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@sketiana on tumblr // Clementine Von Radics, James // Nicole Homer, Underbelly // unknown // Taylor Swift, You're On Your Own Kid // Speeches for Dr Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood // Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “In a dream”

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i love you so bad but maybe it wasn't meant to be?

Caitlyn Siehl / in a dream you saw a way to survive by Clementine von Radics / @/inanotherunivrse on tumblr / pinterest / pinterest / unknown / holy ground by taylor swift / "MY NAME" (2021) / Letters of Sylvia Plath / foolish one by taylor swift

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This Love (Taylor's Version) aesthetic.

This love left a permeant mark.

This love is glowing in the dark .

These hands had to let it go free and

this love came back to me.

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nandor flying to outer space to impress guillermo

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how terrible it is / to love something death can touch

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Shaken

It’s been like a year, but I’m still shaken by the lines; “The stars in the sky could never compare, Because my whole world is the girl over there”.  

Like I haven’t even watched the show yet (grad school is rough) but these fan song lyrics have shaken me to the core. 

Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ-i7iBrrI

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(via “Moonflower” Sticker for Sale by Bruna Esmanhotto)

Its you, its me, its us - The Haunting of Bly Manor

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*sigh*

The way some (because it’s not all) of *them* are acting over what someone intentionally picked out from the entire prologue to share online (lol after screaming not to leak things lol), knowing it would go viral and lead to harassment of Gaylors/Kaylors is sad.

Especially when it proves that they go with whatever satisfies their insecurities over the possibility (re: TK for the time being). Lavender Haze “ended Gaylors/Kaylors” until the entire song and video came out, right? Or what about when “It’s Time To Go” and “Right Where You Left Me” were released and ended Gaylors/Kaylors” because they were about Karlie’s “betrayal”? Which led to Taylor commenting and saying what those songs were about.

When she deleted the reel about the LH, who was in shambles?

It doesn't change the fact that Taylor:

Wrote queer-coded lyrics and had an entire era of queer themes

Asked why people were mad when they could be glad (GLAAD) in a video where she placed herself in the queer community.

Pushed for the Equality Act to be passed and wrote letters, which she signed and added a rainbow to.

Said “out now” while wearing a rainbow dress to say reputation was available.

Has said, “I want her midnights”.

Wrote an entire song referencing a tattoo and a Tumblr account that a woman had removed and deleted.

Gave permission for “Seven” and “Ivy” to be used during scenes between queer characters on “Heartstopper” and “Dickinson”.

But somehow, Gaylors/Kaylors are projecting these things and creating them from their imaginations?

I am straight, but I have picked up on the queer-coded themes, etc., that she puts out. I actually…take the time to observe and listen to her lyrics and ask my queer mutuals on here questions about things I don’t understand because conversations help, and they matter. I don’t disregard their feelings or discredit their perceptions of her lyrics because I am mature and secure enough to respect their connections from her music to their life experiences.

From the excerpt (seems to be getting all the focus), it seems they think she is singling out Gaylors/Kaylors, but I think she’s simply saying that she was hoping that if the focus was taken off her dating life and that energy/focus were placed into her female friendships and having that concept empowered, they wouldn’t sensationalize or sexualize them.

Yet, they still sensationalized her friend group by criticizing /saying it was elitist, non-feminist, and a publicity stunt because all of her friends in the group happened to be white, rich, and thin. As for sexualizing, she specifically addressed the media by saying for her 25th birthday, she would like for THEM to stop accusing all her friends of dating her. While this was after kissgate, when the main discourse was not only still on her dating life but whether or not she and Karlie had kissed, let’s also look at these select lines from the reputation prologue:

“When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test. There will be slideshows of photos backing up each incorrect theory.”

The same people who say Gaylors/Kaylors are sexualizing (because let’s be honest, that’s the only word they zoned in on. Lol) her female friendships have (along with the media) been sensationalizing the alleged “beef” with one of those female friends specifically since 2017. They also engage in sexualizing her male “relationships” that are also sensationalized until they aren’t because they loved all her “boyfriends” (Calvin less than others, lol) until they ended.

Anyways, thanks for letting me rant, IWHM. I wish you and others who stand to be harassed or cyberbullied over this peace, patience, and strength.

you came in hot with that one! thanks anon 🙃

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On the double standards of Taylor’s love life and Swifties’ role in Taylor’s reputation

{Fair warning: this is kind of long and I actually originally wrote it during the Ratty stuff but it’s relevant now and this post from @9w1ft (specifically the tweet) made me think that maybe this needed to be really laid out there. }

Disclaimer: I am in no way claiming to know what Taylor’s sexuality is definitively, nor am I suggesting that every relationship she’s had with a man was fake, or that she is a lesbian. I myself have experienced enough bi erasure and biphobia to know better, but I had to put this out there explicitly so hetlors don’t have that as a “gotcha”.

