#of course it was florida

[echo-stimmingrose]

Frank: Did you guys hear about this guy in Florida who covered himself in hand sanitizer, got tased and then burst into flames?

Leo: *deranged laugh* Oooh

Piper: I'll get the hand sanitizer.

Jason: Leo, no!

Nico: Leo, yes!

Leo: Why not? I'm fire proof!

Percy: I swear to the gods if you start another forest fire that I have to put out I will lose my shit!

#of course it was florida #percy would like to see leo burst into flames tho #fire boy #frank zhang #leo valdez #piper mclean #jason grace #nico di angelo #percy jackson #son of hephaestus #percy jackson and the olympians #annabeth chase #heros of olympus #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo #valgrace #percabeth #solangalo

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

“Greetings from Florida” – postcard, ca. 1934 // Florida!!! – Taylor Swift feat. Florence + the Machine

#absolutely one of my top tracks off ttpd #so of course it had to be my first ttpd edit ☺️ #there def will be more to come lmao #florida #florida!!! #the tortured poets department #ttpd #ts ttpd #tortured poets department #taylor swift ttpd #ttpd taylor swift #ttpd ts #florence + the machine #florence and the machine #fatm #taylor swift #ts edit #tsedit #tswiftedit #tswiftlyrics #ts lyrics #tswift edits #tswift lyrics #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[self-made-cages]

I wonder if Florida (!!!) has additional ~questionable~ vibes for Taylor because it’s where her Dad moved after her parents split. Like it was the inevitable place to wind up when her relationship and the life she’d envisioned for her family blew up.

#I’m not articulating this well #but it’s like ‘of course I’m in Tampa that’s where you go when your family has fallen apart’ #florida!!!

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[whiskeyswifty]

Honestly, freedom felt like summer then, on the coast has gotta be of the most quintessential Taylor lines ever, I’m telling you. It’s a lesser used motif in Taylor’s songs but I’m so fascinated by her use of “the coast” and “the beach” as and how it has only really surfaced (lol) in her mid to late periods (so far). Both in the safe haven it represents to her on its own but also how it’s often a foil to “the ocean”, and how a commonly used metaphor really works beautifully in her hands and fleshes out her worldview. 

That line really cements this to me where she starts with a broad and abstract simile of “summer” but then zeroes in on what she meant by that by adding specifically “the coast.” Just flat out saying beaches make her feel free, which yes it’s an obvious but great choice to represent freedom. Beaches are seemingly endless when you’re on them, most of the time removed from the markers of modern society, and empty save sand and sky, unencumbered by even nature. And you can see that through line in a lot of her previous work more subtly as well. “Drinking on the beach with you all over me” on an album and song famously depicting her absconding with her lover to places where they’re safe from wandering eyes and free from having to perform what ever fronts they feel they have to put up. Snow on the Beach is an entire song that depicts the beach as this dreamy place of vulnerability, even if the song isn’t specifically set on a literal beach. It’s frequently invoked in the chorus, painting a vast sandy landscape blanketed in snow, as tranquil as the songs production and how peaceful she felt falling for someone at that time. In Gold Rush she does again set the scene on the coast, where “the coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as this” provides a quiet safe haven to once again feel free to love and express love. Depicting even towns along the coast as less traveled and free of pressure or expectations; places to aimlessly wander, endlessly if you wish. Even in TLGAD she uses it to portray freedom for characters outside of herself, with “The salt box house on the coast took her mind off St. Louis.” The beach provides a freedom and reprieve for Rebekah from the assumed suffocation of a city and all the social expectations that come with it. The beach is so clearly a source of unencumbered happiness for her because it's a place of physical remove, but it’s even better exemplified by how it specifically acts as a foil to the ocean in her work. 

