a... guide?.... to... an aesthetic?... how shallow and performative can you be? and those outfits
see, I could totally get this "aesthetic" as a state of mind to follow, a thought bubble to ponder, a set of ideas to look at and meditate over regarding the pace of everyday life and how it affects our awareness of the immediate things that never lose their own beauty and value. BUT, when you turn it to an excuse to dramatize your weak poetic performative writing and then find the need to specify books, films and music that fits in that ideal, you're just turning this into a make-believe fantasy. what's music and films and books got to do with this? yes you could argue that they may portray elements of whatever this aesthetic strives for, but it can't possibly be that important to the point where you're choosing what you watch and listen to just for the sake of a pinterest hashtag. it just proves how much of a performative and feverish reverie you've gotten yourself into. watch whatever you want, listen to whatever you want, dress whatever you want, be whoever you want, but please, don't try to fit your sense of self inside the hashtag of a trend. roobee tries to get at this at the end of the video, but can you really take her seriously when she just made a 16 minute video over cottagecore, after once uploading a photo asking her followers what kind of aesthetic people relate her to?
and also. how nonsensical is it that ruby, an english literature student, takes so seriously such a fake concept as "online aesthetics"? comes as no surprise from someone that is preaching slow living and yet has the idea that productivity is built around ticking boxes off of the most mundane tasks