coldlightofmorning submitted this photo with the comment “This is Conor’s girlfriend Cara. They became parents yesterday. :) There are some charming photos of them in grass, but none of them both up a tree. x”
So this is Conor who I published yesterday’s girlfriend. I felt it would be unfair of me to publish his and not hers. Especially as their child will be asking all those questions like “why did gothsuptrees publish Daddy’s and not Mummy’s photo?”, “why is Mummy smiling?”, “why did you name me Eric Draven?”, “where do baby goths come from?”, “why are you allowed to draw on your face and I’m not?”, “when can I pierce the cat’s ears?”, and other pertinent questions.
Look, I love a night time photo, but this one is a tad too dark. Cara does look to be nicely gothed up from what I can see. She has a touch of the creative eyeliner about her. She’s smiling, of course, and that’s something she’s going to explain to her child. She looks to be a good height up the tree.
4.9 out of 5 - You’re going to have to justify your smiles to your children.
coldlightofmorning submitted this photo with the comment “This is Conor up a tree.”
Hello there, Conor. You’re doing particularly well here with your Crow make-up, your over-the-pants boot look, your rings, arm warmers, and your leather looking trench coat. This is a very well trusted goth boi look. I know about 5 people who would dress exactly the same as this in the good ol’ days *sigh*. Ah, the good ol’ days when ‘dreadfalls’ was not a dirty word, when we could drink 5 TSD* shots in one night and still walk, when goth chix went to goth clubs for the sole purpose of sneering at other goth chix - wait, that still happens.
He appears to be relatively high up the tree. I like his pose as it looks like he’s in the process of climbing higher but just stopped casually for a photo. He’s not smiling, more glaring at us menacingly from under his eyebrows, which I love. It’s not night time but it’s getting there.
4.85 out of 5 - I just realised that The Crow was effectively a zombie. I’ve lusted after a zombie. Right.
*TSD = total sensory deprivation, a shot consisting of jager, absinthe and chartreuse.
skullsandkeys submitted this photo with the comment “This is me in March 2007 resting in a tree after climbing down a ravine to walk on the spillway. I was taking photos for St. Paddy’s. Lol. I’m not very high up, but I was tired from the fatigue of being a rural goth who had to investigate spillways.”
OK, so you were taking photos for St Patrick’s Day up trees an on spillways? Is that some sort of tradition that I don’t know about? I suppose that explains the green arm warmers but I’m slightly confused about the rest. In Australia, the tradition is that you go to an Irish pub where you proceed to drink ridiculous amounts of alcohol, preferably wearing some kind of garish green accessory that suggests that someone should kiss you because you are pretending that you have Irish heritage, and then at the end of the night you disgorge the green food-colouring tinged contents of your stomach in the street and lament the fact that you pretended you had Irish heritage in the first place. Hooray! I think I prefer your tradition of taking photos up trees wearing green stuff (not vomit).
She seems to be inspecting the bark quite closely (for leprechauns?). She’s not smiling and it’s daylight and she’s confessed that she’s not very high up the tree. Bonus points for telling the truth.
3.8 out of 5 - I suppose to get in the true spirit of St Patrick’s Day you could drink Irish themed drinks up trees
thecuriousmagpie submitted this photo with the comment “I went for a gothic night time picnic with my boyfriend at the weekend and being appropriately dressed in a park with woods at night meant I had no excuse not to have a photo taken up a tree! The problem was finding a suitable tree, most of them were spindly little things, this was the best I could find and the highest up I could get (about 2m). I did have a black velvet cloak too (it was about 10°C) but that was just a bit too impractical for climbing…”
I will now extol the virtues of this photo:
- it’s night time,
- there’s no smiling and she’s staring at the night sky longingly,
- she’s high up the tree,
- she’s wearing rockingly rad red boots (who’s in the mood for alliteration? ME) as well as velvet and lace, and
- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love me a blonde goth.
I would have liked to see the black velvet cloak mentioned but never mind. It makes me happy that she’s braved the cold and searched out a decent tree and hiked up there without a thought to potentially snagging her outfit on the bark.
5 out of 5 - If you haven’t had a gothic night time picnic that has resulted in a 5 rating up tree photo YOU HAVEN’T LIVED.
Raymond John Ross submitted this photo with the comment “Hi, I’m Raymond John Ross, the vocalist for the Goth band ANKST and this is me…. up a tree.”
