It’s no secret that I’m something of a hybrid, part goth and part geek. I’m just as happy wrapped up in the tight embrace of a properly bound corset as I am plunked down in front of a big screen television hacking and slashing my way through hordes of monsters. I don’t really deny either side, nor am I ashamed of either half despite having encountered some disdain for being “impure”. Personally, I don’t care, I’m fairly secure with myself not to give a damn about being so hardcore as to deny myself the pleasures of both worlds…

Likely, this is the key to success in my present long standing relationship. You see, I’m not dating a fellow Goth, I’m dating a hardcore geek. I was skeptical at first if this would work ,but it has and I’ve noticed quite the growing trend of both subcultures merging romantically to form similar kinds of bonds. Why is this? I like to romanticize it by thinking of us ‘gothlings‘ as the image of early European aristocrats who found themselves faced with certain destruction if they continued to breed within their own ranks and that the hordes of geeks trying to woo us were the newly rich trying to buy titles and status.

But honestly, it’s more likely that we just click together. Geek boys just can’t seem to resist us goth girls and I can think of ten easy reasons why that is:

1. Goth girl fashions are still more socially accepted than cosplay. And if a goth girl wears cat ears in public she’s not always surrounded by teenage fanboys/girls exclaiming “Kawaii! I love Darkstalkers so much! You’re so kewl! Do you speak Japanese and eat Udon noodles? Cause I do!” Sure, it happens sometimes, but a quick shot of pepper spray clears that up right away.

2. Goth girls totally get that aversion to sunlight thing. There isn’t too many other subcultures that share a dislike of bright natural light quite like the goths and the geeks. While goth girls are natural night owls with pale, unearthly skin tones they need to preserve, a geeks pasty complexion is usually more of an occupational hazard from too many wasted days in front of an LCD screen.

3. You rent a flat in your mom’s basement? Don’t you mean “Lair of Dark Isolation?” Goth girls love their atmosphere and this is where geek guys get to be spin doctors. Don’t think of your underground place as a potential deal killer, most geeks now have a lot of awesome tech toys to show off and with a little work and creativity you can transform the place that used to be used for storing Christmas ornaments and canned fruit into a cool dungeon of solitude.

Put up some dark curtains, hang some unearthly colored lights and drop some skulls here and there for effect and you could soon have yourself a place that goth chicks actually want to hang out at. Just a hint though, real cobwebs are a sign of poor housekeeping, not coolness.

4. Did someone say Zombies? Where a lot of preppier girls might roll their eyes or cry out “Gross!” at the sight of rotting flesh monsters or unnecessary carnage, a lot of us goth girls are ready and eager to go wading through the blood and body parts for a good survival horror RPG or grindhouse flick. Hell, for some of us it’s our idea of a romantic evening for two.

5. In the event of a Zombie Holocaust you can count on us to step up to the challenge and wield our own ‘boomstick’ when this all goes down in real life. We’ve seen the movies, we know the drill. Don’t expect us to stand there screaming while we wait to get torn apart. Goth girls know how to kick ass and take brains when it comes to the risen dead.

So, when you’re picking your team mates in the race for survival, you can skip the bubbly pop princess and grab the girl who’s already barricading the windows.

6. We look like the girls you dream about when you’re not gaming. It’s true, when I met my ‘Geek Charming‘ I had “BloodRayne Hair” and vampire fangs. It really was “Love at First Bite.”

7. The Enemy of My Enemy… We weren’t even in the running for Prom King and we were never destined to become the Head Cheerleader. We were the outsiders through high school and we’re united by the fact that we were never the popular kids. We might not have had the same social circle, but we have an understanding of what it’s like to be stepped on by the kids who are now all grown up and making minimum wage because they were too cool for school.

8. We have a shared dislike of country music. Enough said.

9. We’re less concerned about your expensive brand-name threads than we are about if you actually own every gore flick made since 1980. Okay, so maybe that’s a bit excessive of an example, but your ‘terabyte-worth’ of obscure vampire films is pretty impressive. Sure your mom still buys your shirts, but we don’t care, we’re too busy scanning through your files to see if you’ve really got all of the original Prom Night movies.

10. We might be the girls your mother warned you about… But she’s just happy that you’ve finally brought someone home. Our faces might be filled with metal, our skin might be covered in ink and we wear our corsets on the outside of our clothing but your mom gave up on you marrying a “nice girl” after she chanced upon your frighteningly huge porn folder cleverly labeled “Homework“.

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