this video is an analysis of the cottagecore aesthetic and it's decline in popularity - NOT a hit piece on the lifestyle btw! there's a poll right now on my channel where you can pick which aesthetic we will be talking about next, so make sure to vote and subscribe!
it's actually based on 40s german war propaganda, that's where the men are, all away at war. hence the white blonde women? germany was famous for its milk maids at the time?
Cottage core is what you make of it, if you’re sitting looking at aesthetic images you will find a bunch of women who look the same taking beautiful pictures. If you’re searching groups for people learning how to preserve, forage, sew crops in their garden etc you will find people also into cottagecore who have the same interest with a variety of bodies and appearances.They just want to live a life where they have control and the ability to own something they make and be efficient even if it’s harder work because they’re so tired of being slaved for min wage
Right! Getting tired of people saying things are exclusive to a race. If you dont see anyone like you doing it. Be the first and enjoy it, don't sit there complaining. No one is stopping you
yea! this is how I always saw it and still see it, also for me even tho I don't rly dress cottage core or anything the fairy fantastical aspect is important, foraging for mushrooms and having tea party's with the fae now that sounds good
@michellehuxtable5720 agree! It’s so funny to me how the people who are so vocal about racism seem to be the most biased about race lol I had to leave a facebook group a few years ago because of it, like every had to be racially judged. A guy posted a pic of him in his wedding and people were talking about how they hope it wasn’t from a racist group…. Just because the guy was whiter than paper and his head was completely shaved. Mind you, the dude was marrying a person who wasn’t white. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This is exactly it though I will say most people who were genuinely preoccupied with preservation, foraging and self sufficiently were never calling it cottage core in the first place, I live with my husband in a cottage thats well over 200 years old, apart from the electric everything is off grid, we own 4 acres and between the house, the land and the animals its constant upkeep, hard work, learning and balance. The moment you start seeing someone who's main content is filming ducklings in a sink with rose petals that was a good indicator it's all for aesthetics and fake, I own ducks myself...the reality is they shit every 2 seconds lol. I know exactly how quick they had to be to film that whimsical footage unless they intentionally didnt feed them first. As for tradwives the majority of them would lose all interest if the internet broke because they're not doing it for their husbands their doing it for the validation and attention they seek online. Oh ill also add most farmers like myself wear about one to two outfits all week and don't wash every day lol it is not spending hours a day filming yourself doing your hair, wearing fancy dresses in the garden and putting your husbands dinner on the table for thousands of TikTok followers to see lol.
@@michellehuxtable5720I wouldn’t say it’s complaining, just pointing it out. It’s not fair to invalidate their experiences as being a minority in a space that isn’t historically catered to minorities.
I remember a Pinterest comment on a cottagecore post that was like : yall bitches wannabe cottagecore so bad but hate insects, the weather, getting dirty and doing manual labor and having to deal with no electricity and strong odors 😭😭😭
As someone who is from rural "traditional" country i must say this type of life is the exact opposite of beautiful. You won't look glamorous cleaning cow's shit for a day or castrating your pigs 😂 my granny was a farm woman and things she told about this type of life were WILD absolutely insane.
y'all, it's called cottagecore, not farmcore. There's rich people buying pretty cottages in the countryside for the aesthetic but they don't have to deal with any labor :(
When we were kids back in the late '80s, my dad read the 'Little House on the Prairie' books series to us every day and that inspired him to move out of the city to start a farm. My brother, sister and I were thrilled at the idea of living on a farm "just like the Ingles!". At the time, dad was an engineer and a total city boy - so any sort of nature seemed like the right place for a farm. So dad bought 10 acres that looked green. Turned out to be marshland... a swamp... a very creepy swamp. Us kids were pretty disappointed because it was very spooky and unsettling - there were thousands of caterpillars in most of the trees making weaving massive silk webs wrapped around every branch - so much silk webbing it looked like fake Halloween decorations on huge sections of our tree line. Maybe you can imagine *THAT IS PRETTY CREEPY WHEN YOU ARE A 5 YEAR OLD* but dad was completely unphased. My mom probably told us not to complain because we almost certainly did, but dad was determined to make the investment worth it. In case you don't know... marshland is not quite farmland. In most swamps there are extra frogs, mosquitos, way more spiders, fungus, moss, lichen, slimy green algae in our "pond", muck & clay in the lowlands, gravel in the highlands... very little fertile soil. Dad got a tractor and plowed the higher elevation into a field and had to buy fertile soil from another farm to cover 5 acres. Then he built a goat pen, chicken coup & put up fences. We had two or three successful crop harvests before the family doctors warned my mom there was *way too much arsenic in our diets!* Mom was alarmed and got soil samples and did some research. Turns out our land was previously used for drilling for oil and was full of chemicals from all the rigs & drilling apparatus that were previously on the land. Nice. So we stopped growing normal crops since they couldn't be sold or eaten safely. For us kids our family farm fantasy didn't really work out but my sister and I eventually lost our fear of frogs, snakes, spiders and genuinely enjoyed searching for the ugliest insects we could find. I still remember feeling disappointed that the idealized farm we had imagined from 'Little House' wasn't going ever happen- but we did learn over the years how to appreciate huge spiders, millipedes, crawfish, crayfish, caterpillars, and together with all the pumpkins, mushrooms, more spiders, bats and huge moths, our marshland version of "cottage core" is more like Halloween season any time there isn't snow on the ground. For that reason I am actually pretty happy how things turned out. Halloween season is now my favorite and we get extra of that. I also love the spooky and profound things of nature and find real beauty in that now- that is very likely because of growing up in a place that is so rather profoundly spooky, even during the daytime. Thankfully the caterpillar webs in the trees were not as bad after first 3 years and now happens only occasionally. That was a bit much. Even though our picturesque farmland fantasy didn't exactly work out- it was still an extraordinary experience.
It’s kind of ironic that your idealized vision was the Ingles homestead cause aside from the first book, the majority of their experiences are pretty close to yours of moving to a new plot, coming across hardship, nearly starving, then moving on to a new plot. They faced fever, locusts, blizzards, etc not to mention the reason they left their first home was because of it being so wooded they relied primarily on hunting rather than farming and had to leave when more people started moving near them because the woods were over hunted.
Yeah when you read children's books about it or play games like Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, it seems like it's all so simple and easy. For any life decision as big as that, you really need to do your research - owning a farm is a lot of work, it's constant work, and you get things like diseases and pests in animals and crops, the weather ruining things in a variety of ways, and a bunch of other things you just don't know about if you've never tried it yourself. Having watched some UA-cam videos of 'modern homesteaders' like the Dutch Farmer, there's a lot of things you need to take into account that I never would have thought of. So if you couldn't grow regular crops on that land, but you still stayed there, what did you end up doing with it?
My idea of cottagecore was a pretty princess hidden away in a cottage with a lovely garden, Sleeping Beauty caused this mindset, and wishing for something like this
@@SieMiezekatze I can handle doing a little garden, not sure if I can handle the animals part which is why I wouldn't get animals because it wouldn't be fair to the animals if I genuinely can't care for them
I do not understand the need for a "core" for everything. Just do what you like. I live out in the country with chickens, goats, and a small garden. It is tough sometimes, cause I am also a full time college STEM student so I have a hard time getting out there sometimes. Another thing, is that its a lot of work and money. Plants die, animals get sick, you have to buy their food every 2 weeks or so. But I love it. The sun brighten my freckles and the animals follow me around everywhere. Life is hard, its not aesthetic at all. So just do you, boo :)
i think these aesthetics are more so a form of escapism, which is why theyre purposefully unrealistic. the point is moreso to romanticize certain aspects of life, removing the hardships that come with it in this fictional setting. people want to daydream about the freedom and beauty of living in a cute cottage surrounded by nature without having to put in the physical labor to actually maintain such a lifestyle
The "core" part is, I think, mostly inspiration and a form of escapism. Yeah, sure, just do what you like. But it's fun to have a community, to be able to talk to and exchange ideas with people who enjoy the same stuff as you. The "core" part just makes it easier to find these types of people. It's no different than goth people labeling themselves as such to show their music tadte, world views and fashion preferences or clubs being founded for people who share a hobby. Same idea, different label.
Oh, psychologists actually have an explanation for that. When you're insecure about what you like, you seek extrinsic validation from others. Part of that is tying what you like to a group or movement. Instead of just being some person, you become part of a group, and therefore can feel secure in what you like. What you like must be good, because a group likes it. Hence everything being a -core. You're not a lone weirdo who likes old stuff, you're dark academia core. You're not a loser into the countryside, you're cottagecore. Etc, etc. It's linked to Gen Z's deep-seated fear of being anything other than normal. Millennials and late Gen X viewed being weird as individualism and good. Gen Z views it as the worst thing you can possibly be. So any time an insecure member of Gen Z likes something that might be unusual, their mind rushes to find a way to view it as normal or part of a group. That way there's no risk of being unusual and thus uncool and thus lose validation and approval by their peers. Everything has to be part of an aesthetic. Otherwise it's just you. And if you're not confident in yourself, that idea is daunting.
@@morganqorishchi8181 I don't think it's a gen z thing lol, people get into religions since forever. What's particular about this is, since religion is falling and individualism is rising, it's becoming harder and harder to be part of a "group" (a human need, since we are social animals), so we end up grouping ourselves in basis of what we like (be it a -core, a fandom or a hobby). It's just human nature. it's normal.
ugh, but the inaccuracies about mushrooms makes me, a mushroom gatherer/mycophile, get a headache…. i know it’s nitpicky but seeing people talk about mushrooms so inaccurately makes my blood boil! oh, and im so tired of people calling me “goblincore” just because i collect trinkets and study fungi/mushrooms. the last thing i want is to be part of any “core”.
As the og cottagecore gal (born and raise in rural Poland) I love this aesthetic because it reminds me of home.. of field trips with my friends as a kids, swimming in the lake, dates in a meadows in the middle of nowhere. Now that I live in the city, I feel overwhelmed by the hustle and people. I know to damn well the labour of working class in small village and fact that in winter is almost always living hellhole but still.. It's where my heart belong and I think it's beautiful :')
I lived in Minnesota and would stack wood for an old man for money, that I would spend on subs at the local tavern. I would go for walks in the woods with my cat and drink out of empty pop cans at a spring. Some of it wasn't easy like when the pipes got frozen and I had to flush the toilet by filling up a bucket and pouring it. But it gave me a small sense of what living in the country with little was like and I miss it
Look at the Life Reform movements in Germany or the Narodnik movement in Russia. For context, the Life Reform movements sought to return to a more natural life via various methods. They promoted things like: Vegetarianism, naturopathy and naturism. Volkish ideology also existed within this overarching system of beliefs. Guido von List, father of the Germanic Occult Rennaisance of the early 20th century, advocated for an agrarian society. The Narodniks held an idealized view of the Russian peasantry and saw them as the revolutionary class. However, they failed to realize that the peasantry were both fiercely religious and fiercely loyal to the Tsar. Narod holds essentially the same meaning in Russian as Volk does in German.
cottage core seems like a fantasy aesthetic. it is what every girl “wants” embodied into an aesthetic that strays from realism. it is a nice “natural” life, without any of the hard work or struggle, and all the while you get to look beautiful. this aesthetic almost feels like escapism.
I actually use it as escapism for a long time. I'm probably one of the few people who still loves the aesthetic so much even if I can see it's dying, but maybe that's because my real life is kind of depressing and emotionally tiresome. So yeah, daydreaming about living a life where I'm surrounded by the things in the world that makes me happy the most, is really a good way to escape from reality. As a latin-american black woman, I definitely don't feel excluded by the aesthetic because I feel like it could be whatever we want it to be.
It is escapism. It does looks and feels like it belongs to some farming RPG game like bokujo monogatari and the likes, and it cannot ever be real at all. A person living the real cottage life is not dainty and clean and white and untainted, they have stains and patches in their clothes, smell like soil (sometimes poop) and herbs on top of sweat, dont mind animal poo (indeed collect to put on the garden after composting it) and have tanned skin from standing in the sun for too long. It is beautiful, but its hardwork.
@@th3azscorpio I agree, but the way people get into cottage/farm life without doing their research is insane. If it was just to escape it wouldn’t be a big deal.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Its just simple escapism. People are allowed to appreciate, and enjoy it simply on a surface level. Not everything has to be a think piece.
Cottage life always left the feeling of escaping into a fairy tale, free from modern day and where everything will be Fine, even perfect and your vid explains a lot of that ❤
Personally, I love Cottagecore. But not the dresses and outfits. I just love the idea of living in nature, being with animals and living in a nice, small, house.
Same! But with the cute dresses and outfits. I'm obsessed with caring for animals and plants, I have a garden in my house and a few cats that I love taking care of. But I live in a big city, so I just wish I could have the cottage part because my respiratory diseases really hate the damn pollution.
The outfits (the history bounding) makes sense. Your back is supported by a proper corset and mosquitoes don’t really bite through the bloomers-two-skirts combo
sameee. i'm not into dresses in general so that never appealed to me but the lifestyle aspect of it, chef's kiss. I'm probably influenced by my dozen of farming sims... lol
@@AysePuramu Livestock is a completely different caliber than some kittens. Also, some types of farms still burn leftovers or cause giant amounts of dust, so clean air is not guaranteed.
Small Correction: Marie Antoinettes Hamlet was not completely a fake village. One half was devoted to cottages for the Queen’s personal use. The second half was actually a working farm which supplied a lot of the food stuffs, particularly dairy products, for Versailles.
@@sleepyghostgirl She didn’t. She chose to wear more simple clothing when she got older which was considered “peasant like” because it wasn’t as grand as French clothing.
@@sleepyghostgirl She actually designed (idk if herself) a dress spesifically for that and it wasn't a peasant dress rather a sort of "pjs" called chemise a la reine. Several fashion history channels made a video about it. Probably Bernadette Banner was one of them. Also chemise a la reine is kind of considered to be a blueprint for all those white flowy cottagecore dresses
I consider myself a cottagecore person. I make my own clothes, I homestead, I grow my own food, I like running in fields, I don't fear insects and I love the "imperfections" of life such as mud, rain, algae etc. But no one else has to be like me, they can own a few dresses and like strawberries and that's still just as cottagecore as I am. Cottagecore is what you make it (I'm a guy btw)
I never thought of cottage core as being farmers. I imagined it more like living on Walden Pond. Civilization is relatively near, so you can still go to market, so you didn't really have to grow your own crops or farm. Self-sufficiency was never a part of it. The goats and chicken are not livestock, they're pets who keep the grass and weeds low and the bugs at bay. Flowy dresses are comfortable and you spend your days caring for your pets, reading, writing, making home cooked meals.
you see how that's unrealistic? you don't even have any way to sustain yourself... unfortunately in this capitalistic world that can't happen, but when it will fall i'd love to have that life!
@@anisa2273 The cottage core life was about either living off someone else - like Thoreau - or remote working or living off your earnings/savings/investments. That's why it's a fantasy life for most of us. SOME of us can do it, but not everyone.
Cottagecore has always been around in different forms. They used to call it boho, for “bohemian.” Hippies, goths, and Renaissance Fair types have incorporated elements of this style for a long time, some since at least the 60s.
The Romans called it the Golden Age under Cronus. There is a very old cultural pendulum between viewing nature as chaotic and savage and needing to be contained or controlled, versus idealizing it and being very ignorant of the violence and severity of logistics involved in it.
