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💘✨ “Not a lot going on at the moment”✨💘

@taylorswift @taylornation

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step into the daylight and let it go

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@taylorswift @taylornation

Dear @taylorswift and @taylornation

Well, i didn't want to do this because i feel like i could die ignored.

For almost 8 years, my mother and I have been going through an economic crisis, it's just me and her. My mother is the only financial support and often only earns just enough for the fortnight.

Our situation was so difficult that she had to start taking care of my little cousins ​​in exchange for one more entry of money and it honestly gave us great support.

I study Dentistry and, at least in Mexico, it is not an easy career to pay (it is surely the same in the whole world)

For this first year of my degree, my mother asked for a loan that would help pay for the expenses of the degree. To pay her, they deduct her salary.

With this virus issue, she is no longer being able to take care of my cousins ​​and therefore, she no longer receives that financial support and added to the loan discounts, we are going to find it very difficult this quarantine.

I do this publicly because I have always been a fan of @taylorswift and she have recently been helping fans in need. Maybe I am not one of those who have thousands of followers and buy official merchandise from time to time, but I have always been a fan of she, of her way of being and her talent.

I hope you can see my message, and help us.

I feel a huge powerlessness not being able to help my mom, I just tried to apply for a scholarship at school but they give the results until May.

Hopefully, and if someone finds my story, helps me share it, I would appreciate it too much.

But if you can't, it's fine. Just knowing that I reached your ears and knew my story, I think it's a nice gesture on your part. I am understandable that maybe there is someone who needs that help more than us.

Thank you and God bless you

@taylorswift @taylornation

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HI TAYLOR♡

@taylorswift @taylornation

I don't know if this is going to work or if I should be doing this in the first place because I I know there's people that need help more than I do but I guess it won't hurt to try.

My name is Mar, I'm 22 and I'm from Chile. I would like to explain the situation first.

I dropped out university twice in two years, last time was last year and it was because there was so many things wrong in life and I just couldn't deal with the stress. Months later I started having terrible panic attacks. Months after that I was diagnosed with depression and just a week later I found out I was losing my hearing. I knew I didn't hear like a normal person but I thought that it wasn't a major problem and it could be fixed but no, it has no cure and turns out it was worse than we expected. I got to the point where I'm having problems having normal conversations with people, including my family, and that's why I cant find a real job or go back to university. I tried though... I few months back I got a job and I was able to save some money to buy my hearing aids but the panic attacks got worse and therapy was taking away half of my savings. I end up getting fired because I needed to leave or needed the day out because the panic attacks. It's hard to find a job where I don't have to interact with people but after all of this that is going on in the world it became impossible.

That's why I need your help. I know there's people with needs way more important than mine and I know I have no right to ask you for this because you don't owe me anything, but if you have the chance to help me with my hearing aids you would've be helping me take the control of my life back. I swear I don't want money, I want the chance to get a good job to save money to put my life back on track and think about what I'm going to do now that I know I'll go deaf at some point (but not before I hear you sing in concert 💗 I'll make sure of it).

If you read this and decide to help someone else, that's okay. I'd be so happy for that person and it would make me even more proud of you. Thank you so much for what you're doing. We really don't deserve you.

AND if you really are reading this I want you to know that the ones that supported me the most when I found out about the hearing lost was the fandom. You have the best fans ever. You raised us well.

Love, mar.

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@taylorswift @taylornation

HI TAYLOR♡

@taylorswift @taylornation

I don't know if this is going to work or if I should be doing this in the first place because I I know there's people that need help more than I do but I guess it won't hurt to try.

My name is Mar, I'm 22 and I'm from Chile. I would like to explain the situation first.