She’s always depicting the ocean as a metaphorical place of helpless tumult and dark unknowns. How she is “out on waves being tossed” in evermore with the ocean as a place without mercy or “if your cascade ocean wave blues come” where it’s an unstoppable force of sadness and unrest. In both of those, people are also physically taken over by the will of the ocean, a depiction of life’s painful inevitabilities that she recognizes as such but feels helpless against. Even how she visually depicts her gripping to her piano in the Cardigan video as the ocean tosses her around with no land in sight. Sometimes she herself is the ocean, with “I’m like the water when your ship rolled in that night. Rough on the surface…” where she is as untamable and damaging as the ocean. She uses the ocean to recognize danger and uncertainty in others, like with “ocean blue eyes looking in mine. I feel like I might sink and drown and die” which is hyperbolic yes, but still. The ocean she sees in their eyes is not beautiful but all consuming and potentially emotionally fatal for her in how it will consume her. Or to recognize the fearlessness in someone like how her boy in Midnight Rain was “jumping off things in the ocean” which is a terrifying place for her, but here he comes off a steady and solid in his ability to jump into it for fun and it doesn’t take him. The ocean is always bigger than her, standing in for the power of letting go with “the battleships will sink beneath the waves” and also standing in for the great unknown of committing yourself to someone with “we were stupid to jump in the ocean separating us.” 

But most exciting to me is when these two metaphorical ideas of ocean and beach meet. “High tide came and brought you in” is a great one because here, she is safe on the shore, no longer putting herself at risk. But then, this great beast of the unknown brings her something; presumably something she wanted and potentially something good. But then “currents swept you out again” as the blue beast took it back. Unable to endure the thrashing ocean herself, she perches on the beach instead and waits. The beach in contrast to the active and churning ocean is a still place, a passive place. Freedom isn’t just an ability to hide from the world or a reprieve from the expectations of the world, but it can also be a reprieve from the expectations you put on yourself. Allowing yourself to rest and let come what may. The beach is also that for her, where she’s free from her own crushing thoughts and worries. Even when she herself is the ocean, thrashing about in her own mind, with “my waves meet your shore” she seeks the quiet and the serenity of the beach to soothe her and calm her. The soft expanse of sand to break her waves on and sink her foamy tide waters into. Control is one of the main things she seems to seek in all aspects of her life, in the way of control of her own story, her own personal space, her own agency, and the people around her in ensuring they won’t abandon her. In many ways, the ocean is outside herself in her use of it, but it’s always an extension of her, be it her fears of that loss of control or just fear of any unknown in life. It’s always a stand in for those parts of her in that way, her dark shadow swelling and swallowing everything whole if she lets it. The beach as her foil that becomes freedom from the grips and weight of the ocean, but also that first gasp of air knowing you are on land again, can find your footing again, solid ground. You can say she’s searching for that beach, that tranquil coast within herself to evade the trappings of the bottomless ocean within herself, but you could also say that in some cases, she is the ocean. Tired of her own restlessness and endless tumult, she’s forever searching for people in her life to be her shore, so she can finally rest on their warm sand, even for just a moment. I feel like that’s something everyone can relate to and is why it’s one of my favorite motifs in her work. 

#it makes me soooo interested in Florida!!! the song of course not the state #as it's a state that is some 75% ocean locked and very interesting if it will enter more ocean/beach content into the canon #my silly little essays

[loopnoid]

my piece for the Star Trek Swimsuit Special zine!

[id in alt text]

#star trek #enterprise #star trek enterprise #trip tucker #t'pol #star trek swimsuit special #zine piece #incredibly proud of how this one came out #featuring: early 2000s beach fashion. attempts at shading. body hair. t4t tri'pol #and of course: florida beaches #and boobs! #tri'pol #trip x t'pol #my art

[fictionadventurer]

Current level of Little House nerd: Internally freaking out because Rose wrote a short story based on their time in Florida which means we have filled in the last remaining major gap in the Ingalls-Wilder family fictional timeline.

#little house #laura ingalls wilder #rose wilder lane #it should be noted that i haven't read the story yet #just flipping past the intro was enough to get me excited #it could be garbage #but their florida sojourn has long been a fascinating trivia bit #and i had no idea it had been so extensive a thing or that rose was old enough to remember it #of course the other major gap is burr oak #but there is a modern book about that #and the little house sampler also seems to have a nonfic piece by laura about that time #which from the title sounds surprisingly positive #given that she refused to include that part of her life in fiction

[greenerteacups]

crying screaming throwing up at the latest Lionheart update – only amplified by my listening to the Tortured Poets Department (anthology) while reading. What are your favourite songs from the album? and what would be Hermione and Draco's faves?

favorites: So Long London, BDILH, Florida, Guilty as Sin, The Bolter

Guilty as Sin? is the one that I'll be using for my imaginary blorbo music videos for a while, personally. BDILH is going to be the new star-crossed-lovers edit audio on TikTok from now til the heat-death of the universe, and I personally am going to enjoy that. The Bolter is the best storytelling, and I think its specificity is its strength.

