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⌈ Secret Post #4972 ⌋

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Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Which trends or aesthetics do you love? Which do you hate?

I hate that 'cottagecore' and 'dark academia' are now things, even though I actually love the aesthetics of them. Fucks sake just call it country and academic style.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not an expert but "country" aesthetics and "cottagecore" aesthetics seem totally different? Like at least in the US country means something very different?

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Well that's my bad I guess. Where I am in the UK country and cottagecore are identical aesthetically.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - It's an easy mistake. In the U.S., "country" is more... Southern culture, as in cowboys, boots, bbq, country music, pick up trucks, etc. We don't have the same English cottage culture or village life as the UK does.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Probably.

We've got "western" country as the anon noted below. Cowboy style, which given that was maybe 30 years of our history, out of control.

There's "New England" country. Think hills and autumn leaves, pine forests, covered bridges, clapboard stick frame houses and red barns with rounded aluminum tops silos. Overalls. Berry swags. Hearts, lots of hearts. Painted milk cans. Rubber farm boots, sheep and dairy farming. Fishing. Hunting. Deer motifs. Pheasants. May have "seaside country."

And then there's "Prairie Farm" Country. Which is more open spaces, carpenter gothic, more barns, water towers, and windmills. Sunflowers. "Prairie" dresses like Laura Ingles Wilder. Meat cattle farming. Gingham is more associated with this one but yeah. That's everywhere. Burlap. Every "rustic" wedding you've ever heard of. Weird faceless rag dolls.

Both do Quilting.

Like, can we beat back against the mason jars? (Sorry, I grew up with this stuff.)

We even have a "Country" magazine (where they hide this needle picture in it.) It's kind of a companion magazine to Taste of Home. (I swear they hide a spoon... it's been a while.)

The fun of being 50 states in a trench coat pretending to be a country.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

whoa wait Country magazine is still around? I remember that from when I was a kid in the 80s and my mom wanted to give me something to read that had farm asthetic in it (to tame the horse beast in me, as you do).

anyway you have a good breakdown of the types of country. above anon whose contemporaries use country to mean rich people stuff is a new one on me tho.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on where you are in the US, honestly. Northeast, Northwest and Great Lakes Region will probably hear "country" and think "countryside." You know, cottages/gardens/orchards/etc. The South, much of the Midwest and Greater Appalachia is more likely to hear "country" and think "country and western." So, boots, trucks, and cowboy stuff.

Everyone in between could go either way.

The US really is a bunch of smaller countries in a trench coat trying to get into an R-rated movie.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I majored in English, and I'm still not sure I really *get* 'Dark Academia'. Like... what makes it 'dark'? It just seems pretentious, like "Look at us, we're so cool and aloof because we read books!" (To be fair, I also butted heads with my fellow English majors because I thought they were being pretentious, so this probably just isn't my thing to get.)

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

The fetishisation of reading books at the moment makes me roll my eyes so hard. And i love books and enjoy reading.

Someone I know had a tee shirt along the lines of 'I read books. That's why I know things' and I just was internally vomiting. So fucking pretentious.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I love books and reading and have worked in libraries for the last 15 years and I still cringe a bit when anyone pulls "more bookish than thou" bullshit.

Like, the dvds and books on CD and graphic novels and ebooks and e-audiobooks and gossip magazines don't have anti-intellectual cooties on them, you pretentious fucker.

I do have a couple of book nerd t-shirts, but that's so I can wear them to work instead of our summer reading program shirts, which sometimes have awful art and/or design, and none of the ones I own have "look how smart I am, teehee," or variations thereof on them.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Okay, somehow I missed that this was even a thing. I love books and reading, but to me it should just be a normal thing, it doesn't make you special or anything.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Because I sat down and watched a few tiktok compilations of aesthetic core stuff like dark academia a few weeks ago - my guess is that it seems to be a recreation of 'being in an old boarding school/solving murders in said boarding school or some other 'old' building setting that would be lit by candle light' fantasy/daydream setting.

Like non-magic Harry Potter, but make it goth.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I only recently found out about "cottagecore" and yeah, that's my cup of tea! Don't know about dark academia but I'd probably like that, too. It conjures up images of gothic libraries.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Both aesthetics are lush and totally my thing. I just hate the terms used for them lol.

Dark Academia is basically being a grunge student at Oxford in the dead of winter as far as I can tell.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! I like Cottagecore and also found out about Goblincore through it, which I also think is cute (unfortunately it seems to be rife with drama over the term 'goblin' on Tumblr).

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Love me some bright, saturated colors. Not neon, just pure color. I've been watching a lot of movie musicals from the 1950s and 1960s lately, and I can't get enough of how vibrant everything is. I've got a lot of aqua/turquoise decor in my apartment, and I was one of the 12 people that watched Pushing Daisies when it was on TV because it was so visually pleasing. :D

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Hey that's great nonny. :D I'm actually the complete opposite and I live in an echo chamber of people who, like me, love the scandi white walls, wood floors thing. So I rarely hear about other stuff.

What do you love about it? Bright colours make me feel emotionally drained. Do they make you feel energised?

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I love the aesthetic of Pushing Daisies, too, but I like stuff a bit more jewel toned around my house. I hate the minimalist "50 Shades of Beige" aesthetic with my whole soul," though, even though I like natural wood furniture and houseplants and wood floors.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[philstar22]

Love: dark colors, deep colors, reds and oranges, autumn colors/aesthetics, creepy/dark aesthetics

Hate: pastels, pinks, spring colors/aesthetics, super happy/cheerful aesthetics, romance aesthetics involving flowers/hearts/that kind of things

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of OT, but how do you even learn what "aesthetics" even exist?

I've never even heard of "cottagecore" or "dark academia" before this thread despite spending a ton of time online/on various social media sites. Like, where do you even come across these terms?

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I'm betting Instagram with a side order of Tumblr.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Pinterest. People tag pictures with these aesthetic names.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

On the older side, but I really love the whole dieselpunk/dark deco aesthetic of the likes of Batman: The Animated Series and Bioshock. Also art deco/streamline moderne generally.

I also like that whole synthy neon 80s look, with the blacks and oranges and pinks, from things like 80s cyberpunk anime and MVs. Not to live in, mind you, just to look at.

Old school horror gothic also works for me.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Old school horror gothic is a classic. Something much more real about it and less faux than newer gothic vibe too, if that makes sense?

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[greghousesgf]

I always found animated Bats interesting because it seemed to be taking place in two eras at the same time; everything had a noir look but they had cell phones and computers.
also, I wish anime characters didn't mostly have that giant eye tiny mouth nose the size of a zit body like toothpicks thing. It sets off my uncanny valley alarm bigtime.