cottagecore and other internet aesthetics

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

i've very glad someone has named the thing 'corporate memphis' is signifying because it is very much a thing

now it has been named, kurzgesagt is doomed

ILX is hatecore in disguise.

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

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:46 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sure? I thought it was mostly a list of newish/internet age aesthetics?

i've very glad someone has named the thing 'corporate memphis' is signifying because it is very much a thing

I started a thread on this a year ago that went nowhere:
Examples of Corporate Memphis, the flat design aesthetic that humanizes corporate behemoths.

Okay now I can 100% get behind Corporate Memphis as being fash af

Ha, I didn't know that it had a name, but yeah, corporate memphis is so ubiquitous that you hardly see it.

I read a bit about the “dark academia” aesthetic recently, and like all of these it seemed to be a way of infusing shitty contemporary corporate drone life with some kind of romance and glamour - a little bit cosplay but also a way of imbuing mundane experiences with extra (private?) meaning and resonance - catching the bus in the rain, drinking coffee and reading poetry, whatever. Maybe I’m misreading it?

But it reminded me of my own experience of being a teen/young adult who would dip into certain “aesthetics” to enhance/comprehend experiences - hippy boho, Michael Mann, JG Ballard and Len Deighton downbeat protagonist were my go-tos.

These were pretty unexamined politically but I was definitely consciously adopting them as prisms through which to see the world.

ew fuck Memphis, for years I forgot what that shit was called and was convinced it was just from a dream I had about design history class

idk about “aesthetics” but the emotional aspects of stuff like the “after hours” or “dark naturalism” (lol) resonate with me idk