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drifthail · 11 months

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a basic breakdown of emo, punk, and goth— a character resource for writers and artists by someone who is emo :] (under the cut!!)

the most important thing: emo, punk, and goth are all music-based subcultures. you cannot be a part of the subculture without listening to the music.

this is a basic guide and won't be going into subgenres (like screamo, hardcore, etc etc). this is what this guide covers:

the five waves of emo (with a focus on midwestern emo and 2000s emo) and emo fashion

punk rock and punk fashion

gothic rock and traditional goth fashion

i've listened to the majority of bands and songs i mention here!

i'm going based off what i know, so if any info is incorrect, please lmk!! :]

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emo

emotional hardcore (emocore or just emo) formed in the mid 1980s from post-hardcore and hardcore punk

there are five waves of emo music (w/ bands):

1st wave (1980s) - rites of spring 2nd wave (1990s) - the get up kids, cap’n jazz, american football 3rd wave (2000s) - my chemical romance, paramore, fall out boy 4th wave (2010s) - the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die, the front bottoms, you blew it! 5th wave (2020s) - home is where

specific songs to listen to:

1st wave: for want of by rites of spring

2nd wave: oh messy life by cap'n jazz

3rd wave: thank you for the venom by my chemical romance

4th wave: match & tinder by you blew it!

5th wave: yes! yes! a thousand times yes! by home is where

midwestern emo fashion vs. 2000s emo fashion

midwestern emo: its hard to find any pictures, so i’m going based off of pictures i was able to find, as well as an explanation by madeline pendleton (an alternative content creator who was a part of the subculture during the 90s).

looking at pictures, denim jeans, striped sweaters, and plaid jackets were popular. very classic loser/nerd vibe.

according to madeline pendleton: black dyed spock rock cuts or karen cuts were popular. clothes: low rise flare jeans, small banti shirts, plaid cowboy snap ups, track jackets, and white collared shirts with ties. accessories and shoes: flower clips, white belts buckled to the side, cowboy hats, low top converse, and saucony jazzes. eyeliner was also common. her video with pictures!

2000s emo: 2000s emo often features choppy, jet black or colourful dyed hair, band tees, studded belts, stripes (especially black and white stripes on arm warmers), spikes, checkers, kandi bracelets, black jeans, and shoes like converse, vans, and doc martens. the fashion is similar to scene. however, scene and 2000s emo aren't the same thing, because scene has different music (and emo has a darker aesthetic overall).

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punk

punk rock (or just punk) formed in the mid 1970s from garage rock

a counterculture; rebels against the mainstream. punks are non-conformists

very politically-driven subculture— generally left leaning, acab, anti-establishment, anti-capitalism, and value individual freedom

punk has a diy ethic (a lot of punk fashion is made of readily available materials that the wearer customizes with things like patches, studs, spikes, paint, etc etc)

several subgenres (anarcho-punk, horror punk, hardcore punk, queercore, riot grrrl, etc etc)

punk bands: sex pistols, dead kennedys, the clash, the misfits, x-ray spex, green day

specific songs to listen to:

god save the queen by the sex pistols

london calling by the clash

art-i-ficial by x-ray spex

punk fashion

punk fashion often features safety pins, patches, spikes, studs, and chains as accessories. leather and denim are common materials for jackets. common hairstyles include mohawks and liberty spikes. many punk outfits are made out of readily available clothes that are accessorized or altered by the wearer. (hence punk's diy ethic)

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goth

gothic rock (or just goth) formed in the late 1970s from post-punk

several fashion types (trad goth, victorian goth, mall goth, cyber goth, etc etc)

goth bands: the cure, sisters of mercy, switchblade symphony, bauhaus, depeche mode, skeletal family

specific songs to listen to:

clown by switchblade symphony

disintegration by the cure

dominion by sisters of mercy

traditional goth fashion

traditional goth fashion mostly uses black and white in its look. the makeup generally consists of white foundation with thin eyebrows, black lipstick, and heavy black eyeliner. hair is teased and worn up. fishnets, lace, flowy dresses, leather jackets, chains, spikes, studs, crosses, and corsets are common clothing and accessories.

