the lover(s)
Herbert James Draper (British, 1863-1920)
By Summer Seas, 1912
The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course
me: if I become the evil overlord I will never harm my minions
[5 years later]
highly throwable imp: hoohoohee
me: hmm
my favorite customer service slip ups
I am in a huge need of $ and help, I am offering commissions in various styles, I'm 3 days away from the date I need to have my deposit by for the aprtment.
If I do not get this I will not be able to find another place and get into it, I'm lucky to have even gotten this place. I'm scared.
donations always accepted as well!
Everyone, including me, who's familiar with Pride and Prejudice: Hahahaha Mr. Collins' is so useless and thinks he's so fantastic at small talk, but he isn't.
Me at any given Christmas dinner party: WHAT EXCELLENT BOILED POTATOES- MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE I'VE SEEN SUCH AN EXEMPLARY VEGETABLE
Boy, I felt that one
adult content, adult language, and graphic violence are three beautiful women to me
stop doing coke with these jokes and come smoke crackula with dracula