It's like when I used to begin sentences with, "At PTA the other day . . . ."

Im the same here on vr as in the real world. I could care less what others may think of me. Where I live Im surrounded by surfers and pretty people so standing out and being diffrent is a good thing for me. I am what I am. What you see here on vr is what you get in the real world, a funny (yet serious) girl.

Ahhhh, I like Sire dabbler's response.
Ghost, also best describes myself, as I also ghost'em, I there for bleed them first.
You could be standing right next to me and wouldn't see me if your life depended on it. Then again, it may LOL:)
Nice thread!

This thread demonstrates the difference between, identity adaptation, identity crisis, and identity complex. When I see goth I know goth, goth is not one drab outfit worn every day for a week. Strip the goth i know naked and they will still hint goth ( i say hint, do you know why?)
One thing this has clarified is that goth is not restricted to black.

Mmm. I don't look goth. I don't act goth. My personal life is absolutely separated from work. I talk about safe subjects with my coworkers for the most part. I have worked to hard to have a comfortable life. I also would prefer to not be pestered by religious activists of any variety. I spend my home life quietly and yes I think I look like someones mom or sister

i do tend to try and keep things separate in my life but i never purposely hide or lie about what and who i am.

I am actually half human, half .. complicated. I look like any other normal out there, however, few have noticed an irregularity .. you can kind of tell when they notice - there is always a look of uncertainty in their eyes and they keep their distance.
I actually have quite a decent nature and am protective of my friends. However, I kind of feel sorry for the ignorant fools who try to start trouble with me, because I will always laugh last.

I am actually half human, half .. complicated. I look like any other normal out there, however, few have noticed an irregularity .. you can kind of tell when they notice - there is always a look of uncertainty in their eyes and they keep their distance.
I actually have quite a decent nature and am protective of my friends. However, I kind of feel sorry for the ignorant fools who try to start trouble with me, because I will always laugh last.

Just another trend and or fashion statement that will die out in another decade or so. Then we may see clothing in the style of Star Trek, or Star Wars. Fad's fade as fast as the clock lets them, or when society moves on from them.

Eh, go ahead and put yourselves into a segregated stereotype. What ever floats your boats and makes your lives all the more pleasant, impressionable and boosts your self esteem.

To the outside world I appear normal, those who do not know me think im a altougher person, but to those I know that are not my associates I am called; crazy katie, wolf-girl, freak, or vampire. I have had people throw holy water on me as a practical prank then laughed in their faces. I dress according to my moods if im upset or spontanious I will wear black leather, and so on... Halloween is one of my favorite times of year and it feels like its the one day the true me is not mocked.

I have to hide my goth side. I live in the bible belt of N.E. Oklahoma. My family is very religous. When i was a teenager they locked me in a mental hospital for being goth. they could'nt deal with it. I have children of my own and some are goth some are not. I let them choose. When we are at home we can be our selvs, but we live in a small town so when we are in public we have to hide our true selves. Not complaining though. We chose to live here so we deal with it.

I chose my image at sixteen about the same time I had my second panic attack and faited when I slit my wrist with a frensh knife the wrong way, after my fencing master told me I was a potential genius after calling in private assesors. well, after modifying it somewhat over the years, that image is me and how I interract with a world I don't like very much.

I'm still the same everywhere even though my job doesn't really allow for it, everyone knows my interests.
I like green so I don't mind my uniform and off duty, I wear my tripp pants but I also wear a lot of color. ^_^ I love color. Goths don't have to wear all black, you know.
I get funny looks but I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, they can all lick a dick.

I live a normal life outside of Vr, with the exception that I am a solitary wiccan practicing withcraft. I cannot come out of the broom closet for I live in the bible belt and would surely be condemned! This site allows me some freedom and to meet up with like minded souls. This site helps keep me connected to others who are like me.

I say, that no matter where you live, no matter who resides within the town be it a "bible belt" or no, they need to just live with it and adapt. These days belong to us, not them. Let them live in their sheltered little "God" protects them, world. While we live outside the box, but do not fear them or their ways. They have no hold over us as an "open minded" population. Let them have their "oldish" ways of thinking. Let us live in the now. Those who have the mentality to live out in the open and do not hide who they are, should be commended.

I mean hell, what are the "bible belt" crowd going to do when some contadicts their belief system and dresses in all black, and or just acts the way they feel comfortable with? Bash them for doing so? Beat them up? Ohh, scary. The only thing I see here is a bunch of young adults living in fear of those who do not understand them.

Screw that...

am really pale and wear sunglasses all the time of course i am teased for being a vampire.

id consider myself to be normal and not i use this as a social release a release from reality somewere to have fun meet people if you ask me their is people out their doing worse then me

I agree with you on one part ~Kiss~, where some are doing worse then yourself... *Chuckles* They are called Roleplayers... HA!

I can say one thing. I love VR and it has helped me in my times of "I hate everything today" modes. It's nice to meet others just like me!

i am the same where ever i may be- who i am on ths site is the same as i am anywhere else. its more of a what you see is what you get thing with me. some ppl love it and some may not. its who i am- i can not be any other way.