Just now realizing my definition of cottagecore is much different from most… I always imagined it to mean dressing in whimsical dresses and natural colors of course, but the rest to me was just the idea of living AWAY from people. Just being around nature in general, little to no light pollution making the night sky more visible etc. Maybe it’s just because I personally really like nature and exploring and digging in the mud and don’t really like people that much. I mean my most enjoyable college memory so far is going to a park with my friends and taking off our shoes to look for fossils and tadpoles in the river. It reminds me of elementary school when we would go to a creek to catch teeny fish and little crawdads. Those memories are what I associated with cottagecore, I think it was really just me wanting to be a kid again… to have more free time to explore and discover new things, be more concerned about learning flower names than chemical reactions. I always saw the other stuff, the livestock and farming as more of a farm thing, not cottage thing. I suppose it could be because I grew up hearing my grandma always talk about growing up on her farm, she told me about how she’d have to wake up early to help, she rode a horse to school everyday, also told me a few traumatic stories too regarding some kittens. Probably was to young to hear that story tbh. Honestly I have most of the stories my grandma told me memorized. I believe my grandpa might’ve also been a farm boy? He died of melanoma before I was born and grew up incredibly poor, oranges were rare and basically his dessert if he ever got one and spent his days picking cotton without sunscreen which is most likely the cause of his melanoma later in life. :/ I guess I had a weird childhood, I grew up near some woods that I’d always explore with my brother, but we weren’t farmers or anything, but also we’re too far away from our neighbors to actually know them. My school also rented out a church to hold our classes before we had bought an actual building and the church was surrounded by woods that the teachers would let us play in and explore occasionally. I’ve also always been weirdly obsessed with space since childhood, and as soon as I discovered that you could see more without light pollution it’s something I’ve always wanted to see, I never knew there were more stars than what I could see. Sorry I got reaaaallly personal, I tend to ramble when I type anything out since my mind is always going a million miles an hour.
I love the idea of living alone in nature, but having to work most of my day for my own food and land. I already work on a ,,ranch", so I know how hard physical labour feels and so I don't think I am rimantisising it while not knowing how it would feel. That would honestly be the dream. Maybe living a few kilometres away from a small town where I could meet friends once or twice a week. Daydreams, but nice ones.
What you describe lines up more closely with Cottagecore’s muddy and barefoot cousin Goblincore. I always see CC as a little too neat, its nature but it’s tamed and tended. GC embraces the wild, unkempt and sometimes less cuddly parts of nature. The mud, the frogs, the snails, the overgrown weeds. And being pretty is not a requirement. GC still loves nature but a less tame version of it. (If you can’t tell, this is my “core” of choice. lol)
I have a similar point of view. My family lives in a rural area with a couple acres, and both my parents and I are vegetarian and allergic to most animals. So, we've never lived the "farm life" with livestock. But, my parents have always had a veggie garden and fruit trees, along with a seperate flower garden. What I see cottagecore as being is being as comfortably self-sufficient as you want, wearing cute natural fiber clothes, exploring the wilderness, collecting rocks and flowers, and having those little gardens and homes with the typical aesthetic/look. I guess I'm mainly happy recapturing my childhood that way while also elevating it by living out some of my childhood dreams (I grew up poor until recently and couldn't buy or make the clothes I like and other things).
SAME! I’d love to live in the woods AWAY from big populations, maybe own a couple of goats, and start my own herb farm… That's why I liked Cottagecore; I’d love the ability to just live in the woods in a small house, mostly unbothered by the outside world. (but alas: taxes).
cottagecore was completely ruined by the modern internet! i remember when it used to be called ‘bambi’ and was about being anti-capitalist and not supporting big businesses and living a wonderful independent lifestyle in the forest and now it’s just “oh, to be a little bunny living in a mushroom… ooh, mushroom earrings by a popular brand for 14.99! ooh, this perfume by capitalist brand is 25 dollars but it’s called cottagecore so its a MUST! can’t wait for my cottagecore clothes to come in from SHEIN!” the internet ruins everything.
While understand your points and was definitely there on the early rise back in 2020, it was inevitable that fast fashion brands would commodify the aesthetic for revenue. While frustrating, I think we should allow consumers to be happy to have more options to the cottagecore brand, even if some senses it’s ironic. Besides, not everyone can even afford small business prices as even managing one is hard. I just think we should let the newcomers be.
@@thebakingvet i get where youre coming from but i’m just pointing out that buying from corporate brands completely overshadows the meaning of the aesthetic.
In all honestly Cottagecore feels like what The national Romance in Norway during the 1800s was like but modern. At that time there was a need to show what made our country different and create a feeling of togetherness After danish rule. Its a very Romantic way of showing the life most were living as farmers in tough cold and difficult terrain. Made a lot of great points in the vid^ Added: That era ofc was a postive for the Norwegians but not the sami people. For there to be a collective us there is always an outside them. It went Even Harder on suppressing languages, religion and culture for us that is hard to get back :/
Same with the romantic movement in Germany around the same time. People, especially artists of different types, turning to nature and folklore and suchlike to identify more with this than with the rational movement of the same time.
Dude, I live in Estonia, I shop in thriftstores because my income is low. I am feminine, and I like dresses. Also red hair and hypersensitive skin, so I shop for cotton and linen dresses. I look like the cottage core woman, and I love nature. I care about nature and try to live my beliefs with underconsumption and ecological mindset. The fact that there are also assholes that copy the look of the lifestyle does not mean that we should stop being who we are.
I live in France but I have a similar lifestyle to you ! I love baking for my friends, wear vintage dresses, I sew, knit, craft anything etc At some point I felt a bit weird about the tradwife and shein taking cottagecore but as you said, that doesn't mean I should stop liking and doing what I like ❤
As a Cottagecore Tomboy Latina, I still find my place in the aesthetic. I wear looser pinafores with graphic tees, baggy linen pants and boots. I decorate my small apartment with the seasons, focusing on seasonal foliage and yes many flowers, willow baskets, and wooden furniture. I do wear the occasional casual dress, but the floral cottagecore dresses are special occasion only. I love caring for my plants, even though the ones I place on my small balcony tend to die lol I try. I drink tea on my floral couch cuddling next to my Cavachon. I love to bake and cook following the seasonal foods in my area. Whenever we can, my family goes on a hike in our local park and enjoy walking through the rough paths. This is my part of Cottagecore. I don’t live in the country, I don’t wear fancy corseted clothes, I don’t have chickens though I’d love some, I don’t even have a yard to call my own. I still find my chunk of the aesthetic.
I've always viewed cottagecore as a princess-y fantasy detached from actual farm life or rural living (think Sleeping Beauty as Briar Rose). I don't really think that's a bad thing, as long as people are aware of what actual rural living entails. Fantasy is part of how we get by in a world that is very hard on many of us. (Though I, myself, enjoy "forest-y, fairy-like" cottagecore more than farm cottagecore, which I suppose is more detached in many ways because it's inherently based in fantasy and fairytales.) But it's true that the conservative homesteaders and trad-wives trampled the fantasy in many ways, and it is extremely unfortunate.
About some of the issues you've meantioned in the "more issues form" section, like "what if you're POC, or more masculine?", why not you just adapt it to your liking? If there's not a pre-made space for you, then make one! And who says you have to like every part of the aesthetic? Take the bits you like, and make them something You
@@Alexandraadftxr7052the arguement theyre making though is that almost all premade online aesthetics are conformist because theyre not real things. Theyre just pinterest boards.
As a man that loved the cottagecore aesthetic /I'm totally knew and lived the rural lifestyle/, I wasnt aware of the femenine side or that that aesthetic was mainly focus on the fem😭 but I agree there is a lot of ways to get clothes not only fast fashion or indie, people can also make them own clothes, as someone that growed in poverty most of my clothes were donations or second hand and I was able to have some outfits that matched the aesthetic
While it’s nice to be able to carve out a place for yourself, it’s also nice to be able to join a community. In a lot of communities, though, if you don’t present a certain way, you’re not considered “legitimate.” I think the video was commenting on how certain groups (generally for institutional reasons) are largely denied the ability to be found delicate (traditionally desirable in many places) purely on the basis of traditional notions of race, sex, and gender. This comment also made me think of Art Hoe movement. It was created by black femmes since they weren’t necessarily accepted into or associated with the wider art space. Quite quickly, it was appropriated by a wider group of people who enjoyed the aesthetic. It’s fine to like an aesthetic, but a lot of people who weren’t necessarily part of the movement began to claim the title, too. Eventually, the movement lost meaning to the point that many no longer identified it with the black femmes who originally created it as a safe space. It’s cool to make your own space if you need one, but the cycle of either being denied entry to a space, or carving out a space, widening that space, then being pushed out can be very exhausting. It would be nice to just be accepted into a community that mostly fits the vibe you’re going for without having to make something new every time.
As a cottage core person, this video was a huge help to me! thank you so much for pointing out the flaws in the daydream. I do want to keep dreaming, but I'll now go into the dreams acknowledging the horrific implications, and doing my best to make room for all the people who were kicked out (either literally or figuratively) by this aesthetic :>
Its such a shame that everything that seems exciting first is at some point corrupted. I am into mythology and topics like Atlantis, but if you dig deep enough you hit the layer of conspiracy fascists that spoil all the fun. *sigh*
What exactly makes it exclusionary to black people? I'm a black woman and everything I know about growing crops and working with the land I've learned from both my grandmothers. One whose also a black woman and my other late grandma who owned a whole farm with cattle and a bunch of other animals. @@Volundur9567
@@Volundur9567 - on subreddits for both cottagecore and Dark Academia, and there are lots of poc who post pics of themselves. I never see rude comments toward them. I'm sure there is racism in the subcultures, because racism is everywhere in our culture, but there are also spaces where that doesn't make a strong impact, and diversity is welcomed. While I haven't seen much that's overtly LGBTQIA+, I'm not sure there's any particular markers that would make it stand out. As for disabpled people, I don't see any reason why they _couldn't_ be either one. I will certainly keep my eye out for them, and do my best to make them welcome.
hi, person with native background here, who has a partner whos likewise native (im central american native, shes northern) no, the distaste I get from cottege core is nothing to do with colonialism. I dont really ever think about colonialism-- neither does my partner, nor did my parents or hers. the only people who focus that one kinda seem to be the overeducated privlidged type. I likewise grew up in a rural part of the US and have worked ranches and had to deal with that life, warts and all. cottagecore bugs the hell outta me because of the fascination coming from a place of rich or soft yuppies idealizing things in a neo-rococo pastoral fascination fad. its ingenuine, and leaves things an ugly mess when the bottom falls out of this. this dumb fad has also made *affording* what was once poor folk survival standard much harder. brewing my own alcohol, growing a garden, making my own cheese, tools for my woodworking or creative work-- all of it becomes boutiquified and I have to make more and more concessions on quality or just outright *stopping* making something and have to suffer through store-bought ultra-processed poison.
As someone who grew up very middle class who didn’t really have much I know exactly this frustration, rich people will take anything and everything we have and throw glitter on it just to mark it up so they don’t have to live like us while still benefiting from what we have.
@@claudiameier666 country life if hard work, but there is something to be said for taking a more organic approach to life and making stuff with your own hands and wearing natural fibered stuff with time honored decorations on it, it reminds me of the people I go to church with and do historical railroading with and some are so enamored with a certain time in the past that they are a lifestyler as much as they can be, taking a cue from their grandperants or history of their area and keep things of the past alive and in use. as for me I love the excuse to get dressed up cuz no one does it anymore and I dont get to do it all the time, and it makes me sad people done even dress up for occasions anymore for parties events or holidays, and look nice when I was growing up we still did , most the time its very old polo shirts for me for work, I do wear tee shirts yes frequently and they are so old they were made in the usa, my days off though I wear at least a collared shirt or a buttondown, and have worn a polo shirt even to a car race in indy it was the biggest one of its class the hoosier hundred when it was at the state fair down there it was the most prestegious dirt race in the world for decades the indy 500 for dirt track racing if you will, they got it just west of the city but its on pavement now 146 laps at indy raceway park I dressed up when they revived it, and train trips where I help out its a special time we want to make it just like the 40's and 50's and we also want to put a good foot forward, it does take more work though and is not quite as comfortable in 90 degree heat with long sleaves on but it also helps protect me from sunburn so its my armor ;} beside country style or cottage is simplistic but more elaborate then common clothing today, as it harkens to when there was more art or a few details put into stuff to make it look nicer functional art, and it just looks soo cheery and smile inducing to look at like like hugging puffy purring kittens next to fresh flowers on a warm day
@@isaiahraymond269 I feel like that's why the Marie Anotniete paralel feels so important, because cottagecore is Pastoralism, just a modern version of it.
As a Lakota Person It IS 💯 Colonialism for me. Simply because non-Indigenous folks can 💯 buy land, and live pretty well off of it. Natives can't so easily do that, ESPECIALLY if we do our Traditional Spiritual practices on that land. Suddenly we're too primitive, too "caught up in the past" So no. I don't think you're someone to speak for all of us. The way I don't expect anyone to give a rats behind about my littlenrant. I'm expecting r*cist responses coming my way in about a day or two
I love these '___core analysis' videos. It really does suck that Cottagecore is dropping.. it's been one of my favs, even though its *really* made to look like a fantasy only in your dreams. (P.S, those cows you drew are so cute)
I don't think we can really fault rich celebrities for hopping onto the cottagecore trend when a majority of us that did are also city girls that just like the aesthetic of cottage-life
It was so weird seeing the very clothing I've been dreaming about wearing since...shoot...pre Y2K, suddenly become popular and be everywhere. So easy to find. And I was a little mad, I wasn't a dewy-eyed 15 year old anymore. I was pushing 40. I felt like Molly from The Last Unicorn. So angry and upset that she finally met a unicorn... as an older, jaded, worn down woman "Where were you when I was new?"
I feel you. I'm no longer the little girl I was in the 70s who begged her mom to get her more "peasanty" clothes. By the time I could afford to make the choices myself, it was out of style, and now that it's back in, I'm old and not made for frolicking. But there is hope. As someone else here pointed out, the Renfaire and SCA community has always been into things that fit into cottagecore, and they're full of very not-waiflike women. Molly Grue learned to be a friend to a Unicorn as she was. So can you. Unicorns are not just for the young, they're for calling forth the wonder that still lies in everyone. :)
Cottage core definitely influenced me and I my world is forever changed. I now knit and sew my own clothes. I love learning historical techniques and also using natural fibers. Though it may go out of fashion, it is unlikely to ever fully leave my wardrobe.
Because now people are back to having to go to work, they ain't got time for doing handcrafts, tending to gardens, baking foods, etc. It's a subculture that requires free time. Also, online trends are always a revolving door.
If there was a poc that would embody the cottagecore aesthetic, it would be Orange Blossom from Strawberry Shortcake, and Tiana from the princess and the frog.
I'm sad to hear that it's on the decline but it will always be important to me. I developed fibromyalgia about 4 years ago and before diagnosis I was in pain, and felt frustrated and deeply depressed. Having the escapism of cottagecore helped pull me out of a kind of dark time. I remember listening to the album "diamond day" by vashti bunyan on repeat, and dreaming of the little cottage garden I wanted to grow in my small yard. It really brought me a lot of hope in what felt like a hopeless time.
Same! I'm a very depressed person, and creativity and escapism is my way not to hurt myself. Though cottagecore is very far from my reality living in a latin-american country, it makes me so happy because it has everything that makes me feel better. Caring for my pets and the garden in my small house is my little piece of happiness in the boring, sad life I live. So daydreaming of a place where my cats could enjoy a bigger garden full of beautiful flowers, have more animals to care for, dedicate my life for them and the plants, be able to build and decorate my own cottage, and maybe live there with a dream man that shared these same passions and that respected and accepted me and the nature that surrounds us... It's my heaven. It's something I dreamed of since I was little cuz of the fairy tale books my mom would read to me when I was little. Cottagecore just showed me that more people probably shared these same innocent, almost childlike dreams. I never saw it as exclusive to white women, I think all of us who are poc, and also men and LGBTQ+ people can dream of it too. A way more beautiful version of our world, that unfortunately only exists in our dreams... Or our art!
