#Camo americana

[khandedoe]

All good must come to an end

[desvampyr]

i hand embroidered this hat i got from the thrift store it took 6 hours to remove the previous machine embroidery and 10 hours to hand embroider it @mothercain

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[222cunty]

layering szn

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[chessboxingstreetwear]

BAPE

[powerlineprincess]

☆☆Good evening🌾🦌

[paradiserotting]

kissing the ground he stomps on

[e-mptyflowerfields]

Manifesting finding a real tree camo sweatshirt next time I go thrifting

[shotsshoddy]

[goregrindgal]

i find beauty in the grotesque and macabre

[holysonofthechapel]

Camo jacket robbing corner stores

@camojacketfag / Ethel Cain inspired fit

[khandedoe]

Enjoy this draft of a song I’ve been working on :)

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Marissa R. Moss at Rolling Stone:

In 2016, at what became an ill-fated celebration to hopefully usher in the first female president, there was not one country music performer at the Democratic National Convention. There were pop stars like Demi Lovato, Lenny Kravitz, and Lady Gaga, but there wasn’t a single performance that drew from the country or Americana worlds. This was a mistake, clearly: The attitude was that country music and Southern/rural stuff was for Trumpers, and to be avoided at all costs, and that doesn’t end well when you’re trying to win an election, or understand the American public at large on a level deeper than “red state bad.” There are blue voters in those red states, if you get them to the polls, but you have to speak — or sing — their language to get them there.  

The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, wherein we’ll once again make a go for a female president, looked and sounded a whole lot different from eight years ago. There weren’t big pop-star performances (though surely they are coming), but there was country: a country artist, Mickey Guyton, and a country person, Jason Isbell, singing “Something More than Free” with his unmistakable Alabama drawl in front of an image of a barn with an American flag on it. These signifiers have been generally reserved for Trump rallies when it comes to the Venn diagram of music and recent politics, with country music’s conservative core latching on to the jingoist beat in earnest since 9/11, though the alliance between the two dates back far longer. 

By opening their convention with Isbell and Guyton, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz seem to want to change that, with the cherry on top appearing in the form of a Harris/Walz camouflage baseball hat released a few weeks ago — it sold out instantly. But it’s country artists like Jason Aldean, who appeared at the Republican National Convention and engages in the workingman’s sport of country club golf with former president Trump, who like to own this sort of symbolism. His 2019 album, 9, even contained a song called “Camouflage Hat.” That’s the genius work of this one small bit of Harris/Walz merch. The hat reclaims the rural and Southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored, all in with the power of one nifty little cap. Ella Emhoff proudly wore hers last night, while Walz displayed his own — also camouflage — Jason Isbell hat backstage. 

Meanwhile, it’s the Trump supporters who are the ones getting country music wrong, soundtracking their TikTok videos in support of the ex-president with none other than The Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which was written after their expulsion from Nashville in the wake of anti-Iraq War comments and their refusal to apologize. This baffling phenomenon by the right seems to come from either an inability to Google, or an assumption that everything country music must be conservative, and it’s hard to decide which is worse. 

Between Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and The Chicks, the DNC was eager to embrace country music. That is a good thing, as Republicans don’t have a monopoly on the genre. #DNC2024 #2024DNC

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[heartshapedcaskett]

Follow-up about why I dislike Ethel Cain tiktok fans: the other point I wanted to make in regards to stereotyping southerners was that I hate that audio that is like “are you wearing that (camo jacket) in a Ethel Cain vinyl way or in a conservative way?” I detest this audio because it condemns the aesthetics of the rural working class mainly southern working class. I constantly see these fans dressed in camo and cowboy boots talking about how they aren’t “rednecks” but instead Daughters of Cain. I’m all for reclamation of rural/southern aesthetics as a queer person. I indulge in this practice as well. However, the example I provided assumes that all southerners can be typecasted as ignorant and categorized as bigots based upon the way they dress.

It gives people the solace of seeing a blue collar worker in public and condemning them to assumptions that they are right-wing bigots cause they choose to wear camo, boots, americana, Marlboro apparel, or distressed work clothes.

[arrayed-in-purple]

Hi y'all, call me Lux, 25y, genderqueer (any pronouns), pan :)

More info below the cut:

Just a Southern Gothic born human raised and living in Gothic Europe.

Haunter of places, seeker of art, collector of things.

Obsessed with the aesthetics of horror, Southern gothic, American gothic, flesh, blood, cannibalism, religious art, eschatology, anatomy, dark art, and all that is strange and unusual.

Child of Cain, music obsessed (anything and everything, especially dark or spooky), lover of cinema (horror, thriller, neo noir, surrealist and weird), art (any and all kinds), fashion (workwear/utility/camo/americana), photograpy, purple, root beer, chocolate, and of the connections people forge, especially queer ones.

I post things from my very large and ever expanding personal archive, and sometimes my own writings and photos.

Always happy to make friends so reach out if you want (let's exchange music!) :)