#florida!!!

[lord-alligator]

What if I angrily chased you around a mansion in a flowy robe with a kitchen knife while I Can’t Help Myself by Four Tops plays. 👉🏽👈🏽 🥺

[break-aperfectlygoodheart]

Is that a bad thing to say in a song?

so I did my best to lay to rest all of the bodies that have ever been on my body, and in my mind, they sink into the swamp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a great thing to say in a song. Drown those fuckers!!!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

“You work your life away just to pay for a timeshare down in Destin” as a scathing metaphor about pouring your blood, sweat and tears into building your life only for the thing you worked for turning into a cheap imitation of a real home that doesn’t even belong to you and at which you can’t even plant roots because your time there depends on others’ whims and they’re notoriously difficult to get out of… oof

No this isn’t new no this doesn’t make sense I’m just remembering shit

[lord-alligator]

Don't mind us, we were just taking our ocs to Disney World. 💅

(The blond, Auric: @homericwinter; The redhead, Ismimi: @the-blackened-pearl)

[vivi-xxi]

I did my best to lay to rest all of the symptoms that have ever been on my body and in my head they sink into a swamp...

[a-song-for-every-book]

Florida!!! for "Eyewall" (from Florida)

song // Florida!!! by Taylor Swift and Florence + the Machine

short story // "Eyewall" from Florida by Lauren Groff

Old news, but Florence Welch posted that Florida by Lauren Groff came to mind while working on the track “Florida!!!” for Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, so of course I read it and tabbed all the moments that I think influenced the song. Specifically, it's the short story “Eyewall” that shares a narrative with Florence’s verse.

The hurricane with my name when it came

The year Lauren Groff published Florida also happened to be the year of hurricane Florence (2018).

I got drunk and dared it to wash me away Barricaded in the bathroom with a bottle of wine Well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time Yes I’m haunted but I’m feeling just fine

The unnamed narrator of “Eyewall” doesn’t evacuate with her neighbors, choosing to stay and wait out the storm. She does indeed end up locked in the bathroom with alcohol while the storm rages, hallucinating her dead father is by her side. The narrator also sees the ghosts of her deceased ex-husband and ex-boyfriend during the storm and hardly bats an eye.

All my girls got their lace and their crimes And your cheating husband disappeared Well, no one asks any questions here

The narrators ex-husband was revealed to have died soon after separating to be with his mistress, and while the circumstances of his death weren’t a mysterious disappearance like in the song, it’s worth noting that infidelity happens in both the song and the short story.

So I did my best to lay to rest All the bodies that have ever been on my body And in my mind, they sink into the swamp Is that a bad thing to say in a song?

Not quite a swamp but very similar: the narrator witnesses the ghost of her ex-boyfriend sink into the flood waters of the storm.

Also fun: the song is Lauren Groff approved.

[marcieswift]

Pick one, kick one (Taylor's Version)

Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)

Would've, Could've, Should've

Voting ended onMar 24

Round 2, Duel 63 🤍💙