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Being productive with my writing projects

Reading a deep book, especially Bible study

Listening to music with you

Knowing someone thought about me

Destroying and reworking clothes

I really needed this, thanks for asking 🖤

I've been on a DIY frenzy this past month or so, and I'm really proud of some of these pieces I tacked together in true punk fashion, but bro... You guys aren't ready for the shoes I did last night😶

Anyone else beginning to understand your diy style and techniques? And thus looking back at your very first attempts and wanting to vomit? I ruined perfectly fine pieces of clothing. They spent their days hanging on racks in stores waiting to be loved, were bought for undoubtedly unreasonable prices, loved well and eventually donated to a thrift somewhere... only to be absolutely DEFILED by a chubby baby punk with a pair of scissors and a bag of safety pins. Yes, they were originally boring and basic, but my attempts to spice them were largely failures and one hundred percent lacked any vision or skill.

And yes, everyone starts somewhere! First DIYs were an important part of the process to mature us into our current skill level.

Anyways, I just threw away two shirts.

Me and one of my besties just hand painted four shirts in two hours, and I now have more band merch than I did this morning.

Two random designs I did yesterday. Didn't even measure out the "WEIRD!" one. Just opened up a bottle of paint and started squirting it everywhere. We getting wild and I may or may not have an addiction to slapping splattered designs all over anything I can get my grubby fingers on. Or maybe I just have a crappy diy addiction in general. I spent 60$ on spikesandstuds.com last night. Haha.

Anyway, pretty satisfied with these.

Gonna be honest, my current crust/battle jacket is much the same as what you just described. Not in design; my jacket has a much more streamlined and put together look than most others I've seen. But it's absolutely an atrocious band mishmash, no doubt about it, and I designed it that way. Since I have a place in my heart for each subculture, I wanted my jacket to reflect that. My goal making that crust item wasn't to make something as punk or metal as possible, it was to make something authentic to myself.

Your battle jacket is an art piece and reflection of yourself in addition to a statement. It's a shred of identity. Thus, I have a rapper on the bottom hem of my rocker jacket. He saved my life years ago. He's part of my history. Is he punk? No. Is there a piece of me in his symbol? Absolutely. Also on the jacket is the band that introduced me to metal and the band that introduced me to rock in general. Right alongside an emo artist group that has helped me fight my addiction. I wanted my jacket to be more than a political conversation piece. I wanted it to tell my story.

However messy and embarrassing, I'm sure your old jacket tells a great story. And I'm also sure your wip is gonna turn out amazing!

Can we talk more about the transitional phase between normie and alternative? Because we all did some corny shiz back then. Very poser behavior. And I think we all need to talk about it. Cleanse our souls.

I feel like the "I call myself emo but I don't even understand what that means" starter pack is a tattoo choker, a pair of black plain cross earrings and a band tee for a wildly popular rock band that isn't even really emo like AC/DC or Misfits or something. Or that Nirvana t-shirt, you know the one I'm talking about. If I see that shirt one more time, I'm gonna puke.

It's like you looked around Walmart for anything at all black so you could fit in with the edgy kids at school. It's like those "emo transformation" TikToks but... but this isn't a game to you, this is normal Tuesday behavior. Who is three or four years deep into alt culture and still wearing this outfit? Cuz I wore this outfit when I was probably thirteen... for about a year... never again. Also had a leather jacket that you could not peel off my body. I ran that thing into the ground.

Don't even get me started on how we all labeled everything "emo" that clearly was not- especially music. Who was gonna tell us emo was not a synonym for edgy and sad?

Anyways, I ended up donating those cross earrings to a nearby blossoming baby bat and burned the tattoo chokers a LOOONG time ago. They no longer have power over me. I'm a free woman.

Got any funny baby bat/puppy punk/poser days stories or thoughts? I need this.

Amen. And can we stop harassing people for not being "punk enough" in general? It's almost as if, in order to be part of any community, you're expected to be the most extreme version to qualify to use the term or something. There's people in this culture still learning and there's people in this culture who agree with some aspects and disagree with others and that should be okay- ESPECIALLY in punk culture. Punk is literally based on being weird, not fitting in, and ACCEPTANCE of those oddities. You'd think if any culture wouldn't gatekeep, it would be us. YET SOMEHOW its one of the most elitist riddled groups of people I've seen! It's wild!

Hm. Might make a longer rant on this later.

Ngl I think one major problem is that people on here and online in general seem to think that patches always have to be punk and they.... Don't

Punk doesn't own patches, people can make them of anything they want.

Just because somebody is making a patch doesn't mean they're a part of the subculture.

Making patches is literally just a form of art like any other

Stop harassing people over their patches not being "punk enough" because for starters that isn't a thing and that might not even be their intention anyways

quick reminder that every time you post something tagged with “punk diy”, a random baby punk somewhere in the world gains a new chaotic craft idea

MY GOD WHY HAVE I NEVER CONSIDERED MAKING PATCH SHORTS?!

some in progress pics of the patch shorts i just started

This battle outfit is SICK!

outfit pics i guess

SICK.

centipede boots centipede boots

clymene moth (screen print I made with a hand-painted screen!)

made my first patch :]

I got my first big boy chain yesterday. It was just €2.30 at the hardware store, I picked one I really liked, silver, long hoops, a little on the heavier side, quite large overall (maybe I'm overcompensating). I felt really good about it and went out and bumped into my sister's husband. He's a big metal head, I looked up to him throughout my childhood for how cool he looked, I wanted chains like his all my life and.. he complimented them. I just started getting into this and I already got the greatest compliment I ever could, things can't get any better than this.

My sister, a metal head as well of course, recommended italian punk bands to me as well and I'm very happy about it, I didn't know any prior so this is great.

Punk DIY isn’t always glamorous. Sometimes it’s buying a bottle of crazy glue from work and glueing the sole of you combat boots back on 10 minutes before your shift starts so you can work your shift without completely ripping the bottom of your shoe off.

“thrift stores in my area don’t sell punk/goth clothes” YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT PUNK/GOTH YOURSELF. GET OUT OF THE MINDSET THAT ALT FASHION IS JUST PRE-MADE WAITING FOR YOU ON A SHELF. BUY THAT “WORLD’S BEST GRANDMA” SHIRT AND CUT IT UP FOR PATCHES AT LEAST!! MAKE IT YOUR OWN!!!!!! FUCK

My favorite patches I've made ‼️‼️💥💥💥💥

All of them are hand painted by me:)

Finished sewing patches onto the left side of my vest!!!!!:) I'm very excited about this project

Another update on the battle vest!! I'm running out of embroidery floss and I ended up having space for more patches on the right side so I'll have to make more :)