#cottage core asks

[friend-crow]

Sprout and or a ask you havent gotten that you wanted to answer for the cottage core asks!

sprout: what is your favorite creative outlet?

Currently writing, though back before my body betrayed me it was metal work. It's hard to think about other shit when you're working with hot metal.

Thanks for asking!

cottage core asks

[resetmypatientviolence]

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🥞 Pancake: What is your favorite breakfast food? 

Oh boy, breakfast is top tier in general & I certainly look like a bitch who won’t say no to brunch. (And am proud of it!)

In a broad term: Eggs. I love me some eggs in almost any form. But when I think of a favorite breakfast with eggs, it’s one from my past.

My fam used to go to this little place on some weekends and they had the best fucking breakfast gyro skillet. Basically: eggs, gyro meat, peppers, onion, potatoes, feta, and then on the side, tzatziki. It hit all the points: savory, salty, and a nice and creamy neutral element.

I don’t miss many things about metro Detroit, but I do miss the abundance of middle eastern & Greek food that I’m a slut for.

Thank you for making me hungry, Anon!

[pawtrolling]

can i has a outfit board with a tan lop bunny! with gender neutral cozy outfit. can I have it sort of wilderness/outdoor themed? thankies!

bunny baby 🐇🌿

ohh i love lop bunnies :( they're so adorable! thank you for requesting @little-bunny-in-space ♡ hop on!!

☆ requests are open!

[anakin-highwalker]

Surprise; I dyed my hair again.

🌸🦄💖

[eliteseven]

Tav: How would you like your coffee?

Shadowheart: As dark and bitter as my soul

Tav: Ok so one glass of milk coming right up

Tav, concocting a glass consisting entirely of milk and sugar: Try not to burn yourself 😌

[moodymishhty]

moodboard on tulip garden please 🌷

Tulip Garden Mood Board

ty for the ask !

[lunar-witches]

Whimsical Asks

🧜🏻‍♀️ - If you were a mythical creature what would you be, and why would you choose that?

🦄 - You are gifted a mythical creature as a familiar what creature are you choosing?

☁️ - Describe in detail what your favourite type of weather is.

🪽 - Which would you rather have: The wings of a bird, wings of an angel, or wings of a faery?

🍄 - Uh oh! You accidentally ate a strange, glowing mushroom with magical properties. What magical gift would you want it to give you?

🌺 - If you could have a magical garden, what would you grow in it?

🌙 - Are you more lively during the day, or the night?

✨ - You see a shooting star! Tell us your wish!

🍰 - If you were baking a cake to describe yourself what ingredients are you using?

☕️ - Plan a tea party! What will you be serving and who are you choosing as guests?

🎨 - Would you rather be able to use paintings as a portal to new worlds, or be able to make anything you paint become real?

🏔️ - If you created your own magical world, what would it be like?

🕯️ - What are your secret dreams and hopes?

🔮 - Describe your most magical experience.

💌 - Have you ever, or would you ever, give(n) someone a handwritten love letter?

[fairydrowning]

"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

– Algernon Charles Swinburne

[paperw0rmz]

what is it like living in a farm?

Pretty dope, I like the personalities of our chickens and rooster they all do act pretty differently for the most part.

The cows too, slippers is a fucking cunt and will not function unless her lesbian lover/sister is with her and she will absolutely devour Demises’ food or water if she does not get to it immediately.

The cats are fun too, but like most know that.

Growing my own food was also hella fucking dope??? Like when people mean they can taste freshness they are not fucking lying I thought you’d might be able to tell if you learn it after time but no man if you gave me a store bought carrot and one that I grew I’d be able to tell. Carrots taste soooo much better if you grow it like it genuinely tastes like carrot x10.

The cons of it is of course being far as fuck away from society and as someone who is used to being able to walk for not even a minute to get a lil snack it is fucking hell.

The other con that’s also a pro is that well water tastes like actual shit when you first try it. Like I was able to taste every rock and dirt from it and it also made me sick at first too bc I wasn’t used to it (minorly not like anything that I couldn’t just sleep off) but now city water tastes like genuine fucking ass and now I taste all the chemicals.

Same con with well water is that there is no fucking fluoride in it and as a forgetful bitch this has been genuine hell for my teeth I fucking miss my fluoride water so bad dear lord please give me my gay frog chemical back PLEASE dentists are so fucking expensive.

