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I still belieeeeve in you, Lover Tay baby. 🤏

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Sabrina Carpenter photographed by David LaChapelle

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Angelina - Unreleased

Angelina's got a pretty face And really long brown hair Lives somewhere in some wide open space I've never been there I guess some people come around and purpose she But I don't 'cause

I have always been a bit reckless And I am not your typical princess I'm fine just a bit of a mess And I'm not perfect you could say I wasn't brought up that way

Just watched Stephen run across the field Watched him catch the ball He's got everything you'd wanna be He's funny, dark and tall Watch him run across to Angelina But I won't 'cause

I have always been a bit reckless And I am not your typical princess I'm fine just a bit of a mess And I'm not perfect you could say I wasn't brought up that way

Stardom pushed across the line Tripped over my two feet hey oh yeah But ain't it funny how It all comes out Isn't life sweet?

I have always been a bit reckless And I am not your typical princess I'm fine just a bit of a mess And I'm not perfect you could say

I have always been a bit reckless And I am not your typical princess I'm fine just a bit of a mess And I'm not, I'm not oh And I'm not perfect you could say I wasn't brought up that way

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no, no one "made up tily" (regarding the gaylorswift reddit post)

just jumping on here to provide receipts about the roots of tily in the fandom

tily was first dicussed on the l chat as early as 2016!

here is a link to a thread discussing it back in 2016

from 2017:

from 2018:

here's a link to the 2018 thread for good measure so you can see it for yourself

and for good measure here is the first mention of tily on my blog

link (this post you can see is from September 14th 2020)

someone anoned me about it and encouraged that we look into it so we did. that's just how fandom spaces work 🤷‍♀️.

here is the oldest mention of lily Donaldson in our discord simply discussing people talking ab it on the l chat:

here is the oldest mention of tily:

here is that convo expanded:

just people genuinely being into it, being silly, and shipping it cause they look good together and it was a good vibe.

you'll see me there at the bottom (I'm camcake) saying "there's something to this lily ship!" that was just genuine. we were curious ab it. we did not "make anything up". we heard ab it and investigated it.

you'll see all of this dates back only to 2020 while the l chat posts go way back to 2016. I did not join the gaylor fandom until the summer of 2020. I have never posted in the l chat. tily is just a ship. just like any other ship. she was a female friend of taylor's that got a lil close with her for a period of time and some of taylor's "easter eggs" in songs seem like they could tie back to her. i did hear some well sourced tea that taylor was hooking up with someone on rep tour that matched lily's description BUT you have to take gossip like that with a huge grain of salt! while I think tily is a great ship with a lot fun moments and nice "clues" that point to lily, I would also be zero percent surprised if tily did not "happen" and they were only ever friends. as with ALL ships it is impossible to know for sure.

so to sum up 1. tily was first talked about way back in 2016 on the l chat and was discussed on and off for years after that well before I joined the fandom. 2. someone sent me an anon about tily in late summer of 2020 and that inspired us to research 3. we had convos ab it in discord in late summer of 2020 like any normal shipper/fandom friends would do.

feel free to spread this post far and wide.

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What Taylor Swift releases and does on and around Lily Donaldson’s birthday. 💙🦋

Lily Donaldson’s Birthday - 27th January

27th January 2017 - I Don’t Wanna Live Forever music video is released.

2018 - End Game Video flashes Tokyo at 1:27

27th January 2020 - Taylor tweets about her Sundance cover & The Man is released as a single.

28th January 2021 - forever the sweetest con chapter is released.

2022 - Renegade - siren is heard at 1:27

27th January 2023 - Lavender Haze music video is released.

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maroon original lyrics

THE BOOBIES THAT I GAVE UP

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The Alcott

Taylor’s feature on The National’s “The Alcott” was released on April 28, 2023.

The Song is About Two Lovers Reconnecting

The Lyrics Were Painted on the Sidewalk in Select Spots in NYC as Part of Promo for the Song

In late May 2023, fans began noticing the lyrics to the song in select spots in NYC. The four known locations are very interesting - outside Taylor’s old Cornelia Street townhouse, Electric Lady Studios (where Taylor has recorded many songs, including several songs on Reputation and Lover), Washington Square Park (a popular park near Cornelia Street), and Katz’s Deli in the East Village.

Are these the places the lovers returned to (metaphorically or physically) trying to relive a moment in time?

Cornelia Street

The Cornelia Street townhouse was a big part of the Tily Autumn of 2016.

Collage credit to @periwinkle-musings

Katz’s Deli

Why Katz’s Deli? It’s one of Lily’s favorite places and only a few blocks from her Avenue B East Village apartment.

“Golden Notebook” and “Golden Thinking”

Matt wrote a vocal and Taylor rewrote the lyrics, according to Aaron Dessner’s interview with Vulture. Matt seemed to imply to Apple Music that he wrote the verses and Taylor wrote the chorus. Either way, both agree Taylor played a big part in the lyrics. Which leads to, who came up with all the “golden” references in the song? It’s certainly interesting considering the “Dress” lyrics, Lily’s wrist tattoo of the word “golden” in Latin, and the golden tattoo both Tily girls wore during the Tily Autumn of 2016 when the “London lover” came into existence.

