jajalala

My roommate and I have recently been trying to go out a bit more into the Boston nightlife and she saw a cool-sounding Goth nightlife event. Personally I'm not goth (I had to go digging through my closet for just basic black clothes) but my roommate's styles includes goth. So she looked awesome of course, but then when I got to the venue I was like "!!!!!!!!!!"

'Cause everyone there was so gorgeous and stylish, I must have had stars in my eyes. Although black was the most popular color (obviously), there was also a lot of shiny metals and creative choices in decor, I'm struggling to even describe it but it was just like BOLD and big and totally outside of everyday wear. Like huge crowns radiating out like a halo, fetish gear as fashion, shiny and glittery things and just coolness EVERYWHERE.

(And there were lots of folks with corsets and other such outfits that showed off their chests...... sorry if this makes me sound like a total pervert but breasts are truly magnificent, I love every single person who dressed theirs up to show off for the night)

This was my (and my roommate's) first time "going out" (like clubbing) since I think last year or so? We've been to a handful of events since moving to the city but really fell off of it since it's not generally our scene (although I have had fun basically every time I've gone out! So I think I gotta push us to go more). I think this was a fantastic foray back into clubbing, just such a pleasant venue and (again) so so so many gorgeous people.

I was surprised when a guy approached us at some point! I think it was because I was off by myself for a minute and so he thought I was alone like he was, but then my roommate (and another gal we were hanging out with) came back and we kind of just made awkward conversation for a bit. I don't know what the polite protocol is to rejecting a guy, especially if he's not necessarily making overt moves... With this guy he was pretty polite and respectful, and I don't wanna ruin his night or discourage him from putting himself out there by being rude (and again he was nice and all so it's not like I felt compelled to be rude, in fact I like meeting new ppl!) but also after some chatting it was pretty clear he was in a different life stage from us (like a fresh college kid) and we didn't have much in common, so... at some point the gal we were with smoothly pivoted us to go to the dancefloor and so we parted from him, but then there was some very awkward him staring at us or vaguely hovering/passing by us several times as though trying to join but then getting shy/awkward about it as we avoided eye contact so he wouldn't take it as an invitation to join in our dance circle.

He asked for my instagram at the end of the night as we were trying to leave and I politely shut down with a "I don't have an instagram", but I dunno if there was a way to have headed that off earlier so he wouldn't have been strangely hovering around us most the night. I wish he would have tried talking or reaching out to some other people there, I think he just clung because we were the first people he talked to and we did have conversations, but... he wasn't our vibe. We came to the club as a trio of gals having a fun night together, and altho we were down to meet some new ppl we didn't necessarily want to hang out with them the whole night.

Idk it certainly didn't ruin my night, but the guy had vibes very similar to guys who have kind of burned/stressed my roommate in the past so I think it unfortunately put her on edge for some of the evening. If anyone here knows any proper club manners let me know XD we certainly are not experts.

We couldn't stay for too long due to some life/scheduling constraints, but WOW what a wonderful time I loved it :D. If there's another goth event in the area I'm definitely interested in going again... though before then I should def try and find some more "gothic" outfits than a black sweater and pants XD.