I feel like the stereotype is you grow *out* of punk, I wonder how many more are like me who only became a tattooed antifa troublemaker late in life.
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I feel like the stereotype is you grow *out* of punk, I wonder how many more are like me who only became a tattooed antifa troublemaker late in life. I mean middle-age crisis is also a stereotype. though I feel like in my case it was less about middle-age and more about transition, which in turn was about immigration
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punk as a music subculture grew on me 100% without me meaning to. after transition I got radicalised and found my usual metal to be lackluster in political themes. I started looking for music dealing with antifascism and queer issues, and this exposed me to genres I didn't pay any attention to, most of all German rap, folk punk, and punk. g.l.o.s.s. was the big entry drug, I blasted every single song of both albums obsessively.... Meanwhile the experience of dealing with nazis made me gradually and without conscious planning shift my fashion from hyperfem to aggressive. First the Pride tattoos, then side shave, then facial piercings, then deathhawk, then visible antifa tats... The more trouble I got in the more overt it made me, like a porcupine bristling. At some point I went back to old Brazilian bands I vaguely remembered from name but never clicked for me before (Ratos de Porão, Garotos Podres, Mercenárias) and I was like, hey this kinda slaps actually...
when I realised it, I had become at 40 the kind of person with neon hair and patch jacket who moshes to obscure local feminist crust acts then go home with a pepper spray and a pocket knife and at that point I noticed all of a sudden, what the fuck guess I'm a punk now
