vibes/aesthetic i adore: the spooky background artwork from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? cartoon, foggy deep coniferous woods, flowy floral dresses, combat fashion boots, overflowing libraries, large mugs of hot tea, Animal Crossing & Legend of Zelda games, clear starry nights, lavender fields, chunky sweaters, overcast days, Agatha Christie adaptations & books, Jane Austen adaptations & books, my birthstone peridot, doilies & lace trimming, A Christmas Carol re-read in December, original Dracula re-read in October, walks in tree-filled parks, the smell of a campfire, the Pacific Northwest, ghost stories, happy endings, Hades & Persephone, Beauty & the Beast, historical & contemporary romance books, Studio Ghibli films & movie soundtracks, cats basking in the sun, the planet Jupiter, the yearning of the romantic leading characters in period dramas, marking off accomplished tasks on a checklist, dogs happy to see you, quoting classic Monty Python lines, watching all three extended Lord of the Rings films, Spock being his endearingly logical self on Star Trek TOS, Enya music, ballet flats, the Anne of Green Gables series & The Winternight Trilogy, the autumn season, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games, the show Foyle's War, witch hats, stacks of books all over your home, the smell of the Oregon coast beaches, mermaid & bronze octopus decor, a slice or two of strawberry shortcake, piles of cozy blankets, gilded hardcover books with ribbon bookmarks, thunderstorms, cottonwood trees along a gently flowing river, butterflies & bees in a wild garden, Converse sneakers, small chubby birds, snowy mountaintops, making your partner belly laugh, The Golden Girls, the Ocean Eyes album by Owl City, Masterpiece Theatre & Mystery!, being entirely silly & definitely not stopping, playing Lord Huron & Foals & CHVRCHES & AURORA & Lights & First Aid Kit & MARINA music on repeat, coffee table books featuring flowers & astrophotography, old photos of lost family you've never met but you just know would love & be proud of you, Robert Stack-era Unsolved Myteries, beautiful cursive writing in old letters from decades long past, reading the Sebastian St Cyr & William Monk & Her Royal Spyness & the Gaslight Mystery book series, getting the next book in a series you've been collecting for a while, The Mummy (1999) & The Mummy Rreturns (2001) movies, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, the Jurassic Park original 3 films, collecting pretty & cute stickers & never sticking them on anything because it's too much pressure & heartbreakingly final, collecting pretty notebooks & never writing in them because it never seems worthy enough, lilac trees, blood red roses, learning that one of your great-grandfathers' favorite flower was the forget-me-not, learning that another one was named Cornelius, plague doctor-themed accessories & decor, buying yet another plushie or 5, Tiffany lamps, witchy music like Florence + the Machine & Hozier, small telescopes & binoculars to spy on the Galilean moons, Bigfoot decor, a cat's activation chirp/meow when they wake up, synthwave music, Murder She Wrote, Garak & Martok on DS9, wearing nerdy hoodies, very specific pins & stickers, macarons & tea while watching Sherlock