#character resource #goth #emo #punk #art reference #writing reference

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yyunari · 2 years

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%% FIFTEEN - music bank (1.1k words)

SYNOPSIS . many might recognize y/n as one of the most beloved and rounded 4th generation idols. being in aespa brought her a lot of popularity and made her really well known, especially for her looks. when y/n becomes a music bank mc along with enhypen’s sunghoon, what will happen when she meets her old high school crush from back in australia?

“Y/N!”

“SUNGHOON!”

when the two music bank mc’s saw each other, their grinned and did their handshake. because they spent so much time together practicing and going to meetings, they had developed a close friendship. it was especially helpful that they were the same age. y/n looked up to sunghoon as a brother figure to her, since she had grown up as an only child. likewise, sunghoon viewed her as a sister.

“did you sleep well?” sunghoon asked her, knowing full well that sleep was very far down y/n’s priority list.

“you know i didn’t, but it’s fine.” y/n responded. “i can cover my eyebags with concealer and pretend that i have 8 hours of sleep.”

sunghoon frowned at this. “i’ve told you multiple times that you need to sleep earlier…. especially since we’re going to be busy from now on.”

“my emo thoughts keep me up at night……” y/n joked, hoping that sunghoon would drop the topic.

luckily, he did. “you’re not funny.”

they both chuckled and began walking to their dressing rooms in a bit of a hurry, since they didn’t have much time to prepare. they had to get fully dressed, get in makeup, practice their lines, and block butter on the stage.

“by the way, did ningning ever apologize for the tweet?” sunghoon asked, as he gave y/n a short glance.

despite how much she loved sunghoon, she was a bit irked with how he randomly brought it up when she was already stressed about music bank. still, she couldn’t blame him for being curious and worrying about her.

“not yet….” y/n sighed. “honestly, we haven’t talked much since then. i wasn’t able to say bye to the girls before i left since i had to leave early, but yesterday she walked into my room and asked if she could use my hairbrush.”

“seriously, does she even know what she said was wrong? because if i said something like that on accident i would have caught myself and apologized.” sunghoon thoughtfully said.

y/n agreed. she didn’t understand how ningning could go about her day without apologizing unless she actually meant what she said. she didn’t want to think badly of her best friend, but at the same time ningning being rude and passive aggressive was just adding onto the stress that was already dog piled onto y/n.

“i don’t even know…. let’s just focus on what we have to do right now.” y/n sighed. “i’m going to go change, bye hoon!”

the two waved at each other and y/n entered her dressing room, all while a million thoughts ran through her head.

“ever-evolving k-pop! the heart of the korean wave!” sunghoon started.

“with the world watching it’s….”

“music bank!”

“hello bank patrons! i’m y/n from aespa, part of the 37th music bank mc’s!”

“and i’m sunghoon from enhypen.”

“today is our first day working at music bank! today is— oh wait, i already said that.” y/n coughed, having read her line wrong. “sorry, i keep messing up….. i’m really nervous.”

y/n and sunghoon were in sunghoon’s dressing room, practicing their lines. the whole time, y/n felt her heart pounding in her chest and her breath coming out uneven. the nerves had already gotten to her, and she needed to figure out how to subside them.

sunghoon chuckled. “it’s fine, at least this is just practice. and we’ll have cue cards on stage so we’ll be fine.”

y/n nodded at that. “you’re right, i really shouldn’t be this nervous.”

“is it because you’re trying to impress someone?” sunghoon winked.

“what? of course not.” y/n defended. “i’m not sure why you would think that.”

“so you don’t have any lingering feelings for jake?”

y/n clicked her tongue and tried to hit sunghoon’s shoulder, though he was able to dodge it. “why would i? i’m mad at him right now….”

before sunghoon could ask why, she pulled up her texts with jake regarding the ‘ningning situation’. as he read the conversation, his face slowly morphed into a confused expression at what his friend had said.

“dude…. i don’t know why he’s acting like that. he literally only plays genshin with her and texts her occasionally, he’s being way too nice.” sunghoon started, then quickly retracted his statement. “actually, i think i do know why.”