That means it's not on the decline for YOU and all those who still love it. They can say it's a downfall but don't all styles come and go? I don't know why they are making a big deal of it. (it wouldn't be a nearly 30 minute long video if they didn't think it wasn't a big deal) and if you love it keep doing it.
The "cottage core" and slow living UA-cam videos I watch are mostly an escapism for me. I know that living in a rural cottage and working to support yourself is hard in real life. But with my high anxiety and daily stress, I truly enjoy getting a small break from my hectic life. When these ladies talk about intentional living and allowing grace for yourself to make mistakes, it reminds me to give myself breaks, to occasionally just slow down and breathe. I've learned some helpful tips to destress from these ladies, like sitting on the porch with a cup of tea or just lighting a bunch of candles and listening to soft music while reading a good book. Maybe the aesthetic is not fashionable anymore, which is fine by me because I've never cared for fashion anyways. But I will continue to consume the content so long as it's available, because I feel like it's improved my overall state of mind and mental health. I'm here for the hygge of it all. LOL
I'm so glad I fell into the cottagecore bandwagon. Aesthetics aside, the homesteading skills that make real cottagecore work are the cheat code to surviving inflation.
Honestly, it is thanks to cottagecore that I took on gardening as a hobbie. Unfortunately, I don't have much time for gardening anymore due to my working hours, but I it was a nice and fulling feeling to see my tomatoes grow and to make pesto with the basil I grew, even if it took a lot of patience and hard work.
You missed one of the most important aspects of cottagecore coming to prominence: the pandemic. Overwhelming anxiety, a mistrust in large corporations (especially in relation to food), and being cut completely off from the standard flow of life were the ingredients to this fantasy coming into the public consciousness. Not going to work led to people trying to fill the hours, and many turned to sewing, baking, knitting, there was even a handwashing clothes on a washboard moment as people tried to cure their boredom. After the panicked runs on supplies (i remember the toilet paper shortage of 2020) there was inflation and price gouging, and there came a visceral concern about food accessibility. The spread of bird flu and resulting flock cullings in 2021 and 2022 made eggs especially scarce and expensive, which turned many to keeping their own small flock of chickens or getting to know someone who does. Then, especially in the US, many people were stuck in tiny downtown apartments as a disease was allowed to run rampant through major cities as a means of political vengeance. To the queer cottagecore folk, this policy sounded dreadfully familiar. The terror and cabin fever made the call of open spaces extremely appealing, suburban housing prices skyrocketed as people left downtown in search of room to pace around. The ultimate version of that dream was a little house with a lot of open land to run around in. It all added up to the vision of picking berries, kneading dough for bread and frolicking through fields filling the world's daydreams. And in the face of this adversity, people made these daydreams a little more real, if only to make the shutdown a little more bearable and their 100 square feet a little more enjoyable to be in. I remember the discourse around the ethos of cottagecore in respect to the rise of "plantation-core," and though those forces never were fully stomped out, the aesthetic movement has not fully ceded to anti-feminism and the "tradition" of control. Cottagecore's decline was inevitable, as is the fate of every trend. The world opened up, jobs demanded people return to work in person, and we've all tried to erase the emotional distress of that entire debacle from our minds. The stressors that made the fantasy appealing lifted, and the free time to hand-knead dough or hand-wash clothing was gone. The inevitable profiteering off of the aesthetic came, and soon after the trad-wife propaganda, and plenty of people moved on to the next trend or concern. But there's still a sizable and active community carrying the torch for the ideals of slow fashion, food accessibility, and generally enjoying life at an analog pace.
More and more finding the word "work" subjective... men (erm "men" asterisk) are the most work, but in the way of a hamster wheel... and hamsters only do that bc their cage is too small... its anxiety. Cottage core coincided with 4 b movemnt . Coincidence, nah.
The appeal of Cottagecore hasnt changed or gone anywhere, not listening to what strangers on the internet want to dictate about it is easier than one might think.
My husband and I both grew up with the hard work - he grew up on his grandfathers farm and I worked for 4 years on a horse ranch. We both desperately want the farm/homesteading lifestyle, and I definitely relate to the basis of the cottagecore movement, but you're right - it and homesteading have become a symbol of wealth. We live in what was previously a low housing cost area, but the last few years a bunch of people moved here from big cities to "homestead". The thing is, they have no idea what it actually entails (I've literally seen someone who had bought a homestead ask how to grow a tomato...), and a lot of them have already gone back to where they came from, having given up, but they raised all of the prices to the point where we can no longer afford it. I've sat and cried so many times because I want so badly to have my own garden and fresh eggs and a nice big pantry full of food, and people chasing the aesthetic have ruined it. I do my best in my little apartment yard, but it's just not the same.
My grandfather was a farmer. He was very cottagecore and my grandmother was a very traditional 50's housewife. I spent a lot of time out in the fields with him, or in the kitchen helping make jams and sauces with grandma. Pa taught me woodworking. Gram taught me sewing. Pa taught me to chop wood. Gram taught me to bake. So very many evenings spent on the front porch with him, cutting bushels of beans to be canned, or shucking corn to be dried white we watched the fire flies wake up and rise up over the fields. This is why I loved cottagecore. It was nostalgia to times when my grandpa was alive and when I learned so many new things. I have a lot of trauma associated with my grandma, but I do still treasure the times when she taught me skills and the times we sat for tea after school, rather than the time she tried to teach me that I belong in the kitchen, shouldn't have a job, or that if a man beat me it was because I wasn't good enough, despite leaving her first husband because he beat her. But my grandfather. He's such a great man. Yes he was a grumpy old man, but he was also goofy and funny and had a passion for his work. He told me he believed in me and anything I wanted to do. He told I needed a good set of cast iron cookware because if a man ever laid a hand on me, I could use it to knock his teeth out. I don't want to be a farmer or a house wife. I'm not cut out for. Homesteading sounds exhausting. I will never be a traditional 50's woman, nor do I ever want to be. The dresses are hella cute though. I still love the cottagecore aesthetic. I don't want to live off the land, but I want lots of garden space to put into practice the things Pa taught me. I don't want a bunch of farm animals, but a few chickens would make me happy. I don't have the energy for a farm life, but I want a small piece of it to tend, in memory of the greatest man I've ever known. I love eating things I grew myself. I have a cabinet full of herbs I grew and dried. I have tinctures and teas. My apple tree finally produced enough apples to make apple butter this year. I know how to spin wool into yarn I can weave and crochet and sew. I know all the forgeable plants in my area. I love to go on long walks in the fields, woods and beaches. Simple cozy and nice. I am not neat and thin and pretty and clean. I'm messy and cubby and pretty and sometimes covered in dirt. I don't want the impossible. I want my tiny corner to dream in as I pick berries and plant flowers. On the other hand, I am a tech addict. It's hard to build a simple cozy space of old world style peace while also having all the tech. My partner keeps laughing at me about how my tastes clash. So what if I want a goth, medieval, techno punk modern, traditional, minimalist, packed to the brim house? Give me a hobbit hole and a cyberpunk dystopian garage.
@@Nyxnius i repeat, snow white has NOTHING to do with cottagecore. Do not associate that dumpster fire with the aesthetic, because it is vastly different.
@@Pucx-ju7qc you're talking about the live action only right? because snow white as in snow white the character literally lives in a cottage, makes her own food from scratch and tends the garden. oh and also pets the wild animals
there’s also the separation between farm cottagecore and forest-y cottagecore. the expectations are both very unrealistic but in different ways. people who live in the woods are just trying to make sure the bugs & bears don’t eat them lmao. and you wanted a garden? in a lot of places you’re going to have to bring soil in for a raised garden because you started digging and it’s just- rock under that very thin layer of soil. i was told we were moving to the woods and thought i could have the cottagecore life, but- nope. at least i’ll still be able to wear the pretty dresses for one fifth of the year when the bugs aren’t devouring us & the snow isn’t up to our asses 😬👍
I have an acquaintance that lives in the forest who tells me that bears keep to themselves, most of the time. Sometimes there are yard sightings, but mostly not.
@@Ashandonyx it depends on where you are! some places have more bears, some have less, they’re mostly chill though if they’re black bears. i’m personally more excited to see moose. they’re so cool.
@@Ashandonyx Can confirm. Bears aren't a common sight in any one place in my area. Usually, you just see the aftermath of one digging through your trash.
I love how thoughtful your video was! You are so right to point out that it's not fair to make fun of someone for wanting to change their life when their current situation is miserable. And even if someone did go out and try to live a true cottagecore fantasy and fail at it because they realize it's way harder than they ever expected, that still has value. They experience something new and they learned and they grew from that. And even if someone only uses it as a fantasy to bring them comfort and joy, it's really horrible to tell someone that they shouldn't have that joy in their life. I respect the way you thoroughly examined this aesthetic while still being kind.
Cottagecore is not about cottages at all. It's escapism, a dream of a girl who wants to be a princess instead of a student working minimum wage. Cottagecore doesn't need to be real, it's something we just daydream of. It's up to you to decide whether you want escapism or not
I live the "perfect cottagecore life", so to say. My life is similar to yours, but instead of sheep, it's cows on my neighbour's field. There is also multiple oat fields around me, two being very near to my yard. I don't yet have my own chickens, but I will. I also love pretty dresses. BUT. Those pretty dresses aren't worn when I'm working, as I don't want to tear or dirty the pretty dresses.
Having been raised in rural West Virginia and the rural Rocky Mountains, cottagecore sounded, to me, like more city slickers ignoring the fact that rural people have problems. Rural areas have a higher mortality rate, more poverty, higher rates of domestic abuse, and higher rates of suicide. I grew up in a 90 year old house that constantly needed repairs. I saw people work themselves to the bone and barely make end's meet. From the outset, I didn't like the idea of cottagecore. But as I learned more about psychology, I stopped hating it so much. Humans romanticize something very different from their current circumstances as a coping mechanism. A lot of people into cottagecore have had trauma this helps them cope with. It's a silly dream. So is my dream of living in the Star Trek universe. It's just that since I'm a guy and Trek fans are largely male, we don't get dragged online like an overwhelmingly feminine group like cottagecore enthusiasts.
I think cottage core became fairy core and tradlife. It kinda split into two or more different categories, one that’s more southern 60s farm life and another that’s medieval irish fae. I don’t know if all of the evolutions are still as harmful when you dig deeper but it’s still pretty to look at
I was a cottage core fan for the longest time I have always liked the views and beauty of the pictures in them. I live I similar life of cottage core. Except its more modern. I like vintage and cottage core just for the looks. I never wanted to deep root myself into it because I too saw the flaws. And they crashed down sooner than I thought.
The good parts of cottagecore reminded me a lot of Studio Ghibli and the long scenes of their movies that focus on characters cleaning, cooking, or doing laundry; yes, finding joy in the simple pleasures of life like a clean workspace or good home-cooked food is an important part of the human experience. But also, let's maybe not play right into glorifying a past that never existed.
Yeah unfortunately you picked an aesthetic that romanticises an idyllic past that never actually existed. And unfortunately, like moths to a lightbulb, romanticisation of an idyllic but ultimately fictitious past attracts n@zis, it's a delusion that's kinda something foundational to their beliefs. Yeah unfortunate that happened to ya, but just try to live life and make space for other people who feel excluded.
If you take a break from the internet you suddenly realize those voices aren't motivated enough to come tell you in person. Be discerning; their angle may seem convincing at first but your heart will tell you if it's true or not.
cottage core, like kid core or weirdcore is a way of escapism imagining to be out in nature a fairytale land; wanting to be where you cant hence why it was so popular during 2020- 2022 we were stuck inside longing to be outside
I don't want to be a trad wife, I want to live in a mushroom house that is bigger on the inside than the outside. I want to be barefoot without getting parasites or stubbed toes. I wish to subsist off of bread, wine, cheese, fruit, and vegetable stew. I want to ride around on a giant fox. I don't want to go back to the past. I want to live as a gnome or hobbit in middle earth... I'm don't want pretty clothes. I'm going for the Baba Yaga look. I'm a little too old to frolic in sundresses. No, a house on top of a giant chicken foot in the creepy part of the woods is where I'm going to want to be. I'd also like it if the cookware cooked the food, and then washed itself. Indoor plumbing is a must. And lots of critters, (but no children). 🦔🍄
This is one if not the one aesthetic where im not sure how nobody saw the alt right pipeline slinking through the grass. Its not the only element. But that venomous binch sure is there.
Honestly, if cottagecore is on the decline, I say good. Not because I hate it, but because I like it. I just don't care for seeing all these niche aesthetics being comodified into cheap fast fashion goods.
A lot of these "critical" videos don't seem to understand that a cottage is not the same thing as a farm. Cottages typically don't come with a lot of land and most people who own (renovated) cottages these days are the type of people who enjoy gardening as a hobby and consider the fruits and vegetables they harvest as an addition to their meals, not the main event. And then you also have cottages that are used as weekend houses, guest houses or summer houses (especially the ones that are not renovated and therefor lack insulation and proper heating). And that's exactly the vibe I get from cottagecore - people with city jobs who come to their cottage on weekends or during the summer vacation or on their "work from home" days and cosplay rural life.
That's called having a vacation home. Cottagecore? More like I have the money to afford two residences and no need to do laundry or chores on the weekends in my city home.
I think cottagecore popularity was replaced with hobbitcore, fairycore and things with medieval or witchy themes, generally speaking more fantasy related. But that's what it kinda was - the fantasy of living a life of a cute peasant girl in the very nice fantasy setting. I also mentioned 'witchy' bc green witchcraft/herbalist aesthetically is not far from it imo, but without this little toxic presentation on femininity. Also hobbitcore seems like less feminine version of cottagecore, with whimsical rurality and no focus on doing the hard work, and it avoids problems with historical events behind the aesthetic.
Not sure if I would consider myself cottagecore, but I love the idea of having a few hens and maybe a small garden. I want to be able to have food I can share with my neighbors and foster a community!
I liked cottagecore because I thought everyone thought of it the same as me (I was not online, just pinterest really), and then I heard about teh strawberry cow thing and I was like wow I hate this. To me cottagecore reminded me of the summers working on the family farm. The days we werent working outside my cousins and I would run around in the woods and play make believe and play dress up in the old clothes upstairs. Those days arent as frequent as they used to be as our family gets older and some of the land had to sold after a death in the family, so cottagecore kind of took me back to the feeling I used to have. I miss that feeling that the woods and fields felt so big and endless
As someone who was involved in cottagecore from the tumblr days and am currently in the process of actually buying and moving to a rural property (which btw, takes YEARS to acheive financially) I loved the analysis and have some thoughts for anyone who cares to read it... - I think it faced many of the same problems every trend does, the "mainstream" version is only the most marketable aspect and has little loyalty to the original concepts. This is unfortunately inevitable of all art that gets popular - Specifically relating to sapphic women... cottagecore is a reclaim. Similar to "high femme" fashion. The lesbians and bisexual women who were at the forefront KNEW they were claiming old school things which were never meant for them, were not accessible to queer women of the past and were doing this BECAUSE of that. Because now women CAN own land, and tend it with their wives or girlfriends as they see fit. Its not unaware of the irony, its a direct rebellion against the idea that women can only be feminine when subservient to a man. - When straight women joined the game... the whole trad wife thing was inevitable as they often dont understand this intricacy of the previous point. Wealthy, traditional, Christian women aren't doing anything unique or rebellious by baking on their homestead. They're doing exactly what they've been asked to do through generations of, lets say "difficult" times. There's no longer a unique aesthetic or rebellion or art here. - Nothing is intrisically wrong with wanting a rural lifestyle, for people of any social status. And there's nothing wrong with being cute online while you do it. I honestly think a lot of the backlash is silly. The lifestyle IS a lot of work, but at this point most people could use a little hard work with their hands that yields for themselves. - Most modern homesteaders irl have day jobs, btw. They're not doing it "instead" of the "grind" they're doing it in ADDITION. Sometimes they're also farming the land they're living on for money, but they're almost never really "escaping." This is where the fantasy shatters for most in my experience.
