cottagecore and other internet aesthetics

xpost I guess that's part of why I've historically tended to eschew fandoms in favor of appreciating things in my own little lonely bubble. But I recognize that I'm probably an outlier in that regard.

I think we're quibbling about semantics here. I am exactly like you, but to me that kind of relationship with art also intersects with looser conceptions of 'fandom' and 'community' (be it, to quote Bataille, 'the community of those who have no community'). Merely liking something draws you outside; it is enough to burst said lonely bubble imo.

leave me alone with my thomas kinkade paintings

In, say, the uk or ireland its possible for it to be a fairly legit trad way of life with continuous ties- thinking the islands and the west fairly specifically- a lifestyle that generations of people were forced into!

but also a bit that rich scions of mumford wealth roleplay at also in order to lecture everyone about how easy it is and how much better life would be if we all owned a cotswold listed building and got Trevor with a masters in agricultural science to do all the work for us on minimum wage

Shades of shades depending on the historical context for me anyway

nb where cores or aesthetics or fandoms come into it idk im a simple man of the islands me

I've historically tended to eschew fandoms in favor of appreciating things in my own little lonely bubble. But I recognize that I'm probably an outlier in that regard.

you're a prolific poster on a messageboard that discusses politics and pop culture so i'd say this is.... incorrect

Pfft, implying this place is endowed with even a modicum of reality.

lol, touché. To the extent that ILX counts as an aesthetic community, this would be my sole exception.

See deems the vibe in our context is less what you’re talking about and more na Sasanaigh in this infamous article, specifically

When my wife Nona and I first came here, we said west Cork is like England in the Fifties. We felt so at home here. It felt like old home, going back in time, to old England.

xpost Generally feeling pretty okay about the ethos of my fellow aesthetes in that regard, though.

How do you feel about their logos and pathos, though?

Honestly when ppl start on "the good old days" in any capacity I usually have to step out of the room on a pretext. They never mean the actual historical material conditions.

Yeah, I would think that ppl that are a part of the fairly legit trad way of life with continuous ties don't really spend much time celebrating it as an ~~internet aesthetic~~. At least the ones I know don't, they're online ofc and have instagram and etc. but don't tend to use it as a celebration of that.

Tbf rose-tinted left-wing nostalgia is also a thing.

xp

xp absolutely nailed on the people in that piece above voted Tory for their own selfish reasons, and didn’t like the results of their actions so it’s time to move back in time to somewhere they don’t have to think about any of that 🙃

what are some "trad" aesthetics that are non-fascist?

I think centering the idea of "neighborliness" e.g.

https://bedstuystrong.com/

or, similarly, fetishizing immigrant mutual aid societies or etc. is one version of this I've seen

xp this agrees with what pom said

When communities are well-knit and caring and working properly, they do mutual aid without calling it anything at all. I think about this a lot. Yes.

Yeah i hear that gyac- in specific contexts the cosplay of cottageplay feeds into a hundred things and patterns that id have thoughts on- definitely. West cork a fine example!

But also the underlying assumption on ilx isnt about the cottage lifestyles or w/e its maybe more like the attn or study or time ppl might presume everyone others would have to delve into semiotics around the culture and the language and angle that we each of us "should" have or the agreed line on these things? Thats a culture in itself imo

Tbh American settlers would never have survived without collective care/mutual aid/barn raisings/etc because mostly they were mostly not very good at farming and they were NOT highly trained frontier survivalists by and large. There's just a lot to be unpacked about this whole thing.

xp to Darragh--people posting to this thread pretending they aren't allowed to like cottages anymore certainly have time to read up.

Lol yes look im staving away from those takes too

;)

I'm also intrigued by the metonymic emphasis on 'cottage'.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it has an, um, broader semantic value in British English…

hee ive not been saying im behaving

Apologies for the extent to which I have contributed to facile 'not all cottages' discourse, I have entered my busy season @ work and am not able to contribute my usually super-high level of nuance and erudition to this convo at the mo

Again, my favorite anarchist farmer has a whole collection of twitter threads about watching the show "Doomsday Preppers" and pointing out the multiple omissions and idiocies that will certainly get ppl killed in an actual apocalypse. Cottagecore is the "wouldn't it be nice to stay at home and make soup and embrace this constructed role of femininity" and violent preppers are the "wouldn't it be nice to shoot people with impunity to embrace my constructed masculinity" and both are ill founded and fundamentally racist & patriarchal at least in the context of a settler cultural history. No reflection on people who are the actual indigenous people of their region, ofc.

#notallsoups obv

Holy shit you did not just reference the soup. Gyaaaaaccc

#soupcore

I want to move to the equivalent of the hamptons and cosplay as an idle rich tbph

lol chonaic méééé xp

I want to move to the equivalent of the hamptons and cosplay as an idle rich tbph

america, the great melting soup

so what are some of the other internet aesthetics? this cottagecore stuff feels very done to death ideological implications aside tbh

I want to move to the equivalent of the hamptons and cosplay as an idle rich tbph

― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:26 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was under the impression you were already doing this tbh? What with all the country vistas and artful bouquets.

isn't instagram 75% idle rich cosplay?

so what are some of the other internet aesthetics?

Didn't vapourwave kick off the whole 'A E S T H E T I C' shtick?

Look thats actually fair io

So soon after a soup ref and she has nailed me ffs im done

Is QAnon an internet aesthetic?

this is what happens when your friends make friends with other Irish people

What is an aesthetic?

Is everything political, y/n?

time to log off, pom

pom spelling it 'vapourwave' is the most radical action anyone has taken on this thread so far

Daniel_RF https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Aesthetics

this is what happens when your friends make friends with other Irish people

― Scamp Granada (gyac), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 15:33 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

*runs around in a green hat asking where the craic is*

pom spelling it 'vapourwave' is the most radical action anyone has taken on this thread so far

I'm glad you noticed. This is how you launch a revolution ppl.

#TeamCommonwealth

dog latin yeah I saw that list but it's about aesthetics through the ages, like modernism is in there. I may have been raised by hippie farmers but I know about that already.

was more curious about what other movements are currently fighting for space w/ cottagecore on the internet - like I'd never heard of Corporate Memphis before, for example

it's funny how dominant health goth used to be