#swifties truly are everywhere

[mariamagdalenaposting]

Thinking about that reddit post that was basically a photo of Post Malone and Taylor Swift and the title read something like "Do you think he got her into MTG"

[lynyangell]

Calling all Royai Fans!!!

Hey hey!

Some friends and I have been yapping, and we decided to start keeping a collection of random Royai prompts and do something fun. So every month, I'll be posting a Top10 (or so) of Royai prompts that have floated my way and asking the Tumblr community to vote for their favorite! Then, whoever wants to play will write a fic/draw art/do what they do to fill the prompt each month. Lets flood the internet with more Royai! Cuz it's fun! Here are the prompts collected for this month!

Roy would sing “Dancing Through Life” and do the choreography in the office.~~Goddessapphrodite_

Post-canon Riza wrestling with complicated feelings over how the Elrics’ alchemy obsessed father truly loved them and tried to sacrifice himself for them and that she’ll never get that love or closure. Being happy for the boys, but living with their own devastation renewed.~~Starwritingbri

“You won’t lose me,” he says, voice dimmed by the rain. “As long as you want me, I’m here.”~~GennyCat13

Riza bites her lip and it drives Roy crazy.~~GennyCat13

Lock ‘n loaf. ~~Theblueeyedfirebender

The first line: “We really need to stop meeting like this.”~~goddessaphrodite_

Roy and Havoc at the gym watching from a distance while Riza's working out.....

Havoc: I'm kind of having a moment right now.

Roy: Huh?

Havoc: Riza is hot

Roy: Oh....well...yes.....Oh...OH. Oh shit, I think you're right and I'm in love with her.

Havoc: Yes.....and?

~~Lynyangell 8. Riza asks Roy to help spot her at the gym, and Havoc thinks “Oh my god they’re both hot.”~~Starwritingbri

9. Spiderman AU!~~ShuBoxx_

10. Pick your favorite Taylor Swift song and write it as Royai~~ basically everyone but shoutout to kelly, the resident Royai-Swiftie-in-Chief

Once the results are in, I'll post the chosen prompt and anyone who wants to play can post their creations with the tag: #February Royai Prompt Game!

Please re-blog and share the poll! Thanks y'all!!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

hiii!!

assuming you're an "og" swiftie or sm, stans from which era would you consider as new swifties? also, i saw a lot of people on tumblr/twitter saying that new swifties don't deserve rep tv and the ones who were not around in 2017 should stay away from it etc. and just wanted to know, do you feel the same? because i feel like, as swifties who were simply too young to truly be around in 2016-2018 era just get pretty easily dismissed and very often.

Hi anon! I'm actually not an "OG" swiftie on social media, or even in the fandom, so I'm the wrong person to ask. I've listened to Taylor's music since Debut, would consider myself a fan from about 1989, and hardcore Swiftie from probably around Lover or folklore. And only joined the tumblr side of the fandom around Midnights/Eras. So I'm likely considered a new fan as well despite being familiar with her from the start.

I think the frustration longtime fans feel is that newer fans (not necessarily you anon) are clamouring for Rep TV but completely misunderstanding what the era was really like or about. There's a faction of fans who want Rep TV because they want the easter eggs and the "bad bitch" vibe and want to fuel their tiktok conspiracy theories. When the reality was: it was not a "bad bitch" era. Taylor was in recovery from several things, she was finding her footing personally, professionally and in the public eye, and she was rebuilding her life after an extremely traumatic experience (that almost cost her everything if you catch my drift).

Fans who were around then are extremely protective of the original rep era for that reason, because the fallout from the "cancellation" cannot be underscored enough. Like, I wouldn't consider myself in the fandom at all at that point, but even I was extremely aware of what was going on. Taylor was absolutely pilloried everywhere. She was persona non grata during snakegate. It was relentless. So I think the fans who were around then take offence to people being like "fuck yeah Taylor is going to own all these assholes!" like when the chronically online think she's embracing being targeted by the president or the right wing zealots or Blake's legal case. The reality was that it was a very vulnerable time for Taylor, and Rep is a very vulnerable album because despite the imagery of it being this badass revenge album, it's actually about her opening herself up to love when she felt like the world hated her. So the commodification of Rep by the newer fans who completely ignore that and just want all the "bad bitch" songs I think rubs people the wrong way and feel like it treats Taylor like a sim, when she is a person who went through a life-changing experience that set her on a very difficult and painful path for years.