People don't want to actually farm and bake. They want to be rich enough to hire people to do it for them! And I haven't seen many cottagecore images in the winter. They don't want the lifestyle, they want the resort experience.
I always wondered to myself, "But who's cleaning up after all those animals in the background and scattering their composted crap into that garden? Who's getting up before dawn to milk the cows, collect the eggs, weed the garden, and chop the firewood JUST to get breakfast started? Don't these women realize they'll get ticks and chiggers if they skip through that tall grass in a short dress? Where are their hiking boots????" I didn't LIVE in the country, but my uncle's family owns vast tracts of the sticks outside Columbia, SC, and we used to visit every other weekend during deer season. Even with indoor plumbing and electricity, the vibe was more feral than whimsical. Brother and I were never at any point allowed to frolic in the many meadows due to mountain lions and copperheads being everywhere. My uncle would leave the house at 5 am on a Saturday, then holler for brother and I around 7 am to come outside and help him dress the squirrels he caught for breakfast. (Pretty okay with eggs, but navigating the bones and bb pellets kinda sucks.) And the quaint, antique cast iron stove in the living room quit being so cute when I was big enough to chop firewood. And for fuqsake, wear tube socks so you can tuck your jeans into them - keeps the ticks out. But the hikes through the woods, learning to fish in Cedar Creek, being able to see every constellation clearly on a crystal-cold Christmas Eve, watching the local bat colony take flight on a summer's twilight - just the absolute wildness a stone's throw away from civilization. It's messy and hard, but irreplaceable.
The rococo inspiration is not surprising. Cottage core has been around for centuries (going by different names and coming in and out of style as fashion does), but it is most prevelant during the 17th in the “return to nature” movement which inspired a lot of royals, nobles, people, ect to “go back to nature”, to dream about cottages, flowy billowing dresses and pictures farms and such. Much like modern day cottage core.
I got tired of cottage core because its the same picture over and over again. The same fashion style, same people, nothing different to help make the aesthetic live.
Cottage core is to the lib-left what trad wife is to the Auth-right. It's essentially the same thought approached from two completely different starting points
Seeing cottage core influencers made me think of my mom's generation in the midwest - who love - let's call it "cabin core", where many things look rustic, and some things are just there because, well just because. This means fake fireplaces, candles and lanterns, woodsy trinkets on shelves and mantles or hung from walls, mysterious fake flowers and garland or ribbons here and there, furniture that has no discernible era or culture some of which can't be sat on or is just for placing pretty things on, decorative plates in glass door cupboards that are never used for eating, pillows never used for resting and blankets never used for comfort, etc. Most things need to be made of wood or at least have earthy and green tones, and they must look functional but not actually function. My grandma on the other hand - and her peers - were the authentic generation. There were no such decorations and the pretty dresses were only for church.
there is something ironic about romantasing rural Europe and just... making it all about how women are delaced, when in reality in rural areas everybody had to do hard manual work to survive Like these women used to work with animals and on fields all the time as well as doing a lot of other hard manual labor (and a lot of them were treated horribly), do you honestly think that they would look like some aristocrats?
It always kind of struck me as a rose-tinted nostalgia like in the Twilight Zone episode where a man unhappy with his life in the 1950s daydreams after an argument with his boss on his train ride home he finds the train took him to Willoughby, a small town where it's always summer and the year is 1888, everyone is friendly, it's an idyllic, quaint little Victorian town.
"did you pick an outfit out of the clothes ive showed you?" not me wearing the same graphic tees i wore in high school bc they still fit (read: why throw them out?)... haha... i _might_ have a dress that fits the description, with frilly little sleeves. i like wearing it bc it makes me feel pretty (for my own sake, not anyone else's), and bc my legs are freed. but it lacks the long skirt (though it still swirls), and is a real nice summer dress, short-sleeved and patterned with white and rich blue and green. and i didnt go out and buy that dress. i found it in my closet. probably a gift from long ago, when i was a teen. Can also concur that homegrown produce is a lot of work. if you want your plants to live, you better be prepared to go out and water them every day, maybe even twice a day, in Texas summer so they dont perish horribly! and in the winter, youll have to carefully cover some of them up or bring them inside so the freezes dont kill them (and im not talking about nice pots that fit in your hand, either. im talking big, heavy pots that are more like storage containers filled with soil). some of your plants, especially trees, wont bear fruit for years after you plant them (and the first crops of trees tend to be small and not tasty. they gotta start somewhere). and, since my house is near the forest (very nice for seeing lots of birds!), you have to work overtime to keep all the hungry squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, and possums out of your produce, bc they will rush in and yank them green off the branch and suddenly your whole harvest is gone. and weeding. so. much. weeding. weeding is your life now. the more gardens you have, the more weeds you have. and those weeds dont give a damn that its over 100F outside--theyre gonna keep on growing and growing and growing, laughing in your face, and you must go out there and sit in the mosquitoes and blazing sun to at least thin them out so they dont choke out your produce. speaking of bugs, youre gonna get a lot of wasps, hornets, and fire ant mounds in addition to the cute bees (oh, and black widows, if youre lucky. if you obtain land near undeveloped land, be sure to look before you leap wherever there is tall grass!). and if you want to draw birds to your yard and have them stick around, youre going to need to set out feeders, buy birdseed and suet and refill those feeders, sometimes set out cut oranges for the jays and hand-mix sugar water for the hummingbirds (sugar water also has to regularly be changed). plus, raccoons and squirrels are also very fond of birdseed, so you need to keep an eye on your feeders or else all that money you spent on birdseed is gonna end up in a single critter's stomach. it's taken two decades for my family's efforts, sometimes literally, to bear fruit--we've struggled to keep two mulberry trees alive for years, and only now are they producing a large enough crop that we have some to eat in after all the birds gorge themselves on them (birds love mulberries. if you want birds, get a mulberry tree lol. not hating on birds here; it's really exciting to see all the birds finally able to eat them). but now we have mulberries (with one tree flourishing so much its most recent crop was too much for both birds and humans to eat, so a lot of berries fell to the ground from ripeness), persimmons, and asian pears that are all finally growing in sweet and plump. we harvest way too many cherry tomatoes to eat on our own. and we have our own chives and rosemary (no realizing you need to go to the store in the middle of cooking to get some bc you ran out! also, our rosemary bush is out of control lmao). and, under the bird feeders, some dropped, uneaten sunflower seeds have grown into beautiful sunflower stalks, which, btw, birds (and squirrels lol) love bc they can just sit on the strong stems and eat the seeds right from the flowers. we can also get a lot of hummingbirds in our yard at once when its migration season (there used to be so many of them that my sister and i would call it the 'hummingbird wars' bc hummingbirds guard their food sources, but it's kinda hard to properly guard a feeder with multiple openings when you have an entire cloud of other thirsty hummingbirds to fight off! so much angry hummingbird chirping). basically, you get out what you put in!
Does anyone remember the Natural/Mori Kei trend? 👀 I feel like it was the OG cottagecore, at least as far as internet-modern fashion trends go. Although it was very similar to cottagecore in that it was based in a very Eurocentric fairytale vibe, it was originally a Japanese street style. It never gained huge traction, but it was definitely popular on tumblr during the early 2010’s. And was much more diverse than cottagecore in so many ways. I still vibe with it tbh ✌️
I'm a straight woman who loves cottagecore aesthetics because it reminds me of a happy time. I can get more used to the cozy cottage aesthetic than this modern minimalist aesthetic
cottagecore and colonialism is something I never EVER associated bc I live in europe and my grandmother was poor and ignorant and the only thing she could do was farming, without oppressing anyone. her house was small but tidy and her workday was infinite. the cottagecore vids you showed in this video are not the ones I watch, I watch her 82m2 and hannah lee duggan and I don't think I'll ever be tired of them. I think those other creators are losing viewers bc what they sell is an aesthetic, and people simply grow out of that.
If I had one sentence to describe cores/aesthetic, I would say that over time, everything transforms into a cycle of commercialization, sexualization, idealization, and politicization, stripping away all positive aspects and highlighting the difficulty of maintaining authenticity in a consumer-driven world
I still like a lot of the things about cottagecore, but I think it always meant something different to me than it meant to a lot of other people... It reminded me of growing up in Alaska. My best friends were natives. I had a garden, and it took a lot of work. I had to chop wood so I wouldn't freeze in winter. I realize my vision is kind of in the midpoint between cottagecore and cabincore; instead of a farm, it's a cabin deep in the woods with a garden. The labor it takes to achieve that lifestyle isn't brushed aside and hidden, but celebrated. Berrypicking and canning and baking is a big deal, but instead of picking fruit and having chickens, there's hunting and fishing. Unfortunately, this vision still can't escape colonialism... It still only works on stolen land, no matter how badly I wish that weren't the case. Twenty years ago, I had to move into a city outside of Alaska. It's a constant bombardment of noise and pressure to conform. I'm constantly overstimulated and I feel so disconnected from nature that I've had breakdowns over it. My version of cottagecore is... going home.
Both the visual art and writing in this video were beautifully done. I love this series, especially because your insight and analysis are so engaging! Keep up the great work!
Cottage core always made me think of the stuff that was popular when I was a kid, like Holly Hobbie. Colonial style was really popular due to the bicentennial in 1976, big chunky wood furniture, stuff like that. I guess it cycles in and out during every generation.
Its so sad how a aesthetic and movement started by queer people is once again being taken away by the people who hate the people of who started its rise to popularity in the first place :’(
I wasn't aware Cottagecore was started by queer people. I knew it had become popular with LGBTQ+ crowds, specifically sapphic ones, due to the nature of it, but I didn't know it was queer in origin.
@@stellalittlepastelworld5433 your moviment took over many franchises and ruined with your identity politics and when you try to make something for yourselves it flops hard like concord.
Fast-fashion intrudes on the market for every subculture and aesthetic. It's not just about the base price of some of the indie brands -which are expensive on their own. Some countries charge a lot of money before they'll let your order pass through customs. So if your country's dollar value is weak, you're hit in the wallet twice. I hate to say it, but Shein and companies like it make styles accessible. Particularly if they have a distribution center in the country the customer is living in.
I feel like you're not fair to Marie Antoinette (or probably any celebrity) here. She was a trapped women in the end. The need for cottage core stems from the pressure and stress of life... of course even rich people/academics etc can feel the need to indulge in a fantasy and to go back to human's natural roots.
That's true. Many nobels tended to feel trapped, even in their lives that looked so amazing from the outside. They had to learn how to be perfect already at a young age, were introduced to dance balls very early and it was family that introduced the children to each other and family that judged the perfect suitor as well as judging how other family members behaved. Marriage was also a strategic thing! So children were married off to a different nobel family if one nobel family wanted to maintain a good relationship to that other family and so on. Catherine the Great's childhood was hard and Empress Elisabeth of Austria's too. Having children was a really important duty too, because they needed successors and many children more often than not died even in their early years of life and often the children weren't raised by the woman of the house either, but by other women that worked there. Of course others made sure to maintain their connection to their children more, though it wasn't easy. There has always been a sort of disconnect in understanding though between different social classes. We tend to misunderstand people from higher social classes as much as they tend to misunderstand us
honestly i didn't realize people thought of cottagecore as more of an idyllic fantasy aesthetic until recently. i've always associated it with things like getting dirt under my fingernails from gardening, growing and cooking my own food, and getting buff from farming and such but with a lot of whimsy thrown in. i'm currently an agriculture major with a horticulture concentration and a farmhand, and i'm getting my start on that life and i'm having a lot of fun doing it
this video is an analysis of the cottagecore aesthetic and it's decline in popularity - NOT a hit piece on the lifestyle btw! there's a poll right now on my channel where you can pick which aesthetic we will be talking about next, so make sure to vote and subscribe!
@@juno_moth At the end of the day an aesthetic is only "dead" if you let it be
I mean it's only a trend for those that are into it just because it was trendy, for some people this is how they like stuff
it's actually based on 40s german war propaganda, that's where the men are, all away at war. hence the white blonde women? germany was famous for its milk maids at the time?
The irony of the video being interrupted by a shein ad will never be lost to me
Agreed
Cottagecore should be replaced with something like “primalcore”!
@@MarshalMarrs-eu9yhidk what that means, but it brings forth images of living amongst the apes in trees. And I could get on board with that.
@@thegirlwiththecurlyhair “Primalcore”is an aesthetic that takes inspiration from the upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.
One of my add breaks eas one for orgsnic farmed food...after the bit about the non glamerous parts of farming
Cottage core is what you make of it, if you’re sitting looking at aesthetic images you will find a bunch of women who look the same taking beautiful pictures. If you’re searching groups for people learning how to preserve, forage, sew crops in their garden etc you will find people also into cottagecore who have the same interest with a variety of bodies and appearances.They just want to live a life where they have control and the ability to own something they make and be efficient even if it’s harder work because they’re so tired of being slaved for min wage
Right! Getting tired of people saying things are exclusive to a race. If you dont see anyone like you doing it. Be the first and enjoy it, don't sit there complaining. No one is stopping you
yea! this is how I always saw it and still see it, also for me even tho I don't rly dress cottage core or anything the fairy fantastical aspect is important, foraging for mushrooms and having tea party's with the fae now that sounds good
@michellehuxtable5720 agree! It’s so funny to me how the people who are so vocal about racism seem to be the most biased about race lol I had to leave a facebook group a few years ago because of it, like every had to be racially judged. A guy posted a pic of him in his wedding and people were talking about how they hope it wasn’t from a racist group…. Just because the guy was whiter than paper and his head was completely shaved. Mind you, the dude was marrying a person who wasn’t white. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This is exactly it though I will say most people who were genuinely preoccupied with preservation, foraging and self sufficiently were never calling it cottage core in the first place, I live with my husband in a cottage thats well over 200 years old, apart from the electric everything is off grid, we own 4 acres and between the house, the land and the animals its constant upkeep, hard work, learning and balance.
The moment you start seeing someone who's main content is filming ducklings in a sink with rose petals that was a good indicator it's all for aesthetics and fake, I own ducks myself...the reality is they shit every 2 seconds lol. I know exactly how quick they had to be to film that whimsical footage unless they intentionally didnt feed them first. As for tradwives the majority of them would lose all interest if the internet broke because they're not doing it for their husbands their doing it for the validation and attention they seek online.
Oh ill also add most farmers like myself wear about one to two outfits all week and don't wash every day lol it is not spending hours a day filming yourself doing your hair, wearing fancy dresses in the garden and putting your husbands dinner on the table for thousands of TikTok followers to see lol.
@@michellehuxtable5720I wouldn’t say it’s complaining, just pointing it out. It’s not fair to invalidate their experiences as being a minority in a space that isn’t historically catered to minorities.
I remember a Pinterest comment on a cottagecore post that was like : yall bitches wannabe cottagecore so bad but hate insects, the weather, getting dirty and doing manual labor and having to deal with no electricity and strong odors 😭😭😭
As someone who is from rural "traditional" country i must say this type of life is the exact opposite of beautiful. You won't look glamorous cleaning cow's shit for a day or castrating your pigs 😂 my granny was a farm woman and things she told about this type of life were WILD absolutely insane.
There’s a road I have to take to get to school everyday and it’s lined with ranches. half the time it smells like feces lol.
