Have been listening to my jaditha playlist + I realized how all over the place my music taste is, like I’ll really listen to anything. Also apparently my definition of “most romantic songs” a lot of times is sad/yearning songs (which 🤭)
but yeah ngl this opened a crazy can of worms, almost just dumped an essay of jaditha songs on u, and had to keep it in the drafts LMAO. Trust, I didn’t forget, I’ll be back soon with a normal list tho 🤭🙈
OK SO, basically me ignoring the prompt 😭 Most of these aren’t gut-wrenching, but I hope u find some good ones if u sift through
cherry picked from a very large playlist 😭 (this is already huge so imagine…. apologies in advance)
here’s some of my personal favorites atm:
• About You - The 1975 (ofc)
• Nude - Radiohead (just on pure vibes this one is soooooo ugh)
• Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead (ohhh my god. this is the most Jaditha/FROM song ever idc idc, I was spamming it during the wait to s4 and l'm literally still here every day. Want to learn how to edit JUST for this song + Nude, like I need others to see my vision)
• Mutual Benefit - Advance Falconry (obsessed with this song since 2016, I will continue to always find a way to connect this to all my ships, it's so cute and whimsical. Unironically fits them so well tho, it gives me s2 jaditha vibes idk)
• Futile Devices - Sufjan Steven’s
• Sienna - The Marías
• See You Again - Tyler The Creator
• See You Soon - Beabadoobee
• Never Tear us Apart - INXS (a classic + perhaps self explanatory)
• 20191009 I Like Her - Mac Demarco (very Jade song somehow)
• My Kind of Woman - Mac Demarco
• The Lakes - Taylor Swift (recently discovered, obsessed)
• Amber - Steve Lacy (more of a breakup song but 🤫 I made a jaditha post about this a while ago + deleted it but the beginning lyrics :D🤍)
• No.1 Party Anthem - Arctic Monkeys (ofc)
• Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex
• Sunsetz - Cigarettes After Sex
• Each Time You Fall In Love - Cigarettes After Sex
• Sweet - Cigarette After Sex
• Smoldering Fire - Ural Thomas & The Pain
• Lover, You Should’ve Come Over - Jeff Buckley (ofc)
• Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
• Infrunami - Steve Lacy
• The Moth and The Flame - Les Deux Love Orchestra (“The flame and the moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation like need and anger and desperation” THOSE WHO GET ITT 😸 and Jade being the Moth and Tabitha being the Flame <3)
• Video Games - Lana Del Rey (also trying to learn how to edit jaditha with this song. very gorg classic)
I’m still eagerly waiting for someone to give an in depth explanation for the blue vs. yellow symbolism. Apparently there’s also green and red to look out for too 😭 The color symbolism is especially obvious this season, but all throughout the show it’s pretty evident. Victor’s blue house + yellow house drawing, Man in yellow and a Woman in blue with a dog in the intro, several scene where the characters in a convo are wearing something really blue or really yellow. Yellow bile coming Smiley’s liver. Julie seeing MIY eating someone’s liver which is spiritually connected to the color yellow. Like what does it meannnn
btw always thought Tilly’s “rain dance” in s2 was suspicious , so this is interesting
• Boyd lives in that yellow button up, he hasn't touched his white one in ages.
• Jade usually wears tons of blue, besides a few eps in s2. Also has the occasional green shirt under the grey cardigan. But this season after ep2, he's all yellow
• Tabitha loves that green jacket, but s2 she was very blue. This was the first season she's worn a yellow-ish outfit tho, then she went back to green.
• Sara's been flip flopping this season, which is interesting. one ep she'll wear a really really blue outfit like earlier s4 episodes, a really yellow one. when she was painting Sophia's room she was wearing a red shirt. We've def seen her wear white s1 ep 1. don't think we've seen her wear green tho.
• Fatima's wears white, and a lot of colorful outfits with red sometimes. I saw theories that her flowy red shirt looked similar to the kimono woman's red kimono (?) Colony house massacre in s1 she's wearing a blue dress with her yellow cardigan, before she takes it off and gives it to Trudy (who immediately dies right after 😭)
• It’s interesting in a season where characters are wearing or starting to wear yellow-ish, light colored outfits, Acosta’s found a blue sweatshirt in the diner and probably won’t take it off for the rest of the s4.
I’m still eagerly waiting for someone to give an in depth explanation for the blue vs. yellow symbolism. Apparently there’s also green and red to look out for too 😭 The color symbolism is especially obvious this season, but all throughout the show it’s pretty evident. Victor’s blue house + yellow house drawing, Man in yellow and a Woman in blue with a dog in the intro, several scene where the characters in a convo are wearing something really blue or really yellow. Yellow bile coming Smiley’s liver. Julie seeing MIY eating someone’s liver which is spiritually connected to the color yellow. Like what does it meannnn
btw always thought Tilly’s “rain dance” in s2 was suspicious , so this is interesting
Hellehello I jsut wanted to say I'm rlly happy that ur in the from fandom, ur like my fav from artist (and let's be honest probably the ONLY from artist out there) uhm uh any predictions for the next ep?
Why thank you! I have a feeling that suspicions will begin to arise about “Sophia”. I think Victor will be the one to discover this, and there’ll be some tension between him and Henry. I think (hope) we’ll hear more about Fatima’s golem.
I honestly really love the golem as a plot point. It’s a really interesting metaphor, so I’m going to post my very shoddy, disjointed analysis. I’m not very eloquent right now, I’m very sleep deprived, so I apologize lol.
Metaphorically, I think it symbolizes the fight back against oppression (specifically sexual and religious/racial) and the stripping of bodily autonomy.