I do feel for younger fans who are experiencing all of this for the first time, because I do think some corners of the fandom are very prickly and dismissive. And as someone who is no longer young, but still newer to the full fandom experience, I do empathize with that because I have felt shades of that myself. I think all newer fans are welcome, but I think newer fans also have a bit of a "duty" to understand what Taylor is about and what she's experienced. It's great if you are excited for Rep TV to experience a new album launch! I've loved being around for the re-releases since 2021! But I think it's also understanding that Taylor isn't Easter egging her life, and the TikTokification of discourse has made it impossible for many fans to enjoy any of it because of the constant search of conspiracies and/or misunderstanding Taylor's music or her life experiences.

My rule of thumb is to just stay away from Twitter fandom in particular, but also tiktok and reddit lol. It's made for rage bait. Enjoy what you want, and have fun learning about this stuff all over again. :)

[iwanthermidnightz]

✨ERAS TOUR NOLA N1✨

my eras tour search started the moment she announced in november 2022. we all frantically signed up to make sure we were verified fans to *possibly* get a code to buy tickets, but for many of us that never happened.

I didn’t think it was in the cards for me to make it to eras tour after not being able to go to any shows, but in the last few weeks I manifested any positive vibes I could and searched tirelessly for tickets. I followed resale accounts for info on the tickmaster drops, and spent literally days refreshing the queue in case it opened up for those of us previously waitlisted. the second the queue opened I tried to enter but wasn’t let in. same goes for family also trying to get tickets. I told myself if it was meant to happen it would and focused all of my energy on some sort of miracle happening the day of…. and it did.

with the help of literal ticket fairy @9w1ft I was able to secure a ticket friday morning for the first nola show that night, and I spent the rest of the day grinning like a little kid. even though i was suffering (and still am) from an ear infection, go figure, I felt so relieved. so my sister and I decided to try to get some merch that morning, but the lines were so long and sizes were running out so we walked around the city.

i have never seen a city go all out for taylor like new orleans. from a swiftie welcome center at the airport, to hotels, small businesses selling merch, the zoo, friendship bracelet stations everywhere, local bars, restaurants, city wide eras themed events, to taylor’s music being played everywhere. the stadium even hung a two huge friendship bracelets on the outside. the preparation and anticipation from everyone everywhere did not go unnoticed.

it was incredible, and the pure joy in the streets was palpable. everywhere you looked there was glitter, sparkles and happiness. it made me so happy!

it didn’t truly sink in until i got to my seat and took in the view (@9w1ft pat yourself on the back girl!) i know it sounds weird but it felt like all the hard times i’ve gone through for the last year and a half disappeared. what did it for me was being around 65,000 people who were experiencing and spreading copious amounts of pure joy because of taylor and her music. you could feel it. THIS is what she does for people. and it was powerful. to think of everything going on in the world, and then going to this place that felt safe and happy and carefree. it’s an irreplaceable experience. and I wholeheartedly take back what I said about people going to 3+ shows. I would go every chance I got too if I knew it would feel like that.

the thought and attention to detail taylor put into this show is mind blowing and is a masterclass of artistry and the impact she’s had on pop culture and music for the past 18 years. the stamina and ability to perform for three hours every night is also insane, and she does it so effortlessly. I could go on and on about how truly magical it was and how grateful I am to have had the chance to finally experience it. it was a long time coming. i’ll always remember what it felt like to attend the iconic eras tour! it’s a love letter to her fans.

thank you taylor, we love you!

💚💛❤️🩵🖤🩷🩶🤎💙🤍

[unbotheredalwyn]

Everything makes sense now. I mean rumors of her possibly having ghost writers, her dad buying over 100 000 copies of her first album to boost her sales, streaming farms.

I mean her dad definitely did buy 100k that's not a rumor. He bought stake in the company and pushed out other girls to make room. I wouldn't be surprised if her team is still mass buying to boost sales. With the amount of plagiarism she does too, I would reckon those are the only songs that don't have ghostwriters. Buying her way to fame is 100% true fact checked and every other shitty thing she's done that's just a rumor usually ends up being true so I mean...

There's so many things that's coming out now thanks to reddit and it's genuinely disgusting things I didn't even know about the Kennedy guy she dated ☠️

I'm truly so so over seeing her everywhere man she does NOT deserve the platform swifties give her honestly.