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y'all, it's called cottagecore, not farmcore. There's rich people buying pretty cottages in the countryside for the aesthetic but they don't have to deal with any labor :(
I dont recognize cow manure smell anymore.
pigs and chickens are different thing.
When we were kids back in the late '80s, my dad read the 'Little House on the Prairie' books series to us every day and that inspired him to move out of the city to start a farm. My brother, sister and I were thrilled at the idea of living on a farm "just like the Ingles!". At the time, dad was an engineer and a total city boy - so any sort of nature seemed like the right place for a farm. So dad bought 10 acres that looked green. Turned out to be marshland... a swamp... a very creepy swamp.
Us kids were pretty disappointed because it was very spooky and unsettling - there were thousands of caterpillars in most of the trees making weaving massive silk webs wrapped around every branch - so much silk webbing it looked like fake Halloween decorations on huge sections of our tree line. Maybe you can imagine *THAT IS PRETTY CREEPY WHEN YOU ARE A 5 YEAR OLD* but dad was completely unphased. My mom probably told us not to complain because we almost certainly did, but dad was determined to make the investment worth it. In case you don't know... marshland is not quite farmland. In most swamps there are extra frogs, mosquitos, way more spiders, fungus, moss, lichen, slimy green algae in our "pond", muck & clay in the lowlands, gravel in the highlands... very little fertile soil.
Dad got a tractor and plowed the higher elevation into a field and had to buy fertile soil from another farm to cover 5 acres. Then he built a goat pen, chicken coup & put up fences. We had two or three successful crop harvests before the family doctors warned my mom there was *way too much arsenic in our diets!* Mom was alarmed and got soil samples and did some research. Turns out our land was previously used for drilling for oil and was full of chemicals from all the rigs & drilling apparatus that were previously on the land. Nice. So we stopped growing normal crops since they couldn't be sold or eaten safely.
For us kids our family farm fantasy didn't really work out but my sister and I eventually lost our fear of frogs, snakes, spiders and genuinely enjoyed searching for the ugliest insects we could find. I still remember feeling disappointed that the idealized farm we had imagined from 'Little House' wasn't going ever happen- but we did learn over the years how to appreciate huge spiders, millipedes, crawfish, crayfish, caterpillars, and together with all the pumpkins, mushrooms, more spiders, bats and huge moths, our marshland version of "cottage core" is more like Halloween season any time there isn't snow on the ground. For that reason I am actually pretty happy how things turned out.
Halloween season is now my favorite and we get extra of that. I also love the spooky and profound things of nature and find real beauty in that now- that is very likely because of growing up in a place that is so rather profoundly spooky, even during the daytime. Thankfully the caterpillar webs in the trees were not as bad after first 3 years and now happens only occasionally. That was a bit much. Even though our picturesque farmland fantasy didn't exactly work out- it was still an extraordinary experience.
Oh, I've read that book. Glad to find someone got inspired by it to try the farming life. Sorry it was too toxic to plant on it though.
Bit shit they didn’t tell your dad the history of the land, you could have gotten all hurt
It’s kind of ironic that your idealized vision was the Ingles homestead cause aside from the first book, the majority of their experiences are pretty close to yours of moving to a new plot, coming across hardship, nearly starving, then moving on to a new plot. They faced fever, locusts, blizzards, etc not to mention the reason they left their first home was because of it being so wooded they relied primarily on hunting rather than farming and had to leave when more people started moving near them because the woods were over hunted.
What a cool story! Bugs, snakes, mud and scary forests sound like a great setting for childhood.
Yeah when you read children's books about it or play games like Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, it seems like it's all so simple and easy. For any life decision as big as that, you really need to do your research - owning a farm is a lot of work, it's constant work, and you get things like diseases and pests in animals and crops, the weather ruining things in a variety of ways, and a bunch of other things you just don't know about if you've never tried it yourself. Having watched some UA-cam videos of 'modern homesteaders' like the Dutch Farmer, there's a lot of things you need to take into account that I never would have thought of.
So if you couldn't grow regular crops on that land, but you still stayed there, what did you end up doing with it?
My idea of cottagecore was a pretty princess hidden away in a cottage with a lovely garden, Sleeping Beauty caused this mindset, and wishing for something like this
Precisely! Or Barbie’s cottage in The Diamond Castle.
Marie Antoinette
@@adrianen4644 ahhh I absolutely loved that film!
You have to take car of the garden and animals that come with it , so you better pike insects
@@SieMiezekatze I can handle doing a little garden, not sure if I can handle the animals part which is why I wouldn't get animals because it wouldn't be fair to the animals if I genuinely can't care for them
I do not understand the need for a "core" for everything. Just do what you like. I live out in the country with chickens, goats, and a small garden. It is tough sometimes, cause I am also a full time college STEM student so I have a hard time getting out there sometimes. Another thing, is that its a lot of work and money. Plants die, animals get sick, you have to buy their food every 2 weeks or so. But I love it. The sun brighten my freckles and the animals follow me around everywhere.
Life is hard, its not aesthetic at all. So just do you, boo :)
i think these aesthetics are more so a form of escapism, which is why theyre purposefully unrealistic. the point is moreso to romanticize certain aspects of life, removing the hardships that come with it in this fictional setting. people want to daydream about the freedom and beauty of living in a cute cottage surrounded by nature without having to put in the physical labor to actually maintain such a lifestyle
The "core" part is, I think, mostly inspiration and a form of escapism. Yeah, sure, just do what you like. But it's fun to have a community, to be able to talk to and exchange ideas with people who enjoy the same stuff as you. The "core" part just makes it easier to find these types of people. It's no different than goth people labeling themselves as such to show their music tadte, world views and fashion preferences or clubs being founded for people who share a hobby. Same idea, different label.
Oh, psychologists actually have an explanation for that. When you're insecure about what you like, you seek extrinsic validation from others. Part of that is tying what you like to a group or movement. Instead of just being some person, you become part of a group, and therefore can feel secure in what you like. What you like must be good, because a group likes it. Hence everything being a -core. You're not a lone weirdo who likes old stuff, you're dark academia core. You're not a loser into the countryside, you're cottagecore. Etc, etc.
It's linked to Gen Z's deep-seated fear of being anything other than normal. Millennials and late Gen X viewed being weird as individualism and good. Gen Z views it as the worst thing you can possibly be. So any time an insecure member of Gen Z likes something that might be unusual, their mind rushes to find a way to view it as normal or part of a group. That way there's no risk of being unusual and thus uncool and thus lose validation and approval by their peers.
Everything has to be part of an aesthetic. Otherwise it's just you. And if you're not confident in yourself, that idea is daunting.
Core simply refers to the group nature of the aesthetic. Having a fantasy is more fun when you're doing it with friends.
@@morganqorishchi8181 I don't think it's a gen z thing lol, people get into religions since forever. What's particular about this is, since religion is falling and individualism is rising, it's becoming harder and harder to be part of a "group" (a human need, since we are social animals), so we end up grouping ourselves in basis of what we like (be it a -core, a fandom or a hobby). It's just human nature. it's normal.
I feel like goblincore is the answer to all of cottagecore's problems. Same connection to nature without any of the beauty standards
And you get to eat unidentified mushrooms hehehe >:) so yummy
Yeah
ugh, but the inaccuracies about mushrooms makes me, a mushroom gatherer/mycophile, get a headache…. i know it’s nitpicky but seeing people talk about mushrooms so inaccurately makes my blood boil! oh, and im so tired of people calling me “goblincore” just because i collect trinkets and study fungi/mushrooms. the last thing i want is to be part of any “core”.
@_BubblGum_ thats really cool that you study them
YEEEES
As the og cottagecore gal (born and raise in rural Poland) I love this aesthetic because it reminds me of home.. of field trips with my friends as a kids, swimming in the lake, dates in a meadows in the middle of nowhere. Now that I live in the city, I feel overwhelmed by the hustle and people. I know to damn well the labour of working class in small village and fact that in winter is almost always living hellhole but still.. It's where my heart belong and I think it's beautiful :')
I lived in Minnesota and would stack wood for an old man for money, that I would spend on subs at the local tavern. I would go for walks in the woods with my cat and drink out of empty pop cans at a spring. Some of it wasn't easy like when the pipes got frozen and I had to flush the toilet by filling up a bucket and pouring it. But it gave me a small sense of what living in the country with little was like and I miss it
@furetto8355 skąd dokładnie jesteś?
In Europe we have a cycle on art of abandoning and returning to the ideal idyllic rural life…
Always loved Fernando Pessoa poems about it
Fun fact, it seems that we have this same cycle on literature as back as the roman empire
Look at the Life Reform movements in Germany or the Narodnik movement in Russia. For context, the Life Reform movements sought to return to a more natural life via various methods. They promoted things like: Vegetarianism, naturopathy and naturism. Volkish ideology also existed within this overarching system of beliefs. Guido von List, father of the Germanic Occult Rennaisance of the early 20th century, advocated for an agrarian society.
The Narodniks held an idealized view of the Russian peasantry and saw them as the revolutionary class. However, they failed to realize that the peasantry were both fiercely religious and fiercely loyal to the Tsar. Narod holds essentially the same meaning in Russian as Volk does in German.
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Now that's curious, could you recomend any?
@@Man_Flippin_Pentagrams Search Álvaro de Campos poetry! ^^
cottage core seems like a fantasy aesthetic. it is what every girl “wants” embodied into an aesthetic that strays from realism. it is a nice “natural” life, without any of the hard work or struggle, and all the while you get to look beautiful. this aesthetic almost feels like escapism.
Because it is escapism, and there's nothing wrong with it, to a degree.
I actually use it as escapism for a long time. I'm probably one of the few people who still loves the aesthetic so much even if I can see it's dying, but maybe that's because my real life is kind of depressing and emotionally tiresome.
So yeah, daydreaming about living a life where I'm surrounded by the things in the world that makes me happy the most, is really a good way to escape from reality.
As a latin-american black woman, I definitely don't feel excluded by the aesthetic because I feel like it could be whatever we want it to be.
It is escapism. It does looks and feels like it belongs to some farming RPG game like bokujo monogatari and the likes, and it cannot ever be real at all. A person living the real cottage life is not dainty and clean and white and untainted, they have stains and patches in their clothes, smell like soil (sometimes poop) and herbs on top of sweat, dont mind animal poo (indeed collect to put on the garden after composting it) and have tanned skin from standing in the sun for too long. It is beautiful, but its hardwork.
@@th3azscorpio I agree, but the way people get into cottage/farm life without doing their research is insane. If it was just to escape it wouldn’t be a big deal.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Its just simple escapism. People are allowed to appreciate, and enjoy it simply on a surface level. Not everything has to be a think piece.
Cottage life always left the feeling of escaping into a fairy tale, free from modern day and where everything will be Fine, even perfect and your vid explains a lot of that ❤
Personally, I love Cottagecore. But not the dresses and outfits. I just love the idea of living in nature, being with animals and living in a nice, small, house.
Same
With the cute dresses and outfits
Same! But with the cute dresses and outfits. I'm obsessed with caring for animals and plants, I have a garden in my house and a few cats that I love taking care of. But I live in a big city, so I just wish I could have the cottage part because my respiratory diseases really hate the damn pollution.
The outfits (the history bounding) makes sense. Your back is supported by a proper corset and mosquitoes don’t really bite through the bloomers-two-skirts combo
sameee. i'm not into dresses in general so that never appealed to me but the lifestyle aspect of it, chef's kiss. I'm probably influenced by my dozen of farming sims... lol
@@AysePuramu
Livestock is a completely different caliber than some kittens. Also, some types of farms still burn leftovers or cause giant amounts of dust, so clean air is not guaranteed.
Small Correction: Marie Antoinettes Hamlet was not completely a fake village. One half was devoted to cottages for the Queen’s personal use. The second half was actually a working farm which supplied a lot of the food stuffs, particularly dairy products, for Versailles.
There’s also no contemporary evidence that she dressed like a peasant!
@@sleepyghostgirl She didn’t. She chose to wear more simple clothing when she got older which was considered “peasant like” because it wasn’t as grand as French clothing.
That woman gets such a bad reputation
@@sleepyghostgirl She actually designed (idk if herself) a dress spesifically for that and it wasn't a peasant dress rather a sort of "pjs" called chemise a la reine. Several fashion history channels made a video about it. Probably Bernadette Banner was one of them. Also chemise a la reine is kind of considered to be a blueprint for all those white flowy cottagecore dresses
the cottagecore fandom is dying comment if ur a true cottage
I'm similar too a true cottage. Just a bit more modern.
Cheese. Cottage cheese.
The whole cottage
I'm cottage cheese
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I consider myself a cottagecore person. I make my own clothes, I homestead, I grow my own food, I like running in fields, I don't fear insects and I love the "imperfections" of life such as mud, rain, algae etc. But no one else has to be like me, they can own a few dresses and like strawberries and that's still just as cottagecore as I am. Cottagecore is what you make it (I'm a guy btw)
I agree 100%
I never thought of cottage core as being farmers. I imagined it more like living on Walden Pond. Civilization is relatively near, so you can still go to market, so you didn't really have to grow your own crops or farm. Self-sufficiency was never a part of it. The goats and chicken are not livestock, they're pets who keep the grass and weeds low and the bugs at bay. Flowy dresses are comfortable and you spend your days caring for your pets, reading, writing, making home cooked meals.
Exactly
you see how that's unrealistic? you don't even have any way to sustain yourself... unfortunately in this capitalistic world that can't happen, but when it will fall i'd love to have that life!
@@anisa2273 The cottage core life was about either living off someone else - like Thoreau - or remote working or living off your earnings/savings/investments. That's why it's a fantasy life for most of us. SOME of us can do it, but not everyone.
@@benjalucian1515 only the rich can, the rest of us just have to wait for the rich to fall
@@anisa2273 Nonsense. If you can remote from home, or are retiring, cottage core is very do-able.
Cottagecore has always been around in different forms. They used to call it boho, for “bohemian.” Hippies, goths, and Renaissance Fair types have incorporated elements of this style for a long time, some since at least the 60s.
It’s also been called bambi I think
The Romans called it the Golden Age under Cronus. There is a very old cultural pendulum between viewing nature as chaotic and savage and needing to be contained or controlled, versus idealizing it and being very ignorant of the violence and severity of logistics involved in it.
Just now realizing my definition of cottagecore is much different from most…
I always imagined it to mean dressing in whimsical dresses and natural colors of course, but the rest to me was just the idea of living AWAY from people. Just being around nature in general, little to no light pollution making the night sky more visible etc. Maybe it’s just because I personally really like nature and exploring and digging in the mud and don’t really like people that much. I mean my most enjoyable college memory so far is going to a park with my friends and taking off our shoes to look for fossils and tadpoles in the river. It reminds me of elementary school when we would go to a creek to catch teeny fish and little crawdads. Those memories are what I associated with cottagecore, I think it was really just me wanting to be a kid again… to have more free time to explore and discover new things, be more concerned about learning flower names than chemical reactions.
I always saw the other stuff, the livestock and farming as more of a farm thing, not cottage thing. I suppose it could be because I grew up hearing my grandma always talk about growing up on her farm, she told me about how she’d have to wake up early to help, she rode a horse to school everyday, also told me a few traumatic stories too regarding some kittens. Probably was to young to hear that story tbh. Honestly I have most of the stories my grandma told me memorized. I believe my grandpa might’ve also been a farm boy? He died of melanoma before I was born and grew up incredibly poor, oranges were rare and basically his dessert if he ever got one and spent his days picking cotton without sunscreen which is most likely the cause of his melanoma later in life. :/
I guess I had a weird childhood, I grew up near some woods that I’d always explore with my brother, but we weren’t farmers or anything, but also we’re too far away from our neighbors to actually know them. My school also rented out a church to hold our classes before we had bought an actual building and the church was surrounded by woods that the teachers would let us play in and explore occasionally. I’ve also always been weirdly obsessed with space since childhood, and as soon as I discovered that you could see more without light pollution it’s something I’ve always wanted to see, I never knew there were more stars than what I could see.