Swifties have the lowest possible standards for whom they consider to be a boyfriend of Taylor’s.

Their standards are a) the media has to stir something up b) they have to interact distantly in some public capacity before they c) walk around together (holding hands or not).

I can give you the names so many women with whom Taylor acted like that, often for longer periods of time and with more interaction than a couple dinners and pap walks or whatever she’s done with those men. And that’s without time to go do research which would doubtlessly turn up more names.

To name some examples:

Karlie Kloss, Diana Agron, Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively, Cara Delevingne, Martha Hunt, Sophie Turner, Lorde, all three Haim sisters, Zoe Kravitz, Emma Stone, Camila Cabello, Lily Aldridge, Lily Donaldson.

(To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Taylor dated all or most of those women.)

Now, I have no doubt that if most swifties looked up photos of Taylor with a lot of those women they’d go “they aren’t even doing anything in that picture” or “they’re just walking side by side” or whatever else.

THAT’S THE POINT

I’m 1000% sure that if you photoshopped a man into basically any of those pics people would assume they’re dating because they’re walking together.

Almost all of Taylor’s supposed boyfriends have had significantly less interaction with her than those women, but people don’t hesitate to say she’s dating the men. Her team can and will deny it, but swifties will add a name to their list anyway, and that creates a whole other problem.

The sl*t shaming:

In my opinion, the sl*t shaming that Taylor has experienced for about the last 15 years has been, at least in part, because of swifties who jump to conclusions about men she’s seen with. When her own fans believe she’s dated however many guys, it’s that much easier for the media to repeat that and twist it to be negative.

If you wouldn’t look at a random guy and girl standing within a few feet of each other or walking together and come to the conclusion that they must be dating, why do you assume that about Taylor? Or, for that matter, does every person of the opposite gender that you associate with have to be your SO?

[And yes that can easily be turned around on Gaylors, but the whole point is that we aren’t solely using proximity to link potential exes or lovers to Taylor. We actually do the analysis of the lyrics, we break down the connections, we do the research.]

My point is that swifties have contributed on a large scale to Taylor’s sl*t shaming in a way that should make them think twice about who they claim she’s dating. Unfortunately as we’ve seen with this M*tty situation {and now the football guy}, they don’t seem to have the self awareness to realize how they’ve aided such a disgusting campaign of hate.

One more thing: you can say that no one will say those things now anyway because Taylor is on top of the world and they wouldn’t dare sl*t shame the Queen of Pop or “The Music Industry”. You might even be right. But if you do this and feel no guilt or shame over how your actions may have played a part in the several intense periods of sl*t shaming that Taylor has gone through previously, you need to think about why that is.

Taylor said it best in her speech at the Grammy museum in September 2015. She was introducing Blank Space and talking about the situation that made her write the song.

“In the last couple of years the media have had a really wonderful fixation on kind of painting me as like the psycho serial dater girl… It got pretty out of control there for a couple of years because… every article would be like, Taylor Swift Standing Near Some Guy. Watch Out Guy!”

That sounds insane, and it was definitely worse then than it is now, but the fact that it’s happening right now at all is ridiculous. Swifties need to stop helping the media tie Taylor’s name to men as if that makes her relevant. She’s a highly awarded singer, songwriter, and performer who has set and broken records (and then broken the ones she’s set) countless times. Swifties need to stop pretending that dating someone is what makes her interesting or we’re no better than the people who think she only writes breakup songs.

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midnights is giving “I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost” but also “I’ve had too much to drink tonight” but also “tossing, turning, struggled through the night with someone new” but also “midnight, you come and pick me up no headlights” but also “dappled with the flickers of light, from the dress I wore at midnight” but also “the lingering question kept me up 2 am who do you love” but also “I want your midnights”

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this account is very much NOT a safe space for matty healy. and it’s very much not a safe space for people who want to “support” taylor swift for dating him. you don’t get to receive love and support when you actively choose to date a man who is outwardly and continuously egregiously LOUD about his racism. you don’t get to call yourself bullshit like “miss americana” and come out with an entire film! an entire film!! about how you want to be more woke and stand up for rights. and then turn around and do this. i’ve spent so many years being a taylor swift fan and half those years begging her to speak up about important human rights. whenever she finally does, she does the bare minimum and calls herself miss americana and reflects on her long and winding journey to being more of an activist. but that shit means literally nothing to me so long as she continues to date this disgusting, sorry excuse of a man and refuse to acknowledge the active harm he continues to perpetrate against marginalized communities.

