#florabama

[strawberrystepmom]

my sisters kill me bc once a week they stop speaking to each other and every time they reunite we end up having to remake the group chat bc they don’t wanna be reminded of what they said to each other so we have like 8 group chats in my messages rn

[hellgiven]

do i buy kenny chesney tickets for next summer's show in tampa or nah??? ugh.

[asterdeer]

[mistletouchunderthetree]

i hit 15k words on my big bang fic last night AND i finished my outline!!!!! i’m hoping to spend some more time on our fancy balcony tonight bc writing out there was so nice (shut up pretend like you can’t see my feet but look at this view)

[bakedspoonie]

Oh man my mums gonna start her new job soon and I won’t have anyone to watch shit reality tv with anymore =‘(

[nubraska]

Florabama flat tire

[best-jimmy-buffett-song]

Listen to Life is a Tire Swing here

Listen to Bama Breeze here

Trivia and Propaganda below:

Life is a Tire Swing:

Jimmy explained the creation of this song during a 1974 concert: "When The Morning Comes with Linda Rondstadt, which I love and I was just cruising along about 55 not speeding or anything. I looked over to the right and there was this huge old house, farm house, with about 8 cars up on blocks, tractor, and there was this tire swing in the front yard, and I went wow, that’s just great now I know how to finish the song, now I’ve seen one and I’m not just working from memory. And coming back I did the gig that night and had to catch a 6 o’clock plane in the morning so I was driving straight back through and I fell asleep at the wheel and I cracked up and hit a telephone pole managed to demolish the rent a car, and I got out without a scratch just got a sore, which I am, just a little bit, but I hit about 25 yards from the tire swing and the first thing I saw when I climbed out of the car was that tire swing and it freaked me right out and this farmer and this family came out and pulled me out of the wreck and I was just sitting there and didn’t know anybody, shaking like hell on the side of the road but I had the ending of my song. It’s a hard way to do it, but it sure did contribute to tieing it all together. It’s the first…I just finished it up and it’s still a little bit rough, but it’s one of the best things I think I’ve ever done."

Bama Breeze:

Written as a tribute to the many bars and landmarks along the gulf coast that were destroyed by hurricanes over the years, such as the FloraBama.

[animezinglife]

Am I the only writer who gets frustrated when someone chooses to reject a story’s setting just because she likes another state better and says she pictured it there?

This story is set in Florida on the Florabama line. My narrator directly states that he’s in Florida, and there are references to the panhandle area he’s in.

“Yeah, but I just picture it in South Carolina.”

Then you’re about to be very confused by a ten hour drive he’s about to make.

Or maybe you’ll just headcanon it as four hours. 🙄

There are a lot of things open to interpretation in fiction, but dismissing things like that can throw off the entire story.

[chainsawyers]

this is so random but knowing you're from al is so cool bc i'm from fl and it's just so rare seeing ppl on the internet any where near me or just from al 😭😭

we’re literally brothers 🤩🤝🤩 florabama swagger 😎

[vocaloidasthingsivesaid]

Teto: Florabama

[neildover]

Country Bands Alabama

Singer songwriter entertainer recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, Neil Dover does a weekly show at the Florabama Lounge in Perdido Key Florida that thousands pilgrimage to every year. Visit -

[ilovetodrinkwater]

Your turn! Tell us about an OC extremely close to your heart. Are you kind to them, or are they your chew toy? Do they represent something to you? What inspired you to create them?

i thought it was interesting that u said ur characters are less expressions of urself vs the worlds being that expression! i really have 1 world that i add to and some of it is an expression of my values, thoughts etc but i think it’s more of a sandbox and all my characters have some kernel of me in them. so they are all close to my heart 😭 i started developing this world around the end of high school and really started nailing it down closer to what it is now about 2 years later. the characters i used as an anchor for that early iteration of the story were initially around 15 but as i kept building(and getting older) i aged them up to around 20, which on the island where my story takes place is the time people choose their own last name, and i liked that as a point of self-evaluation and change for them all.. many of their conflicts are not quite my own but it’s been cathartic to play out their arguments in my head with feelings on all sides that i can relate to or at least sympathize with. now i don’t feel like they are the main characters but they definitely drive a part of the story’s ecosystem and are still the ones i think of first:

flori (short for florabama- her grandmothers name as well) i don’t have a settled last name for her but likely something to do with shrimp and other small things cus her mom is a tiny organism scientist and her moms parents are shrimp cultivators. she’s often irritated because in her mind everything is clear and people just don’t act the way she clearly knows is the right way for them to act. she likes butt rock. transitioning may save him but that is outside the scope of the story. she is compulsively generous(always crafting little things and making meals) but still grouchy about it. she needs to stop saying mean shit to her friends and rejoin the marching band and/or learn how to build ships in a bottle with her grandpa. she has no idea what she wants and doesn’t see much of a future for herself but feels obligated to stay

mollie graveyard-stallions(haven’t fully settled on this last name and she hasn’t either but keeping both is a fuck you to her grandma) people-pleaser delighted with the macabre but wishes she could explore it on her own terms rather than being expected to follow her mom and grandmas role stewarding elaborate, seasonlong funerary rituals for a religion she doesn’t really care about. she prefers hands-on work with the dead, especially their cemetery’s role as the place for people who die unknown or with nobody to grieve them. the other part of her name comes from her other grandma who used to be THE person to go to for horse breeding needs but since her son (mollies dad) was implicated and banished in a murder case(which floris dad/mollies moms brother was also banished for. grave-grandma is suuuch a bitch about this and doesn’t even acknowledge flori) she can’t keep up her horse empire in her old age and only keeps a few now. mollie constantly feels like the mediator at the center of everyone she loves who are all so prone to conflict with each other.

val fortunefound- the only one who has chosen her name so far. she and her cousin chose it because they are obsessed with the goal of finding treasure in the sunken neighborhoods and shipwrecks and gtfo the island, but also because they already found fortune by gtfo their shitty family’s house and raising cousins kid together. she likes being a guard dog for pretty girls and currently that is mollie, which flori is super pissed about because val was her friend first and mollie was ofc her cousinbestie and now feels like they are leaving her behind. val is very conscious of crafting an image and personality for herself and refuses to let anyone feel like they got the best of her. did she start based off of vriska from a summer camp au? Well,

this is the most i have ever shared about them hehe and i think they are pretty equally chewtoyed and cherished. i love making everyone fight though sometimes thinking about what they would yell at each other i do genuinely feel my blood pressure rise. there are also several characters who are directly based off me at different points in my life including future speculation, and ones who are directly based on people i love in their past/future. and some of them are friends with these guys :-)

[diemauergone]

Having brunch and cocktails @ the florabama but I'll be on in a bit.

[movienation]

Movie Review: We're all just "Roadkill" to this Florida-bound serial killer

“Roadkill” is a leaden, lumbering C-movie about serial killings on the backroads of Florida back in the ’80s. For his second feature, writer, director and co-star Warren Fast (“Finding Grace”) reaches back for a “drive in” era motors-and-murders thriller about a “Highway Hunter” terrorizing the good folks along the stretch of the state nicknamed “Florabama” with good reason. It’s got a…

[frazzledsoul]

Actual conversation with my mom last night:

Me: So I heard they let you into Florabama again.

Her: *nervous laughter*

Me: Didn't they throw you out last time?

Her: Yes, but P (her childhood BFF) was there to chaperone me this time (changes subject to Virgin River)

Yeah, they one hundred percent got thrown out again.