Sorry I got reaaaallly personal, I tend to ramble when I type anything out since my mind is always going a million miles an hour.
I love the idea of living alone in nature, but having to work most of my day for my own food and land. I already work on a ,,ranch", so I know how hard physical labour feels and so I don't think I am rimantisising it while not knowing how it would feel.
That would honestly be the dream. Maybe living a few kilometres away from a small town where I could meet friends once or twice a week.
Daydreams, but nice ones.
What you describe lines up more closely with Cottagecore’s muddy and barefoot cousin Goblincore. I always see CC as a little too neat, its nature but it’s tamed and tended. GC embraces the wild, unkempt and sometimes less cuddly parts of nature. The mud, the frogs, the snails, the overgrown weeds. And being pretty is not a requirement. GC still loves nature but a less tame version of it. (If you can’t tell, this is my “core” of choice. lol)
I think that what you described sounds more like Goblincore
I have a similar point of view. My family lives in a rural area with a couple acres, and both my parents and I are vegetarian and allergic to most animals. So, we've never lived the "farm life" with livestock. But, my parents have always had a veggie garden and fruit trees, along with a seperate flower garden. What I see cottagecore as being is being as comfortably self-sufficient as you want, wearing cute natural fiber clothes, exploring the wilderness, collecting rocks and flowers, and having those little gardens and homes with the typical aesthetic/look. I guess I'm mainly happy recapturing my childhood that way while also elevating it by living out some of my childhood dreams (I grew up poor until recently and couldn't buy or make the clothes I like and other things).
SAME! I’d love to live in the woods AWAY from big populations, maybe own a couple of goats, and start my own herb farm…
That's why I liked Cottagecore; I’d love the ability to just live in the woods in a small house, mostly unbothered by the outside world. (but alas: taxes).
cottagecore was completely ruined by the modern internet!
i remember when it used to be called ‘bambi’ and was about being anti-capitalist and not supporting big businesses and living a wonderful independent lifestyle in the forest and now it’s just “oh, to be a little bunny living in a mushroom… ooh, mushroom earrings by a popular brand for 14.99! ooh, this perfume by capitalist brand is 25 dollars but it’s called cottagecore so its a MUST! can’t wait for my cottagecore clothes to come in from SHEIN!” the internet ruins everything.
While understand your points and was definitely there on the early rise back in 2020, it was inevitable that fast fashion brands would commodify the aesthetic for revenue. While frustrating, I think we should allow consumers to be happy to have more options to the cottagecore brand, even if some senses it’s ironic. Besides, not everyone can even afford small business prices as even managing one is hard. I just think we should let the newcomers be.
@@thebakingvet i get where youre coming from but i’m just pointing out that buying from corporate brands completely overshadows the meaning of the aesthetic.
capitalism and consumerism ruing everything
In all honestly Cottagecore feels like what The national Romance in Norway during the 1800s was like but modern. At that time there was a need to show what made our country different and create a feeling of togetherness After danish rule. Its a very Romantic way of showing the life most were living as farmers in tough cold and difficult terrain.
Made a lot of great points in the vid^
Added: That era ofc was a postive for the Norwegians but not the sami people. For there to be a collective us there is always an outside them. It went Even Harder on suppressing languages, religion and culture for us that is hard to get back :/
Same with the romantic movement in Germany around the same time. People, especially artists of different types, turning to nature and folklore and suchlike to identify more with this than with the rational movement of the same time.
Yeeeeess currently learning more abt it in art history
Dude, I live in Estonia, I shop in thriftstores because my income is low. I am feminine, and I like dresses. Also red hair and hypersensitive skin, so I shop for cotton and linen dresses. I look like the cottage core woman, and I love nature. I care about nature and try to live my beliefs with underconsumption and ecological mindset. The fact that there are also assholes that copy the look of the lifestyle does not mean that we should stop being who we are.
I live in France but I have a similar lifestyle to you ! I love baking for my friends, wear vintage dresses, I sew, knit, craft anything etc
At some point I felt a bit weird about the tradwife and shein taking cottagecore but as you said, that doesn't mean I should stop liking and doing what I like ❤
As a Cottagecore Tomboy Latina, I still find my place in the aesthetic. I wear looser pinafores with graphic tees, baggy linen pants and boots. I decorate my small apartment with the seasons, focusing on seasonal foliage and yes many flowers, willow baskets, and wooden furniture. I do wear the occasional casual dress, but the floral cottagecore dresses are special occasion only. I love caring for my plants, even though the ones I place on my small balcony tend to die lol I try. I drink tea on my floral couch cuddling next to my Cavachon. I love to bake and cook following the seasonal foods in my area. Whenever we can, my family goes on a hike in our local park and enjoy walking through the rough paths.
This is my part of Cottagecore. I don’t live in the country, I don’t wear fancy corseted clothes, I don’t have chickens though I’d love some, I don’t even have a yard to call my own. I still find my chunk of the aesthetic.
I've always viewed cottagecore as a princess-y fantasy detached from actual farm life or rural living (think Sleeping Beauty as Briar Rose). I don't really think that's a bad thing, as long as people are aware of what actual rural living entails. Fantasy is part of how we get by in a world that is very hard on many of us. (Though I, myself, enjoy "forest-y, fairy-like" cottagecore more than farm cottagecore, which I suppose is more detached in many ways because it's inherently based in fantasy and fairytales.)
But it's true that the conservative homesteaders and trad-wives trampled the fantasy in many ways, and it is extremely unfortunate.
About some of the issues you've meantioned in the "more issues form" section, like "what if you're POC, or more masculine?", why not you just adapt it to your liking? If there's not a pre-made space for you, then make one! And who says you have to like every part of the aesthetic? Take the bits you like, and make them something You
@@Alexandraadftxr7052the arguement theyre making though is that almost all premade online aesthetics are conformist because theyre not real things. Theyre just pinterest boards.
As a man that loved the cottagecore aesthetic /I'm totally knew and lived the rural lifestyle/, I wasnt aware of the femenine side or that that aesthetic was mainly focus on the fem😭 but I agree there is a lot of ways to get clothes not only fast fashion or indie, people can also make them own clothes, as someone that growed in poverty most of my clothes were donations or second hand and I was able to have some outfits that matched the aesthetic
There is a huge aspect of racism within cottagecore. The cottagecore to trad wife pipeline is real. I think that’s why she mentioned it
While it’s nice to be able to carve out a place for yourself, it’s also nice to be able to join a community. In a lot of communities, though, if you don’t present a certain way, you’re not considered “legitimate.” I think the video was commenting on how certain groups (generally for institutional reasons) are largely denied the ability to be found delicate (traditionally desirable in many places) purely on the basis of traditional notions of race, sex, and gender.
This comment also made me think of Art Hoe movement. It was created by black femmes since they weren’t necessarily accepted into or associated with the wider art space. Quite quickly, it was appropriated by a wider group of people who enjoyed the aesthetic. It’s fine to like an aesthetic, but a lot of people who weren’t necessarily part of the movement began to claim the title, too. Eventually, the movement lost meaning to the point that many no longer identified it with the black femmes who originally created it as a safe space.
It’s cool to make your own space if you need one, but the cycle of either being denied entry to a space, or carving out a space, widening that space, then being pushed out can be very exhausting. It would be nice to just be accepted into a community that mostly fits the vibe you’re going for without having to make something new every time.
@@matthewfranklin2137 yeah but a lot of POC including myself create it the way we want to
As a cottage core person, this video was a huge help to me! thank you so much for pointing out the flaws in the daydream. I do want to keep dreaming, but I'll now go into the dreams acknowledging the horrific implications, and doing my best to make room for all the people who were kicked out (either literally or figuratively) by this aesthetic :>
Its such a shame that everything that seems exciting first is at some point corrupted. I am into mythology and topics like Atlantis, but if you dig deep enough you hit the layer of conspiracy fascists that spoil all the fun. *sigh*
It's always so exclusionary of Black, LGBTQIA+ and disabled people.
Dark Academia and Cottagecore are especially bad for this.
What exactly makes it exclusionary to black people? I'm a black woman and everything I know about growing crops and working with the land I've learned from both my grandmothers. One whose also a black woman and my other late grandma who owned a whole farm with cattle and a bunch of other animals. @@Volundur9567
@@Volundur9567 i agree but as a lesbian i feel like cottagecore is almost a magnet for us- it most definitely does not exclude lesbians.
@@Volundur9567 - on subreddits for both cottagecore and Dark Academia, and there are lots of poc who post pics of themselves. I never see rude comments toward them. I'm sure there is racism in the subcultures, because racism is everywhere in our culture, but there are also spaces where that doesn't make a strong impact, and diversity is welcomed.
While I haven't seen much that's overtly LGBTQIA+, I'm not sure there's any particular markers that would make it stand out.
As for disabpled people, I don't see any reason why they _couldn't_ be either one. I will certainly keep my eye out for them, and do my best to make them welcome.
hi, person with native background here, who has a partner whos likewise native (im central american native, shes northern)
no, the distaste I get from cottege core is nothing to do with colonialism. I dont really ever think about colonialism-- neither does my partner, nor did my parents or hers. the only people who focus that one kinda seem to be the overeducated privlidged type.
I likewise grew up in a rural part of the US and have worked ranches and had to deal with that life, warts and all. cottagecore bugs the hell outta me because of the fascination coming from a place of rich or soft yuppies idealizing things in a neo-rococo pastoral fascination fad. its ingenuine, and leaves things an ugly mess when the bottom falls out of this.
this dumb fad has also made *affording* what was once poor folk survival standard much harder. brewing my own alcohol, growing a garden, making my own cheese, tools for my woodworking or creative work-- all of it becomes boutiquified and I have to make more and more concessions on quality or just outright *stopping* making something and have to suffer through store-bought ultra-processed poison.
As someone who grew up very middle class who didn’t really have much I know exactly this frustration, rich people will take anything and everything we have and throw glitter on it just to mark it up so they don’t have to live like us while still benefiting from what we have.
yes 5hey make it like theyre in some precious lityle fantasy. and everything is clean and cute etc. its works, rewarding but still work
@@claudiameier666 country life if hard work, but there is something to be said for taking a more organic approach to life and making stuff with your own hands and wearing natural fibered stuff with time honored decorations on it, it reminds me of the people I go to church with and do historical railroading with and some are so enamored with a certain time in the past that they are a lifestyler as much as they can be, taking a cue from their grandperants or history of their area and keep things of the past alive and in use.
as for me I love the excuse to get dressed up cuz no one does it anymore and I dont get to do it all the time, and it makes me sad people done even dress up for occasions anymore for parties events or holidays, and look nice when I was growing up we still did , most the time its very old polo shirts for me for work, I do wear tee shirts yes frequently and they are so old they were made in the usa, my days off though I wear at least a collared shirt or a buttondown, and have worn a polo shirt even to a car race in indy it was the biggest one of its class the hoosier hundred when it was at the state fair down there it was the most prestegious dirt race in the world for decades the indy 500 for dirt track racing if you will, they got it just west of the city but its on pavement now 146 laps at indy raceway park I dressed up when they revived it, and train trips where I help out its a special time we want to make it just like the 40's and 50's and we also want to put a good foot forward, it does take more work though and is not quite as comfortable in 90 degree heat with long sleaves on but it also helps protect me from sunburn so its my armor ;}
beside country style or cottage is simplistic but more elaborate then common clothing today, as it harkens to when there was more art or a few details put into stuff to make it look nicer functional art, and it just looks soo cheery and smile inducing to look at like like hugging puffy purring kittens next to fresh flowers on a warm day
@@isaiahraymond269 I feel like that's why the Marie Anotniete paralel feels so important, because cottagecore is Pastoralism, just a modern version of it.
As a Lakota Person
It IS 💯 Colonialism for me. Simply because non-Indigenous folks can 💯 buy land, and live pretty well off of it.
Natives can't so easily do that, ESPECIALLY if we do our Traditional Spiritual practices on that land.
Suddenly we're too primitive, too "caught up in the past"
So no. I don't think you're someone to speak for all of us. The way I don't expect anyone to give a rats behind about my littlenrant.
I'm expecting r*cist responses coming my way in about a day or two
The beauty of a fantasy is that it doesn’t have to be strictly tied to reality to enjoy it
0:10 i love how goth, emo, and punk arent even aesthetics
they're lifestyles
@@digiishort well, theyre subcultures. im not completely sure if theyre all lifestyles
oh thought they are
@@gamesarefun9380 no!! theyre all music based subcultures.
I feel like there are both the goth/emo/punk subculture and the “aesthetic” as slightly separate things.
I love these '___core analysis' videos. It really does suck that Cottagecore is dropping.. it's been one of my favs, even though its *really* made to look like a fantasy only in your dreams. (P.S, those cows you drew are so cute)
I don't think we can really fault rich celebrities for hopping onto the cottagecore trend when a majority of us that did are also city girls that just like the aesthetic of cottage-life
It was so weird seeing the very clothing I've been dreaming about wearing since...shoot...pre Y2K, suddenly become popular and be everywhere. So easy to find. And I was a little mad, I wasn't a dewy-eyed 15 year old anymore. I was pushing 40.
I felt like Molly from The Last Unicorn. So angry and upset that she finally met a unicorn... as an older, jaded, worn down woman "Where were you when I was new?"
I feel you. I'm no longer the little girl I was in the 70s who begged her mom to get her more "peasanty" clothes. By the time I could afford to make the choices myself, it was out of style, and now that it's back in, I'm old and not made for frolicking.
But there is hope. As someone else here pointed out, the Renfaire and SCA community has always been into things that fit into cottagecore, and they're full of very not-waiflike women.
Molly Grue learned to be a friend to a Unicorn as she was. So can you. Unicorns are not just for the young, they're for calling forth the wonder that still lies in everyone. :)
Was not expecting a The Last Unicorn reference in the comments, that hit me like a truck 😢
Cottage core definitely influenced me and I my world is forever changed. I now knit and sew my own clothes. I love learning historical techniques and also using natural fibers. Though it may go out of fashion, it is unlikely to ever fully leave my wardrobe.
Because now people are back to having to go to work, they ain't got time for doing handcrafts, tending to gardens, baking foods, etc. It's a subculture that requires free time.
Also, online trends are always a revolving door.
If there was a poc that would embody the cottagecore aesthetic, it would be Orange Blossom from Strawberry Shortcake, and Tiana from the princess and the frog.
I'm sad to hear that it's on the decline but it will always be important to me. I developed fibromyalgia about 4 years ago and before diagnosis I was in pain, and felt frustrated and deeply depressed. Having the escapism of cottagecore helped pull me out of a kind of dark time. I remember listening to the album "diamond day" by vashti bunyan on repeat, and dreaming of the little cottage garden I wanted to grow in my small yard. It really brought me a lot of hope in what felt like a hopeless time.
Same! It helps me think of happier things and make me feel less depressed. Diamond day is an awesome song too!
Same! I'm a very depressed person, and creativity and escapism is my way not to hurt myself. Though cottagecore is very far from my reality living in a latin-american country, it makes me so happy because it has everything that makes me feel better.
Caring for my pets and the garden in my small house is my little piece of happiness in the boring, sad life I live.
So daydreaming of a place where my cats could enjoy a bigger garden full of beautiful flowers, have more animals to care for, dedicate my life for them and the plants, be able to build and decorate my own cottage, and maybe live there with a dream man that shared these same passions and that respected and accepted me and the nature that surrounds us... It's my heaven. It's something I dreamed of since I was little cuz of the fairy tale books my mom would read to me when I was little.
