• Comp4 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Sorry for being a boomer mom-type character archetype. Could you explain how solarpunk and cottagecore connect and why they are good but can be coopted? I honestly need to google cottagecore again; I remember hearing the word, but I’m not that online yet, I guess.

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      5 months ago

      Cottagecore was a lesbian aesthetic about escaping heteronormative society and going off grid. It got turned into a tradwife aesthetic about neo lebensraum. Solarpunk is similar, but the way it gets coopted is via green capitalism washing away the revolutionary parts of solarpunk and replacing them with consumerism of the eco friendly variety.

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            5 months ago

            The sad part for me is that BMF was always completely legible to me, but I don’t think I can cook myself enough to ever actually post like that because I despise obscure jargonism.

            Please continue your journey to become whitehat BMF.

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              Nah I think what set BMF apart was not so much the jargon, but assuming that the reader could keep up with immense amounts of subtext and implied meaning; usually their posts were long sequences of quotations followed by replies that imply several layers of contradicting and layered cultural criticisms, which you could only keep up with if you synchronized your mind to theirs in a fundamental way.

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        5 months ago

        Wait the lesbians did cottagecore first? Thats cool and makes me feel better about it. There’s a minecraft youtuber I like called GeminiTay who’s wlw and before she came out she was doing Cottagecore builds in Minecraft and people found it unsuprising when she came out as bi because of this lol.

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        5 months ago

        I think a really strong example of this is the fact that the most popular thing to showcase the solarpunk aesthetic is a freaking ad for a yoghurt brand that comes in disposable plastic packaging…

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      It’s alright, auntie, lol.

      For cottagecore - I think it’s the fascist idealization of a past that never really existed. I’ve never really thought about the connection between cottagecore and solar punk, but I could see both having a twee idealized rural life aesthetic (with solar punk adding a dash of sci-fi)