11/16/2023

Why Babywormcore?

Babywormcore came out of playing with friends online while trying to merge pastel goth, kawaii animecore, and green witch into a single aesthetic. The idea of a baby worm comes from Sugar, the cat above. She is very testy and not the most friendly cat, but she loves me and I love her and refer to her as a baby worm often. I also wanted to create an aesthetic friendly to another lifestyle that I am a part of. Babywormcore is an attempt merge the pastels, creepy crawlies, and soft, goopy edges of pastel goth with the crystals, flowers, and esoterica of green witch while looking like a Studio Ghibli movie. Babywormcore is also about acceptance of our and the world's flaws and limitations while choosing to look on the bright side.

The babyworm corps also started as a joke, but then I realized that people love collecting. I personally have a collection of rocks and fossils in my desk at work, a binder full of pokemon cards, and haven't missed a seasonal event in FFXIV since I started playing. The badges set tangible ways to participate in babywormcore and are completely on the honors system. Cheating at the badges is just . . . cheating yourself, I guess? The badges that are there right now are placeholders that were AI generated. I'm intending to go back and workshop them as well as make pixel art for each badge. I know nothing of pixel art, but my hope is that the badges will look like Paper Mario badges (extremely babywormcore game series).

My hopes are to make this blog a repository of babywormcore knowledge and practices. I may be the originator, but worms practice anarchy, so feel free to start your own site, make your own art and music, and put together your own babywormcore outfits. Heck, share them with me and I'll share them here! I want the wormnest to grow into a writhing mass similar to a ratking. On a more serious note, I'm in graduate school for geology, so I don't know how often the site and blog will be worked on and updated. My hopes are for weekly posts, but the best laid plans often end in wriggly defeat.