Happy December, friends! Now that finals and graduation are behind me and I’ve moved out of my college dorm for the last time (happy sad days), it’s time for year two of Blogmas, starting with a Dash and Lily aesthetic or mood board. Last year I somehow found the time to do a post every day in December, but this year we’re going with the twelve-days approach. Enjoy!
Headcanon
The Empire State Building lit up in red and green for Christmas. The ginormous Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center all lit up and decorated. Streets full of people each living their lives, consumed by holiday wishes and worries. Eighteen miles of books at the Strand bookstore, row upon row upon row of shelves, and nestled next to your maybe-favorite author is a red notebook with the words Do you dare? written on the cover in black Sharpie.
Neighborhoods covered in Nutcracker-themed lights. An older couple taking a photo together as they have every Christmas for years. Standing alone in a crowd but in a bubble of comfortable solitude rather than loneliness. Writing your simplest, then deepest, thoughts and feelings in the red notebook you found, then sending it off to the person who will become your OTP. Spending New Year’s Eve in a very famous kitchen making a fantastic Rice Krispy Treat mess, then getting locked in your favorite bookstore together, reading from a massive Oxford English Dictionary, unabridged edition.
The awkwardness of meeting your crush that you’ve been writing to in a red notebook in person for the first time, at which point you experience several goofy and hilarious adventures that bond you together for life. Ahhh, young love…
Visual Aesthetic
In case you haven’t noticed already, I love the Dash and Lily aesthetic, and I think their story is one of the most ADORABLE in the history of YA rom-coms, both in print and on Netflix. Stay tuned for more magical New-York-at-Christmas content coming in the next few days.
Happy blogmas!
