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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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Taylor at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards - Pre-Grammy Gala (2014)

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I’m a different person every 3 months. Seasonal identity disorder.

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Hung with some friends (including @singinginthecar ily!!!) multiple times this month and now all is right in the world 💖💖💖

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your 20s are all about being stuck in the time loop

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Carl-Edouard Keïta — Karima (mixed media on canvas, 2024)

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every part of living as a person in 2025 feels like fighting a losing battle. and you’re supposed to just get on with it or you’re weird

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They hate it when u dont abide by the same imaginary rules that they force themselves to live under

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Bath time 🧼

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everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

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Fan art by Ami Thompson

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scrolling through pictures i have saved on my phone from around 2017/2018... i was an incredibly huge fan of karlie kloss and gal gadot. i thought these 2 ladies were so cool and badass and gorgeous. wow.

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C. wearing the sea. circa.2021

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I've just been sitting and thinking about my life... and it's strange and all encompassing how mental illness has been a part of my life for as long as i can remember. anxiety and i have been best buds since i was atleast 7. depression since i was 14. sure, we haven't always been close and traveling through life together but these two somehow always manage to find me again and again and again.