Preen.ph
  • Home
  • Profiles
  • Fashion
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Food
  • Space
  • Events
Social Accounts
82K
14K
5K
4K
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
82K Likes
14K Followers
5K Followers
4K Subscribers
Subscribe
Preen.ph
Preen.ph
  • Home
  • Profiles
  • Fashion
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Food
  • Space
  • Events
  • Culture
  • Culture Stories

“Is that too much to ask for?”: Why cottagecore fans are turning their back on the city lights

  • Posted on April 16, 2020April 17, 2020
  • 2 minute read
  • Amrie Cruz
Total
12
Shares
Share 12
Tweet 0

preen cottagecore

There are days when the hustle and bustle of the city is too much and real-life hits you like a freight train. The bills keep piling up, the competition is always fierce and you can barely give yourself time to look at the flowers (if there are any in your neighborhood). Sometimes the slickness of urbanity loses its wonder and looks as if it houses horrors akin to the ones we’ve seen in movies like “Invisible Man” or “Parasite.” Growing up, we learn to be more flexible with our dreams so our every day doesn’t seem as drab in comparison. 

View this post on Instagram

A fairytale •°•°•°•°•..

A post shared by •´¯`•. Cottagecore .•´¯`• (@pawj.amas) on Apr 16, 2020 at 1:30am PDT

On the internet, people in their teens and early 20s are turning to cottagecore and dreaming up alternate lives far, far, away from the city lights. This escapist romance has captivated the imagination of a number of people, which is perhaps one of the reasons why games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley are big hits right now. We’re wishing for simpler times even though many of us probably have no idea how hard it is to run a farm or live without modern comforts we’re so used to having. In reality, it’s not all rosy but it’s still fun to think about. 

hear me out: a cottagecore-esque game where you live in a cottage with an ethical farm, take care of wild animals, pick mushrooms, go to farmers markets, decorate the forest and your cottage, wear cute cottage outfits, have picnics by the lake with ur friends etc 🥺 pic.twitter.com/E3ztdswvDo

— emily 🍓 (@veryhotcrosser) April 12, 2020

If you’ve been paying high rent for an apartment that’s more closet space and hounded by deadlines, living in a small cottage with an adjacent orchard or farmland with a fluffy cow might sound like a dream. The luxury is tranquility and the illusion of going at your own pace. Is a life closer to nature more forgiving? The pictures in our heads seem to say so. 

I mean the ultimate ULTIMATE dream, is to live in a small cottage in a forest with an orchard and farm land. With pet bunnies, a fluffy cow, and a cat or dog to keep me company while I pick fruit from the trees and get vegetables from the garden. pic.twitter.com/nRazMFq36M

— Chlobo (@ghesioofoh) April 13, 2020

Twitter account @apastoraldream perfectly captures the charm and allure of cottagecore. It’s not just a longing to be surrounded by plants and animals (although those are key factors). It’s a longing to be privy to the kindness of life and the living. 

you knit a woolen jumper to keep the smallest lamb warm

— pastoral fantasies (@apastoraldream) March 30, 2020

Among cottagecore fans, the question “Is that too much to ask for?” often comes up. What they’re looking to have doesn’t seem like a lot but it’s not easy to obtain. The city beckons for us because we need steady sources of income and more services are available the nearer you are to the capital.

I just want to live in a cottage on a small farm and wear overalls exclusively for the rest of my natural life!!! Is that too much to ask!!

— hannah is hibernating (@frrecklles) April 15, 2020

So for now, we have to make do with creating serenity for ourselves wherever we go. If cottagecore is an attitude and an aesthetic, it doesn’t just exist in provinces and in the provinces of minds. Turn your life into a romance if you please, don’t let geography stop you. Anyway, your farm dreams are just that: a fairytale.

View this post on Instagram

#cottagecore #photography #edits

A post shared by am+km (@dumb_guts) on Apr 16, 2020 at 2:17am PDT

 
 

Photo courtesy of Unsplash

Follow Preen on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Viber

Related Stories:
A guide to the nostalgic and colorful world of kidcore
Video games to remind you that the outside world still exists
What we can learn from the staying-at-home pros: our pets
How to take care of your pets during the lockdown

Action Required!

We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. It may collects your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Accept    Decline

Total
12
Shares
Share 12
Tweet 0
Share 0
Related Topics
  • aesthetic
  • cottagecore
  • country
  • culture
  • culture stories
  • farm
  • farmcore
  • living
  • mindset
  • nature
Previous Article
  • Culture
  • Roundups

If 1D’s reunion happens, these groups should come back too

  • Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020
  • Jacqueline Arias
View Post
Next Article
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Politics

3 tips to avoid gaslighting from our government

  • Posted on April 16, 2020September 25, 2020
  • Jacqueline Arias
View Post
You May Also Like
View Post
  • Culture
  • TV

K-dramas are doing second leads so dirty

  • Posted on January 22, 2021January 22, 2021
  • Lia delos Reyes
jojo siwa coming out tiktok
View Post
  • Celebrities
  • Culture
  • LGBT

Did Jojo Siwa really come out through a TikTok?

  • Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021
  • Amrie Cruz
preen vaccine passport bills poe cayetano
View Post
  • Culture
  • Health
  • Politics

Everything we know about the vaccine passport bills so far

  • Posted on January 21, 2021
  • Amrie Cruz
preen greta thunberg trump
View Post
  • Culture
  • Politics

Greta Thunberg’s funny farewell to Trump is in a league of its own

  • Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021
  • Amrie Cruz
Editors’ Picks
  • preen_losing-coworkers
    The 2020 office heartbreak? Losing coworkers
    • Posted on November 16, 2020November 23, 2020
    • 3 minute read
  • Here’s why we need to support student strikes
    • Posted on November 16, 2020November 23, 2020
    • 4 minute read
  • Why is a learning module fat-shaming Angel Locsin?
    • Posted on November 14, 2020November 23, 2020
    • 3 minute read
  • Check out this list of donation drives for Typhoons Rolly and Ulysses
    • Posted on November 13, 2020November 28, 2020
    • 3 minute read
  • preen typhoon ulysses victims insensitivity
    Don’t tell flood survivors that they should’ve moved houses
    • Posted on November 12, 2020November 23, 2020
    • 2 minute read
Social Accounts
82K
14K
5K
4K
Like us on facebook
Subscribe to our Newsletter
about
Preen.ph © 2020. Hinge Inquirer Publications, Inc.
Social Accounts

Input your search keywords and press Enter.