At the start of the show, Fatima is a glue for her community. She’s warm, supportive, endlessly optimistic, she symbolizes the strength of community in the wake of death, hurt and oppression. However…. the township takes this from her. It wears her down and takes her joy from her. It perverts her marriage to Ellis, where she blames herself and fears herself for what she beluieved was the child of her and Ellis. (I think is a very strong theme of sexual abuse here… I mean, that’s a given with themes of bodily autonomy, particularly so with a parasitic, unwanted pregnancy. The pain and the fear of abuse and rape bleeds into the relationships that would otherwise serve to strengthen and comfort her.)
The Creatures (also conveniently looking like 1950s traditional white american nuclear archetypes with these creepy vapid grins) want to change Fatima and beat her down into submission. She is angry, hurt, she yells at them to ‘stop fucking smiling’ and they taunt her: “You’ll feel better if you come outside!” IE Capitulate to our will, your anger is amusing and futile, submit to us, feel afraid.
She is used by the evil of Fromville as an incubator for a ‘child’ she didn’t want, and isolated from those closest to her - psychologically, as her suffering is overlooked and her pleas are not heard, and then physically, where she is literally locked away and forced to feed the child. Once Smiley is reborn, she’s tossed to the wayside, irrevocably changed, traumatized and full of anger.
With this anger and hurt, she makes the Golem. In the Golem of Prague folktale, the golem is a protector of Jewish communities from pogroms and antisemitic violence. It is a protector of the oppressed, turning the violence back onto the oppressor. With Fatima’s golem, it is the protector of the entrapped people in From, a beacon of hope and strength, and an act of autonomy and rebellion for Fatima. Rebellion can’t occur without might, resolute, and violence, and the township pushed her to this point. It’s sort of like a big middle finger to those who hurt her. The Creatures may think they’ve beaten her into submission, but they haven’t. It’s her fighting back, to break out of the twisted cycle.
These themes tie into Fatima’s backstory. Her father was killed due to religious persecution, and he was the one who taught her about other beliefs, including the story of the Golem. Her Golem is resistance against what killed her father, to what has killed those she loves and what has hurt her, taunted her and fed on her physically, spiritually and emotionally.
I really enjoy the dichotomy of human connection, resilience and community with hurt, cycles of trauma and violence in FROM. It’s a very primally human show, I feel.
However, we’ll have to see how this golem plot point plays out. What also happens in the Golem of Prague is that it goes on a rampage after Rabbi Loew forgets to deactivate it during Sabbath and has to be destroyed, and I’m wondering if something narratively similar might occur with Fatima’s golem. I do hope the golem comes to life though, or has some kind of supernatural power (which I believe is implied. It’s FROM, after all). The townsfolk need hope. It could be an interesting counter to Sophia/MIY’s scheming. (It’s also tangentially relevant to my argument that Sophia is an evil being masquerading as an ‘innocent’ christian girl, ie, evil and oppression hiding in the coat of what is seen as righteous and gentle. There are some very interesting religious themes throughout FROM!)
I assume she was dead and that Boyd willed her back to life with a fully functioning brain and all.
In any other show, I'd be fully joking saying that, but I suspect Boyd can actually tap into the magic Sophia is using. His heightened emotional state let him compell the magic.
Have been listening to my jaditha playlist + I realized how all over the place my music taste is, like I’ll really listen to anything. Also apparently my definition of “most romantic songs” a lot of times is sad/yearning songs (which 🤭)
but yeah ngl this opened a crazy can of worms, almost just dumped an essay of jaditha songs on u, and had to keep it in the drafts LMAO. Trust, I didn’t forget, I’ll be back soon with a normal list tho 🤭🙈
OK SO, basically me ignoring the prompt 😭 Most of these aren’t gut-wrenching, but I hope u find some good ones if u sift through
cherry picked from a very large playlist 😭 (this is already huge so imagine…. apologies in advance)
here’s some of my personal favorites atm:
• About You - The 1975 (ofc)
• Nude - Radiohead (just on pure vibes this one is soooooo ugh)
• Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead (ohhh my god. this is the most Jaditha/FROM song ever idc idc, I was spamming it during the wait to s4 and l'm literally still here every day. Want to learn how to edit JUST for this song + Nude, like I need others to see my vision)
• Mutual Benefit - Advance Falconry (obsessed with this song since 2016, I will continue to always find a way to connect this to all my ships, it's so cute and whimsical. Unironically fits them so well tho, it gives me s2 jaditha vibes idk)
• Futile Devices - Sufjan Steven’s
• Sienna - The Marías
• See You Again - Tyler The Creator
• See You Soon - Beabadoobee
• Never Tear us Apart - INXS (a classic + perhaps self explanatory)
• 20191009 I Like Her - Mac Demarco (very Jade song somehow)
• My Kind of Woman - Mac Demarco
• The Lakes - Taylor Swift (recently discovered, obsessed)
• Amber - Steve Lacy (more of a breakup song but 🤫 I made a jaditha post about this a while ago + deleted it but the beginning lyrics :D🤍)
• No.1 Party Anthem - Arctic Monkeys (ofc)
• Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex
• Sunsetz - Cigarettes After Sex
• Each Time You Fall In Love - Cigarettes After Sex
• Sweet - Cigarette After Sex
• Smoldering Fire - Ural Thomas & The Pain
• Lover, You Should’ve Come Over - Jeff Buckley (ofc)
• Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
• Infrunami - Steve Lacy
• The Moth and The Flame - Les Deux Love Orchestra (“The flame and the moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation like need and anger and desperation” THOSE WHO GET ITT 😸 and Jade being the Moth and Tabitha being the Flame <3)
• Video Games - Lana Del Rey (also trying to learn how to edit jaditha with this song. very gorg classic)
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