#(she added a tswift song to this post)

[funfactory]

rosieline_

[liliansun]

summary : college was enough to deal with, barely passing classes and struggling to keep up with what was going on in each was a daily struggle. not having time to catch someone’s eye was fine with you, that was until you met him. there was something about him that was enchanting, so you went out to find him, hoping you kept him up the same way he did you.

college kids : nct dream members, my friends are the inspiration for the female profiles (joy, loki, niwa and esa) andb random supporting cast

started : 07 | 16 | 23 finished : 10 | 10 | 23

warnings : mostly posted by chapter, language, mentions of alcohol, college au, fluff, angst, strangers to lovers, lying, anything else will be added accordingly <3 (if you can’t tell it’s tswift based bc i’m obsessed w the song)

taglist : please send in an ask or comment to be added

🎧 : part of the speak now (polaroid version) playlist

00 : [ bitches love the gram ] : [ soon 2 be college drop outs ]

01 : don’t act like you don’t like it

02 : double whammy

03 : you’re bitchless bro

04 : …not that ham

05 : determined to do so (1.4k)

06 : short kings need love too

07 : da new da vinci

08 : what the fuck is 922?

09 : mom and mom are fighting

10 : INFILTRATE THE LUNCH

11 : who’s haechan?

12 : i don’t trust men

13 : no offense taken

14 : you need more sleep then

15 : well that hurted

16 : he’s easy to please

17 : lil man complex

18 : i breathe and for what

19 : is he gone yet?

20 : deserve to be heard (2.2k)

21 : she’s safe

22 : where is haechan.

23 : one last time (0.7k)

24 : platonic soulmates

25 : it’s not me this time

26 : only love can hurt like this

27 : tswift era

28 : so i may be lost

29 : sad and sulky

30 : run to me instead

31 : a couple of besties

32 : regular huh

33 : officially official

34 : it’d always be her [ final ]

[crimeronan]

What does being Taylor Swift neutral look like in practice?

it's...... really..... not that hard to do.

when my mom or sister or casual acquaintances ask to put on a tswift album in the car, i go, "sure!" and pleasantly listen along. then promptly forget everything i just heard. i frequently encounter both positive and negative thinkpieces about her artistry and persona and history, which i largely do not read, but sometimes i do skim tumblr posts and think, "huh, this would probably be really interesting if i knew stuff about taylor swift." when my lefty friends discuss how they hate her guts i nod thoughtfully and when my swiftie friends discuss how she gets a worse rep than she should, i do the same. i don't add her songs to my playlists because i can't remember them and i don't feel much about them. i find her current tumblr and youtube album ad campaign incredibly fucking grating and it's testing my ability to maintain this delicate balance but i am Clinging By My Fingernails.

ultimately i am a blank slate for the world to project its taylor swift opinions onto and i find that this is an essential quality to have when navigating pop culture as a twenty-something boring-but-political american woman in 2024.

does that help.

[moonshynecybin]

top taylor swift songs that were actually written about rosquez?

they are many they are myriad they are legion.... no order and non exhaustive ofc

wouldve couldve shouldve. ouegh ough aough aoueg. ouregh. and i damn sure never would've danced with the devil. at nineteen. and the god's honest truth is that the pain was heaven. i mean JESUS CHRIST dude. songs that make me want 20 mins alone in a room with valentino rossi and a baseball bat.

all to well ten min. i think the longer version is inferior generally but adding the lens of a slightly fucked up age gap pushes this up the list. so many insane rosquez details in this one. i was thinkin on the drive down hes gonna say its love you never called it what it was. (hello.) the idea you had of me, who was she? a never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you. (HELLO?) charmed my dad with self effacing jokes like youre on a late night show. (HELLO!!!) my friend valentino did that to my buddy marc. i was there i SAW IT. my friend @repsol-ariel made gifs.

i bet you think about me. jussssst the right amount of insufferable for them in the bitter post divorce chaos of it all... truly like. vale you fucked UP dude. i think this plays in marc's head for every championship he wins 2016-2019. when you realized im harder to forget than i was to leave. crazy. bananas. fun to think about if youre nasty... i also love indulging the side of marc that is kind of fucking mad at vale lol. my cuntress... this is why we cant have nice things also fits in this category. its the fun parts of divorce: like spite!

