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i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

#midwestern values #imagine being such a bitter person being kind to strangers genuinely upsets you

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Midwestern Christmas aesthetic 🎁🛷🔔

#Midwestcore #Christmas

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I wouldn't really say Van is my fave Yellowjacket but she's definitely the most valid for leaving New England for the Midwest

#midwest #van palmer #yellowjackets #ohio #midwest gothic #yellowjackets spoilers

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Tornado in Oklahoma. Die Vereinigten Staaten, das wunder der nationen. 1902.

Internet Archive

#oklahoma #tornadoes

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Paint Tomorrow Blue

Ohio

#ohio #midwestcore #(the REAL kind not this weird poorly lit gas station next to a leafless forest w/e Tumblr thinks it is) #midwest

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They treat Midwesterners (overwhelmingly lower and working class families) the same way 🙃

Gen Z is fucked because they don’t consider actions to be inherently evil but only evil within the context of people they deem “deserving” of punishment, so now everyone’s a psychopathic little busybody with a hero complex thinking they can play judge, jury and executioner.

#and unlike the south nobody ever actually stands up for us either

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found this creepy little gem in the middle of nowhere that had the most incredibly unsettling aura about it

#I'm not seeing the creepy aura though #it looks like a sweet little crib to me #midwest gothic

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“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a free breath."

—Willa Cather, O Pioneers

#midwestcore #quotes #willa cather #o! pioneers

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“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.”

Willa Cather, My Antonia

#my antonia #willa cather #midwestcore #quotes

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"A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West."

Jane Hamilton

#midwest #quotes #jane hamilton #words #midwestern things #midwest culture #midwest gothic #midwestern values #ohio river #midwestcore #ohio #minnesota #wisconsin #iowa #south dakota #north dakota #nebraska #kansas #indiana #illinois #missouri #michigan #flexibility #openness #strength

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“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land. The lushness of the grass and trees in August, the roll of the hills (far less of the Midwest is flat than outsiders seem to imagine), the rich smell of soil, the evening sunlight over a field of wheat, or the crickets chirping at dusk on a residential street: All of it, it has always made me feel at peace. There is room to breathe, there is a realness of place. The seasons are extreme, but they pass and return, pass and return, and the world seems far steadier than it does from the vantage point of a coastal city. Certainly picturesque towns can be found in New England or California or the Pacific Northwest, but I can't shake the sense that they're too picturesque. On the East Coast, especially, these places seem to me aggressively quaint, unbecomingly smug, and even xenophobic, downright paranoid in their wariness of those who might somehow infringe upon the local charm. I suspect this wariness is tied to the high cost of real estate, the fear that there might not be enough space or money and what there is of both must be clung to and defended. The West Coast, I think, has a similar self-regard...and a beauty that I can't help seeing as show-offy. But the Midwest: It is quietly lovely, not preening with the need to have its attributes remarked on. It is the place I am calmest and most myself.”

Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

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Finally, someone gets it.

#quotes #midwest #curtis sittenfeld #american wife #books #words #prose #aesthetic #midwestern things #midwest gothic #midwestern values #midwest culture #wisconsin #iowa #illinois #minnesota #ohio #indiana #michigan #missouri #south dakota #north dakota #kansas #beauty #west coast #east coast #new england #pacific northwest

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"You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard."

Dean Norris

#quotes #midwest #dean norris #midwest culture #midwestcore #midwestern things #words #growth

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Iowa Rolling Autumn Mist by Cole Chase Photography Via Flickr: Morning fog and rolling hills in the Mississippi river valley of Northeast Iowa.

#iowa #nothing beats a midwestern fall #autumn

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Everyone loves dandelions, especially cows! Other treats cows enjoy are bananas, apples, pears, oranges, pumpkins, carrots, watermelons, and cacti.

🐄 Iowa Farm Sanctuary

#cows #midwestcore #iowa #precious

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#wisconsin #wildlife

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abandoned midwest houses by Jessica McDaniel

#midwestcore #abandoncore