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I’m everywhere I’ll ever be.

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ig: skogmesterboligen 🌾

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entre yourself into every scene

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𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔

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Vallone dei Mulini, Sorrento, Italy ( via )

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Hideaway ♡

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Cottage ruin. Kerry, Ireland.

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The small pond, frosted.

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“little beast” richard siken / “samson” regina spektor / “fatima and manoubia” by alexandre roubtzoff / “break my heart” joy harjo / sappho trans. anne carson / “ginger and olive oil” by moju manuli

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sometimes you just have to make a comfy nest of blankets in a warm room and feel like a creature for a bit

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24.10-21

More of this. :3

- Vivera Rossi

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The Gardener’s House at the Palace of Versailles, France

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soup and bread are like the only things that matter and maybe God

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Faverolles foraging in Fall!

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Look, if you can watch science fiction like Avatar or even some of the MCU movies (the Thor movies come to mind), you should be able to understand the criticism surrounding "cottagecore."

And look, I get the appeal of cottagecore. I get the appeal of escaping it all and starting over in nature. In fact, I'm not the only one who has noticed there's been an increase in the interest in witchcraft that can sometimes intersect with the interest in cottagecore in this last year or so, and it makes sense. Many of us were scared and imprisoned in this state of uncertainty. We couldn't go out. Everything was closed. So, yeah, it makes sense that many of us fantasized about being out there in the wild. It makes sense that we would envy people who had always been living a life without the hustle and bustle. We viewed them as people who had an essential connection to nature that we had all lost.

But here's the thing...those people? Those disenfranchised people? Indigenous people? They don't get to be tourists, and whether you want to believe it or not, that's what we "city folk" are. We are tourists. And in the year 2020 alone, those places that are more often ignored by city folk (especially white city folk) increased in popularity. Nature walks, hiking, and camping suddenly became favored hobbies of people who had no interest in it all before, but unfortunately, many who took these hobbies did so with little respect for the land or the people who lived in these areas. Everyone likes to joke about that "gender reveal" party in California, but the truth of the matter is that fire burned for almost a month. And let's be honest, "gender reveal" parties are a product of mostly white suburban culture. It's for clout. It's about throwing a big party to celebrate traditional gender roles that we should have moved past enforcing. It's about being able to post your "big shebang" on social media to outdo the other suburban white people. But what makes this case special is that these suburban white people decided to take this "tradition" outside of their own space to someone else's, and they ended up damaging an ecosystem because of it, and they had no regard for the people who actually LIVED here.

But again, I get it. I get the appeal of cottagecore and the great outdoors. It's not bad to see the appeal of it. It's not bad to want to visit these places mostly untouched by modernization. However, you can do so while also being respectful. You can do so while acknowledging that these places don't really belong to you. I mean, even if you have no desire to travel to these places (or don't have the means to), you can still make yourself aware of the consequences that occur when people have no respect for the places they are traveling to or the local people and/or indigenous people who live there.

And no...white Europeans are not excluded from this conversation.