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Am I the only one who now sort of doesn't want Rep TV? Like obviously I want it, but I also feel like she closed the chapter with this album, and Rep TV feels like re-opening the box.

it’s a snapshot of a moment in time!

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

merch concept - a patch/magnet for every track (click for full quality)

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I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

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and I wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (2024)

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I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind

t.s. + the motif of space

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a green rain has descended upon the valley.

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A word from Bisan to the students of the U.S. in their campus solidarity encampments.

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all's fair in love and poetry.

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Omitted some songs that I've already made bracelets for (Down Bad, Florida) or plan to make bracelets for (Chloe et. al). Also just had to narrow the pool in general, but let me know if you REALLY want a song I didn't include :)

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i know a lot of people have mentioned this, but i’m just obsessed with the way taylor refused to sanitize herself on this album. she’s telling you everything. she got off to gross men whilst already in another relationship. she fell for the most obvious lies because she wanted to believe them. she was mad at anyone who tried to warn her. yes, she’s still mad at you for clutching your pearls and watching her like a circus animal btw. she’s having his baby—no she’s not! she just likes trolling. she does really want babies, though. like a lot. she felt like she’d been abducted by aliens and found cosmic love, but in reality, she was manic. and then he fucking ghosted her! and he didn’t even measure up in any measure of a man!!!!! and now she’s devastated by him and his predecessor! she feels like a wondrous prophet one day and the desperate victim of a curse the next. btw he knows how to ball and she knows aristotle. and fuck kim k! also man sex with certain men kinda fucked her up, but at least the writing that came from it defined her legacy. the manuscript isn’t hers anymore. she hopes this insane ass manuscript won’t have to be hers, either! free her of these stories.

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have you defined the meaning of “white woman brain” anywhere and if not, can you? /gen

Many Black and brown feminist writers have discussed this phenomenon and I encourage you to seek out a lot of writing about this subject, because there are a variety of perspectives, but to distill it, white woman fragility brain is a phenomenon that is not exclusive to either white people or to women, but is especially common among those who can weaponize white womanhood, and it consists of the following qualities:

A view of oneself as a helpless victim that is constantly in threat of being attacked, especially by strangers (even though statistically, this is not the case).

A refusal to consider oneself as capable of doing harm to others, especially a lack of consideration toward others' body autonomy or consent. (even while being highly concerned about one's own autonomy and consent).

A generally passive or passive-aggressive orientation toward the world: seeing oneself as a romantic or sexual object to be approached, but never wanting to initiate (or feeling that one never can), never feeling comfortable directly communicating displeasure or one's desires, believing that others instead must guess at it. (and then resenting people when they don't, but never expressing it).

A tendency to cry, excessively berate oneself, complain about being made to feel "unsafe," or give up when criticized or challenged, especially when challenged by people of color.

A tendency to associate a person's body type with how much of a threat they are. For example, feeling unsafe around people with penises and expecting a social space to accommodate that fear to cater to you, a fear of people who come from cultures where it's common to speak loudly, a fear of those who are large, assertive, and/or darker-skinned.

Instinctive fawning-type responses to stress, and a pattern of feigning happiness, agreeability, and ease when one is not genuinely feeling it, and expecting all other people (but especially other women) to feign happiness as well, paired with a deep-seated resentment of anyone who violates this illusion and expresses any negativity (being especially punitive toward women of color).

Instinctively "smoothing over" conflict between other people before it even begins, even when healthy conflict is necessary and not at all your business-- often performed by gossiping behind other people's backs, triangulating information when it is not yours to share, asking people to alter their behavior in order to avoid a reaction from somebody else, presenting your concerns as if they were somebody else's ("what will people think!"), tone-policing the airing of grievances, derailing hard conversations with more light-hearted topics, and excluding people who are known to be candid and assertive.

Here are some articles on elements of the phenomenon and why it is so dangerous:

Now, I single white cis women out a lot when I am describing this phenomenon, because they have the most to gain from exhibiting these qualities, but make no mistake: this is a pattern that many types of people can and do use. I have seen white trans women use white women's tears to silence critique. I have witnessed women of color being passive-aggressively derailed and silenced by a Black manager who was in a position of institutional power over them. Multiple of the women who sexually harassed me in the story linked above were not white. And LORD knows I see plenty of t boys falling back on this shit, as well as cis men from wealthy backgrounds. It's a mindset that has deep colonial roots and we all must be on the look out for it in ourselves and others, and we must be vigilant in uprooting it.

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This will make you cry.

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feels like so much of 2023 for taylor was unlearning central themes in the lakes. answering “take me to the lakes where all the poets (!) went to die” with “actually I can feel myself dying and it’s not worth it and I don’t want or need to retreat to my place of death yet”. answering “I don’t belong and my beloved neither do you” with “no, I do belong and I want to exist in the world!” and on & on & on. I don’t want to bath in insurmountable grief anymore, or find perfect places to cry, or let what should be over stay burrowed under my skin!!!

YUPPPPPP

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thinking of “the sickest army doll/purchased at the mall/rivulets descend my plastic smile/but you should've seen him when he first got me” because if we think of how taylor was back in 2016, fighting for her life even before the phone call and towards the end of 2022 with “fighting in only your army/front lines don’t you ignore me”, she was always on the brink of breaking. but these guys came at her worst, swept her off her feet and helped her when she needed it, and she thought it was forever. so she of course doesn’t care if they’re playing with her to rough or breaking her in different ways, she’s been through worse before she can handle this.

and with “i’m queen of sandcastles he destroys” it saying that she doesn’t care if he’s ruining her fun or their future cause she was once number 1 so she can build it again. he destroys the sandcastles and she can rebuild it, but sand is so fragile and can break easily… they fit together like puzzle pieces… he saw a future so he smashed it up… but it’s okay! you should’ve seen her when they first got her! she’s better now!