The other con is that when it snows we have to plow our own road or just like suffer for like a few days.

Another con is the power goes out way more often and takes longer to come back. I like this though and wouldn’t put it as a con because those days when I don’t have power I get to focus on my hobbies and not be glued to my computer or phone.

I’m trying to think of more but like I can’t think of anything else

[hihopelessromantics]

making an nnt "god" a concrete thing with lore / biology. substance if you will. because committing to the bit is fun and nakaba missed out

inspired that the idea that not only should Meliodas and Elizabeth have a less human form but Tristan too! I love the different takes on their designs.

chapters cause this is long! and control f is our friend

canon adjacent lore

children of the gods

awakened god designs

the gods' chosen helpers

extra pet theory because I love y'all and I love elizabeth angst

@kalopsiakey @7-ratsinatrenchcoat thank you for helping out with the brainstorming for the tristan and melizabeth 'eldritch forms'! Hope you like the finished product!!

- - - - canon adjacent lore anyone ? - - - - -

In my aus, I usually go with the interpretation that the SD and DK are the latest two in a line of governing deities, with the others dying to various means. And the SD and DK blotted them out from public memory to establish the maximum amount of control for themselves.

In order to govern their realms, I propose it was a long-standing practice that gods would retain only a percentage of their power, and lend out the rest to trusted ones who help them ensure the safety and health of their realm. There might be other groups that the Archangels and Ten Commandments are in charge of!

Theoretically, this would also allow them to retain a form suitable to walk among their people. None of this taller than a castle shtick. Perhaps the DK and SD are physically magnified with their power. Part of their appearance is morphed by their will - the DK's armor, and the veil across the Supreme Diety's face seem to be symbols of their power. They can also be representative of how the DK was seen as an invincible opponent, and how now one knew the SD's true intentions but thought she's "too holy to look upon and find fault in."

To a god, sacrificing and dividing up your power (especially) in a time of peace is symbolic of trust and humility. In war, it could be neccessary to maintain one's prestige and honor as a monarch., Could mean that you value the ability to live as one of your people as one of them rather than as someone they worship.

- - - - children of the gods - - - -

What's the difference between something like the Supreme Diety and her daughter? Biologically, nothing, I'd assume. In nnt, "god" seems to be a state of being, asserted not simply by having power but by coming into your own and claiming it as you.

I propose that the gods are a conduit for that portion of their realm's magic that would otherwise roam freely, and that the other life in that realm has already absorbed, at birth, the limit each individual can handle. Biologically, that is.

For a goddess or demon to maintain that state in Britannia without cracking holes in the fabric of reality, there'd need to be some way to both reign in that power and dilute it down to a level that's manageable for that individual. And there probably are ways. Let's see what happened to Mel. His 'original powers,' when he accepted them, were raw and undivided; additionally, he had no clue how to manage a power influx of that extent and his mind was NOT in a good place to try and manage an extra extreme stressor. And uh. He has priors with letting his demon powers run amock in a destructive manner. If there's also a psychological component to how your godly powers act, that's the first uh-oh. Second uh - oh: he'd maintained complete certainty that unlocking them would have that kind of disastrous consequences for 3,000 years. self-fulfilling prophecies are a thing. especially if you believe that a demon's powers, specifically, their darkness, is deeply involved with their subconscious. Being 'a god' doesn't seem to logically coincide with being helpless. I think the real reason the DK and SD were trapped in their "bubbles" in their respective realms is their refusal to set aside that power, and walk as a simple demon or goddess even temporarily. A lack of will (in the gods' place) or a lack of control (Mel), rather than a lack of possibility. It makes it more interesting, I think!

In that case, the natural disasters we saw after Mel stepped into that power would be a result of the vast amount of demon realm magic accompanying him running completely amock in the wrong realm, interfering with the other magics present and the balance.

- - - - For "awakened god" designs! - - - -

I think Meliodas would want to keep his appearance mostly the same . . . just with more pizazz. Same with Zeldris, he seems to have it down pretty well already judging by his dramatic entrance in 4kota. If they're able to channel their powers well enough for this, I think they'd leave most 'monstrous' features toggled off while using this form except for their aura, and other associated demonic features such as wings, horns, and claws. They'd use the extra power boost to help their darkness roam with more versatility. Perhaps it'd form a tail behind them and coil about their horns and nearby loved ones like decorative, protective wreaths. It might lend a dragonlike flair to Meliodas, with several sets of horns about his face and dragonlike spines; and likewise, for Zeldris, some regal feathers and a simple, elegant floating crown - irremovable but loved - floating like a halo above his head.

