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no matter how unemployed joe alwyn was at least he never had a podcast

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ok i am screenshot reposting this bc op is not a gaylor and i don't want to derail their post! but this ask:

made me go look up Ophelia's last scene. not where they get news of her death, the one where she's singing and handing out flowers.

and the flowers include:

THERE'S A DAISY.

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1. anti-hero, taylor swift / 2, 19. “taylor swift’s ‘sexy baby’ lyric is more than a ‘30 rock’ reference,” sophia june for nylon magazine / 3, 4, 12, 22. taylor swift ages 14-16, photographed by andrew orth / 5, 23. dominique swain age 15, photographed for lolita (1997) / 6, 17. “the fetishization of girlhood,” m.c. easton / 7. lolita (1962), dir. stanley kubrick / 8. 22 (mv), taylor swift / 9. anti-hero (mv), taylor swift / 10, 14, 18. nothing new, taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers / 11. “2008’s country lolita: taylor swift,” gavin edwards for rolling stone / 13, 21. lolita (1997), dir. adrian lyne / 15. okcupid dating chart: age preferences by gender / 16. all too well (ten minute version), taylor swift / 20. university of pittsburgh 2021-2022 undergraduate catalog / 23. would’ve, could’ve, should’ve, taylor swift

apologies for this ridiculously long megathread, but i found a ton of these photographs of taylor from when before she was famous, around ages 14-16, and ooh boy, did they get me thinking…

sometimes i wonder if she just really lucked out with the mostly desexualized “innocent girl-next-door” persona becoming her brand throughout her early career, because it looks like things could have gone in a very different direction for her in another universe.

like you can literally see taylor being de-aged between her debut and fearless era as her public image cemented…the posing, the makeup, the hair, the clothing…it’s all very deliberate and sinister.

and now, all these years later, no one knows better than taylor herself that the most desirable thing a woman can be is not a woman, but a girl…a sexy baby, if you must.

her heart-shaped sunglasses, nothing new, the ten minute version of all too well, would’ve could’ve should’ve…she knows all about society’s sickness, its simultaneous fetishization and destruction of girlhood. she knows because she’s lived through it.

we don’t often categorize her or think of her as one, but she was a child star, and she barely escaped its curse. just barely. but unlike so many other child stars, unlike dolores haze, she survived with her voice and her pen, and she can see it all now, it was wrong.

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the way being a taylor swift fan has kind of become metabolized as this inherent trait of womanhood is very bizarre

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FRIENDS (1994-2004) ↳ taylor swift lyrics/references. (insp)

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Anti-gaylor sentiment always boils down to "I dont believe closeted people exist" and thats just so. fundamentally frustrating to experience as a person who is partially in the closet. Its harmful and homophobic to call queer flagging a conspiracy theory. You dont have to buy into gaylor theories and yeah some of them are pretty out there, but if your gut reaction is to "defend" taylor from gaylors, I invite you to look inside yourself and think about why its so hurtful to you that someone might think a pop star could be queer.

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being a longtime swiftie in the current taylormania (though i would argue it’s actually tayvismania tbh) era literally feels like that comic abt the bears in the forest & the housing developers. like literally what is everyone doing in my house this is a family establishment

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one step closer to divorcée taylor swift 🔥

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definitely doesn’t mean anything but i am connecting dots

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More than 2x the likes on her engagement post than on her post about literally owning her life’s work

"People often greatly underestimate how much I will inconvenience myself to prove a point"

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who? taylor swift is engaged? yeah i know her we went to tumblr together

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You cannot make this shit up lmfaooo

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they can never take this from us!!!!!

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as if this eliminates the fact that dianna agron removed her alice in wonderland tattoo and deactivated her tumblr (felldowntherabithole) 😂

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guys its okay. she was born to break off an engagement

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