Goblincore is an earthy aesthetic surrounding the raw aspects and simple activities within nature
Pockets jammed with bottle caps, old coins, and pretty rocks collected from the riverbed. A sketchbook full of stamps, fruit stickers and mushroom drawings in colored pencil. A heart bursting with love and adoration for the forest’s glistening underbelly and all that dwell within.
Goblincore Activities:
★ Collecting Small Trinkets
★ Petting Moss
★ Scarfing Down Buttered Bread
★ Scavenging for Mushrooms
★ Feeding Crows
★ Walking in the Woods
★ Making Buttons
★ Befriending Stray Cats
★ Napping Under a Forest Tree
★ Helping Worms Back Into the Grass
★ Sketching Leaves
★ Knitting/Crocheting
★ Polishing Animal Bones
★ Thrifting
★ Making a Terrarium
★ Letting Snails and Slugs Crawl on You
★ Listening to Indie, Underground Songs (stringed instruments preferred)
Friends:
snails, ravens, cats, slugs, frogs, mice,
moths, crows, toads, and of course, moss
Goblincore Essentials:
★ Mushroom Identification Guide to help you better understand (and befriend) the forest as well as learn how to forage its bounty
★ Small Bottles for storing special elixirs, potions, and samples of Earth
★ Knitted Sweaters to give you that fuzzy, warm, caterpillar feeling
★ Rings to adorn yourself with shininess and possibly attract more
★ Magnifying Glass to better observe bugs, shinies, and nature’s intricate flora
★ Colored Pencils for sketching tiny critters and their homes
★ Boots for sploshing along the soggy forest floor
★ Loose Change to spend thrifting for comfy sweaters and handmade mugs
★ Small Knapsack for storing all the sentimental trinkets you come across
★ Rock/Crystal Guide for learning about the glorious stones of this Earth
★ Metal Detector for uncovering old trinkets
★ Mis-matched Socks for keeping your toes warm in the chilly mountain air
★ Notebook for detailing your special finds and observations in the woods
★ Compass to guide you back into a comfy armchair after following wherever your heart leads you
Best Food:
Stew!!
Goblincore Glossary:
I. (Going/Gone) Feral (verb): In a state of freedom and extreme excitement over something or nothing; may include jittering and “frothing at the mouth” (see V.)
II. Hoard (verb): To collect
III. Mushies (plural noun): Mushrooms
IV. Scavenge (verb): To search for or collect
V. Frothing at the Mouth (verb): Extremely eager for something exciting
VI. Gremlin (noun): One who enjoys being dirty, wild, feral (see I.) and scavenging (see IV.)
VII. Shines (plural noun): Small, shiny objects- typically metal- ex: coins, jewelry, charms
If you feel love for swamps, dirt, crunchy leaves, feral cats, moss, old coins, fingerless gloves, horseshoes, terrariums, fungi, mushrooms, loose buttons, toads, bones, and ceramic mugs full of warm herbal tea, then goblincore loves you too.
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