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something something let death be kinder than man

I hate when people dont wanna watch old doctor who because special effects look like ass. My brother in christ thats literally the best part

Florence Welch will literally write albums upon albums of music about how she's always felt ostracised from femininity, that it feels for her like a performance she can't escape, and even give a whole interview about her upcoming album being inspired by how a pregnancy almost killed her and how coming to terms with this made her feel alienated from her body and gender..... And STILL the majority of her mainstream fans will still talk about her work like "omg yes divine feminine womanhood queen of fairy girls uwu". I really hate how so many ppl just don't actually listen to music or care about what it's about. The "fairy-ification" of artists like Florence Welch, Hoizer, Fiona Apple, Mitski, Tamino, Kate Bush, etc, all of whom create music that's rooted in specific social and cultural themes, but the complexity and artistic intention is often totally flattened into !!uwu fairy girlhood in the woods vibes!!! Truly hate this brain switched off vibes based era of music engagement.

listening to Everybody Scream....and, wow, yeah. Listening with the context that Florence Welch wrote this album after an ectopic pregnancy that miscarried and almost killed her is truly so vital to fully appreciate it imo. This is an album so full of grief, so full of fear of the body, of clawing your way back to a body that almost didn't save you, of coming to terms with such a horror and grief alienating you from gender and romance, and of how grief over a life un-lived transforms you. I've been listening to Florence since I was barely a teen and this is truly some of the most acutely personal work she's ever shared. it would be a shame, I think, if people couldn't appreciate that aspect of Everybody Scream for what it is. so if you didn't know this album is about the aftermath of Florence's near-fatal ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage, now you do and your listening will be all the more profoundly moving for it <3

the new florence + the machine album is so good, especially 'narratively' because one of the driving themes, if not the main one, on the album is womanhood and the community in womanhood. and not in an exclusionary, binary way, neither in a 'coquette fawn girlblogger' way that a huge bunch of people online want to turn fatm into. knowing what florence welch wrote it about mostly (the near-death experience of her ectopic pregnancy) gives every word a visceral punch but i think the songs excel because they always reach out to other women to relate them to themselves, and they always lean back on the communal experience of women truthfully and wholly supporting other women, in whatever shape or form that is and in whatever shape or form one defines their own womanhood. it's haunting, and angry, and ruthless in describing isolating and alienating experiences of being a woman in male-dominated fields, in florence's case her art, but the songs become euphoric and peaceful and warm when they concern this communal space, even when it exists in an intangible way through music. it's really great how she made this such a through-line without falling into the traps people like to put florence or her music under.

Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.

I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad. 

once again participating in No December November, where the challenge is to abstain from december for the entire month of november