#cottagegore

new craft with 90% thrifted material!!

EJ's Aesthetic of the Day:

Cottagegoth 🪾🌫️

Time Period of Origin: Early 2020s

Inspirations & Influences: Appreciation for the dangerous aspects of the wilderness, darker counterpart to Cottagecore, finding beauty in imperfection, isolated/hermit lifestyles, respecting the powerful forces of the natural world, dark fairytales/folklore, witchcraft

Colors: Black, forest green, gray, faded brown, off-white

Visual Themes & Motifs: Poisonous plants, dense fog, overgrown forests, animal bones, rundown cottages, rural cemeteries, decaying trees, rainy weather

Characteristics: Solitary, macabre, melancholic, dark, untamed

Fashion: Flowy black lace dresses, puffy-sleeved shirts, Victorian/Edwardian lace-up boots, flare-sleeved maxi dresses

Hair & Makeup: Long messy hair, loose braids, pale/pasty skin, black lipstick, smudged brown/black/dark green eyeshadow

Accessories: Black onyx pendants, velvet chokers, hooded capes/cloaks, mourning veils, nature-themed silver jewelry, black painted nails

Film & TV: The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Over the Garden Wall (2014), The Cabin in the Woods (2011), It Comes at Night (2017), Mama (2013), The Witch (2015), Yellowjackets (2021-present), Wuthering Heights (2011)

"Having lost all of her offspring to predation and disease, often an entire litter at a time, Mother Rabbit had grown weary of life itself. This made her stumble into Fudge's cabin, hidden deep in the woods of north."

"Listening to the story of her life over a cup of tea, Fudge related with Mother Rabbit. She, too, knew what it was like to lose the taste for life. However, she is not one to share the secret of how she found something that seemed forever lost. As a fox, Fudge is a predator, a reaper for those who have lost all hope."

"Mother Rabbit asked for the sorrow of her life to be immortalised; she had bravely carried on in her life and so on she would in death. They went to bed and Fudge strangled Mother Rabbit, gently holding Mother Rabbit's jugular veins until she fell asleep, never to wake up again. Then, Fudge was soon busy with work. Stitching, cutting and sewing."

"Forever holding an casket of eggs, each fertile with a little bird inside, one that will never hatch from it's cold, dead world to feel the warmth sun or fly in the skies. A perfect Easter Bunny. Fudge invited her good friend, Natalia, for a tea. Natalia found herself utterly delighted, not expecting that her dear friend would sew together an entire stuffed rabbit and gift it to her, on Easter no less. Natalia has hatched a plan to craft something equally grand to gift for Fudge in Christmas."