#hyperfixating on the gravity falls cryptograms for like a week really awakened the latent interest in cryptidcore

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

i am a person who gets very Into aesthetics. like i very much enter Eras that last like a week or two where i'm very invested in a particular type of aesthetic, usually correlated to a hobby or interest. i am not immune to online aesthetic communities. if i'm reading a holmes book, i feel the dark academia phase stirring in its sleep. if i'm dabbling in cryptography, i can sense cryptidcore lurking somewhere in my soul. when i'm unusually happy with summer weather and spend the afternoon making cookies, i know that there is the potential for a cottagecore era within me. same with goblincore, same with corvidcore and werewolfcore and lighthousecore and all the random, niche internet subcommunities that you can find tucked into the maze of obscure tumblr tags at one in the morning.

given the nature of these communities and the way they're treated by participants in them, this is, of course, humiliating.

#worth noting that i very much had a goblincore phase also. actually around the time i started this blog. #it was during the pandemic ca. late 2020. i was still in lockdown. #i think the dark academia phase was really motivated by loneliness actually #and goblincore by boredom #but that's a whole other conversation #it speaks! #hyperfixating on the gravity falls cryptograms for like a week really awakened the latent interest in cryptidcore #it was the most powerful marathon hyperfixation i've had in a very long time and i think it changed me a little as a person