Faeriecore

JESIKAH SUNDIN is a multi-award winning Dystopian Punk Lit, Fairy Tale, and Historical Fantasy writer, a mom of three nerdlets, a faeriecore and elfpunk geek, tree hugger, nature photographer, and a helpless romantic who married her high school sweetheart.

The movement is escapist, but not in the fantastical way faeriecore is.

Cottagecore is related to grandmacore, faeriecore, farmcore and goblincore — other nostalgia-ridden aesthetic communities that, paradoxically, thrive on many of the most popular internet platforms of the day.

"Cottagecore" refers to an internet aesthetic that, according to Wikipedia, "celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts such as foraging, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar nostalgic aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and faeriecore."

Cottagecore has been trending ever since the pandemic set in and the world went slow. Not just cottagecore, there are many other such aesthetics—grandmacore, craftcore, faeriecore (or fairycore), naturecore, honeycore, warmcore, among others—doing the rounds of the internet today.

Whether you identify as a cottagecore lesbian or fall into the other niche aesthetics associated with cottagecore — such as faeriecore, grandmacore and naturecore — cottagecore is the quaint, bucolic dream everyone wishes they could play out in real life.

Diving deeper into adjacent fandoms, you'll find a variety of aesthetics to explore, whether it's dollcore, unicore, mushroomcore, and, one of the most recent to materialize in mainstream fashion, cottagecore. Fairycore — or faecore, or faeriecore — feels a bit similar to the latter with heavy references to nature and a pension for a few of the same design elements, including embroidery and relaxed dresses.

And for those looking to take the cottagecore theme a bit further with a faeriecore theme, Andrew says, “We have created custom packages just for LeFay brides and grooms so that their magical fantasy comes to life.