[joesalw]

thinking about how back when noah kahan’s stick season song blew up, it was EVERYWHERE. and people started finding that specific song annoying. but no one was really saying ‘noah kahan is so annoying’, it was ‘this song is so annoying’ because it was everywhere.

but with taylor, it’s not just her songs. it’s the songs and the articles about her relationship and the stories on the news all about her. she’s inescapable. you hear her songs everywhere, her face is everywhere, you hear her name everywhere. and it’s exhausting. it’s why ‘taylor swift is annoying’ is said so so much.

noah kahan minded his own business when his song blew up. he thanked his fans, went about his life. you wouldn’t know what he looked like unless you went looking and his personal life isn’t splashed over the front page. but taylor, who is way less active than noah on social media, still makes her way into every corner of people’s lives which is why people are getting tired of her.

the music isn’t as good as folklore / evermore, her constant presence is annoying and top it off, hardcore swifties are the worst people to encounter. so all her fans saying that the ‘bandwagon swifties’ are getting off because they just don’t get the real taylor make me laugh. people are getting sick of her being everywhere and her music quality is going severely downhill. that’s why people are leaving, not because they’re too ‘dumb’ to understand ttpd.

i miss the time when she was radio silent and we’d get maybe one blurry photo of her and joe every six months. she truly peaked back then.

given i don’t know who noah kahan is, i think it's safe to say he's not being shoved down people's throat as much as TS 💀

[clarabowmp3]

It's cool, u can be a fan of this joebless man, whatever but from reading everyone's pov, joes shady ish is stunk up the joint. Dude ain't relevant no mo so again why is he checking for tayvis. Like whats no clicking? Why go to a bathhouse to talk ish about ur ex if u didn't want to be overheard!! He did that cuz he wanted the smoke so this work he will get!

I will further wager taylor hasn't thought about the man since you are losing me dropped. She found joe boring, and prisonlike to the point she wanted out. Most swifties have moved on from him. Like frfr. And noone is hating on him cuz there's nothing to hate fr.

He's a terrible actor, boring and that's that. It's just interesting that he acts all resentful of taylor for 7 plus years and suddenly is everywhere. That contrast is jarring is all, but most swifties don't care and want him gone from tje Taylor universe overall. Hell taylor wanted him gone by the end too

anon how can you say “noone is hating on him cuz there's nothing to hate fr” then say “he’s a terrible actor, boring” in the same breath 😭😭😭 also u calling him joebless is so telling. If you don’t hate him, why the derogatory nickname? Why the insults?? Your other ask was way worse too so why are you trying to act all innocent now lmao

I’m not rlly a fan of joe, I’ve only hear bits and pieces about some of his projects and never watched any of them. I just don’t like how swifties bully certain people whether or not taylor encourages it. Think olivia rodrigo, billie eilish, the ginny and georgia cast. And if I had to ‘be a fan’ of someone, I’d rather it be an unproblematic man than her these days.

and idk what else to say but maybe you really need to get offline for a while. Yes it is possible that joe set this all up intentionally but we have no reason to think so based on the little we know. We do have reason to think it was truly an accident: notoriously private, posted abt Gaza when everyone was stalking his ig stories post break up, waited for the heat to die down for over a year before addressing it in an interview in a very mature and polite manner -> he seems to want to move past this break up thing as much as you appear to.

Also how has he everrr appeared resentful of taylor in their 7 years of dating?? Give facts please instead of delusional fictional narratives/speculation. Put some respect on one of my fav scenes of Miss Americana!!

as for him suddenly being everywhere, it’s almost like breaking up with one of the most famous artists in the world will thrust you into the spotlight. What a wild concept. I also think his career started taking off a little more around that time cuz he had quite a few projects lined up, which is also probably why he’s more in the press nowadays.

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

choose violence ask game: 3, 12 and 22?

p.s. love your blog, please keep spreading the truth!

And I love blogging <3!!! I do it for the girls and the gays.

>>>><<<<

Answers under the cut . . . This is gonna be a long one.

3) Screenshot or description of the worse take you've seen on tumblr?

