We spent the next couple of hours together, during which she showed me not only Anne Rice, but Carmilla (one of the first published vampire stories) and several other vampire genre staples. We got to talking about books, she was reading Blood And Gold and asked if I'd heard of Anne Rice. Several years older than I, she was the first example of a Goth I'd ever seen IRL (the overall first having been Lydia from Beetlejuice).

One day, whilst I was attempting use the ancient library computer, a Goth girl appeared next to me and complimented my totally sweet dragon necklace. Books were my main comfort, so I spent most of my time after school at the little public library. In a small, conservative town, this is not easy to do (especially if you are a non-christian liberal). I was an angsty, nerdy little spookykid in 7th grade looking for a place to fit in. Once upon a time, within a black hole in the universe known as Front Royal, Virginia. How did I get into Lolita? In a roundabout way, vampires. Regardless, we all arrived there some how, whether it was through a friend, the internet, a band, a movie, et cetera. Of course, people can have predispositions and tastes that might lead them to enjoy the lolita aesthetic more than the average person. Despite what some ladies might claim, no one is 'born a Lolita' (no really, you did not slide out of the womb decked out in Angelic Pretty).

Sweetlolita manyland