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“it's not the bad memories that tear a person apart like that, cassie. it's the good ones.”

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Embroidery by roniy1983

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i've been thinking about this scene

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#live slug reaction: literati edition

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and what if they lived together and volunteered and were politically active and worked and followed their dreams? what then?

AU post season 6~7

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I’ve been going through my old WIPs that I haven’t touched in years, specifically the ones on my drive that I never even posted. And I can’t believe that younger me was a) so ambitious and b) was writing SO MUCH. Almost every single abandoned piece has at least 10k.

I added on a Creative Writing minor to my degree, and so on top of my writing heavy major, I’ve been writing a lot these last 3 years. But looking through all of this, I realize now I can’t actually remember the last time I wrote something just for the fun of it. I’ve written all sorts: poetry, nonfiction, flash fiction, short stories. And I’m proud of a lot of it. And I enjoyed writing them! But I think the last time I’ve written something long form that I was passionate about and only BECAUSE I felt the need to write was back when I was working on these WIPS.

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it’s like I can feel time moving | Nothing New - Taylor Swift ft. Phoebe Bridgers 

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IM FUCKING 20 YEARS OLD THIS CANT BE REAL

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need an edit of jess mariano to california by chappell roan

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I am going to say something that might piss people on this site off, and that is that the stabbing at a Taylor Swift themed event in Southport does not exist in a vacuum.

It exists in a world where a joke about bringing a nail gun to the Eras tour to shoot fans gets 400k likes on TikTok, or where a reel about crashing a plane full of Swifties gets 200k likes on Instagram. It exists in a world where, on this very website, the one that promotes itself as rational and reasonable, someone says that "Taylor Swift and her fans should all die violent horrible deaths" and people applauded it. It exists in a world where, during TTPD release week men were in Swifties' comment sections declaring they would beat their daughters and girlfriends if they ever so much as listened to one of her albums. And it exists in a world where this week, fans of a TV show (which I will not name because that is not the point) sent death threats to a girl on Twitter for daring to be a fan of both their beloved show and Taylor Swift.

I don't give a fuck what your opinion of Taylor Swift is. I don't care if you think her music is grating, I don't care if you think she is the worst thing to happen to humanity since Eve ate the god damn apple. This is the dark side of stan culture that no-one talks about; where dislike of an artist becomes so obsessive that it becomes normal, even funny, to joke about killing their fans, because "it's just online, it's just a joke". It isn't. It is rarely ever "just online".

And yes I am going to be That Person and say that you can complain about Swift's brand of feminism and debate her position as a feminist icon all day long, at the end of the day, her name is still synonymous with girls. It doesn't take a genius to work out who this event was geared at.

I am not going to sit and claim that by simply not liking Taylor Swift you directly caused this. I would encourage you to step back, look at the bigger picture of stan culture, including obsessive dislike of an artist, and ask yourself how much this culture has enabled this. If making jokes on tiktok about killing someone over a pop star is normalised, how much of a leap is it to attacking kids with a knife at a fan event?

and of course there is the fact that the british media didn't even wait until those kids were buried before using this event to spread their racist, anti-immigrant agenda despite the race of the attacker not being known. all I can say to that is I am sickened and disappointed but not shocked.

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MAMMA MIA! (2008) Dir. Phyllida Lloyd

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and he never thinks of me, except when i'm on tv ✨

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Maybe THIS dose of ibuprofen will be the one that fixes me

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Im still wishing I’ll get to see TTPD set live

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When the chronic fatigue is chronic

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“slut era” i whisper to myself as i rot in my bed, sick like a frail victorian child