It’s uncomfortable trying to dismantle and disentangle the reasons for personal categorization, separate from the ones created and promoted by algorithms and social media. Maybe we all need to spend a little less time coming up with new aesthetic definitions and spend more time embracing the aesthetics organic to ourselves.
The rise of the cottagecore aesthetic is a movement made stationary because of its overemphasis on aesthetics that prematurely quells true movement and renders its naturalist ethos hollow.
