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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 36 points 4 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.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 89 points 4 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.

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you, that makes sense. It's nice to see young people respect their elders :^)

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

I think if I just continue cooking my mind with enough Brace rants I'll eventually become a good version of BMF

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Meh, I always thought everything was pretty straight forward and textual, maybe I misinterpretated it.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1dqmbu1/when_the_heavens_gate_ufo_cult_did_a_mass_suicide/

All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" (one of many instances of the group's use of the nomenclature of the fictional universe of Star Trek).

least psychotic Captain Janeway stans

There's at least 4 layers of decoding necessary to parse this post.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Idk, it's mostly just knowing about Heaven's Gate and their idiosyncratic pop culture use, with abit of internet slang. It's just three layers of pop culture, and one layer of UFO death cult culture. I guess I'm so used to it I barely even register it as sub-text. Yikes.

But also, haven't read this one before! Yet another fascinating BMF point, though one I have heard expressed before.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is sounding like the Pynchon of posting.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 16 points 4 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.

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 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…

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Tradwives really out here dressing like lesbians, except much like a heterosexual trad-douche, they really struggle with like everything aesthetically

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 22 points 4 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)

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