Okay, so, the only problem with this one is that I've literally seen too many to count. But the one that I'd often seen and had the most visceral reaction to were definitely the longer, well articulated analysis posts from stans that did SO MUCH bending and twisting to claim Adora being equally toxic/(and or abusive) to Catra. Which, obviously, I also spent time analyzing. Trying my best to understand what was going on. And you know what? I get it. I don't agree. But I get it. Adora and Catra grew up under the same circumstances, so yeah, they wouldn't be entirely innocent of picking up bad habits from their childhood. Realistically. Fine.

But implying that Adora is worse? Worse than Catra?

...

Anyway, I've suffered from my own self-inflicted torture in the past. I wish I hadn't spent so much time reading stan analysis the way I did, but... Here we are.

And that's just on Tumblr. I don't believe that other social media/forum sites are better or worse about c//a and SPOP, but I have seen worse in The Wilds. (At least on Tumblr there's the filtering options. Everywhere else, good luck).

12) The unpopular character that you actually like, and why more people should like them?

Guys. I LOVE SWIFT WIND. I FUCKING LOVE SWIFT WIND I DON'T CARE THAT HE'S ANNOYING THEY'RE ALL FUCKING ANNOYING!!!

First of all, yes, yes, yes, Swift Wind is horrendous wasted potential (surprise, surprise), and yes, of course, I'm still pissed over it. Those scenes where he's so loyal and kind to Adora, and she, having no other point of reference for a friend, much less a resourceful friend... Like, awwhh. Plus, he makes it very clear that he has his own will and isn't just mindlessly following Adora around like a god-honest horse would. He has his own agenda. He doesn't have to go into battle with Adora, and doesn't gain too much from risking his life to help her and her friends in the short term, but Swift Wind does it anyway. He's interested and invested in Adora, personally, anyway. He wants to be there for her and support her growth as a person.

And Adora deserves all of those amazing, raw, sappy, fairytale friendships!

I DON'T CARE THAT HE'S LITERALLY A HORSE HE IS STILL FUNCTIONALLY A HUMAN BEING. THEY ARE BESTIES. THEY LITERALLY HAVE A MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC LINK GOING ON. THEY SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED SWIFTIE TO BE APART OF THE BEST FRIENDS SQUAD, I ACTUALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE ISN'T.

MORE LOVE FOR SWIFT WIND!!!

22) Favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores?

In my experience, this is the type of fandom that cultivates, um, extreme niches, for lack of a better term. As in, literally what my blog is compared to a "stan's" blog. They're like. Different SPOP fans everywhere, so I don't truly believe that there's a portion of this show that is genuinely ignored... There's someone out there that liked even the tiniest, unimportant fraction of this show. Just got to go find them. (Hell, I know people that love, like, Tall Star specifically, out of all the other characters. Nothing has gone totally unnoticed, which is something I really love about the fanbase as a whole, despite everything).

Anyway, to keep it short, my favorite "underappreciated" parts are hm... Maybe the parts where Adora gets to explore the world around her? And not in a super plot related way. I know that the BFS goofing off so much isn't totally ignored. But I like to see that Adora especially was still learning new things everyday in canon, just like, randomly. Nothing to do with the Horde or the Rebellion. Just. She should be excited for the new world around her, dude. Those are pretty rare moments in the show, actually. Wish there were more.

[thegreatimpersonator]

I’m genuinely baffled by people who say TTPD is Taylor’s best work. Even disregarding the many controversies regarding songs like But Daddy I love Him, the lyrics just seem so… cheap? One of the things I love about her work is that she is able to convey so much meaning in so little words, but TTPD is full of long confusing metaphors that’s more reminiscent of someone who thinks beautiful writing always has to be dramatic and overwritten. Clearly Taylor Swift the Brand doesn’t care too much about her artistry anymore.

i'm definitely in the same about and truly cannot think anything of it outside of swifties and their severe recency bias. their favorite thing is the newest thing taylor did all the time. that paired with their obsession with needing to defend her everywhere with everything and not allowing anyone to criticize the album when it was met with palpable criticism from media outlets, reviews, the general public, etc. and also fell off the cultural zeitgeist pretty immediately after release kinda proves that it's not her best? at all?

but sadly swifties share the problematic trait with taylor of not caring about any of that, but rather only caring about numbers and equating popularity to success. everytime i see someone vaguely negative towards the album swifties go with the 'it's broken every record under the sun, it's literally the best album' 'it's been #1 for 9 weeks straight so it is the best album ever obviously' when those records weren't even earned organically, they were caught by using unethical marketing tricks by her and her 37(?) versions of the same 1 album. so the entire argument of it being the best is based on the success, then that success actually being manufactured by her first hand, really says something about how she views the quality of her art and how it very clearly means nothing more than a way to measure success.