I think Elizabeth would gain another pair of wings (if not more), and a dress of light in the same theme as Meliodas's assault mode outfit. She would have a magnificent crown of light, and she would hate it, she would complain that she didn't even wear a crown at her wedding, why does her magic think she'd want one? and she'd tear it off. every time. Maybe one day she'll accept it. Her brother-in-law tells her it's a symbol of how she'd given her heart, blood and breath to her realm, and to protecting the peace in Britannia, and that it's something she earned. But all she can see is this form is more grandiose than her mother's ever was, regardless of how much more like herself it looks than like some plain, no-faced worship-demanding statue. (That's how Meli describes her mother). Maybe one day! In the meantime, she released most of her original magic back to the Celestial Realm to assist in its revival. And covers up the crown with ribbons her husband sewed for her whenever she's prepping for a serious battle.

The special feature I came up with for what I'm calling Tristan's "awakened god form" is based on a biblical angel's wheels of eyes. That, except Twinkle stars, bright as a goddess's magic but as maneuverable as darkness, and they point in whichever direction he's focused on.

Wings would be feather-based, with darkness that weaves around them like the tounges of flames.

I think even the most high-level demons and goddesses would have less humanlike teeth in the back of their mouths accompanying their molars. Maybe just a little sharper, and much more durable. Maybe a second or third row of teeth that gets less prominent or even more retractable as it nears the lips. sharks come to mind. I'm jealous of their teeth. Why are ours so flimsy. Anyway. 7 rats proposed a demon / goddess child's noticably inhuman teeth might be like that of an anglerfish. Interesting idea.

Like. Uh- puts on a poetic narrator voice Like a wide smile, almost uncannily wide but almost like the way you walk with your feet pointed outward and not an emotion. And when he moves his mouth to speak or frown you can see little gleaming edges along his jaw like a set of jewels in a necklace. You're not sure what they are. Like spikes or horns but… from within. That ought to be decorative, you think, but you've thought the same about the demons’ sets of horns and their fangs and now that you think about it, the shapes surrounding the powered-up goddesses'… is they really magic or something supernatural beyond your mind’s comprehension. . . ?

As for the eyes - dark, demon-colored with swirling golden triskeles in the center. Since in normal form he already has the duality - and it makes sense considering how goddess and demon powers present themselves in their eyes - I think hiding the heterochromia in his eldritch form would make it more horrifying. Like, now we are stepping away from physics into what a “god” is in this universe. The darkness spills out of his eyes like the whisps of dry ice ofc!

- - - the gods' chosen helpers: examinating the the SD's blessings and the DK's curses - - - -

3/4 Archangels' Graces channel a certain element of nature: wind (Tornado), water (Ocean), light (Sunshine), with Ludociel's Flash being the odd one out. I propose this is because Ludociel has such a tainted mindset the only Grace that would take him is the one representing swift, determined action (because hehe). The Ten Commandments, unlike the Graces, have a further element of control - their double-edged nature - suggesting the DK isn't as thorough of a manipulatior (deadbeat hehe) as the SD and cannot rely on his command alone to gain 100% of the TC's focus. There's been clear tampering with the power it gives them, and less trust; they're artificial compared to the Graces, one of which was said to have chosen Escanor of its own free will. As for what they can do - they represent values that are considered virtues. Except for purity. what the hell does Derieri's purity do again? Not that she NEEDS that extra power, for the love of god the brute force trauma of this woman's second blow would probably cause permanent damage. Anyway, love forces those with hatred in their hearts to stand down from a fight (objectively not a bad thing), truth does the truth thing, etc.

These are not neccessarily combat-focused powers, though they are used and intended as such. It's not a stretch to say they could be utlized in a different manner in times of peace. The Demon Realm has probably countless small villages and intellegent species for the King to oversee and keep the peace between. It makes sense for him to have more vassals from that standpoint. Meanwile, the Celestial Realm from what we can tell has fallen into disrepair without the routine care of its people. I'm gonna go ahead and headcanon that the natural phenomenon here is at least as 'extreme' in human terms as the demon realm's, and that effectively managing a system of islands in the sky with probably dozens of intellegent migratory creatures like sky fish, etc. does take some supernatural effort. And that most of the goddess population here is centralized in one main area. Pretty much all nakaba has given us is an implied lack of diversity in the celestial realm (why everyone look like that except for Tarmiel) (it's fine we can make the creatures ourselves). Anyway. A not-double-edged-sword version of the Commandments and the current Graces could be repurposed to aid in civil relations (people), and enviornmental mangement (nature) respectively.

