Midwest is Best

A little corner of tumblr for everything related to the best section of America

[nature-travel-photography]

Wheeling, IL [3000x4000] (OC) - Author: _Artemis_Fowl

[eulesposting]

Mentally in a meadow of coneflowers and tall grasses, swept up in a Midwestern summer

[sapjaw]

[eulesposting]

The distinctly Midwestern love of simple pleasures... The feel of fresh air dancing through the windows on a summer day. The comfort of old recipes shared with others. Wildflowers growing in the countryside and their spicy-sweet smell. Wearing your Sunday-best, even when you don't have to dress up. Treasuring old friendships forever, and making friends with strangers off the street. The mere friendliness of kind strangers you never see again. The satisfaction of a clean kitchen. Prosperity in spirit, and creating beauty with what you have.

The Heartland is well-named; it's not a jewel, it's an heirloom watch, a pressed flower, an antique dish, a sepia family photo handed down generation to generation, all made and given with heart.

[eulesposting]

"What's your dream job?"

I don't dream of labor, I dream of living in an Americana folk art puzzle illustration

[patchworkwires]

You spin me high, so watch me as I glide

Before I tumble homeward, homeward

[heathyr]

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

[midwestgothicisbestgothic]

"God love ya" is the superior, Midwestern answer to "bless ur heart"

[globalchristendom]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

It’s a common misconception that there are no wizards in the midwest USA. The truth is there are plenty, they just use their powers exclusively for making new and fucked up kinds of salad

[midwestgothicisbestgothic]

The superior salads

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

[anonymous-witness777]

this reminds me of that interview where Rob Halford is talking about coming to the American Southwest for the first time and just being in awe at seeing things from Westerns in real life: the tumbleweeds, the cacti, etc. Like think about Rob Halford just looking at a saguaro and being like "the legends are true." Makes me very happy even though I'm a Midwesterner myself.

[dailymanners]

I take issue with how many people conflate being rude with being more "honest" "sincere" and "real", while the same people will often conflate being nice and polite with being "fake" "insincere" "two faced", and even though this line of thinking has always existed, I think it's gotten worse in the last decade or so.

Don't get me wrong, brown-nosers and people who try to use a veneer of "kindness" as a manipulation tactic are very, very real. And they give kindness and good manners a bad name.

But I take issue with the idea that in order to be sincere and honest with someone you have to be rude and inconsiderate. It's a very childish view on human interaction and human relationships IMHO. You can be honest and sincere with someone while being considerate of them and their feelings as a fellow human being.

I also think it's incorrect to conflate kindness and good manners with being fake and insincere because, at least the people I've met who are fake and insincere people (brown nosers and manipulators if you need a more concise definition of what I mean by fake and insincere people) yes they can be good at making first impressions. They can come across as quite nice, at first. But if you spend any amount of time around them and actually pay attention, they are actually rude as hell. And it will always show at some point.

[midwestgothicisbestgothic]

This is exactly how "Midwestern nice" is viewed. no, we're genuinely being friendly and kind. We can't help that you're too jaded or unsympathetic to others to just accept geniality.

[prairie-daughter]

yonder

[heathyr]

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

[grandmacozy]

Midwestern Christmas aesthetic 🎁🛷🔔

[midwestgothicisbestgothic]

I wouldn't really say Van is my fave Yellowjacket but she's definitely the most valid for leaving New England for the Midwest

[nemfrog]

Tornado in Oklahoma. Die Vereinigten Staaten, das wunder der nationen. 1902.

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