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TLDR: It’s super valid to not consume art that’s potentially super heavy or harmful to you personally for any reason and it’s also valid to just not like it but calling it bad art or thinking it’s less valid than other art because you don’t understand the purpose of art that shows morally questionable people doing morally questionable things - you know, like life - makes me really unreasonably mad.

The sheer amount of people on here and in real life who don’t get that the LITERAL POINT of some media - whether it be TV show, book, or movie - is to present complex, unlikeable characters who do morally questionable things and to show why they might do those things while still not excusing their actions - is making me go absolutely bonkers. Especially when the piece of media is self aware and doesn’t make excuses for characters’ poor choices? It’s called sociological drama, that’s the point, how boring would media be if everything was just super likeable people who always did the right thing? I don’t understand. Human beings make nonsensical, fucked up choices all the time and it makes for really interesting drama. You don’t have to agree with characters’ choices or personalities to understand why the writers did what they did and to understand why it makes good art. I don’t know why people have this bizarre idea that good characters = good art?? If it’s not your cup of tea to consume art that’s going to upset you, or you’re only into consuming light, funny stuff right now, that’s super valid! Sometimes self care is going “I can only do light stuff right now” or “I can only do light stuff forever” and both are equally valid and cool! Take care of your mental and emotional health! And it’s valid to criticize art for being damaging and not self aware, especially to marginalized communities. That’s not what I’m talking about here. But when people are like, “But the characters are terrible people who do terrible things” like it’s new information to everyone when THAT’S LITERALLY THE POINT OF THAT PIECE OF ART I just go bonkers.

Yk like, there’s a difference between saying, “this just isn’t the kind of art I enjoy consuming” and “but this is Not Good Art because the characters make choices that I don’t agree with and they aren’t likeable”. End rant I guess.

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Alex I'm a neutral gaylor I'm not into shipping i know that T and D are in "good terms" since Rep era when Dianna posted the Zombie love on her IG couple days before Rep came out (alluding she knew about Rep and LWYMMD mv) and Taylor's Babe mv copy paste from Dianna's I'm not only one but after Midnights album where there're so many Dianna coded songs and all the Taylor's behaviour during tour from slapping cheerleader girl's ass to singing Dianna coded songs on 143 coded days, mentioning Dianna's age yesterday night, the 29 April mystery 👀 currently now I'm in conclusion that either they're just two ex girlfriends who are now besties and fooling each others oooorrrr they're fucking 😶‍🌫️💀

I don’t really think of myself as a Gaylor shipper either, because I engage with Kaylor/Swiftgron etc. so differently than I do with the wlw TV show and novel couples I ship. I analyse Gaylor. I write fanfiction and spend hours on shitty drawings and relentlessly argue why Britanna, WayHaught, Beauyasha and Wenclair etc. are objectively superior to any other possible pairing and I’ll die on that hill.

In essence, I’m willing to be an obnoxious git about my ships because they’re fictional. But I approach my Gaylor analysis with recognition that it’s my interpretation and I can’t know Taylor’s true intent.

But yeah I think your summation is just about the long and short of it. Throughout the last couple weeks over a thousand new Mad Hatters have joined us in the Swiftgron subreddit to follow the trolling.

During the 1989 promo Taylor said on several occasions, she’d become friends with the muse of 1989.

In the secret sessions:

About the Style muse:

About the OOTW muse.

“It’s weird because I’m so public about talking about my friends but I never talk about my relationships but it’s weird when you have a romantic relationship that transitions into being one of your really close friends, so it’s like do I talk about it? Do I not talk about it? But yeah that song I wrote was about a relationship that transformed into a really close friendship.”

About the IWYW muse:

About the Bad Blood muse:

She also mentioned Dianna by name with one of the Swifties attending the secret sessions.

To be fair who didn’t love that video? 🥵

So I think since then they’ve never really stopped being friends which lesbi-honest is a very wlw thing to do. 😂

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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Nice Quiet Place

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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I haven’t kept up with any of the Conversations with Friends stuff but I’m getting ads for it now that start with “I’ve never given much thought to it before, to loving more than one person” and literally the ONLY thing that makes me think of is the opening line of Twilight where Bella says “I’d never given much thought to how I would die” and I think that’s great