[the-light-of-stars]

ok but now I need to know your thoughts on the taylor swift lyrics. what songs did you analyze and what were your thoughts on them????

Alright so first of all for context:

this was a lecture about the literary era of romanticism, so for most of that lecture we had been talking about the literary and philosophical concepts and ideas present in that era.

And then the professor went "ok so I am not a swiftie - I haven't even listened to her newest album yet - but I believe Swift's music greatly encapsulates a - simplified , pop-cultural - continuation of the ideas of romanticism in the modern day....so let's analyse some of her song lyrics-"

So he had us quickly look at a few song lyrics from different songs of hers, but the ones he stayed on longest - and the ones he had us do proper academic analysis of - were these from "My tears ricochet" from her Folklore album:

I have to note that these aren't my personal thoughts, I'm just recounting what happened in the lecture, and I'm putting this under a cut so that it isn't super long :

So multiple students (it was a very tightly filled classroom, had to be at least 100-150 students there) had participated in analysing these lyrics and I gotta be honest I don't remember most of the exact details of their analysis because I had a lot of classes today and had been awake since 6am but I'll try to summarize as best I can.

Essentially the main point was the comparison of these lyrics with philosophical concepts by Schelling and especially a comparison in context of this aphorism by german romanticist poet Novalis:

"Wir suchen überall das Unbedingte und finden immer nur Dinge"

["Everywhere we look for the Absolute yet we can only ever find things." (in the original german it is a wordplay)]

So one angle of analysis was that these two verses of Swift's lyrics follow this philosophical concept as posited by Hardenberg/Novalis - such as "home" here, as the only defined location, representing the Absolute , the object of Longing as it is conceptualised in romanticism, this that is desired innately but cannot be reached in ways humanly possible, as humans can only ever find "Things": abstractions, objects and concepts limited in their scope and at most a reflection of the Absolute, something that can at best be asymptotically approximated but not be directly perceived or grasped physically or intellectually. Thus here the idea that the lyrical "I" can go "anywhere" and , following that, observe anything, and yet will always be unable to reach the defined and Absolute of "home."

Home then, as defined by other students in the lecture, would be the innate idea of some sort of absolute security in the self, a place of comfort and belonging and a place of certainty. Home, thus, as not just a location but as a concept: a kind of pre-conscious knowledge of being ('Being' here possibly in the hegelian sense), an experience of pure existence. Suppose an analysis also referencing Spinoza's concept of the Substance, the natura naturans, which singular modi are necessarily extensions of and ultimately 'return' to ( 'return' here used simplifying, as modi constituate extensions or aspects of the indivisible infinite Substance under the attributes of Thought and Extension, which thus cannot really be divided and, following, cannot 'return' to it since they were never truly separated.)

Of course, romanticism and general philosophy of the era being concerned with theological questions as well, one student pointed out another angle to view Swift's lyrics under in regards to romanticist theoreticism, that being the theological one: "Home" as the Absolute and the Absolute as God or a christian-mysticist interpretation of it either way, "Anywhere" as the world of human perception and "Home" as the world of god that life springs from, in relation to an article the professor had mentioned about a Times (iirc) journalist visiting a Taylor Swift concert and calling it a "religious experience" to sing specifically the quoted line with and within a crowd of tens of thousands of people.

In regards to this last point the professor also specified that "religious experience" here is not necessarily limited to the scope of (protestant) christianity but rather is to be seen as some sort of pre- or post-religious understanding of a form of ontological transcendence that escapes the boundaries of rational describability.

Following that we also analysed the album title and its cover art:

The romanticist connection in the title being fairly obvious as "Folklore" as a literary category is something romanticist authors in their nature-mysticism and attempt at distinction from Enlightenment era concepts of pure reason loved to discuss, recreate and include in their works.

Furthermore then the connection of the cover art , which students compared to works of famous romanticist painter Caspar David Friedrich (here the painting "Easter Morning"):

The composition of a lone human figure among the trees during a foggy morning or evening is a very popular motif in (german) romanticism as the fog represents the Unknown and - as mentioned above - the always out of reach and never truly perceptible (by human means) Absolute as well as the everlasting Longing towards it. The trees and forests as well a popular romanticist theme as part of its nature-mysticism and above mentioned contrast to the Enlightenment rationalism as practiced in the cities and structured human society.