I dropped out university twice in two years, last time was last year and it was because there was so many things wrong in life and I just couldn't deal with the stress. Months later I started having terrible panic attacks. Months after that I was diagnosed with depression and just a week later I found out I was losing my hearing. I knew I didn't hear like a normal person but I thought that it wasn't a major problem and it could be fixed but no, it has no cure and turns out it was worse than we expected. I got to the point where I'm having problems having normal conversations with people, including my family, and that's why I cant find a real job or go back to university. I tried though... I few months back I got a job and I was able to save some money to buy my hearing aids but the panic attacks got worse and therapy was taking away half of my savings. I end up getting fired because I needed to leave or needed the day out because the panic attacks. It's hard to find a job where I don't have to interact with people but after all of this that is going on in the world it became impossible.

That's why I need your help. I know there's people with needs way more important than mine and I know I have no right to ask you for this because you don't owe me anything, but if you have the chance to help me with my hearing aids you would've be helping me take the control of my life back. I swear I don't want money, I want the chance to get a good job to save money to put my life back on track and think about what I'm going to do now that I know I'll go deaf at some point (but not before I hear you sing in concert 💗 I'll make sure of it).

If you read this and decide to help someone else, that's okay. I'd be so happy for that person and it would make me even more proud of you. Thank you so much for what you're doing. We really don't deserve you.

AND if you really are reading this I want you to know that the ones that supported me the most when I found out about the hearing lost was the fandom. You have the best fans ever. You raised us well.

Love, mar.

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No one:

Absolutely no one:

Me: here’s more footage of behind the scenes of me directing The Man video with a female voice and demeanor/ dude body and face! Just to make your day weirder!

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Double Standards/References in The Man Music Video

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Happy six years to the song that saved my life. 💜

How a Taylor Swift song rescued me.

*Trigger warning.*

Dear @taylorswift,

You probably have read/listened to a lot of stories alike and have heard a lot of times how you helped someone go through one of the worst experiences of their life sometimes to the point where you saved their lives. Although I know this too well, I wanted you to know how you rescued me from a dark horrible place three years ago: this is my story (and I apologize for this letter being too long).

First thing you need to know is I didn't grew up in the city where I live now. I grew up in a really small town located in the center of my country (Mexico) and since seven years ago I live in a pretty much bigger city at the north where at first I knew no one and had no friends nor family in.

Going into junior high with a lot of people I didn't grew up with and who usually ignored me or directly pretended I didn't exist was the worst thing for me at that moment. As you may imagine I hated going to school. I've always had anxiety but at that moment I started experimenting social anxiety and anxiety attacks more often. Things at home weren't better, my parents used to fight a lot because of my older brother's mental health: he tried to kill himself a few months before we moved because people at school bullied him and my mom constantly insisted he should get psychological help while my dad thought (and still thinks) therapy wasn't necessary. I was lost and felt left alone because all they talked about was my brother and I obviously know it was important but I couldn't help to feel like no one seemed to care about me having a bad time at school.

Then I met the first person I've ever fell in love with. We were in the same class and started talking because of our mothers, she was amazing and the only person who cared about what I was feeling back then, or that was what I thought. We became the closest people in the world really fast because at the end of the day we both felt lost and like no one cared about us. We both used to self harm, in my case I used to scratch my arms really hard to the point sometimes I bled a little bit because of the anxiety, it kind of helped me calm down when I was having an attack, she used to cut because of problems with her parents. We both promised not to do it again and instead call each other when we were feeling like we needed to do it. I was there for her every single time her parents called her a disappointment, I was there when they forced her to come out of the closet, I was there when her boyfriends and girlfriends broke her heart. She used to minimize the problems with my parents (internalized homophobia when I was feeling confused) because they weren't as hard as hers and although I know it was true I still think she shouldn't have done it because "everyone is fighting their own battles". Thing is I supported her while she played with my feelings. She always introduced me to her friends as "her girlfriend" or "the girl who I want to be mine but continues to reject me" and as she did that I thought she noticed what I felt but she kept ending the line with "just a joke, she's my best friend".