For those who seek to be embraced for their appearance, on what terms do you accept the "mundane"? Your two way street is showing.

I don't relate to most of this. Goth to me has nothing to do with vampires. I don't equate being here to being anything different offline because to me it has nothing to do with dress or fangs which I find totally fictional. It is more about something that is within, that some can grasp. Some people know right away the difference. I have had people ask me straight out and I don't stick out in a crowd as far as I am concerned. I don't think it is about superficialities it is something inner and deeper that makes you what you are and because of the subject matter here where you can figuratively let your hair down...I think that is the draw. Does it bleed over, you bet. When you spend as many hours as many do here online, you can't help but say things like Bloodmother spoke of such as, "well today on VR", etc. I am occultish which sticks out. People recognize it by my interests and attitudes.

To me my personality is my personality... That being said when I was in school I had alot of goth friends but was I goth no.. I love goth music but to look at me I would defiately not blend in at the average goth club well...
Most people that really know me have made some sort of vampire comment mostly in passing but I keep my taste for blood between me and my donating partners.

Great topic....

As for me, Im not really sure. I act no differently than I do while at home. Im a morbid thinker, still pale, still got the dark rings around my eyes, I eat raw meat, etc. People tell me I look dead all the time lol.... But Im just being me, so again, Im not sure :)

Ah...this is...in part...my point. I do live in the "Bible Belt"...I live in small town America where those like myself are few and far between. This is where I toil...this is where I am employed...this is where I am judged. How I choose to let the world see me has repercussions on every aspect of my life. Around this neck of the woods walk into an interview as I am and one is going to raise eyebrows. I could hide...I could masquerade...but I choose to be true to myself...at my own peril lol.

I was merely curious if I would recognize some of The Rave population if I met you in a dark alley. ~smiles~

I'm normal in the outisde world! Especially sort of an out caster.. never been popular, I always being ignorred, and hated because I'm better than someone. It happened to me once in english class at this Campus College of Hell. *eyes rolled* Even the guy was a total idiot.

im an individuall and dislike socialising.

Tu, your post makes me think off the off airport ramp meeting, someone from VR is to be picked up at the airport, by another VR member, how many times would the arrival walk past the Person that is waiting.. or who would the arrival walk toward, in expectation.. ?

i'd say i've got my own mix of things going on here. I blend into small town life pretty well and have average high school dreams but i try not to define myself by how i act on one situation. Many people dont know how i really am because i wont let many people in enough to see. I can be very shy but under the right circumstances im outgoing...

Im pretty much the same here as I am in the real world. Ive learned alot on here and I use that knowledge. Alot of people know about VR through me and I dont mind.

I like to be in company with those who can laugh at the stereotypes that accompany their chosen culture/subculture/genre/role.

I am the same online as offline. I tend to be the odd one out. though I try hard to fit in. I am the quite type that don't like to draw attention to me, though I love to make people smile. My profile is offbeat as I am and my many different updates sometime twice a week reflect who I am. I do have more friends online and keep mostly to myself offline. It isn't because I am ugly or anti-social, I just seem unable to make friends due to trust issues. I am not a vampire, or any other supernatural creature. I am human. I do freak others out occationally because I am very proceptive to the point of reading others minds and that is freaky to the "norm". I do get a little peeved sometimes when I get labled. But that is what society likes to do is catagorize. Putting everyone in catagories in their proception to make themselves feel more comfortable.

i am how and who i am online and off, and i live in Texas as i like to refer to it as the belt buckle of the bible belt, i am very much out of the broom closet and have yet to be condemned funny thing i have found more like minded people who also come out when they know others are around. it is kinda funny how that works.

im not a goth but just like on my profile im proud of every thing i do cause if i cant be proud of what im doin than y do it online or off

ampng my net family I am called Gothson and on net i have gothdad and gothmom as my net perent...

they save me to drop out of gothic darkness...

I am the psychic in the talk may my scripts are normal looks not dipped in psych but my mind process reading you and grasping you in the darkness...

I am the same offline as I am online. It is simple. I do not pretend to be a human when offline. I bleed my world out into humanity. I love who i am therefore I do not care what others think. I often am called "death" by the younger children and other not so nice and very nasty names by my fellow peers in this town.

"I am what I am, Not what you want to be".....I gave trying to conform, fit in, deal with mainstream society, a long time ago...and I have been happy about it ever since. It was an epiphony for me the first time I went out not caring what "my look" said. I'm here to please ME, not you. Even if I was to try and "blend" in, my tattoos would give me away...I wear my marks with pride.Sure, I get looks....they make me laugh and I actually think to myself "I'm glad I don't belong to your world~"

i dont look like a vampire but am treated differently, becouse of my dark poetry, or things i enjoy

BLENDING IS DEFINITLY A MUST FOR ME.

I was always considered ,do we mess with him or dont we. people could never figure me out. from the way i carried myself.

Why hide what or who you are? If others can't accept you, then it's surely their loss.