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lilblondedarling · 3 months

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aren’t they the best of friends… [bruise violet plays]

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helena-bottom-farter · 1 year

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Layne Staley, Kat Bjelland, Les Claypool and Maynard James Keenan at Lollapalooza 1993.

#layne staley #kat bjelland #les claypool #maynard james keenan #lollapalooza #1993 #icons #90s nostalgia

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jayeallisonashtear · 1 year

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Kat Bjelland.

#kat bjelland #grunge #grunge girl #babes in toyland #grunge style #grunge aesthetic #rocker aesthetic #rock style #rocker style #rock aesthetic #90s aesthetic #90s icons #90s music #90s vibes

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dynamoe · 1 year

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working out a character design for Billy's crush, the mean clerk from the video store in TOMORROW'S JUST ANOTHER DAY

Drawing any human character next to Billy is hazardous because you can't NOT draw attention to how weird his proportions are. (I even made his head smaller than normal and he still looks like an alien)

That grrrl's got Kim Gordon's shirt from the Sonic Youth video for Bull in the Heather.

I said I wouldn't draw her because I'd rather the reader make up what she looks like in their mind, but... it's been a year, let's give her a face.

First outfit looks too Ruth Bader Ginsburg (she's joins the court in '93 but wasn't famous as "Notorious RGB" yet), maybe if it wasn't black velvet I could use the lace. Other ones are... whatever. The last one is how I dressed in high school (and college, and ten years after and now... shit.) but I'm trying really hard not to make the grrrl into a self-insert or a Mary Sue.

I need to make sure she belongs in their world. Kind of a dick, kind of a failure (in so much you can fail at 18). Representin' that Garafaloid '90s deadpan snark-girl character that was everywhere in the decade. Your Daria. Your Enid Coleslaw. Very hip, crap pop-culture obsessed but also "over it."

The "kinderwhore" (yeah, that's what the style was/is called) style is associated most with Courtney Love (p'too), but you see it in other women fronting rock bands like Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland) and Kim Shattuck (The Muffs).

↑ Kim Shattuck and Kat Bjelland (right): Style Icons

The signature look: a "little girl" type of dress (usually thrifted, often an actual child's dress) in velvet with a lace collar and cuffs or a girly floral worn extremely short over ripped tights and big-ass combat boots. Platforms not heels. No make-up or garish "crazy" make up -- blurred red lipstick, smudgy eyes, "bitch" written on your face or your arm with a sharpie.

This is meant to be threatening not sexy. Associate "weak" little girl things (floral dresses, Hello Kitty, pigtails, baby barrettes) with power/aggression. You're calling back to childhood where girls do whatever they want (in an ideal world) not caring what boys think. You're not dressing for men; you stand up for yourself to say "fuck you" to men who want to belittle you.

The sexualization came with the commercialization of the look. You can't have models with smeary make-up and "cunt" written on their tits in marker in the pages of Seventeen magazine. The last gasp further devolves in the 2000s into "punk fetish" shit like Suicide Girls.

Bringing it back to the character design...my character is not in a band. She is not an activist. She's a bored suburban teenager reading about what slightly older girls and women are doing in New York and Portland in zines and thinks it's cool.

She internalizes a lot of the "fuck you" attitude (or has it already and feels validated to express it). She's also a cult movie dork with an obsessive interest that isn't the alt-rock scene, but is similarly niche/all-consuming.

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raggedyfink · 2 years

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About me:

Name: Jen

Age: 26

Pronouns: Cis she/her

Neurotypes: Autistic, OCD, ADHD

Ancestry: White (Viking ancestry, British, irish, Scottish, Spanish), Indigenous (Mexican, Mayan, trace New England native, Basque, Saami), Jewish (Ashkenazi), Hungarian Romani, Arab Mexican

What I blog:

-posts related to goth, punk, dark aesthetic, favorite actors, cinema, literature, academia, art, anarchist politics and social issues with intersectionality in mind, morute, dark cabaret, Lolita fashion, gothic horror, vintage fashion and aesthetics and whatever random thoughts are on my mind

I am also an illustrator and I will post my art too. I also write poetry but will only update in regards to published work.

Fashion influences: 80s goth, deathrock, egl fashion, Victorian goth, gothic academia, morute, mallgoth, 1970s fashion, halloweencore, worthikids, strangegutz

Style Icons: Siouxsie Sioux, Rozz Williams, Mana Sama, Kat Bjelland

Fav EGL sub styles: Gothic, Deathrock, Academia, Ero

Fav EGL brands: JP: Moitie, AtePie, Antique Beast, Alice auaa Taobao: Strange sugar, Ista Mori Indie: Elegy, Nocturnal Nostalgia

Fav non egl brands: Lip Service, Tripp nyc, Fredericks of Hollywood, Dracula Clothing, Poisonmx

Art influences: see #myinspo tag

Writing influences: Edward Gorey, Edgar Allan Poe

Instagram: artofjenmong

DNI if: minor, Zionist and any racist, misogynistic, transphobic, anti-sex work, far-right, homophobic, ableist or any bigoted individual or are a part of the true crime community.

Disclaimer: This blog is a safe space for marginalized individuals and groups such as the LGBT+, POC, indigenous, the working class, any and all women, sex workers, Anti Zionist Jewish and disabled and neurodivergent people. Let me know if I’m following any problematic individuals and I will promptly block them. Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free the Uyghurs, Free Turtle Island, Free Afghanistan, Free Iran, Free Taiwan, Free Hong Kong, Free Ukraine.

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sh4d0wb0x3r · 2 years

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My style inspo

my three style icons are clairo, kat bjelland, and stevie nicks. do their aesthetics/style match? no. do i care? no.

#stevie nicks #kinderwhore #witchy #clairo #claire cottrill #whimsigoth #living my best life #kat bjelland #90s punk #90s rock #fleetwood mac

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parasiteicons · 3 years

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like or reblog

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porcelainicons · 3 years

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i will make a part two!

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teenspiriticons · 6 years

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like or credit @Ieadersofmen on twitter ❃ request

#kat bjelland #babes in toyland #grunge icons #kat bjelland icons #riot grrrl #icons #request

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obsessionicons · 7 years

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Kat Bjelland Icons fav or reblog if you save it

#kat bjelland #kat bjelland icons #grunge icons #aesthetic icons #vintage icons #90s icons #80s icons #70s icons #90s #80s #70s #babes in toyland #babes in toyland icons

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kewpie-wings · 3 years

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☆ Out of the sky

Into the dirt ☆

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momoscreams · 3 years

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Kat Bjelland from Babes in Toyland is suffering from stage 4 liver failure. Kat pioneered the riot grrrl genre and created a unique vocal style unlike any I’ve ever heard. If you have a moment today, please think of her and the people in her life.