Cottagecore just showed me that more people probably shared these same innocent, almost childlike dreams. I never saw it as exclusive to white women, I think all of us who are poc, and also men and LGBTQ+ people can dream of it too. A way more beautiful version of our world, that unfortunately only exists in our dreams... Or our art!
That means it's not on the decline for YOU and all those who still love it. They can say it's a downfall but don't all styles come and go? I don't know why they are making a big deal of it. (it wouldn't be a nearly 30 minute long video if they didn't think it wasn't a big deal) and if you love it keep doing it.
The "cottage core" and slow living UA-cam videos I watch are mostly an escapism for me. I know that living in a rural cottage and working to support yourself is hard in real life. But with my high anxiety and daily stress, I truly enjoy getting a small break from my hectic life. When these ladies talk about intentional living and allowing grace for yourself to make mistakes, it reminds me to give myself breaks, to occasionally just slow down and breathe. I've learned some helpful tips to destress from these ladies, like sitting on the porch with a cup of tea or just lighting a bunch of candles and listening to soft music while reading a good book. Maybe the aesthetic is not fashionable anymore, which is fine by me because I've never cared for fashion anyways. But I will continue to consume the content so long as it's available, because I feel like it's improved my overall state of mind and mental health. I'm here for the hygge of it all. LOL
I'm so glad I fell into the cottagecore bandwagon. Aesthetics aside, the homesteading skills that make real cottagecore work are the cheat code to surviving inflation.
Honestly, it is thanks to cottagecore that I took on gardening as a hobbie. Unfortunately, I don't have much time for gardening anymore due to my working hours, but I it was a nice and fulling feeling to see my tomatoes grow and to make pesto with the basil I grew, even if it took a lot of patience and hard work.
You missed one of the most important aspects of cottagecore coming to prominence: the pandemic. Overwhelming anxiety, a mistrust in large corporations (especially in relation to food), and being cut completely off from the standard flow of life were the ingredients to this fantasy coming into the public consciousness. Not going to work led to people trying to fill the hours, and many turned to sewing, baking, knitting, there was even a handwashing clothes on a washboard moment as people tried to cure their boredom.
After the panicked runs on supplies (i remember the toilet paper shortage of 2020) there was inflation and price gouging, and there came a visceral concern about food accessibility. The spread of bird flu and resulting flock cullings in 2021 and 2022 made eggs especially scarce and expensive, which turned many to keeping their own small flock of chickens or getting to know someone who does.
Then, especially in the US, many people were stuck in tiny downtown apartments as a disease was allowed to run rampant through major cities as a means of political vengeance. To the queer cottagecore folk, this policy sounded dreadfully familiar. The terror and cabin fever made the call of open spaces extremely appealing, suburban housing prices skyrocketed as people left downtown in search of room to pace around. The ultimate version of that dream was a little house with a lot of open land to run around in.
It all added up to the vision of picking berries, kneading dough for bread and frolicking through fields filling the world's daydreams. And in the face of this adversity, people made these daydreams a little more real, if only to make the shutdown a little more bearable and their 100 square feet a little more enjoyable to be in. I remember the discourse around the ethos of cottagecore in respect to the rise of "plantation-core," and though those forces never were fully stomped out, the aesthetic movement has not fully ceded to anti-feminism and the "tradition" of control.
Cottagecore's decline was inevitable, as is the fate of every trend. The world opened up, jobs demanded people return to work in person, and we've all tried to erase the emotional distress of that entire debacle from our minds. The stressors that made the fantasy appealing lifted, and the free time to hand-knead dough or hand-wash clothing was gone. The inevitable profiteering off of the aesthetic came, and soon after the trad-wife propaganda, and plenty of people moved on to the next trend or concern. But there's still a sizable and active community carrying the torch for the ideals of slow fashion, food accessibility, and generally enjoying life at an analog pace.
Living a rural life is hard work, all day, no breaks. Add being a mother of multiple kids to that. Of course the beauty of nature is there but yeah
More and more finding the word "work" subjective... men (erm "men" asterisk) are the most work, but in the way of a hamster wheel... and hamsters only do that bc their cage is too small... its anxiety. Cottage core coincided with 4 b movemnt . Coincidence, nah.
The appeal of Cottagecore hasnt changed or gone anywhere, not listening to what strangers on the internet want to dictate about it is easier than one might think.
My husband and I both grew up with the hard work - he grew up on his grandfathers farm and I worked for 4 years on a horse ranch. We both desperately want the farm/homesteading lifestyle, and I definitely relate to the basis of the cottagecore movement, but you're right - it and homesteading have become a symbol of wealth. We live in what was previously a low housing cost area, but the last few years a bunch of people moved here from big cities to "homestead". The thing is, they have no idea what it actually entails (I've literally seen someone who had bought a homestead ask how to grow a tomato...), and a lot of them have already gone back to where they came from, having given up, but they raised all of the prices to the point where we can no longer afford it. I've sat and cried so many times because I want so badly to have my own garden and fresh eggs and a nice big pantry full of food, and people chasing the aesthetic have ruined it. I do my best in my little apartment yard, but it's just not the same.
My grandfather was a farmer. He was very cottagecore and my grandmother was a very traditional 50's housewife. I spent a lot of time out in the fields with him, or in the kitchen helping make jams and sauces with grandma. Pa taught me woodworking. Gram taught me sewing. Pa taught me to chop wood. Gram taught me to bake. So very many evenings spent on the front porch with him, cutting bushels of beans to be canned, or shucking corn to be dried white we watched the fire flies wake up and rise up over the fields. This is why I loved cottagecore. It was nostalgia to times when my grandpa was alive and when I learned so many new things. I have a lot of trauma associated with my grandma, but I do still treasure the times when she taught me skills and the times we sat for tea after school, rather than the time she tried to teach me that I belong in the kitchen, shouldn't have a job, or that if a man beat me it was because I wasn't good enough, despite leaving her first husband because he beat her. But my grandfather. He's such a great man. Yes he was a grumpy old man, but he was also goofy and funny and had a passion for his work. He told me he believed in me and anything I wanted to do. He told I needed a good set of cast iron cookware because if a man ever laid a hand on me, I could use it to knock his teeth out.
I don't want to be a farmer or a house wife. I'm not cut out for. Homesteading sounds exhausting. I will never be a traditional 50's woman, nor do I ever want to be. The dresses are hella cute though. I still love the cottagecore aesthetic. I don't want to live off the land, but I want lots of garden space to put into practice the things Pa taught me. I don't want a bunch of farm animals, but a few chickens would make me happy. I don't have the energy for a farm life, but I want a small piece of it to tend, in memory of the greatest man I've ever known. I love eating things I grew myself. I have a cabinet full of herbs I grew and dried. I have tinctures and teas. My apple tree finally produced enough apples to make apple butter this year. I know how to spin wool into yarn I can weave and crochet and sew. I know all the forgeable plants in my area. I love to go on long walks in the fields, woods and beaches. Simple cozy and nice. I am not neat and thin and pretty and clean. I'm messy and cubby and pretty and sometimes covered in dirt. I don't want the impossible. I want my tiny corner to dream in as I pick berries and plant flowers.
On the other hand, I am a tech addict. It's hard to build a simple cozy space of old world style peace while also having all the tech. My partner keeps laughing at me about how my tastes clash. So what if I want a goth, medieval, techno punk modern, traditional, minimalist, packed to the brim house? Give me a hobbit hole and a cyberpunk dystopian garage.
Odd I still love cottage core and will not apologize for dressing in something that make me happy and make me like myself for once
I feel like the live action snow white will be the final blow 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Do not worry snow white remake dos not have nothing to do with cottagecore
@@francythearackulele6275she literally lives in a cottage
@@Nyxnius i repeat, snow white has NOTHING to do with cottagecore. Do not associate that dumpster fire with the aesthetic, because it is vastly different.
@@Pucx-ju7qc you're talking about the live action only right? because snow white as in snow white the character literally lives in a cottage, makes her own food from scratch and tends the garden. oh and also pets the wild animals
there’s also the separation between farm cottagecore and forest-y cottagecore. the expectations are both very unrealistic but in different ways.
people who live in the woods are just trying to make sure the bugs & bears don’t eat them lmao.
and you wanted a garden? in a lot of places you’re going to have to bring soil in for a raised garden because you started digging and it’s just- rock under that very thin layer of soil.
i was told we were moving to the woods and thought i could have the cottagecore life, but- nope. at least i’ll still be able to wear the pretty dresses for one fifth of the year when the bugs aren’t devouring us & the snow isn’t up to our asses 😬👍
That's one thing that immediately came to my mind! How do you not get bugs creeping up your legs wearing those cute dresses while in the field/garden?
I have an acquaintance that lives in the forest who tells me that bears keep to themselves, most of the time. Sometimes there are yard sightings, but mostly not.
@@hydratejsn some medium/thick tights is what i’m gonna be investing in! and lots of plants around the house that biting bugs don’t like the smell of.
@@Ashandonyx it depends on where you are! some places have more bears, some have less, they’re mostly chill though if they’re black bears. i’m personally more excited to see moose. they’re so cool.
@@Ashandonyx Can confirm. Bears aren't a common sight in any one place in my area. Usually, you just see the aftermath of one digging through your trash.
I love how thoughtful your video was! You are so right to point out that it's not fair to make fun of someone for wanting to change their life when their current situation is miserable. And even if someone did go out and try to live a true cottagecore fantasy and fail at it because they realize it's way harder than they ever expected, that still has value. They experience something new and they learned and they grew from that. And even if someone only uses it as a fantasy to bring them comfort and joy, it's really horrible to tell someone that they shouldn't have that joy in their life. I respect the way you thoroughly examined this aesthetic while still being kind.
Cottagecore is not about cottages at all. It's escapism, a dream of a girl who wants to be a princess instead of a student working minimum wage. Cottagecore doesn't need to be real, it's something we just daydream of. It's up to you to decide whether you want escapism or not
I live the "perfect cottagecore life", so to say. My life is similar to yours, but instead of sheep, it's cows on my neighbour's field. There is also multiple oat fields around me, two being very near to my yard. I don't yet have my own chickens, but I will. I also love pretty dresses. BUT. Those pretty dresses aren't worn when I'm working, as I don't want to tear or dirty the pretty dresses.
Having been raised in rural West Virginia and the rural Rocky Mountains, cottagecore sounded, to me, like more city slickers ignoring the fact that rural people have problems. Rural areas have a higher mortality rate, more poverty, higher rates of domestic abuse, and higher rates of suicide. I grew up in a 90 year old house that constantly needed repairs. I saw people work themselves to the bone and barely make end's meet. From the outset, I didn't like the idea of cottagecore. But as I learned more about psychology, I stopped hating it so much. Humans romanticize something very different from their current circumstances as a coping mechanism. A lot of people into cottagecore have had trauma this helps them cope with. It's a silly dream. So is my dream of living in the Star Trek universe. It's just that since I'm a guy and Trek fans are largely male, we don't get dragged online like an overwhelmingly feminine group like cottagecore enthusiasts.
I think cottage core became fairy core and tradlife. It kinda split into two or more different categories, one that’s more southern 60s farm life and another that’s
medieval irish fae.
I don’t know if all of the evolutions are still as harmful when you dig deeper but it’s still pretty to look at
I was a cottage core fan for the longest time I have always liked the views and beauty of the pictures in them. I live I similar life of cottage core. Except its more modern. I like vintage and cottage core just for the looks. I never wanted to deep root myself into it because I too saw the flaws. And they crashed down sooner than I thought.
"Every guy wants to be a cowboy until it's time to do cowboy crap"
Japanese fashion.. Mori Kei........... been into Mori Kei for years before cottagecore is a thing.
Yes!!
The good parts of cottagecore reminded me a lot of Studio Ghibli and the long scenes of their movies that focus on characters cleaning, cooking, or doing laundry; yes, finding joy in the simple pleasures of life like a clean workspace or good home-cooked food is an important part of the human experience. But also, let's maybe not play right into glorifying a past that never existed.
Any trend is always a passing thing. Thats why its important not to chase trends. Enjoy the things you like trendy or not.
cant even enjoy dreaming anymore w/o someone in ur ear telling u its racist or unrealistic like leave me alone my life is so depressing 😭😭
I'm sorry this comment made me cackle 😭 I know exactly what you mean. Just do what makes you happy as long as you aren't hurting anyone lol
Yeah unfortunately you picked an aesthetic that romanticises an idyllic past that never actually existed.
And unfortunately, like moths to a lightbulb, romanticisation of an idyllic but ultimately fictitious past attracts n@zis, it's a delusion that's kinda something foundational to their beliefs.
Yeah unfortunate that happened to ya, but just try to live life and make space for other people who feel excluded.
If you take a break from the internet you suddenly realize those voices aren't motivated enough to come tell you in person. Be discerning; their angle may seem convincing at first but your heart will tell you if it's true or not.
cottage core, like kid core or weirdcore is a way of escapism imagining to be out in nature a fairytale land; wanting to be where you cant hence why it was so popular during 2020- 2022 we were stuck inside longing to be outside
I don't want to be a trad wife, I want to live in a mushroom house that is bigger on the inside than the outside. I want to be barefoot without getting parasites or stubbed toes. I wish to subsist off of bread, wine, cheese, fruit, and vegetable stew. I want to ride around on a giant fox. I don't want to go back to the past. I want to live as a gnome or hobbit in middle earth... I'm don't want pretty clothes. I'm going for the Baba Yaga look. I'm a little too old to frolic in sundresses. No, a house on top of a giant chicken foot in the creepy part of the woods is where I'm going to want to be. I'd also like it if the cookware cooked the food, and then washed itself. Indoor plumbing is a must. And lots of critters, (but no children). 🦔🍄
Do you play Reka? You would love it
@rebecca_rh no, but now I'm curious and will look it up! 🥰
@@kimicappiello5480 from what i can gather from your comment, it’s basically made for you, it’s literally what you just described
"Baba Yaga look" 😭😂 I love that lol
@@rebecca_rh 😆🤣🥰
I just saw this TikTok about a girl being utterly embarrassed cuz she went to an Amish girl and told her that she loved her cottage core outfit
This is one if not the one aesthetic where im not sure how nobody saw the alt right pipeline slinking through the grass. Its not the only element. But that venomous binch sure is there.
True
Cottagecore is always one clumsy step away from conservative tradwife
Honestly, if cottagecore is on the decline, I say good. Not because I hate it, but because I like it. I just don't care for seeing all these niche aesthetics being comodified into cheap fast fashion goods.
Subcultures are ruined the minute they start being promoted for $$$
2:00 No, no, go on
I genuinely said that out loud lmao
casual homophobia ❤
A lot of these "critical" videos don't seem to understand that a cottage is not the same thing as a farm. Cottages typically don't come with a lot of land and most people who own (renovated) cottages these days are the type of people who enjoy gardening as a hobby and consider the fruits and vegetables they harvest as an addition to their meals, not the main event.
And then you also have cottages that are used as weekend houses, guest houses or summer houses (especially the ones that are not renovated and therefor lack insulation and proper heating). And that's exactly the vibe I get from cottagecore - people with city jobs who come to their cottage on weekends or during the summer vacation or on their "work from home" days and cosplay rural life.
That's called having a vacation home. Cottagecore? More like I have the money to afford two residences and no need to do laundry or chores on the weekends in my city home.
so rich people, got it. who else besides the rich have vocation houses?
... so like she said, Marie Antoinette.
This got disappointingly US centric and chronically online.
Trends die. That’s what a trend is.