Nicely done, Raymond John Ross. I like your old-school gothness shining through there. I can’t see whether you’re smoking a clove cigarette but bonus points if you are. I gave up smoking 4 years ago but I only smoked skinny black clove cigarettes because I was so uber that I preferred style to health. I think my gothness has depleted significantly since the very day I gave up, but my lungs, oh my lungs, they’re so happy! They’re a lot less black on the inside though and, therefore, less goth.
Enough about me. Raymond’s not smiling but he’s in the sun. He looks to be a low-medium height up the tree. He gets bonus points for seamlessly integrating sun protection accessories into his look and pulling it off. A rare thing.
4.2 out of 5 - Does smoking cancel out sun protection or are you immune if you’re up a tree?
Oliver Kriston submitted this photo with the comment “Grace, is actually a true punk from the UK but on this day she chose to wear black because she was feeling super goth. I like to think that my natural goth rubbed off on her. Needless to say I was able to coax her into a tree for this picture! This was the day that I was able to turn a punk into a goth! Not an easy thing to do! Goth Wins! Check out her blog for giggles: http://wellthumbedpaige.blogspot.com/”
I don’t know, man. She still looks punkish to me but I applaud her up-tree effort. This is quite an interesting photo despite the lack of gothness, the smiling, and the daylight. Her pink hair against the green of the tree is striking. The angle is different from what we’ve had in the past, and she’s quite high up the tree.
3.8 out of 5 - For some reason I have the urge to recite Bikini Kill lyrics at you but I can’t find any songs that mention trees. Damn.
doroexplainsitall submitted this photo with the comment “Me (center) with some of my best friends back in 2005. We were Goth and we loved trees, LOL”.
Aw, a very cute best goth friends photo. Only two of them are up the tree but the supporting cast look very supportive of one another in a very touchy-feely-happy-friends type manner. Of the two up the tree, the one on the left looks to be in up tree pose no. 6: resting while clutching your arm stiffly, while the one on the right just looks a bit bored with the whole thing. Perhaps he’s just toasted. It’s night time and neither of the up-trees are smiling. They’re at a good height up the tree.
4.99 out of 5 - Keep your touchy feely goth friend times restricted to around trees at night.
slimdustrial submitted this photo with the comment “This is a photo of a me up a tree, in an old, old grave yard on a cloudy day. I can assure you climbing this tree was fraught with peril. I had to climb the tree initially to escape the Grave Yard Pug. Luckily my fiancé was close to hand with a camera to capture a rarely spotted GUT.”
A “rarely spotted” goth up a tree? I think you’ll find goths are becoming more frequently spotted up trees as demonstrated in the pages of this site. Your tree climb was fraught with peril due to a graveyard pug? RIGHT. Actually, that might be quite terrifying to hear a pug creeping up on you if you didn’t know what it was. Still, RIGHT.
I’m going to take your word for it that this person is actually a goth, as the silhouette doesn’t give me much to work with. I can’t see whether they’re smiling. They kind of look as if they’re flexing their muscles in some kind of intimidation attempt, so it must be a SportsGoth™ we’re dealing with. They’re a reasonable height up the tree. It’s daylight but bonus points for a silhouetted graveyard photo and braving the evil graveyard pug.
4 out of 5 - Actually, he kind of looks like he’s doing the YMCA dance up a tree.
Chris sent this photo with no caption.
A very dark and moody photo. The goth has that look of scorn perfected by goth girls the world over from years of dealing with ridiculous questions, such as: ‘Can you breath in that corset?’, ‘Are you hot in all that black?’, and ‘Do you sacrifice goats?’ (of course we can breath in corsets, you idiot, if we weren’t able to then we wouldn’t be standing there suffering your stupidity.) She looks very low in the tree. I’m detecting a bit of panne velvet in that dress, sadly. It’s daytime but it looks like the sun is going down.
3.5 out of 5 - No, I’m not hot in this black. Those beads of water on my forehead are just tears that flowed upwards from my eyes in fright after I saw your outfit.
heelsonholiday submitted this photo with the comment “Jettie Monday, up a tree.”
A bit too happy and colourful here aren’t we, young lady? ‘She’s a cosplayer, she’s allowed to wear bright colours and smile a lot’, I hear you say. Yeah, well, WHATEVA. This is not cosplayers up trees! Part of her outfit looks gofficky but I can’t get over the look of joy on her face and the cheerfully coloured tulle skirt. She’s out in full sun but she looks quite high up the tree. Perhaps she’s new to this goth thing. I doubt it. There’s a big crossover between zee goffs and zee cosplayers so I would say she knows what she’s doing. WILFUL SMILING, I TELL YOU.
3.8 out of 5 - Dangle from trees while engaging in reckless smiling
