Wave-Gotik-Treffen is “one of the largest events of the gothic, cybergoth, steampunk, and rivethead subcultures worldwide”. It started yesterday and is running through this weekend in Germany.

The Victorian Picnic started as "an opportunity for attendees to dress in elaborate Victorian-era-inspired clothing. Participants would gather to socialize, showcase their outfits, and enjoy a leisurely afternoon reminiscent of the Victorian era." Over the years, people started wearing more goth-, fantasy-, and steampunk-inspired outfits.

The following are in German but automated translators work pretty well:

• direct link to the photostream about this year's Victorian Picnic
• link to the article
• index of stories about WGT 2025
• blog about WGT 2025

post-punk / goth, 2025

https://www.petermurphy.info/about

track link: https://petermurphy.bandcamp.com/track/hot-roy

This is a preview of an upcoming film, cross-posted from !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27115924

The story of 15th century Prince Vladimir (Caleb Landry Jones) who curses God following the death of his beloved wife (Zoë Bleu Sidel) and is turned into a vampire. Later, in 19th century London, he discovers his wife’s doppelgänger and dooms himself by pursuing her.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1246049-dracula-a-love-tale

WARNING: I think this is a bad, bad movie. I usually only post this on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world but this one involves vampires so I thought someone here might be interested. Basically it's a bunch of people watching a movie and commenting about it online. Details below.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30913703

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?; uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for this): https://tubitv.com/movies/100040021/dracula-prisoner-of-frankenstein
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/dracula-prisoner-of-frankenstein

The film follows Dr. Rainer von Frankenstein (Price), who successfully captures Count Dracula (Vernon). Along with the Doctor's monster (Fernando Bilbao) the doctor controls the vampire for his own evil ends. The film is a co-production between Spain, Portugal, France and Liechtenstein.
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From contemporary reviews in Spain, a review in La Vanguardia said the film would be entertaining to audiences, stating that the plot was confusing and "delirious" which would make audiences either react in fear or laughter.[9] El Mundo Deportivo praised the cinematography, while stating that the plot lacks originality; and that the focus on the quality photography made the plot lose its rhythm.[2] In the Canadian newspaper L'Action [fr] found the film lacked subtlety and the end result was more grotesque than horrific and that Dennis Price was unconvincing in the role of Dr. Frankenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula,_Prisoner_of_Frankenstein

Article in German but automatic translators handle that pretty well

• index to MDR's coverage: https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/index.html
• a blog of MDR's coverage: https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/wgt-leipzig-wave-gotik-treffen-blog-100.html
• wtf is Wave-Gotik-Treffen? it's "one of the largest events of the gothic, cybergoth, steampunk, and rivethead subcultures worldwide": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-Gotik-Treffen

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?; uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for this): https://tubitv.com/movies/100040021/dracula-prisoner-of-frankenstein
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/dracula-prisoner-of-frankenstein

The film follows Dr. Rainer von Frankenstein (Price), who successfully captures Count Dracula (Vernon). Along with the Doctor's monster (Fernando Bilbao) the doctor controls the vampire for his own evil ends. The film is a co-production between Spain, Portugal, France and Liechtenstein.
...
From contemporary reviews in Spain, a review in La Vanguardia said the film would be entertaining to audiences, stating that the plot was confusing and "delirious" which would make audiences either react in fear or laughter.[9] El Mundo Deportivo praised the cinematography, while stating that the plot lacks originality; and that the focus on the quality photography made the plot lose its rhythm.[2] In the Canadian newspaper L'Action [fr] found the film lacked subtlety and the end result was more grotesque than horrific and that Dennis Price was unconvincing in the role of Dr. Frankenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula,_Prisoner_of_Frankenstein

Bonus comic:

Comic strip by Michael Lalonde. The URL referenced in the images is down, but the artist put the entire series on archive:

• https://archive.org/details/orneryboy-michael-lalonde/ - look for the PNG options under "downloads"
• about the artist and this series: https://www.michaellalonde.com/comics/orneryboy/

A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn't happen to them.

Bonus comics:

MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.

https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/

MaryDeath Comics was created by Gwen Tarpley

• part 1 was posted here 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp8mFFzhpyg
• part 2 was posted here 1 year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZu6T8aDCA

Now it's time for part 3!!?!

The film involves gutter punks who take the anti-establishment message with extreme seriousness and tune out society completely. Spheeris talks to homeless teenagers living on the street or squatting in abandoned buildings in Los Angeles that go by the names of "Why-Me?", "Hamburger", "Troll", "Eyeball", "Squid", and others. ... Performances by four bands were filmed: Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, and The Resistance.
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The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Freedom of Expression Award. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, where it received a jury award. However, it never went into general release and was not available on VHS or DVD until the release in 2015 of a box set containing all three films on DVD and Blu-ray. This was partly due to Spheeris refusing to relinquish the rights to the first two parts of the trilogy in order to enable the third to be released. According to an article by Laura Snapes, "there was little demand to see such a depressing movie, and the few distribution offers that Spheeris got required her to hand over the rights to the first two movies, which she refused to do".[4] Decline III was also released separately via streaming video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_Western_Civilization_Part_III

Recorded March 3, 2025 in KEXP studio, Seattle WA.

• Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya 00:20
• Belaya Polosa 05:18
• Tancevat 10:13
• Sudno 13:43
• interview 16:22

Black Bass Metal

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jro-5tvF-c