The candle burns to the end.

[reddragdiva]

The lack of IMPENDING THERMONUCLEAR APOCALYPSE is why goth sucks these days. It's almost impossible to get this across to anyone under thirty.

(thanks to s0b for inspiration)

Update: Fifty-one comments from other people in just over an hour? This could be my greatest hit.

Update 2: This has now inspired marnameow to a poll.

Comments

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Hey now, with the terrorists you've got religion in the mix as well, unlike those godless commie bastards.

[vatine]

What? You mean Reverend Lenin was *not* preaching the teachings of Guru Marx? I am devastated1!1

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Religion is the opium of the masses, k?

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Bring back the days when laudanum was the opium of the masses!

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Laudanum is opium.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

But sounds more lady-like.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's why I said it.

[vatine]

And ethanol! But, then, it would be easy to have laudanum being the opium of the masses, in taht it doesn't even have to try.