-- - - - - extra! pet theory as to why Elizabeth is an only child - - - -

I have a pet theory for my holy war au that Elizabeth wasn't made like a human child and is, rather, a genetic clone the SD shaped of herself (think shaping a living being out of clay) as well as just one in a succession of rebellious (and very dead) attempts at the perfect daughter. This is why there's only one of her, while Meliodas has a sibling, and why she's older than Meliodas. Until Elizabeth, there was no proof that what the SD and DK wanted could be managed without serious consequences. The SD learned that just having the one is important for the amount of control she wants over her daughter. She only has so much patience, and the sisters tended to back each other over her. Thank - well, herself - that they were so young. . . all those times. This is why the DK insisted on totally eliminating his children's emotions; he thinks so long as they don't care for one another, and don't even think to, he can manage as many as he wishes. Otherwise, he thinks the SD is a loon who failed like four times in succession, and refuses to acknowledge that he specifically waited for her to succeed, "learning" from her mistakes, before having his own children.

[friend-crow]

garden, letter, library? for the cottage core asks?

garden: berry picking or flower picking?

Generally berry picking (I love going out to the berry patch and just grazing in summer) but I recently got a flower press, so there's going to be more of that in the future...

letter: do you have any other favorite aesthetics?

Honestly I don't really pay attention to named aesthetics. I sometimes refer to my style as Northwestern Gothic (I couldn't find evidence of that being a thing when I started saying that but it might be by now), but my style also varies from day to day.

library: do you prefer old fashioned names (adelaide, myrtle, ernest, etc.) or unique names (bug, thorn, sage, etc.)?

Haha I have one of each!! But for humans not using an alias, usually old fashioned. There's some great old names.

Thanks for asking!

cottage core asks

[lilybug-02]

Happy Spring 2023!!! 🌿🌼🌷💗🌸🍄

I didn’t think I’d find too much, but it was perfect today!! So many flowers in bloom!

[pawtrolling]

Hiii!! May I request a DNI banner with pink and green and bunny and “cottagecore” themes thank you !!! :]

i tried something new with this one, i hope you like it ♡ thank you for your request!

☆ requests are open!

[luvlyaquarius]

all i want is to be living in a little cottage home with a little herb garden and sip on tea and coffee while i bake my cute little pastries as i watch the sun set over the english countryside

[larissa-the-scribe]

Hey, here's a question you can probably answer: I wouldn't mind reading more short stories like this, and I feel like you might know where I could find those. Like a specific collection or something. Fantasy but not action intensive. Interesting characters, well drawn. Situations that seem less complex than they turn out to ultimately be.

I've been reading sci-fi and fantasy for most of my life, but I can't remember anything I would describe as a cottagecore sci-fi ghost story. Any idea where I could find more stuff like this? Where would you try to publish this when you finish?

Thanks again for the story so far.

Oh, good question!

I.... am actually not sure. I was thinking of self-publishing, so I'm not really sure where to find traditionally published stories in the same vein. So far, it's the kind of story I've seen more of on Tumblr than in books.

I know @epnona-the-wisp has some short stories that are more "characters living their lives but with Magic" vibes, so I would suggest those! @bookshelf-in-progress, too, I know has some pieces in that vein (I can't remember what they're called, but the ones in the world where stardust falls are lovely).

Other than that, potentially you could look through the short stories at @inklings-challenge! There are a lot of stories covering a lot of different vibes and topics, and I've read a few that are more character-focused sci-fi/fantasy.

If anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to chime in!

[maternity-morningstar]

Alastair, she might just be comforted by your voice. But if you're worried about things being too scary for her, maybe try something like frog and toad?

Alastor: *smiles warmly, nodding thoughtfully* You’re quite right. My voice does seem to soothe her, even if the story itself is a bit intense. Perhaps a gentler tale like "Frog and Toad" would be better for now. It’s simple and comforting—just what she needs. I’ll save "Bambi" for when she’s a bit older, I think. Thank you for the suggestion. *glances at Cinnamon, who coos softly in response* For now, we'll start with something calm and cozy.