Hayley DeRoche

I am a librarian slash poet slash writer.

Ooh, that's a good question.

I think right now it would have to be yellow-green, like, well, I guess, yeah, yellowish-green for the pollen.

So I started making jokes and thinking about beige when I was actually just shopping online for a baby shower gift.

And I came across these stacking cups, like those, you know, the ones that you give your baby in the bath or something like that.

And they're usually a rainbow color with like every cup being a different color.

And then the ones that were being marketed to me were all different shades of beige.

So you had like fawn and chestnut.

And it made me laugh.

But the thing that really tipped it over the edge for me was the marketing imagery that went with it, because it was these like very wise, sagely looking children just kind of staring at the cups.

And I think what they were trying to get across was like, your child will be like, you know, wise beyond their years if they play with these stacking cups.

What it kind of translated as on screen was just kind of sad.

Yeah.

And from there, I just started seeing beige everywhere.

And here I am.

Sad beige is like if your whole world turned to oatmeal and khaki and camel and the feeling of just being in a monochrome environment where it's very clean, very sparse.

And the overall mood is definitely supposed to be calm, but it's also lacking a certain amount of joy and whimsy and just difference.

So it's very similar.

It's very same, um,

Very cerebral.