I decided to ignore my feelings and continue to be just her best friend because at that time I didn't accept myself and thought liking her didn't mean I liked girls, I mean I thought it was, like some people say, "just a phase" (spolier alert: it wasn't, I'm very gay). When we entered high school we went to different schools and while she was struggling to make friends surprisingly I wasn't. I went to an arts high school were most of the people were the kindest because we all knew how it was to be rejected for being "different". That was the place where I found true friendship.

Something I think is relevant to say is I listen to your music since 2009 but started being a fan since late 2010 and this girl made me feel dumb for it. She said it wasn't real music and made fun of me every time I talked about you. She got in my head so I started to stop listening to your music (now I know it was stupid to let someone else decide what I should or shouldn't like or listen to). Although I stopped listening to you for a couple of months my dad gifted me 1989 when it came out. Sometimes I listened to the whole album but didn't actually pay attention to the lyrics.

To this day I don't know if she did it on purpose or if she always was just like that and I didn't realize before but as soon as she noticed I was making friends and doing better (at least at school) she started to make me feel like I was responsible for some problems with her parents. I knew them and they knew we were just friends so when she wanted to go see the person she was dating she used me to get permission and a couple of times when I couldn't go she got mad at me and said I was selfish because she didn't get the permission. She knew perfectly how to manage me and once again got into my head really deep to the point where I started thinking she was right and apologized for things that weren't in my hands and, now that I think about it, I couldn't have done anything about. She also made me feel like I was betraying her because of my new friends, she convinced me I was replacing her and that I was a bad person. She told me things to make me think if it wasn't with her no one was gonna love me. Besides that one of my aunts mysteriously passed away and my family thought it was murder (we still don't know if it was or not) so I started panicking about it. My parents fought with each other more often, my dad fought with my brother almost every day and hearing them scream increased my anxiety. I had too much on my head to the point I just wanted to go sleep and maybe not to wake up ever again.

One day at school I exploded because I felt there was too much over my shoulders. I started crying with the girl that now is my best friend (fun fact: she's literally the Abigail to my Taylor, Abigail is her middle name) and she gave me a safe space to talk about everything I had in my head at that moment. She told me this girl wasn't treating me right and advised me I should get away from her. I didn't know how to feel.

Something I hate and have always hated are lies and one day that we were planning to hang out this girl lied to me saying exactly that day she had to fly to San Francisco because of school exchange. I hung out with Abigail instead and suddenly saw her with her boyfriend where we were supposed to hang out before she cancelled. She saw me too and got mad at me for "replacing her". When I got home I found a bunch of indirects on social media referring to me. At that moment I felt equally guilty and betrayed. I messaged her a couple days later and proposed to solve things by "starting again". She agreed. I couldn't help but still feel like she betrayed me so I did the most immature thing I've ever done. I started writing indirects as Instagram captions and when she asked me what was going on we had a fight. I don't remember most of the things we said but what I do remember is she told me she broke the promise and self harmed instead if calling me, she told me she never took it seriously and basically made me feel stupid because I actually did. Next thing I remember is being in the bathroom bleeding with a blade in my hand. Back then I thought I was going to hurt her by hurting myself so I continued to cut every time I felt anxious or insecure because I still was afraid something related to my aunt's death happened.

On June 2015 I saw a video of a speech you did at a 1989 wt show and somehow it hit me right in the face. I realized I was hurting myself because of someone else's opinion of me, because I wasn't seeing the best part of my life at that moment: my mother's family was closer than ever because they were helping my cousins and my uncle get over my aunt's death, my brother was doing better because he found someone who taught him what a real friend is, my dad was having the best time of his life at work and my sister (who stayed at our small town when we moved so she could finish college) was going to get married because she found true love. I had real friends, my family was still having problems but they were working on it to solve them and I enjoyed school for the first time since we moved. I convinced myself I should stop self harming and start focusing on the bright part of my life. It was kind of working, I was getting closer to my family and school friends and I managed to stay clean for awhile until July 23rd arrived, that was the day when she wrote something I will never forget: "bitch, everything you're today is thanks to me" and a bunch of her friends were making fun of me in the comments section. I suddenly forgot everything I said to myself on April and that was the last time I took a blade.

