#eva petersen

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62 Faulkner Street, Liverpool

Whilst we’re looking back ... an early promo photo shoot in Liverpool with The Little Flames #littleflames #deltasonic 📸: @christiancarlpetersen

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14 NOV 1927 (Nr.22/1927)

Eva Petersen, author of a handful of articles for the magazine (you might call her a regular), writes about her conflicted feelings about her girlfriend's newborn child. she doesnt like thinking about her girlfriend having sex with someone else. interesting to me is that she doesnt just not recognize the child as her own at first (a reasonable take for someone who has not given birth to it) but not as her girlfriend's either, because of how incomprehensible it seems to her. she does come around though, accepting the child as theirs. all is well in the Petersen family in the end. love does in fact win on November 14th, 1927!

this short text feels pretty relevant even today, to me. a lot of lesbians still arent exactly able to conceive a child thats theirs by blood on both sides. some couples adopt. either way theres gonna be a parent who has to step up to the task of being a parent without being causally involved in creating the biological mass of the child! my own real-life boss at my day job is a dyke like that, and from what i can tell she seems to be both doing great as a parent and love her kids.

image IDs under the cut:

(ID deutsch: Dein Kind. Lange schon wusste ich von deinem Sehnen nach einem eigenen Kinde, und doch traf mich die Wirklichkeit so hart, dass ein Fremder dir so nah gewesen; ich konnte es nicht vergessen. Eines Tages aber riefst du mich zu dir und dem Kinde, welches ich nicht als dein Kind erkennen wollte. Aus deinem abgezehrten Gesicht leuchteten die Augen in seltsamer Klarheit. Und diese Augen zwangen mich an des Bettchen des kleinen Wesens, dem du das Leben schenktest. Widerwilling beugte ich mich nieder und sah in ein winziges, verschlafenes Gesichtlein. Langsam nur kam ein wenig Licht in die Dunkelheit meines Sinnens, und schwere Tränen fielen auf das Stückchen Leben vor mir. Tränen, die befreiten und erleichterten. Kein Wort unterbrach das lastende Schweigen zwischen uns. Du sahst meinen inneren Kampf, und um deinen Mund grub sich ein bitterer Zug. Da legte ich leise, scheu beinah, deine lieben müden Hände in die meinen und küsste sie in stiller Abbitte und inbrünstiger Liebe. Und dann nahm ich dein Kind - unser Kind - an mein Herz.)

(ID english: Your child. For a long time I'd known about your yearning for a child of your own, yet the realization that a stranger had been so close to you hit me hard; i could not forget it. But one day you called me to see you and the child, which I would not recognize as yours. Your eyes were alight with peculiar clarity in your harrowed face. And it were those eyes that commanded me towards the cradle of the tiny being you had given life to. Reluctantly I bent down and looked upon a tiny, sleepy little face. Light only pierced the dakrness of my thoughts slowly, little by little, and heavy tears fell upon the small bundle of life in front of me. The freeing tears of relief. No word interrupted the heavy silence between us. You saw my inner struggle, and a bitter expression ran across your lips. So I took your dear, tired hands into mine quietly, in a manner almost demure, and kissed them in wordless atonement and full of passionate love. Then I took your child - our child - and cradled it against my heart*.)

*can also refer to taking it into her heart metaphorically, i.e. loving it. my translations sadly cannot account for every single nuance

[herecomehardtimes]

📸 by instagram.com/kevinspower

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Eva Petersen - The Little Flames (Interview 2026)

22grandpod &

dr_eva_carlsdotter_petersen

The Little Flames live in Japan 2005. Episode with lead singer Eva on all platforms today #thelittleflames

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Look how made up we are on tour back in the very early 2000s. This reminds me of the front cover of Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow (1967) #thelittleflames @deltasonicrecords 📸: @christiancarlpetersen

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Royal Liver Building

Me and the boys. 📸: @kevinspower A very early promo shot when we just signed to @deltasonicrecords. Think it’s the Liver Buildings.

Plastic Rhino magazine… probably 2005/6 #thelittleflames

📸: @markmcnulty

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Why I love Japan. A pillow fight decked out in @hystericglamour_tokyo and @jeanpaulgaultier ? Why not. @eyescream_mag 📸 : @mitch_ikeda Good times @junbuggie ❤️ @deltasonicrecords ❤️ @jaymighall ❤️

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22grandpod

Eva Petersen - The Little Flames. Eva is on the pod as we delve into her life in music via Liverpool, Deltasonic & tours with Arctic Monkeys. Now on patreon. 📸 christiancarlpetersen #evapetersen #thelittleflames #liverpool

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nls3ySpxiIU)

Full album up on YouTube for everyone dying to hear it before they get the physical release.  Hope it makes your day a little happier! 

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Put Your Dukes Up John.

Put Your Dukes Up John.

Change your tune and change your hair or you’re not going anywhere… Be a C-Y-N-I-C!? The Little Flames- Put Your Dukes Up John (2015) The Little Flames unreleased debut album has finally been released! We managed to get a copy from Deltasonic a few years back, but the unreleased The Day Is Not Today from 2007 was at long last…

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365 Song Challenge:

Day 194: A song that mentions your eye colour in it:

“Emerald Green Eyes” by Eva Petersen

I’m not sure about the emerald bit. But definitely green.