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it/they | i write stuff | trans cynoceph & mithraic mystery appreciator🌱 | ΘΔ& | 🟦☁️: asp.bsky
chicago
Joined February 2013
it's crazy that you never hear anyone say they put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up these days
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@briarhoes (US citizen voice) i love to escape to a cozy world where i don't have to think about labor :D before going back to my real life of relative abundance predicated on the exploitation of the global south :D
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@RogueHaNor @stridden The cozy aesthetic is deeply entrenched in historic European fantasies of the countryside. At no point in recognizable European history has that fantasy been achievable for anyone who isn't landed gentry, and at that point 'who mills the flour' is a critical question.
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it's sad that people can't imagine a "happy ending" outside of the structures of "capitalism/monarchy, But Somehow Good." i thought we all were fantasy fans?!?!?!
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yes, it often makes people uncomfortable to think about where their "cozy" lifestyle comes from. but hey, i live in the imperial core, i don't have to give my easily accessible amenities a second thought!!
@stridden Oh god stop this is why no one likes Marxists
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good thing i am not talking about human history then and am instead talking about the impulse in "cozy fantasy" novels to transpose modern convieniences into a fantasy setting without thinking about the implicit systems of labor that produce those conveniences!
The vast majority of the poor were harvesting/processing their own grain for like eight millennia of human history. Do we seriously need to do “Baking bread is fascist consumerism”
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respectfully, this is the point i am trying to make. what labor conditions are implicit in a fantasy that promises cozy escapism? why do our visions of coziness require sweeping exploitation under the rug? this is fantasy, can't we imagine something more?
I'm not reading a cozy fantasy to get deep into the labor side. I want to escape from the world for a few hours.
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@thebestestbat "it's fantasy it's magic" i mean i wouldn't defend something *i* liked by saying that it's inherently shallow but you do you i guess 🤷
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many replies to this are proving the point that the appeal of "cozy fantasy" is ignoring systems of violence and refusing to face them in any way. they're all screaming/crying/etc at the mere suggestion of looking at those systems
who milled the flour? who harvested the grain? where did the sweetener come from? who transported the supplies? how were the supplies made? and how are the workers treated? what implicit structures of the world provide the "cozy" fantasy?
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took a nap and when i woke up the cozy fantasy heads were coming for me
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anyway my Post about legends and lattes goes into this in a bit more depth:
still-water.bearblog.dev
i wrote an essay pitch about legends and lattes after i read it Serving Up a Cup o' Cozy Capitalism Travis Baldree's debut novel Legends &...
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who milled the flour? who harvested the grain? where did the sweetener come from? who transported the supplies? how were the supplies made? and how are the workers treated? what implicit structures of the world provide the "cozy" fantasy?
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sedevacantist anglican is wild also "see of canterbury" lol
Today, Oct 3rd 2025, the Church of England died. In naming Sarah Mullally Archbishop of Canterbury, it embraced feminist rebellion over biblical truth. The See of Canterbury is vacant. Anglicanism globally will not follow a false teacher in ecclesiastical drag.
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