#musings from a deranged swiftie

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So this popped up on my pinterest and it has triggered the argument which I am about to present to you today:

All Too Well was written from Mako’s POV.

And I’m not even kidding. It’s canon. I have compelling evidence so blatant even a non-swiftie could see it!

art by sarinja

PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR EYES OPENED 👁️👁️

I walked through the door with you, the air was cold / But somethin' 'bout it felt like home somehow

This was Korra welcoming Mako to the South Pole which – you guessed it – is cold AF. It was the first time Mako knew what home felt like.

And I left my scarf there

And who famously wore a scarf and controversially left it behind??

We're singin' in the car, getting lost upstate / You almost ran the red 'cause you were lookin' over at me

Here, Mako is explaining why Korra drives the way she does. She was just a lil distracted okay?? She’s not a bad driver because she has never done anything wrong in her life!

Well, maybe we got lost in translation / Maybe I asked for too much / But maybe this thing was a masterpiece till you tore it all up / Runnin' scared, I was there

This is Mako succinctly describing their break up, but the real villain here is the adults who let two teenagers bear the brunt of political pressures. Even though their relationship was very stressful near the end, Mako is mindful of the good times. He still believes what they had was a masterpiece 😢 It’s almost like applying pressure to carbon turns it into a diamond

I'm a crumpled-up piece of paper lyin' here

This man wrote her dozens of letters and he never even knew if she read them 😢😢 he’s a crumpled up piece of paper lying here unread

And I was never good at tellin' jokes

He really isn’t 😭 but you can bet she laughed at them all when they were fucken

And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?

They are literally firebending twins.

He 100% taught her how to do that. And is there another firebender (flame) from the water tribe (blue)??? This line is as poetic as it is specific.

Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?

This love affair LITERALLY maimed him.

Need I remind you of the humongous scar on his left arm?? We can sit here and pretend that he did it as a responsible citizen of the world but that is a LIE. He did it for HER. It’s always his devotion to Korra that leads him to do the stupidest fuckin thing.

Just between us, do you remember it all too well?

And that’s the question he’ll always ask himself because he remembers every glittering moment in their 6 month pressure cooker. Every feeling was magnified and intense but it was real. Was it real for her too?

Just between us, I remember it all too well.

BITCH— 🥺🥺 he will never forget and neither will I!

[lcndonboysstuff]

This whole TTPD situation, from the misleading marketing targeted at making Joe Alwyn the supposedly main subject, using him as red herring to whom let unhinged fans address hate and less unhinged ones any kind of laments, instead of the real muse (to protect for several reasons, none of them flattering to the side granting protection), has been a constant string of PR moves. Not only from Taylor's side. Like Matty's mom statement that she wasn't aware Taylor was releasing an album (really?) to Matty saying he hadn't heard the songs but was sure they were great to Travis' conservative mom's. words when asked about the album her son's girlfriend has released about other men (and her passionate deranged feelings) she was with in the same year she got with her son. I've see swifties swoon over her statement that was clearly PR made, ready to be released in order to minimise damage due to not carefully controlled words. Nothing seems spontaneous about this whole operation and that makes the whole difference between this album and Rep in my opinion. It's not only the difference status Taylor is in, hated by many then, adored by many more now, it's the spirit behind it. Rep songs were more carefully produced but felt more sincere in feelings and spirit than this album that seems to have been rushed in release but has been thought about and promoted in a way that much seems to lack except disingenuity

i haven’t seen the statements from Matty’s and travis’ mums so i can’t comment on that.

but yeah rep is definitely more sincere. ttpd feels like it’s just a need to have an album out every 2 years

[kaylor]

do we think miss taylor is gonna go hard on marketing for the 1989 'boy muse' the way she did a la Red w/ Jake ??? Like is she gonna include songs with extra *information* about mr styles just to really stir that marketing campaign? we gonna get some more tidbits and anecdotes such as...dare i say it... keychains on the ground??? Or will she strategically hold back because that mans fans are as deranged as hers and she knows not to poke that bear ????? mr gylenaals and his SISTERS comments were flooded with the most dumb most egregious most stupid comments from swifties...like surely shes not gonna play that game with mr styles because his fans will hit back u kno?? they don't play just like my good sis tree pain should know twitter stans don't play, they literally dox each other?????? he is their *harry stans* husband and father, she is their *swifties* mother and wife (cue: vomit)??? they are equal in terms of the extreme parasocial relationships carefully curated with their fans. so....miss americana and mr 'hi im harry im 16 and i work in a bakery' fandom war revival in 2022????

please even just reading this is giving me heart palpitations i cannot go through another haylor war im not strong enough.

i don't like to think i can predict her marketing moves because she's fucking insane actually and her silly little jake gyllenhaal smack cam music video was uh, i mean. it definitely uhhh. that man is still very much in the closet and i reckon they came to some kind of deal that meant he gets some publicity, she gets a stab at the oscars (LOL GIRL) etc etc.

i don't think harry and his team are going to be quite as receptive to a similar play... he's got one foot in and one foot out and they've both been Very happy to mutually ignore each other for a decade and pretend it never happened. even the marketing for 1989 at the time took a sharp u-turn after the initial rolling stone interview where she insinuated style spoke for itself or something. she very quickly pivoted to a more Feminism Girl Power angle and he was simply never mentioned again. so uh, not sure she wants to drag all that back up again because she was absolutely SLATED during haylor last time, and we know she hates not unequivocally being the Victim. so for now my prediction is no she won't risk the wrath of the harries, there's too many factors out of her control.