#cottagecore daydreams

[darth-jayne]

I was "learn a new skill" bored during my last quarantine, so I taught myself basic chainmail weaving. I'm fully engrossed, I can tell that this is a hobby that will come back up in the hyperfixation rotation.

The coiling and cutting of the rings is a super satisfying repetitive action, and I've gotten some tools to expedite the process for mass production if I get tired of it. Joining and closing the rings is a joy; I have to keep reminding myself to use the pliers so I don't tear up my fingertips.

I've wound well over 100ft of wire into rings already with very few ideas of what I'm actually going to make yet. I have vague ideas of dice bags and stuff, but if I want to make any armor for myself I'd need a different color of rings; I have a black chain hauberk I'm not going to pair that with a shiny silver coif.

I'm also thinking about making some armor for my bonus kid's stuffed tiger, I think that would be a fun way to practice making the shapes. Plus if I get a little bit wrong here or there and something pinches, the stuffie isn't likely to complain XD

Also, I've been listening to The Silmarillion a lot while doing this and there is something incredibly satisfying about making chainmail while an epic tale of war and heroism is being recited. Making me yearn for an idealized past: spring and summer for farming and hunting, fall for harvest and preparation, winters of crafting and storytelling. I know it wasn't that simple, I'm acutely aware of how dependent I am on things like grocery stores and pharmacies and my cell phone, not to mention doctors and civil water engineers and the international trade system and everything else that gives me enough ease and leisure in my life to have time to daydream about something "simpler".

Hell, I've been offered land and farming equipment TWICE as inheritance and turned it down both times because I know what the reality of being a small family-run agricultural business is these days. It literally killed my uncles, hence the offer of inheritance. I don't want that.

But it's remarkable to me how much the idealized life of so many of my generation (house with some land, a few domestic animals, garden, community of friends and relations living nearby, not quite fully self-sufficient but supplementing home produced goods with commercial purchases) is the same life our grandparents or great-grandparents fought so hard to get away from...

[inluvrn]

[champagnexowishes]

[hunny-pp]

kristopher volkov and i go way back (to the entire weekend i spent day and night making him and my sim fall in love and elope)

[decayingbooksandrainfall]

Being a maladaptive daydreamer is so fun, who needs reality when the silly characters in my head keeps me entertained :3

[ethereal-esa]

[3amthoughts00-0]

I can’t wait for the day I can come home with my wife after a long day in our extremely successful careers so we can have bubble baths and eat strawberries while watching the sunset together.

And then we can cuddle, talk about our days and fall asleep in our cocoon of a bed

Then I’ll wake her up with the best breakfast she deserves and we’ll repeat the cycle to our hearts content.

[wanderingwithstars]

[oblivionatlas]

[earththings]

[rosariumpartone]

quote from Teenage Doll

[alfaire]

ㅤ🍓 ㅤ⊹ ㅤ𓋼 ㅤ∿ ㅤ🍯 ㅤ strᥲᥕbᥱrrყ mιᥣk

[femmeprincessjulia]

The feminine urge to be a pink cowgirl femme with my darling cowboy butch...

[mywitheredloveslastforever]

If you look into the coping mechanism basket in my mind, this is kind of what you'll find inside at the moment.

[chicorystart]

fixed up the roof of dreamy house.

[roseredbedhead]

Missing summer...