I think Hermione and Draco are 90's babies, and I have self-indulgently projected my own taste for 80's/90's altrock onto both of them. I think Daphne would go full Swiftie in a hot minute, though. Would go nuts for the Alchemy. (It's me, I'm Daph.)

#greenteacup asks #that being said. i have been listening to the alchemy on repeat for the past two hours. so. #btw I just noticed 'so high school' uses the same chord progression as 'long live' which is notoriously a prom anthem #which is why I listened to it and was like oh I love it! :) and then I was like wait. I've heard this before. why do I think I love it #wait you — YOU WROTE THIS SONG ALREADY #I DON'T like this I like the OTHER one because it played at MY prom and I have Emotional Attachments to it #which of course is part of the point. you attach yourselves to these songs because they can hold projection! #swift is fully aware of this and it's why she's pivoted towards this style of music over the more confessional parts of folklore #the last 50% of Florida is one of the best parts of her discography and florence welch should be a permanent swift producer. by the way. #and if all of florida was like that it would be on every playlist about sad blorbos until the end of TIME #but they let JACK ANTONOFF NEAR IT — no i won't speak.

[datshitrandom]

An Evening With Darren Criss at Florida State University | fun fact he thrifted his outfit today at the coolest place in town | October 13, 2023 | 📸 via Amanda

#darren criss #an evening with darren criss 2023 #florida state university #pretty caveman #he looks so tiny #🤏🥺 #the entire upperbodys fit is local from railroad square #of course he goes thrifting #mancandykings #dailymenedit #malestarsedit #dailymalesource #dailymen #please do not repost

[animentality]

wouldn't kill myself unless i was absolutely sure i could take ron desantis down with me.

#florida #us politics #ron desantis #suicide mention #a joke of course #or is it #im not suicidal #but im homicidal

[chiropteracupola]

in an astonishing and inexplicable move, my parents have suggested 'why don't you just talk like bert from sesame street when you are upset'

#news from the cupola #??? #well it's better than 'why don't you draw on paper anymore' and 'what laws are you planning to break in florida' #both of which questions I also got asked over the course of tonight's dinner

[misery-has-no-company-now]

Thinking about the "He's the feds, man. Don't answer anything until your lawyer gets here." in Alaska Joins the Table part 1

Florida definitely taught Alaska how to run and hide from the cops

#Alaska in turn tried to teach Florida how to sneak up on someone #unfortunately it didn't work because this boy is too chaotic for anything which requires that much silence #Flo taught him well though #so well that the cops can't even find him despite how big he is #Florida did this because some crimes require a larger person lifting you up and helping you over the fence... #not that I would know anything about that of course #welcome to the table #wttt #wttt alaska #wttt florida

[separatist-apologist]

Wait…you’re a Floridian??

This is the most hateful ask I've ever gotten. Am I giving off Florida vibes? I am NOT a Floridian. I am in the midwest where the only thing I fear is the corn coming to life

#and a deer slamming into the side of my car again #no offense to florida of course

[greghatecrimes]

no context quote from my roommate and i earlier:

"hewwo??? dostoyevsky?? pwease, i'ww do anything mistew dostoyevsky!"

#GOD #florida shenanigans #all said in the uwu voice of course #our greetibg whenever one of us gets home is 'HEWWO!!!'

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[s-e-v-e-n-24]

What if I drew/wrote a fic about Texas and Gov getting married but Texas was in a Texas flag suit and Gov was in a USA one what then

#and of course louie would have his suit #florida would be in the flsmingo one ben got sent uears ago #and cali would have the JUIT #JEAN SUIT FOR THE WIN #wttsh gov #wttt gov #wttsh texas #wttt texas #dc | gov #I'm not even joking about this I Will do it