Not sure why you got downvoted. D&D is a medieval fantasy; I’m not familiar with any campaign set in our world let alone a historically accurate version of our world. And the goth movement of today is an aesthetic that I’m not sure even has a direct link to the Goths that challenged Rome, just like someone going around destroying shit wouldn’t have a direct link to the Vandals or maybe even know that the crime is named after the people who sacked Rome.
Nowadays, yeah, it just means anyone who dresses “dark” regardless of what kind of music they like or scene they hang out in. Which I think is cool, wtf, the music is still there if people want to listen to it: !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
the Goths that challenged Rome
I think the joke relies on “goth” as in “gothic fiction”
The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word “gothic”, as a pejorative term meaning medieval and barbaric, which itself originated from Gothic architecture and in turn the Goths.
So there’s only really a tenuous link to medieval history, let alone goth in the musical or aesthetic sense. The joke would make a lot more sense if the kid was into the Society of Creative Anachronism and Historical European Martial Arts, but I suspect not enough people know about those.
The Crimean Goths stayed distinct and independent until 1475, and Visigoths were traditionally significant players in the 1492 Reconquista that expelled the Moors from the Iberian peninsula.
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Not sure why you got downvoted. D&D is a medieval fantasy; I’m not familiar with any campaign set in our world let alone a historically accurate version of our world. And the goth movement of today is an aesthetic that I’m not sure even has a direct link to the Goths that challenged Rome, just like someone going around destroying shit wouldn’t have a direct link to the Vandals or maybe even know that the crime is named after the people who sacked Rome.
A purist would say that it’s focused on a specific set of post-punk music acts and the people inspired by them.
Nowadays, yeah, it just means anyone who dresses “dark” regardless of what kind of music they like or scene they hang out in. Which I think is cool, wtf, the music is still there if people want to listen to it: !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
I think the joke relies on “goth” as in “gothic fiction”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
So there’s only really a tenuous link to medieval history, let alone goth in the musical or aesthetic sense. The joke would make a lot more sense if the kid was into the Society of Creative Anachronism and Historical European Martial Arts, but I suspect not enough people know about those.
The Crimean Goths stayed distinct and independent until 1475, and Visigoths were traditionally significant players in the 1492 Reconquista that expelled the Moors from the Iberian peninsula.
You mean the Moops.