Apparently on either this or the Evermore album (I don't know on which as I don't listen to Swift's songs and can't remember which song exactly the professor quoted there) there is a lyric saying "we are the new romanticists" as well.

All this to say that after probably twenty minutes of analysing Taylor Swift lyrics in an academic framework of literary theory and ontological philosophy- as well as repeated promises by the professor that he "is not a swiftie" - the prof stated that "Taylor Swift probably didn't put nearly as much thought into this as we did just now but she is an international phenomenon and does - wether intentional or not - make use of concepts and ideas used in romanticist writing and philosophy so analysing her lyrics seemed apt."

[jewishbarbies]

I’ve gotta say that every time Taylor releases music it makes social media an even bigger nightmare than usual. I cant escape her. Spotify suggests her. Radio stations play her latest hit on repeat. She’s on tv. She’s playing in my local town center. Youtube suggests me album reviews. TikTok goes wild.

I can’t fucking stand it.

In my opinion, she’s not all that impressive of an artist. If she didn’t have a rich father who basically made her career and made it so she’s heard literally everywhere, than she wouldn’t be distinguishable from most artists. She’s not bad, I have a handful of songs I like myself, but she’s not amazing. Where I start to dislike her as a person, or at least a public figure, is that her activism is so painfully performative that I don’t actually consider it activism at all. She’s one of the most influential people in the world yet she won’t use her platform for anything productive. Yes, one could argue that she doesn’t have to, but c’mon. Be real.

The whole thing with Matty really cemented it for me. She went out and dated a guy known for being openly bigoted, particularly his disgusting comments about black women, and then to cover her own ass did a shitty collab with Ice Spice, a woman of color who Matty had talked about, and then decided that was enough. It astounded me truly.

She’s also complained about how people only talk about her breakups and not her music, but you can’t talk about one without the other. SHE made it a talking point not everyone else because at least half her songs are about her breakups and exes. I’m not saying there wasn’t any misogyny behind the hate, there absolutely is, but people can’t pretend we focus on her dating life for no reason other than she’s a woman.

Worst part is that you can’t even question whether or not she might be the problem because how the fuck do you have almost 40 exes without Swifties appearing out of thin air to tell you all about how they sucked and were bad and how Taylor has done nothing wrong ever. Like I’m sure some of them did suck, an older man dating a younger woman is always a little suspicious to me, but I refuse to believe all of almost 40 guys were the problem when there is one common denominator.

And you can’t even say any of this without the Swifties coming after you like you committed sacrilege against God. The Swifties need to be studied.

✨rant over✨

Thanks for giving me a place to rant.

— N

[purplepinksunrise]

The whole thing is so gross, but what I always come back to is like.........how did anyone ever think even the very first thing Kanye did -- asking if the lyric was okay -- wasn't disgusting? It's the most "is it okay if i hit you????" bs. I have never been able to bring myself to listen to the recording more than once b/c the strain is so obvious in her voice -- the "if I don't say yes I'm a bitch oh god I guess I have no choice" going through her head. A position SO MANY women have been in before, and is SO COMMON and SO DISGUSTING. Being asked something unconscionable, but you know if you say no you'll be punished, but you know underneath that how wildly unfair it is that the question is even being asked. But you can't do anything about that, because it's so fucking normal. It's such an insane no-win scenario and it's so insane how normal it is. It doesn't matter if she says okay, WHY DID YOU ASK IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why is it fucking normal for men to write lyrics like that about real fucking women in the first place? IT SHOULDN'T BE A POSSIBILITY IN THE FIRST PLACE. To say nothing of everything else he and Kim did afterwards. And the fact that yeah, it was inescapable. I wasn't even an online Swiftie then, and it touched me -- people talked it irl everywhere.