I think cottagecore popularity was replaced with hobbitcore, fairycore and things with medieval or witchy themes, generally speaking more fantasy related. But that's what it kinda was - the fantasy of living a life of a cute peasant girl in the very nice fantasy setting. I also mentioned 'witchy' bc green witchcraft/herbalist aesthetically is not far from it imo, but without this little toxic presentation on femininity. Also hobbitcore seems like less feminine version of cottagecore, with whimsical rurality and no focus on doing the hard work, and it avoids problems with historical events behind the aesthetic.
Not sure if I would consider myself cottagecore, but I love the idea of having a few hens and maybe a small garden. I want to be able to have food I can share with my neighbors and foster a community!
I liked cottagecore because I thought everyone thought of it the same as me (I was not online, just pinterest really), and then I heard about teh strawberry cow thing and I was like wow I hate this. To me cottagecore reminded me of the summers working on the family farm. The days we werent working outside my cousins and I would run around in the woods and play make believe and play dress up in the old clothes upstairs. Those days arent as frequent as they used to be as our family gets older and some of the land had to sold after a death in the family, so cottagecore kind of took me back to the feeling I used to have. I miss that feeling that the woods and fields felt so big and endless
As someone who was involved in cottagecore from the tumblr days and am currently in the process of actually buying and moving to a rural property (which btw, takes YEARS to acheive financially) I loved the analysis and have some thoughts for anyone who cares to read it...
- I think it faced many of the same problems every trend does, the "mainstream" version is only the most marketable aspect and has little loyalty to the original concepts. This is unfortunately inevitable of all art that gets popular
- Specifically relating to sapphic women... cottagecore is a reclaim. Similar to "high femme" fashion. The lesbians and bisexual women who were at the forefront KNEW they were claiming old school things which were never meant for them, were not accessible to queer women of the past and were doing this BECAUSE of that. Because now women CAN own land, and tend it with their wives or girlfriends as they see fit. Its not unaware of the irony, its a direct rebellion against the idea that women can only be feminine when subservient to a man.
- When straight women joined the game... the whole trad wife thing was inevitable as they often dont understand this intricacy of the previous point. Wealthy, traditional, Christian women aren't doing anything unique or rebellious by baking on their homestead. They're doing exactly what they've been asked to do through generations of, lets say "difficult" times. There's no longer a unique aesthetic or rebellion or art here.
- Nothing is intrisically wrong with wanting a rural lifestyle, for people of any social status. And there's nothing wrong with being cute online while you do it. I honestly think a lot of the backlash is silly. The lifestyle IS a lot of work, but at this point most people could use a little hard work with their hands that yields for themselves.
- Most modern homesteaders irl have day jobs, btw. They're not doing it "instead" of the "grind" they're doing it in ADDITION. Sometimes they're also farming the land they're living on for money, but they're almost never really "escaping." This is where the fantasy shatters for most in my experience.
People don't want to actually farm and bake. They want to be rich enough to hire people to do it for them! And I haven't seen many cottagecore images in the winter. They don't want the lifestyle, they want the resort experience.
I always wondered to myself, "But who's cleaning up after all those animals in the background and scattering their composted crap into that garden? Who's getting up before dawn to milk the cows, collect the eggs, weed the garden, and chop the firewood JUST to get breakfast started? Don't these women realize they'll get ticks and chiggers if they skip through that tall grass in a short dress? Where are their hiking boots????"
I didn't LIVE in the country, but my uncle's family owns vast tracts of the sticks outside Columbia, SC, and we used to visit every other weekend during deer season. Even with indoor plumbing and electricity, the vibe was more feral than whimsical. Brother and I were never at any point allowed to frolic in the many meadows due to mountain lions and copperheads being everywhere. My uncle would leave the house at 5 am on a Saturday, then holler for brother and I around 7 am to come outside and help him dress the squirrels he caught for breakfast. (Pretty okay with eggs, but navigating the bones and bb pellets kinda sucks.) And the quaint, antique cast iron stove in the living room quit being so cute when I was big enough to chop firewood. And for fuqsake, wear tube socks so you can tuck your jeans into them - keeps the ticks out.
But the hikes through the woods, learning to fish in Cedar Creek, being able to see every constellation clearly on a crystal-cold Christmas Eve, watching the local bat colony take flight on a summer's twilight - just the absolute wildness a stone's throw away from civilization. It's messy and hard, but irreplaceable.
I’m what is called a “prepper.” It’s like cottage core but without the frills.😂
The rococo inspiration is not surprising. Cottage core has been around for centuries (going by different names and coming in and out of style as fashion does), but it is most prevelant during the 17th in the “return to nature” movement which inspired a lot of royals, nobles, people, ect to “go back to nature”, to dream about cottages, flowy billowing dresses and pictures farms and such. Much like modern day cottage core.
The greatest sin is adding core to the end of sacred words
Cottage is a sacred word?
I got tired of cottage core because its the same picture over and over again. The same fashion style, same people, nothing different to help make the aesthetic live.
the way i view cottage core, i always see it as the life and visual style of of the hobbits of Hobbiton form lord of the rings.
Cottage core is to the lib-left what trad wife is to the Auth-right.
It's essentially the same thought approached from two completely different starting points
Seeing cottage core influencers made me think of my mom's generation in the midwest - who love - let's call it "cabin core", where many things look rustic, and some things are just there because, well just because. This means fake fireplaces, candles and lanterns, woodsy trinkets on shelves and mantles or hung from walls, mysterious fake flowers and garland or ribbons here and there, furniture that has no discernible era or culture some of which can't be sat on or is just for placing pretty things on, decorative plates in glass door cupboards that are never used for eating, pillows never used for resting and blankets never used for comfort, etc. Most things need to be made of wood or at least have earthy and green tones, and they must look functional but not actually function. My grandma on the other hand - and her peers - were the authentic generation. There were no such decorations and the pretty dresses were only for church.
there is something ironic about romantasing rural Europe and just... making it all about how women are delaced, when in reality in rural areas everybody had to do hard manual work to survive
Like these women used to work with animals and on fields all the time as well as doing a lot of other hard manual labor (and a lot of them were treated horribly), do you honestly think that they would look like some aristocrats?
It always kind of struck me as a rose-tinted nostalgia like in the Twilight Zone episode where a man unhappy with his life in the 1950s daydreams after an argument with his boss on his train ride home he finds the train took him to Willoughby, a small town where it's always summer and the year is 1888, everyone is friendly, it's an idyllic, quaint little Victorian town.
American here, I threw up in my mouth a little when you said “homesteading”.
"did you pick an outfit out of the clothes ive showed you?" not me wearing the same graphic tees i wore in high school bc they still fit (read: why throw them out?)... haha... i _might_ have a dress that fits the description, with frilly little sleeves. i like wearing it bc it makes me feel pretty (for my own sake, not anyone else's), and bc my legs are freed. but it lacks the long skirt (though it still swirls), and is a real nice summer dress, short-sleeved and patterned with white and rich blue and green. and i didnt go out and buy that dress. i found it in my closet. probably a gift from long ago, when i was a teen.
Can also concur that homegrown produce is a lot of work. if you want your plants to live, you better be prepared to go out and water them every day, maybe even twice a day, in Texas summer so they dont perish horribly! and in the winter, youll have to carefully cover some of them up or bring them inside so the freezes dont kill them (and im not talking about nice pots that fit in your hand, either. im talking big, heavy pots that are more like storage containers filled with soil). some of your plants, especially trees, wont bear fruit for years after you plant them (and the first crops of trees tend to be small and not tasty. they gotta start somewhere). and, since my house is near the forest (very nice for seeing lots of birds!), you have to work overtime to keep all the hungry squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, and possums out of your produce, bc they will rush in and yank them green off the branch and suddenly your whole harvest is gone. and weeding. so. much. weeding. weeding is your life now. the more gardens you have, the more weeds you have. and those weeds dont give a damn that its over 100F outside--theyre gonna keep on growing and growing and growing, laughing in your face, and you must go out there and sit in the mosquitoes and blazing sun to at least thin them out so they dont choke out your produce. speaking of bugs, youre gonna get a lot of wasps, hornets, and fire ant mounds in addition to the cute bees (oh, and black widows, if youre lucky. if you obtain land near undeveloped land, be sure to look before you leap wherever there is tall grass!). and if you want to draw birds to your yard and have them stick around, youre going to need to set out feeders, buy birdseed and suet and refill those feeders, sometimes set out cut oranges for the jays and hand-mix sugar water for the hummingbirds (sugar water also has to regularly be changed). plus, raccoons and squirrels are also very fond of birdseed, so you need to keep an eye on your feeders or else all that money you spent on birdseed is gonna end up in a single critter's stomach. it's taken two decades for my family's efforts, sometimes literally, to bear fruit--we've struggled to keep two mulberry trees alive for years, and only now are they producing a large enough crop that we have some to eat in after all the birds gorge themselves on them (birds love mulberries. if you want birds, get a mulberry tree lol. not hating on birds here; it's really exciting to see all the birds finally able to eat them). but now we have mulberries (with one tree flourishing so much its most recent crop was too much for both birds and humans to eat, so a lot of berries fell to the ground from ripeness), persimmons, and asian pears that are all finally growing in sweet and plump. we harvest way too many cherry tomatoes to eat on our own. and we have our own chives and rosemary (no realizing you need to go to the store in the middle of cooking to get some bc you ran out! also, our rosemary bush is out of control lmao). and, under the bird feeders, some dropped, uneaten sunflower seeds have grown into beautiful sunflower stalks, which, btw, birds (and squirrels lol) love bc they can just sit on the strong stems and eat the seeds right from the flowers. we can also get a lot of hummingbirds in our yard at once when its migration season (there used to be so many of them that my sister and i would call it the 'hummingbird wars' bc hummingbirds guard their food sources, but it's kinda hard to properly guard a feeder with multiple openings when you have an entire cloud of other thirsty hummingbirds to fight off! so much angry hummingbird chirping). basically, you get out what you put in!
Yeah, idk if I wanna do too much crop farming if and when I get a homestead... Maybe just some berries or something, idk.
Does anyone remember the Natural/Mori Kei trend? 👀 I feel like it was the OG cottagecore, at least as far as internet-modern fashion trends go. Although it was very similar to cottagecore in that it was based in a very Eurocentric fairytale vibe, it was originally a Japanese street style. It never gained huge traction, but it was definitely popular on tumblr during the early 2010’s. And was much more diverse than cottagecore in so many ways. I still vibe with it tbh ✌️
dang
Its almost halloween, so we’re getting a dying cottagecore, a decaying cottagecore, perfect for the occasion
I'm a straight woman who loves cottagecore aesthetics because it reminds me of a happy time. I can get more used to the cozy cottage aesthetic than this modern minimalist aesthetic
i fw maximalism but not in a cottagecore way, probably a medieval knight way.
cottagecore and colonialism is something I never EVER associated bc I live in europe and my grandmother was poor and ignorant and the only thing she could do was farming, without oppressing anyone. her house was small but tidy and her workday was infinite. the cottagecore vids you showed in this video are not the ones I watch, I watch her 82m2 and hannah lee duggan and I don't think I'll ever be tired of them. I think those other creators are losing viewers bc what they sell is an aesthetic, and people simply grow out of that.
I honestly really like cottage core and I'm really sad this is happening btw I'm first and such a big fan😍😍😍😍
If I had one sentence to describe cores/aesthetic, I would say that over time, everything transforms into a cycle of commercialization, sexualization, idealization, and politicization, stripping away all positive aspects and highlighting the difficulty of maintaining authenticity in a consumer-driven world
I still like a lot of the things about cottagecore, but I think it always meant something different to me than it meant to a lot of other people... It reminded me of growing up in Alaska. My best friends were natives. I had a garden, and it took a lot of work. I had to chop wood so I wouldn't freeze in winter. I realize my vision is kind of in the midpoint between cottagecore and cabincore; instead of a farm, it's a cabin deep in the woods with a garden. The labor it takes to achieve that lifestyle isn't brushed aside and hidden, but celebrated. Berrypicking and canning and baking is a big deal, but instead of picking fruit and having chickens, there's hunting and fishing. Unfortunately, this vision still can't escape colonialism... It still only works on stolen land, no matter how badly I wish that weren't the case. Twenty years ago, I had to move into a city outside of Alaska. It's a constant bombardment of noise and pressure to conform. I'm constantly overstimulated and I feel so disconnected from nature that I've had breakdowns over it. My version of cottagecore is... going home.
I hope one day you can man was meant to be in the woods period 😢
Both the visual art and writing in this video were beautifully done. I love this series, especially because your insight and analysis are so engaging! Keep up the great work!
Cottage core always made me think of the stuff that was popular when I was a kid, like Holly Hobbie. Colonial style was really popular due to the bicentennial in 1976, big chunky wood furniture, stuff like that. I guess it cycles in and out during every generation.
Its so sad how a aesthetic and movement started by queer people is once again being taken away by the people who hate the people of who started its rise to popularity in the first place :’(
I wasn't aware Cottagecore was started by queer people. I knew it had become popular with LGBTQ+ crowds, specifically sapphic ones, due to the nature of it, but I didn't know it was queer in origin.
It's not surprising. The hateful crowd just dont know how to create - just take. And they happen to be obsessed of looking at queer people.
@@stellalittlepastelworld5433 fr man 😔😔😔
@@MeemahSN I just assumed it was just because it started on Tumblr or something
@@stellalittlepastelworld5433 your moviment took over many franchises and ruined with your identity politics and when you try to make something for yourselves it flops hard like concord.
Not me literally just living on a farm and I just finished getting berries and eggs and my cats are indeed curled up while my sourdough is cooking 😅
Fast-fashion intrudes on the market for every subculture and aesthetic. It's not just about the base price of some of the indie brands -which are expensive on their own. Some countries charge a lot of money before they'll let your order pass through customs. So if your country's dollar value is weak, you're hit in the wallet twice. I hate to say it, but Shein and companies like it make styles accessible. Particularly if they have a distribution center in the country the customer is living in.
I feel like you're not fair to Marie Antoinette (or probably any celebrity) here. She was a trapped women in the end. The need for cottage core stems from the pressure and stress of life... of course even rich people/academics etc can feel the need to indulge in a fantasy and to go back to human's natural roots.
That's true. Many nobels tended to feel trapped, even in their lives that looked so amazing from the outside. They had to learn how to be perfect already at a young age, were introduced to dance balls very early and it was family that introduced the children to each other and family that judged the perfect suitor as well as judging how other family members behaved. Marriage was also a strategic thing! So children were married off to a different nobel family if one nobel family wanted to maintain a good relationship to that other family and so on. Catherine the Great's childhood was hard and Empress Elisabeth of Austria's too. Having children was a really important duty too, because they needed successors and many children more often than not died even in their early years of life and often the children weren't raised by the woman of the house either, but by other women that worked there. Of course others made sure to maintain their connection to their children more, though it wasn't easy.
There has always been a sort of disconnect in understanding though between different social classes. We tend to misunderstand people from higher social classes as much as they tend to misunderstand us
Tbf it was kind of a dick move for Marie to play peasant while a lot of france was starving ^^'
Even when she acquired more political control
honestly i didn't realize people thought of cottagecore as more of an idyllic fantasy aesthetic until recently. i've always associated it with things like getting dirt under my fingernails from gardening, growing and cooking my own food, and getting buff from farming and such but with a lot of whimsy thrown in. i'm currently an agriculture major with a horticulture concentration and a farmhand, and i'm getting my start on that life and i'm having a lot of fun doing it
Omg I love putting on these sort of videos for night time your voice is very soothing and I love the art ❤
Thank you! 😊
Damn I’ve always loved it and now it’s dead? Guess I’m dead too :(