𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 - 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘴 (2023) / ‘𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴’ 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯 (1919)
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King by Florence + The Machine // Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi and Portia by Elisabetta Sirani
Requested by anonymous
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When Florence said, "This is the only thing I've ever had any faith in" WHEN SINGING ABOUT HER SISTER TAKING CARE OF HER. Tears. Goosebumps.
AND THEN she follows up later with "I hope and hope I would never treat anyone like that again"?!?!!?!!! I AM ILL.
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Yᴏᴜ'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ʜᴏʟᴅɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴀ ʟᴏɴɢ ᴛɪᴍᴇ
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Atlas holding up the celestial globe, Guercino (1646)
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thoschei........
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"Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing"
Free - Florence + The Machine
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landscape by florence + the machine is so the-queer-black-sheep-of-the-family coded to me. like
"Cause she's just like the weather, can't hold her together
Born from dark water, daughter of the rain and snow
'Cause it's burning through the bloodline
It's cutting down the family tree"
she's literally saying they can't fit her into the role they want her to fill. she's born from something different, something they view as evil and dark and cold. "burning through the bloodline"; basically her entire family gives her weird looks for it, they're against it, its tearing the family apart and the bloodline may end with her so there's double meaning there.
not to mention the line "So she ran to the lighthouse, hoped that it would help her see," that's clearly a reference to virginia woolf's story to the lighthouse. virginia, who florence is a fan of, was also famously queer (the song what the water gave me is also a tribute to virginia and her suicide).
it might be a reach but idc, it means a lot to me and i can interpret it however i want i guess. also, no, im not assuming florence's sexuality. i know she said she doesn't want to label herself this is just my interpretation of a song she happens to be the author of.
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Dancers by Franz Von Stuck // Hunger by Florence + The Machine
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More catholic taste than the devil... ☆
I got super bored haha, hope you like it♡ open for better quality :,)
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A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them,
and now it's left me blind.
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I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing
I need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology
’Cause I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
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Love as destructive force
(love, love, love by the mountain goats // love will tear us apart by joy division // know how by the crane wives // heavy in your arms by florence + the machine // (I always kill) the things I love by the real tuesday weld)
“we are fairly well damaged by the legacy of the Romantic poets—that we think of love as this, you know, thing that is accompanied by strings and it’s a force for good, and if something bad happens then that’s not love. And the therapeutic tradition that I come from—I used to work in therapy—you know, also says that it’s not love if it feels bad. I don’t know so much about that. I don’t know that the Greeks weren’t right. I think they were—that love can eat a path through everything—that it will destroy a lot of things on the way to its own objective, which is just its expression of itself, you know. I mean, my stepfather loved his family, right? Now he mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us. And, you know, well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing a lot of what I perceive as terrible damage in the way people talk about this—love is this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that.” - John Darnielle
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