If she wanted to write an entire fucking album about it it wouldn't be "too much." Fuck, I hope Kim and Kanye are hounded by this until they die. I hope they never stop getting mean comments and questions about it. I genuinely consider it one of the most disgusting public episodes of misogyny of the past decade, up there with the Heard trial, the 2016 US election, and everything people put Megan Thee Stallion through after the shooting. I don't think it's a coincidence it (and those other events) came right after an uptick in feminism and women gaining power and presence in multiple fields -- it felt like punishment. It felt like a big fat fucking lesson meant to teach women and girls to shut up. Which is, frankly, still at the heart of nearly every stupid backlash she suffers. No, she's not perfect, but she's a woman who's become powerful because she's spent years creating art entirely about women's interior lives, appealing directly to women through everything from her lyrics to her videos without any real interest in earning male fans or interest, and started explicitly considering herself and her work in a feminist context after a man tried to destroy her. Now girls and women fill stadiums and then the hills behind them because they love her for this. And lots of people are desperate to punish her for it. But fuck them. She's made sure she'll never be erased and I thank god I've lived to see it. (Omg that turned into a stump speech. THAT'S HOW MAD I STILL AM ABOUT 2016)

god GO OFF. i'll forever be mad about 2016 and i was just watching the whole thing go down so i can only imagine how taylor felt. i agree that she could write an album about it, hell every single song she writes from now on could be about that and it still wouldn't be overreacting. such a gross display of misogyny that most people applauded, like this is what you get when you stand up to a powerful man. and now that you can't possibly look at it without admitting it was misogynistic, the solution is to say she's dramatic and that it wasn't that bad. i even saw an article once talking about how manipulative taylor is for writing songs putting herself as the victim in that situation and making her fans spend money on it. as if writing about their experiences isn't something every singer/songwriter does, and as if we don't interact with and buy her music because we LIKE it. the mental gymnastics to make her into this evil witch who's manipulating everyone are truly impressive.

and you're so right about the phone call too!! like why are we focusing on whether or not she agreed with the lyrics and not asking ourselves why is it okay for a man to ask something like that in the first place. why did people instantly take kanye and kim's word for it, judging by a phone call that wasn't even released in full, instead of trying to analyze the whole situation? and why are we, including a lot of feminists, STILL acting like taylor swift is the only woman in the world immune to misogyny

the fact that taylor's music is clearly for women and doesn't cater much to men is definitely why i felt drawn to her from the beginning, and definitely why people can't stand it that she's so successful. but oh well, she's out there selling out stadium concerts all over the world and living her best life like she should

[9w1ft]

Chatting with my Swiftie friends - who aren't Kaylors, Gaylors or anything of that sort, but also not toxic hetlors - about the whole Kelce thing. // Hi, I'm this anon!

Back with another update: my friends, colleagues and classmates who are non-fans or casual listeners are not at all interested by the exposure of Tay and Kel everywhere or the dating rumors; to them, the news has gotten stale last year lmao. They were interested in the other occurrences of the Swift world - Ticketmaster, the tour, the film, etc. even MH, but nothing about the two All-American sweethearts piques their interest.

Online, I'm seeing people are like "cool," "everything i'm learning about them is against my will" or wondering if it's all promotion work. The only people I've seen genuinely excited about them as a couple are dedicated Swifties - they truly deserve an Oscar or 13! Despite six years of hyping up a white man, they still have the energy to hype up another white man like he's the second coming of JC!

Anyway, my point is: I'm hoping everywhere else the general public is noticing more and more the plot holes in the narrative of Taylor's love life. I'm hopeful they'll be accepting if Taylor and/or Karlie ever come out. ❤️

walking that delicate line between uncanny valley and overexposure 🙈

[twopoppies]

hi Gina, hope you're doing good, I love reading your posts and I wanted to ask you something, do you think somebody can be a strong larrie and a swiftie at the same time?

I’m really not the right person to ask this of because I don’t understand why anyone would be her fan regardless of being a larrie or not. But sure, I guess?

Recognizing that H*ylor was PR and was an extremely painful experience for Harry, Louis, and the fandom is something I think people need to acknowledge. Anyone who believes the three of them are besties is out of their mind. I’m also truly not interested in dissecting this. I have her blocked everywhere for a reason.

[silent-partner-412]

Two of my big interests at the moment intersected in a not so great way recently on Twitter and I want to talk about it.

