Who tf do we think we are?
The world is more attuned than ever to the needs and desires of the ultrarich and powerful. Even art and culture are passive, repetitive, defanged, and meek. They are built by the ultra-rich and powerful to promote individualism and materialism, dismissing any link to a shared communal culture and geared to keep the public dumb and consuming. As a result, art is becoming less daring, less weird, and less reflective of the masses.
Folkloric was created as a reaction to this disturbing trend.
Folklore, unlike any other kind of culture, is created by and for the people who aren’t featured in history books. It is organic and stems from the earth, from the cycle of generations, and preserves the wisdom of the millennia past and future. This publication seeks to be a platform for a new kind of folklore for the new world we live in.
**This literary magazine is created, curated, written, drawn, edited, and read by human beings. Not AI.
So, there will be a spelling mistake or too.
What do we mean by folklore? Oxford, the bastion of inaccessible and elitist intellectuals, defines it as "the traditional beliefs, legends, and customs current among the common people." However, that doesn't quite cover what folklore feels like. Folklore always feels like a window into another secret world hidden within the mundane and banal one we occupy. Some examples of things we might find include cryptids born in the mounds of never-ending plastic. New myths emerging from the shadows of the internet age. Folk heroes rebelling against the tech-bro-fat-cat powers that be. In short, we are looking for stories and works of art that reflect the modern world back to us through the magical, unexplained, and the weird.
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