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Continue reading →: Reading wrapped: my highlights of 2025As an English literature student and bookish baddie, I couldn’t resist but begin my 2026 blogging with a reading wrapped. According to GoodReads, I’ve read 19 books and 5,421 pages in 2025. Not a great score, and leaving the year quite far behind my reading challenge, which was 30 books.…
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Continue reading →: Lazy goth girl tips: looking goth made easy!I am perhaps one of the laziest goths you will ever meet. The only times you’ll see me in a full face of makeup with full accessories are nights out or particularly important days out. For uni, work or functions I’m not absolutely ecstatic for, the most I’ll do is…
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Continue reading →: Return of the Super Skinny: Self-love during the Thinness ApocalypseIt’s the 1990s. Thinness is essential for a woman’s success in a competitive, all-encompassing, impossible industry. Models in adverts and on the runways are sporting protruding bones and tired, sunken eyes. They’re defeated and emaciated, but successful. The term “heroin chic” is coined to define this skeletal trend, since its…
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Continue reading →: Six Ways to Regain Joy and Whimsy in your Life
In our digital, productivity-focussed and stressful age, it’s easy to prioritise simply surviving the day over wellness and whimsy. So many of us are desperate to find easy, quick fixes for the lack of joy in our lives, and I’m sharing my six best ways to regain joy and whimsy…
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Continue reading →: Curating a New Wardrobe after Weight GainAt the peak of the A-Level season in 2024, I realised I’d somehow gone from a UK size 10, to a size 14-16, seemingly overnight. Since I was preoccupied with studying, I hadn’t really noticed the gradual but consistent weight gain. I realised this was naturally happening (I hadn’t been…
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I’m Hannah
Welcome to Diary of a Happy Goth, a corner of the internet for alternative joy and whimsy. I get told, ‘you’re so happy for a goth!’, which inspires me to break the boundaries of what it means to be different. I write about gothic and alternative fashion, lifestyle, news and pop culture, as well as general joyous and happy topics! I’m so pleased to have you here.
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‘He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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