Music has always helped me to calm down and that night I put my phone on shuffle. Whether it was destiny or just a coincidence the first song that started playing was Clean. I started crying as I put attention to the lyrics for the first time since the album came out. This song means so much to me because it made me realize how wrong I was, it made me see my own value, it made me actually notice she was right, everything I was back then was because of her: my anxiety got worse because of her, I hated myself because of her, I couldn't see the best of my life because I was focusing on the worst part of it because of her, I was convinced I was a bad person because of her and that no one was gonna love me if it wasn't her. I still have trust issues because of her.

This song also made me realize I needed help. I told my mom almost everything I was going through and although we knew what my dad thought about it she got me to a psychologist. I went to therapy for almost five months and then I had to leave because of economic issues. This happened twice and when I stopped going the second time I started listening to your music again daily, specially Clean as much as I could to remind myself "10 months older I won't give in, now that I'm clean I'm never gonna risk it". Since then this song has been my war song, it, and obviously you too, has got me through my lowest. I listen to it every time I feel anxious (very often actually).

Until March this year (2019), when my ex who I was afraid of her discovering my scars actually discovered them, I told my parents about them and despite my dad's opinion I returned to therapy but now with my college's psychologist (who doesn't charge anything). I'm still working on anxiety, on family issues and many things I don't remember from my childhood that are probably the reason I trusted this girl that much to the point she made me like she wanted.

I was planning on posting this yesterday because of my 4th year anniversary of being clean but it turned out to be also the release date of The Archer and I wanted to tell you as well how the lyrics meant so much to me since the first time I heard it (and I've heard it like a thousand times now): I felt this lyrics on three ways: "I've been hating on myself because of someone else but it's time to let it go", "I've been having this levels of anxiety because of something someone who I first trusted did to me but now I'm moving on" and specially (something I know most people feel and is the worst feeling ever) "I know I'm worth true love and friendship but I still think who could ever love someone like me?"

A part almost at the end of the lyrics (who could stay? You could stay) made me think of something my mom always tells me: "there's someone, besides me, out there who's gonna love you no matter what. They're not gonna try to change you, they're gonna accept you with your flaws and your past no matter what you've gone through." I'm still on my way to find that person but The Archer's lyrics also made me think I could be that person myself, and not only I could be, I need to be. I'm on my way to accept myself, I'm on my way to love myself and I'm glad you're here holding my hand even when you don't know it.

To finish this looooooong letter: I don't know if you know this song but this is what Clean means to me and also the lyrics to it are basically what you and your work have done for me.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3gLhyrYm31eRAmr6DRMECX?si=9PefSrvaRbWxA3M3qObIgQ

(In case the link doesn't work the song is This Song Saved My Life by Simple Plan).

With nothing else to say, again apologizing for this being too long, excited to hear Lover as soon as it comes out, forever thankful for being alive at the same time as you, sending you a lot of love and my best wishes for you and your family,

Annie.

P.S: My seven-months-old niece is Speak Now #1 stan. She's beginning to live and already has taste.

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The Trick to Holding On - Taylor Swift for British Vogue, January 2018 x 

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And the winner of the #DollyPartonChallange… Olivia Benson 😹

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the miss americana doc is basically what "the lucky one" warned us about

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Taylor Swift lockscreens

Like or reblog if you save, follow me for more lockscreens! 🌸

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taylor swift + stranger things.

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I’d be a fearless leader 🎶

I’d be an alpha type 👔

When everyone believes ya... 🎤

What’s that like? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[insert something about posting my Artist of the Decade recreate on the last selfie night of the decade @swiftiesofcolor 🌈💕🏳️‍🌈] @taylorswift 💫💛✨

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the new vice president fixes the new presidents dress as she accepts her new win

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CATS premiere NYC