“why?”

“he li—”

a knock on the door interrupted what he was going to say.

“sunghoon!”

before either of them could tell them not to enter, the door opened to reveal the rest of enhypen. the guys hadn’t seemed to notice her yet, as they went up to sunghoon to congratulate him and didn’t bat her an eye.

it wasn’t until y/n shuffled over to grab her phone that they finally noticed she was there.

“oh! sorry, we didn’t know you were here too.” jungwon said.

y/n shook her head. “it’s fine, we were just practicing our lines. i can leave if you guys want.”

“you don’t have to! we just came to see sunghoon for a bit before you guys started.”

y/n wanted to leave to avoid a certain someone, but she felt that it was a little rude if she just left if they told her to stay. so she forced a smile and sat on one of the couches.

“y/n!”

oh fuck.

despite her efforts to avoid eye contact, y/n heard her name get called out by jake— even though she was still upset with him. but as aforementioned, she didn’t want to come off as rude so she mentally braced herself and smiled at jake. “hi jake, long time no see.”

jake, who couldn’t tell that she was uncomfortable with him, grinned and sat next to her on the couch.

“it’s good to see you again!” jake said and gave her a (charming) smile. “are you ready for your music bank debut?”

“uh... i guess? i’m not really sure.” y/n shortly answered, trying to avoid eye contact (which was hard because he kept looking at her).

she found it difficult when she tried to distance herself from jake because he was extremely attractive in person- both in terms of his physicality and his personality. y/n could tell that he had changed quite a bit since she had last seen him in person in australia.

jake, on the other hand, couldn’t remember much of what y/n looked like in high school. more often than not, she was hiding behind something whether it be a book or her backpack. but at that moment, he took time to appreciate just how beautiful she had gotten. rather than the shy, quiet girl he had known back then, she had matured quite a bit.

wow, he thought, i sound like a dad.

the two were too deep into their own thoughts about each other to notice sunghoon calling y/n.

“this airhead…. y/n!”

y/n snapped herself out of her thoughts and finally paid mind to sunghoon. “oh, what is it?”

the rest of enhypen had long been gone, unbeknownst to jake and y/n. the girl let out a long sigh when she realized she had been thinking about jake.

what am i doing? i don’t like him anymore, why am i thinking about him? y/n pursed her lips. whatever, hes ugly anyways.

“we have to go to the stage now, i’ll wait for you outside.” sunghoon said, knowing she probably still wanted to say some things to jake.

once sunghoon left, y/n sharply turned to jake.

“it was nice seeing you. you look different.” jake remarked.

y/n raised her eyebrow. “good different or bad different?”

“good, of course.” jake chuckled, and gave her a pat on the head. “by the way, when will ningning be here?”

ningning… is she all you ever think about?

“oh. i’m not sure, she hasn’t contacted me since yesterday. but she should be here soon.”

y/n watched as jake bit his lip to stop himself from smiling, but was unsuccessful when he let out a wide smile. she noticed the small blush that rested on top of his cheeks. was he really that excited to see her? why did he seem so flustered?

does jake like ningning?

“i see…” jake finally put his attention back on y/n. “i should find the guys, but i’ll be watching you from the wings. see you!”

y/n waved. “goodbye.”

no, there’s no way. they’re just friends.

just like me and him.

“do you want me to get you something from the vending machine?” sunghoon asked y/n, who rapidly nodded her head.

“get me one of the melon milks please, thank you hoonie!”

“hoonie?” sunghoon laughed, and then gabe her a blank stare. “that’s gross, don’t call me that.”

y/n raised her hand up to hit sunghoon but he left before she could. “that jerk… does he even know he’s being made fun of on tiktok right now?”

she smiled a bit when she thought of the ‘get sunghooned’ joke she saw on her private tiktok account. serves him right.

“y/n! there you are!” y/n looked behind herself to see karina, giselle, and ningning walking over.

