the only reason #cottagecore is considered a gen z thing is bc its a hashtag. it used to be called transcendentalism when offline men did it
Henry David Thoreau having all of his meals sent to him and laundry done while patting himself on the back for being such a back-to-the-land individualist: #simpleliving #aesthetic #waldenpond #cottagecore
did you refer to your high school as just “*name* high” like they do in the movies like “east high” or “sky high” or did you always add “school” to the end of it
fuck “girl lunch” fuck “girl math” a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.
ppl are tagging this post with things like ‘ooh i want to meet a woman like this’ or with specific characters which kind of misses the point i was trying to make. ALL WOMEN ARE LIKE THIS. IT STANDS IN CONTRAST TO NOTHING. WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND IT.
new roommate moved in yesterday and his entire family showed up to help him move and when I came back from getting coffee with one of my committee members today they had ??? turned off all of the lamps in the common room ?? and turned on the overhead lights ????
you know what, fuck it, actually, maybe the reason my traitorous Latin student heart cares about vane is that he’s. the aeneas of the piece.
flint is so smart and so cunning and so /wily/, always six steps ahead, master manipulator, can talk his way into and out of anything. loses significant parts of his crew on the regular bc that’s not his priority. he has an overarching goal and nothing can make him forget it and he’ll kill you to get there and he’ll also let you die on accident because whoops, failed experiment, but let’s try it again. wily odysseus.
but vane is the aeneas to that. brutal, straightforward. not clever, but stalwart. the one /getting/ manipulated. sees the bigger picture, but easily distracted by (a) pretty face(s). ultimately here for the people around him: protect and provide for your own, everything else is secondary. bull-headed and merciless but guided by some weird twisted internal moral compass that only he is aware of. the worst, but in a distinctly different way from flint, who is also the worst.
hate that they’re getting me in my classics sensibilities, that feels. unfair.
some time ago i introduced the phrase “food pact” to my friends as a shorthand for “i’ll go make and eat food if you also make and eat food” and ever since then ive just started incorporating more pacts into my life. stay hydrated pact. stretch break pact. stop doomscrolling and go to bed pact. we need to bring this back in vogue more people should be making pacts imo
the best part of this is when you ask “who wants to do a shower pact” and you get a half dozen friends all rolling up saying “the pact is sealed”. faustian behavior