Goth Auntie

a.g.f = g.a.f!

SPF 50 is my friend.

A photo of your goth auntie braving the sunlight. Shallow fashion details: a black and white striped dress (made by the Madwoman in the Attic), skeleton hand belt, black and pink Doc Martens, vintage top hat with black feathers and pink roses, and a pink sparkly cane.

Left the house!

Ghostly noise in the attic of a gothic manor is right in my skill set!

Some of you need this. I’m happy to provide💚

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

YouTube video by NPR Music Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert

Did you know that "young Sammie" and "older Sammie" did a Tiny Desk today?

Yep, Miles Caton and Buddy Guy performed together

#Sinners

youtu.be/m5XxOLdMSS8?...

Time for another installment of "No really, this song would make a great fanvid for Hannibal": "Hum Hallelujah" by Fall Out Boy. Everything from Will's perspective, of course.

Sometimes the only thing to be done is eat homemade caramel sauce (courtesy of the Madwoman in the Attic) with a spoon.

Dear Brain Raccoons and impostor syndrome, you can fuck right off. I don't need your nonsense.

Jam and fancy notebooks. Its wish list is entirely jam, fancy notebooks, and ribbon to play with.

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Big stretch! Drink some water, take your meds.
-You’ve survived this far, and that’s something to be proud of.
-The Cursed Object ran off with my tablet AGAIN, and now I have to remove things from my Amazon cart. AGAIN.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

Hold on to your physical media, expand your collection, visit your local library, look on the internet archive. Don’t rely on streaming.

Nooooo. I’m not doing anything more taxing than reading fanfic.

YET AGAIN.

Miss Erzabet No Biting, I appreciate you flopping on me, and your soothing purrs have helped my migraine. But please stop trying to sneeze on my face.

That is beautiful.

No, the perfection of it came from someone else, I just cackled and adopted it.

No advice from your Goth Auntie because of a really bad migraine. Drink some water, take your meds, and be gentle with yourself.

artists are neat.

Over on Tumblr, someone created the tag THREAT LEVEL: EBONY DARK’NESS VELVET GOLDMINE DE LIONCOURT, and there has never been a more perfect tag to describe my egotistical vampire rockstar boyfriend.

I bought that song SO FAST.

:: screams ::

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Water! Snack! Meds! Caffeine! And stretch, please.
-Crying doesn’t make you weak.
-The Lurking Horror has declared the rest of the week is “naps only”. Oh, how I wish I could do that.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

Live your life to the fullest.
If that involves bursting into a clattering cloud of ravens and disappearing into the darkness beneath the trees instead of answering another email from your boss, then so be it.

Dear anyone who works as customer support for a health insurance company, you have my pity. I know none of the insurance claims problems are your fault.

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Unclench your jaw, have a snack, take your meds.
-Guilt isn’t the motivational tool you think it is. Spite is a better one.
-I assume the Thing in the Walls tried to take all the spoons. “Tried”, because there’s a heap of them next to a wall.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

Goths for Breakfast: Charity Teach-a-thon A full day of back to back classes and workshops on Gothic themes to raise money for the charity Magic Breakfast

This Saturday is the Goths for Breakfast charity day. Goths unite! We're raising money for Magic Breakfast to feed hungry kids with a teaching marathon of fascinating talks and writing workshops. Pop in and out as you like - the talks are recorded!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982926549...

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Sometimes self care means doing the hard stuff. 
-The Lurking Horror has taken all the forks and doesn’t want to put them back.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

TO THE SURPRISE OF NO ONE.