Coney Island

The other song Taylor did with The National is “Coney Island,” with its references to “Delicate” (where Taylor wore the golden tattoo in the “Making of a Song” video, with its “Dive bar on the East side, where you at?” lyrics (from the same interview Lily mentioned Katz’s Deli above - link), and where Taylor famously spread her legs on the Cadillac Fleetwood in the music video - all Lily connections to me), lyrical reference to the Bowery Hotel (“Were you waiting at our old spot, in the tree line by the gold clock” - also mentioned in Lily’s interview above and where Taylor and Lily were papped leaving in October 2016), and the person who Taylor did not make her centerfold (a model reference).

Credit to @fleur-de-puissance for giving me this tip about The Alcott!

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Another Person’s Tily Deep Dive!

Someone sent me these from Reddit. I culled a few things that have not been covered, or at least not covered in depth, here. As always, these are just one person’s opinions, but the person did a lot of research.

Pattie’s sister was also married to Mick Fleetwood, Lily’s great uncle on her mother’s side.

I never saw the similarity before now between the Kentish Town End Game music video blue jacket and the Lavender Haze music video’s (released on Lily’s birthday) blue jacket.

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midnights concept vibes

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Fortnight lyrical connections

*I don’t think all these songs are inherently connected, I’m simply pulling common threads

I was supposed to be sent away

But they forgot to come and get me

“Is it you? Or have they come to take me away” -hits different

I was a functioning alcoholic

Till nobody noticed my new aesthetic

“You kiss my face and we’re both drunk” -dress

“I get drunk but it’s not enough”-DBATC

“I got wasted like all my potential” -this is me trying

“I changed plans and lovers and outfits and rules” -COSOSOM

All of this to say I hope you're okay

But you're the reason

“He’s the reason why you’re drowning” -red

“Stood on the cliff side screaming give me a reason” - Hoax

“And I couldn’t give a reason” -champagne problems

And no one here's to blame

But what about your quiet treason?

“Don’t blame me, love made me crazy” -Don’t Blame Me

“When the truth comes out it’s quiet” -Cassandra

And for a fortnight there, we were forever

“I keep him forever like a vendetta” -Ready for It?

“Can we always be this close? Forever and ever” -Lover

“I wanna teach you how forever feels” -AOTGYLB

“Forever is the sweetest con” -Cowboy like Me

“I want to brainwash you into loving me forever” -Paris

“He saw forever so he smashed it up”-MBOBHFT

Run into you sometimes, ask about the weather

“Small talk, work and the weather” -Back to December

“Would it be enough to just float in your orbit?” -COSOSOM

Now you're in my backyard, turned into good neighbors

“Take me back to the house in the backyard tree” Mary’s Song

Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her

“When the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst” -Clean

“All my flowers grew back as thorns” -CIWYW

“He was a hothouse flower to my Outdoors man” -How did it end?

“My words shoot to kill when I’m mad” -TIMT

“They say looks can kill and I might try” -Vigilante shit

All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February

“I want your dreary Mondays” -paper rings

I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary

“My drug is my baby” -don’t blame me

“Gave up on me like I was a bad drug” -DBATC

“It’s one hell of a drug” -Florida!!!

“You needed me but you needed drugs more” -COSOSOM

And I love you, it's ruining my life

(I love you, it's ruining my life)

“I love you and that’s all I really know” -Love Story

“I love you even at your darkest” -Forever Winter

“I said I love you, you say nothing back” -Say Don’t Go

“Now my whole life’s ruined” -suburban legends

“You ruined my life by not being mine”- Gorgeous

“I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?” -cruel summer

I touched you for only a fortnight

(I touched you) but I touched you

“What would you do if I went to touch you now?”-I Can See You

“for you I would fall from grace just to touch your face”-Don’t Blame Me

“Do the girls back home touch you like I do”-delicate

“Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness” -BTTWS

“I can take the upper hand and touch your body” -IGGYB

And for a fortnight there, we were together

“We should be together” -jump then fall

“Flash forward and we’re taking on the world together” -Mine

“We were built to fall apart then fall back together” -OOTW

Run into you sometimes, comment on my sweater

“Hand under my sweater baby kiss it better” -cardigan

“Small talk, big love, Act like I don't care what you did” -IGGYB

Now you're at the mailbox, turned into good neighbors

“Stop checking your mailbox for confessions of love” -Foolish One

My husband is cheating, I want to kill him

“And your cheating husband disappeared”-Florida!!!

Thought of callin' ya, but you won't pick up

“It takes everything in me not to call you” -I almost do

“The rust that grew between telephones” -maroon

'Nother fortnight lost in America

“American glory faded before me” -Miss Americana

Move

To Florida, buy the car you want

“Florida, it’s one hell of a drug” -Florida!!!

“Cause all the boys and their expensive cars, with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars never took me quite where you do”-KOMH

But it won't start up till you touch, touch, touch me

“You touch me once and it’s really something” -Sparks Fly

“In the heat of your electric touch” -electric touch

“No proof, one touch but you felt enough” -YAIL

“Trip up my life, oh, every time you’re touching me”-Don’t Blame Me

“You should think about the consequence of touching my hand in a darkened room” -Gorgeous

“Trying to find a part of me that you didn’t touch” -DBATC

“I know heaven’s a thing, I go there when you touch me,” -false god

“Your Midas touch on the Chevy door” -Champagne Problems

“Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow” -Ivy

“And the touch of a hand lit the fuse” -midnights

“Thinking it can change the beat of my heart when he touches me” -BDILH

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This is a Tily blog now and I’m not sorry

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“ Were you sent by someone

who wanted ME! dead!? ”

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Hunter Schafer makeup by Sandy Ganzer – getting ready for the Met Gala after party

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DOECHII Cosmopolitan (2025)

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