The Thing About Cottagecore Is That Is A Fetishized Aesthetic Of Country Life, Divorced From Labor And

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

More Posts from Cutoffsignals and Others

2 years ago
Night Hunt By John Brosio
Night Hunt By John Brosio
Night Hunt By John Brosio

Night Hunt by John Brosio


Tags
2 years ago
This Was Intended To Be A Valentine's Day Painting But I Like It So Much That I Wanna Show It To Everyone

This was intended to be a Valentine's day painting but I like it so much that I wanna show it to everyone as soon as possible šŸ˜… My emotional state was so dark lately that no matter how many times I told myself to use lighter colors, it ended up all neon and black, and blue, and purple...


Tags
10 years ago

MOON

1 year ago
Red Dragon

red dragon

wallpaper sizes / prints


Tags
2 years ago

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun


Tags
1 year ago

Leftism teaches you that the most annoying people in the world can have the exact same opinions as you. And they'll still get on your nerves

2 years ago

Always thought a fun horror piece would be a twilight-zone style narrated horror series where the Rod Serling figure is both diegetic and also very clearly trying to help out the protagonists without getting caught; raising his voice at an opportune moment to distract the characters from something dangerous to look at, taking plot critical documents out of a desk and putting them in plain view in the background of shots, moving around an office during the opening Serling Speil unlocking all the doors and windows, and in the climax the protagonists are able to crawl out a previously locked window. In the final episode the freak of the week notices he’s there, goes, ā€œoh, this asshole again,ā€ and abandons their pursuit of the nominal protagonist in order to kill the narrator who (and this is crucial) spends the whole chase sequence moving at the exact same measured pace, speaking in the exact same measured, overprepared monologue, as the antagonist blunders into carefully-prepared environmental hazard after environmental hazard. This is the narrator’s house. You’re visiting, but he lives here, and now he’s decided that he’s the story he’s narrating is Home Alone.

5 months ago

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

Answering A Couple Questions I Got On This Post Since I Realized Ppl Genuinely Wanna Know:

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

Answering A Couple Questions I Got On This Post Since I Realized Ppl Genuinely Wanna Know:

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

Answering A Couple Questions I Got On This Post Since I Realized Ppl Genuinely Wanna Know:

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.


Tags
  • riddled-with-fear
    riddled-with-fear liked this · 1 week ago
  • m30wsprite
    m30wsprite liked this · 1 week ago
  • prospitsdream
    prospitsdream reblogged this · 1 week ago
  • prospitsdream
    prospitsdream liked this · 1 week ago
  • portmanteaublerone
    portmanteaublerone reblogged this · 1 week ago
  • silkthespider
    silkthespider reblogged this · 1 week ago
  • silkthespider
    silkthespider liked this · 1 week ago
  • cicidoesntlivehere
    cicidoesntlivehere liked this · 1 week ago
  • 50tabsopen
    50tabsopen liked this · 1 week ago
  • hu3sitos
    hu3sitos liked this · 1 week ago
  • freshflowerpiecolor-blog
    freshflowerpiecolor-blog liked this · 1 week ago
  • rubyraven01
    rubyraven01 liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • horror-n-opinions
    horror-n-opinions reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • new-romantics-haybekah
    new-romantics-haybekah liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • gen3pony
    gen3pony liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • just-a-second-or-two
    just-a-second-or-two liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • agoddamnedrayofsunshine
    agoddamnedrayofsunshine liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • astressedlittlejaybird
    astressedlittlejaybird liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • catherinevongro
    catherinevongro reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • astronautme
    astronautme reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • calloutyourghosts
    calloutyourghosts reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • calloutyourghosts
    calloutyourghosts liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • vexx-the-egg
    vexx-the-egg reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • vexx-the-egg
    vexx-the-egg liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • elderredraccoon
    elderredraccoon reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • elderredraccoon
    elderredraccoon liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • abodeglued
    abodeglued reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • abodeglued
    abodeglued liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • fathermulcahyofficial
    fathermulcahyofficial liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • scienceprojectrunaway
    scienceprojectrunaway reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • scienceprojectrunaway
    scienceprojectrunaway liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • the-reddened
    the-reddened reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • the-reddened
    the-reddened liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • opossumfury
    opossumfury reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • maxadieu
    maxadieu reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • marseny
    marseny reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • aerosolsprite
    aerosolsprite reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • elizabats
    elizabats liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • zydratenote
    zydratenote reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • landofwindandthrowingshade
    landofwindandthrowingshade reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • landofwindandthrowingshade
    landofwindandthrowingshade liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • theeldritchdisaster
    theeldritchdisaster reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • argentinianidiota
    argentinianidiota reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • sapphicmandalorian
    sapphicmandalorian liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • emrylurkeroftheloch
    emrylurkeroftheloch reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • lywinis
    lywinis reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • cryptidcanidae
    cryptidcanidae reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • cryptidcanidae
    cryptidcanidae liked this · 2 weeks ago
  • grumpalpha
    grumpalpha reblogged this · 2 weeks ago
  • simplyangelicinsanity
    simplyangelicinsanity liked this · 2 weeks ago
cutoffsignals - no. 1 goose barnacle fan
no. 1 goose barnacle fan

seth (ambivalent)

213 posts

Explore Tumblr Blog
Search Through Tumblr Tags