“oh, hi guys! what took you so long?” she asked.

giselle scoffed and gave ningning a side eye. “sorry, we would have been here sooner if ningning didn’t take an hour to get ready…”

“what? i can dress up if i want to.” ningning answered. she then turned to y/n and smiled. “hi y/n! good luck today, yeah?”

look at her acting like nothing happened. is she shameless?

y/n just smiled at ningning and then turned to the group. “thank you guys for being here, it really means a lot to me!”

“of course!” karina looked at the cue cards that were in y/n’s hands. “wow, do you have to memorize all that? that’s incredible…”

“we don’t have to memorize it technically but i read it over so much that i basically know it all.” y/n giggled.

“can we se—”

“hey!”

y/n saw jake, followed by the rest of enhypen, as they walked up to them.

“oh hi. if you guys are here to see sunghoon, then he’s not here right now.” y/n said, avoiding eye contact with jake.

“oh, we’re actually here to wish you good luck!” jungwon said, and they all said some form of ‘good luck’ to y/n.

“ah! thank you, i’ll work hard.”

“by the way…” jungwon pulled out his copy of aespa’s recent mini album. “can you sign this y/n? you’re actually my aespa bias.”

y/n giggled at him and took his album. “how cute. of course i will!”

while y/n signed jungwon’s album, ningning walked over to jake.

“jake! i didn’t know i would see you here.” ningning shyly smiled and looked at jake. “how are you?”

karina leaned over to y/n and whispered, “we all know she knew he was going to be here.” y/n just nodded in agreement, and handed jungwon back his album.

“i’m good! sorry i wasn’t able to play genshin this morning, we had to leave the dorms early.” jake said. “do you think you’ll be able to play later tonight?”

“i don’t know….” ningning frowned. “the girls and i are planning on having dinner tonight.”

“yup! it’s a very important all girls dinner, so she has to go. sorry jake!” giselle shot jake a fake smile.

karina laughed and added on, “yeah, really important. sorry.”

“that’s alright!” jake turned to ningning. “let’s play tomorrow, okay ning?”

ning? he gave her a nickname?

“y/n! i have your drink.” sunghoon said as he approached the group. “oh, you guys all met?”

y/n, who was lost in thought about jake and ningning, sighed.

“that’s annoying.”

she took her drink from sunghoon and went to the stage.

“hm? i only gave her the drink…” sunghoon pouted, confused because he had just gotten there.

giselle patted him on the back. “you should’ve been there.”

“good luck y/n!”

“good luck, sunghoon.”

y/n took one more glance at the wings, only to see ningning and jake still talking and laughing. she wasn’t dumb, she could tell they liked each other. the way their smiles were almost brighter than the stage lights… and ningning looked happier than she ever had before…

whatever, it’s not like i like jake or anything.

the music started, signifying that the show had started.

“ever-evolving k-pop! the heart of the korean wave!" sunghoon said.

"with the world watching it's...”

“music bank!”

"hello bank patrons! i'm y/n from aespa, part of the 37th music bank mc’s!"

"and i'm sunghoon from enhypen."

"today is our first day working at music bank!” y/n and sunghoon cheered. “i can’t believe we’re finally here, but standing up here makes it all feel real.”

“same here! i’m trying hard not to show it right now but my heart is racing.” sunghoon said.

“to ease the tension, let’s both share how we feel about becoming mc’s!”

sunghoon proceeded to share how he felt, and y/n discreetly looked at the wings once more, and saw jake and ningning still talking. it slightly hurt that they weren’t paying attention to the show, but as long as they were there to support her she supposed she didn’t mind too much.

“y/n? are you going to share how you feel?” sunghoon looked at y/n with concern when she didn’t answer.

“ah yeah! sorry, i’m still coming terms with the fact that i’m here right now.” y/n put her focus back on her job. “but i promise to make every friday a fun treat for you all!”

“yes, as music bank mc’s we promise to work extra hard.” sunghoon said. “music bank patrons,”

“we won’t let you down!”

as sunghoon introduced the lineup of artists, y/n pushed the sight of ningning and jake out of her head. it didn’t matter to her if they were dating or not. after all, ningning was her best friend. and jake was just an old acquaintance, nothing more.

i don’t like jake.

y/n wasn’t sure how many times she would have to tell herself that for it to be true.

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