I'm glad we're all enjoying the Lunar New Year and all the beautiful red dragon art, but I would bet that no Western country is enjoying the art more than Wales.
"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.
since i’ve gotten multiple asks about it i feel the need to explain: making joke dashboard simulator is so easy it’s text formatting do it with me it’s just
🥑 Blogname Follow
here’s where you write your silly fake post. to format the title, it’s just emoji icon, blogname in bold, and follow in blue if you want to get zesty. Then you put a picture of that dark blue/black bar between posts to make it look like it’s over. ta da
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
I found out about Mari Lwyd - and I fell in love with the concept. Here are some of my Lwyd arts I drew during the last couple of years
The most recent art is here