So, I was on a plane the other day and I decided to bring along the book One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston to read on the plane. I read this author’s last book Red, White, And Royal Blue when I was in high school, and I loved it! It’s remained one of my favorite books since then and I’ve been meaning to read their next one ever since then. So, I read One Last Stop on the plane and over the course of the next handful of days, and I finally finished it two nights ago, and it was absolutely goddamn delightful. The story was interesting and creative, the two main girls were charming and fun and had great chemistry, it was every bit as good of a romance as RWRB, and it also had elements of found family, finding your place in the world, and even mystery that I loved. It was also very queer in the best way, the whole goddamn LGBT acronym was represented and they were all weird and cool and the kinda people I try to surround myself with in my own life. Just a wonderful book and I’m still thinking about it even now.

Coincidentally, the movie for RWRB came out on Friday and everybody’s talking about it. I also watched it and loved it, it was a bit corny but I think that was on purpose, and the main actors had great chemistry and were more or less how I imagined them to be in the book. This is important, cuz now suddenly Casey McQuiston is in the public eye cuz everybody is talking about this movie that their book was based on.

Here’s the thing, and this might seem unrelated but it certainly was to me. Apparently, a lot of Swifties have been using Taylor Swift songs to make edits of the main boys in the RWRB movie. Which like, yeah, that makes sense. The movie was very romantic, Taylor has a lot of romantic songs, all is well and good here, I have no issues with any of that. The author was also posting a bunch of cute little playlists of songs to represent the RWRB boys, and Taylor Swift was one of the artists included, in addition to Carly Rae Jepsen, boygenius, The National, and a few others. I see this and think huh, they’re also a fan it seems! That’s cool and I like that. I even listened to the Taylor Swift playlist and I thought that a decent amount of thought went into which songs represented the boys in the movie. Love love love, all is fine and good here.

So, turns out, some Twitter Swifties hate Casey McQuiston for posting all kinds of mean tweets about Taylor Swift years ago. It was stuff ranging from just petty “she’s everywhere and I can’t stand that” to “she’s probably a Trump supporter” to apparently mocking her sexual assault trial in 2018. And, to give some credit, yeah, these were all pretty nasty things to tweet! As a fan of Taylor Swift, I really don’t condone anything that Casey tweeted about her, and I truly wish they hadn’t tweeted those tweets cuz it just makes them look pretty bad, especially in hindsight.

Here’s the thing though. None of the tweets shown dated past 2017. The sexual assault trial was in 2018. A lot of people who were previously not into Taylor Swift changed their minds about her recently thanks to albums like Folklore and Evermore and also just generally realizing she’s awesome and always has been awesome. I truly don’t think it’s unrealistic to imagine an author like Casey changing their opinion over the course of five years, especially the five years in particular between 2018 and 2023. Of course, to that a lot of Swifties say they could just be chasing clout, but there’s literally no way to prove that unless you literally scan Casey’s fucking brain, so I’m really not convinced by this argument.

This whole thing is just exhausting to me, and is everything wrong with the culture of online Swifties in my opinion. Taylor Swift is not only a grown ass woman, but she’s also probably one of the most powerful woman in the goddamn world. She does not need your defending from a random author who you probably didn’t even know about until a couple days ago at most. Also, this author is non binary and writes high quality, very queer stories with representation all across the board, and I think it’s kind of a bad look for fans of incredibly straight and white Taylor Swift to be going after this author for tweets from five years ago at the latest. I get that it’s frustrating seeing people discredit Taylor for unjustified reasons, but also she’s bigger and cooler now than she ever has been. She doesn’t need your defending!

The saddest part about all this? I was on a plane reading One Last Stop in the first place because I was flying to LA to attend the Era’s tour. And every Swiftie I met there was unbelievably nice and kind, one of the most inviting and accepting crowds I’ve ever experienced in live music. It’s so disappointing to see that energy can’t be extended online.

[joesalw]

i've been seeing a fair number of recently turned ex swifties on tumblr. not sure if the same thing is happening everywhere else too (i know its not happening on twitter though, as far as i can tell), but i hope it is, and i hope that this ultimately leads to her downfall.

i think more people are somewhat seeing her for what she truly is,instead of 'mother is THE music industry' and 'if you dislike her you're just a misogynist'. i hope this continues, and she keeps putting out trashy albums and the general public stops riding her dick every time she's mentioned.

sincerely- another ex swiftie whose last straw was ttpd.

lmao it's been so refreshing to see so many new accounts in the anti ts tag. as far as i remember it was just me @jewishbarbies and @shitswiftiessay being tired of her problematic actions. but now there are a lot of people who can see how deranged she and her cult actually is! and it’s nice