#rose tag

[bridgeport-witches]

But I’m sure you’ll be fine.

[k1mdokjas]

If the other post actually posts, then ignore it. But would you all like to see our TBR?

[stigmata-and-the-light]

[needleanddead]

some rose whump doodle sketches.....

[cure-whimsy]

🎧

I don't have any remark to make on this one hehe

[kerizaret]

COOL DOJI DANSHI!!!

THEM EVER!!!!!!

[applestorms]

i think cottagecore is like the ultimate anti-rape culture white woman fantasy. it's a vision of reality where Girls* go to picnics and feed each other strawberries and kiss behind the willow trees, where nothing is ever bad or hurtful in a truly meaningful way, where love and safety is the unifying factor of reality. i'm frankly more surprised that some people ever thought this had anything to do with actual rural country life or farming-- at it's center, cottagecore is not just interested in getting away from the city to get away from capitalism or the other struggles of modern life. it's also, fundamentally, about getting away from Men, to a utopian garden of eden on the outskirts where Men simply do not exist, and therefore cannot harm or rape you.

*white, cis, skinny, traditionally attractive, etc.

so many of the Comforting aesthetics and purity politics that we have come to cultivate online in recent years come down to this idea, in my opinion-- a desire to find a Safe Space, to fade away into the fantasy of your Comfort Characters, to find the one singular location of true Stability in a world where everything else is fated to be horrible and terrible forever. it's the negative space of doomer culture, the pessimism that blew up after trump's first election, after the color-blind ignorance of the obama era was sufficiently destroyed by a horror so visible and blatant you simply cannot look away from it. it's no wonder so many of these aesthetics and ideas blew up to the degree that they did during 2020, in the midst of so much global instability and hopelessness. people wanted, and still want, something Pure and Good to take shelter within in the face of all this Evil-- a shell you can hide inside where everything will be perfect forever even as the storm rages on outside, beyond your control and beyond what you want to think about.

it's a flawed way of thinking, of course. black and white to an extreme. you can never find a place that is truly Pure and Good to the intense standards that you set, simply by nature of how those standards themselves are made and enforced-- not only are people simply too complex and nuanced, but the desire for something Freed From Evil itself inherently creates a more and more impossible standard, that is either overly-regulatory of anything that could be even a speck of Problematic™, or is necessarily blind to its own faults and biases (e.g. cottagecore as white lesbian tradwives). and, on the other side, the world outside is not Pure Evil either-- there is still hope to be found, ways in which we can make our systems work For Us, and ways in which we can change them (though those approaches may be difficult or require collaborative effort we, at the moment, simply have not coordinated).

[pissmotif]

42 and jeg pretty pleaseeee

42. “Stop being so cute.” for this ask game

"Reg, baby, you've gotta let me up," James murmured, his lips pressed to the crown of Regulus' head.

"No," Regulus mumbled, nuzzling further into James' chest, "stay in bed."

"I've gotta go to work," James replied, his hand trailing up and down Regulus' spine, "so you've gotta let go."

"Nuhuh," Regulus lifted his head, pouting at James, "call in sick, spend the day with me."

"I can't, baby, someone's gotta pay the bills," James shifted as if he was going to get up, but Regulus just clung tighter, letting out a whine of disagreement.

"Stop being so cute," James huffed, but he stopped trying to get up, his hand continuing to draw patterns on Regulus' skin. Regulus settled back onto his chest, knowing he'd won.