forever and always. you ever think about 2015 and how crazy marc probably felt when he realized his whatsapp thread with valentino post ranch visit was all messages from HIM. like truly before that season he said vale is my friend all is good between us :) then in midseason he says its a different relationship not quite a friend one just absolutely white knuckling it. and all this happened with little public indication of off-track conflict. WHAT HAPPENED. anyways did i say something way too honest that made you run and hide? like a scared little boy??

story of us. a fixture of my imaginings. but you held your pride like you shouldve held me. how did tswift know. what did she see. was there a psychic on her staff. did she perhaps have a prophetic dream of some sort.

haunted. YOU AND EYE WALK A FRAGILE LINE I HAVE KNOWN IT ALL THIS TIME.... CMON CMON DONT LEAVE ME LIKE THISSSSSS i thought I had you figured out... something's gone terribly wrong.... you're all I wanted.... hello. is this thing on. like truly maybe the most rosquez of my rosquez songs. this one is THEMMMM to me. its dramatic its tense its yearning its a little PISSED OFF.

back to december. RECONCILIATION ANTHEM. your tanned skin your sweet smile so good to me so right.... GOD. truly like before they reconcile but after vale has turned the corner. wistful regretfulness!! pride swallowing by someone not used to it!!!

cowboy like me: twin flames!!!! FUKC!!!! IM NEVER GONNA LOVE AGAIN!

[anewbrainjughead]

I don't go here but pls know I've been watching the contextless tswift posting like 😦🍿👀😔 and. Condolences. How many songs??? On one album?? /why/

THIRTY ONE SONGS!!!! thirty. one. songs.

as for why i honestly could not tell you she's a serial killer. she's the jigsaw of pop music. she's like the joker. she released a really bad 16 song album then 2 hours later added 15 more songs on the end as a ✨surprise✨. it's a fucking disaster

[nuatthebeach]

2022 Wrapped

Tagged by @corneliaavenue! You're a lovely thing <3

Oof, it's already 2023, isn't it? Oh, well.

Post the top 5 works you're most proud of that you released in 2022 (not necessarily your most popular)

it's gonna be 4 now lol.

persist and resist the temptation to ask you - this one is perhaps the most authentic, soul-pouring fic i've ever written. and the one i'm most proud of because of my growth in writing prose and pacing overall. there were many times i would huddle with a blanket in a dark room (💀) simply because of how much i was feeling in the moment. it was the most visceral experience i've had writing so far.

like passing notes in secrecy - i would say that when i finished persist, i was in this writing craze/high in that i simply wanted to write anything since i finally felt like i was on a roll, but that wouldn't do this fic - and my work - justice. because persist was so angsty, i desperately needed to write something that was light and fluffy in consequence for my own sake. i'm very happy about the banter and humor i was able to apply to this OTP; it was pure serotonin, and i hope it was the same for others.

Midnight - my first hinny smut!! aka i took my headcanon of switch!hinny and really ran with it. though i no longer have the same exact headcanon about the two of them, i'm still really proud of how steamy this turned out. and i have a feeling all the private bookmarkers do too 👀

you knew that i'm a mastermind, and now you're mine - man, the sheer power tswift holds on all fic writers everywhere. the aim was to use this song ("mastermind") in irony to show how the wizarding world perceives ginny relative to her relationship with harry. and because ginny is such a force of nature, she and the press manage to come to a certain albeit amusing level of agreement (a true mastermind har dee har). it's a bamf character moment for her, and she owned every second of it.

your top 4 current WIPs that you're excited to release in the new year

you reminded me to open up my google docs for the first time in a month! phewww.

premed hinny!rivals to lovers fic - snippet here. my final fuck you (and extremely reluctant thank you) to undergrad in the form of my OTP. fic is fully outlined and ready to be written if only i could give it the time of day 😭. but now that i have a lot of time opened up for me in the next several months, i'll finally get to it! fingers crossed

anniversary hinny smut - hinny roleplays as strangers in a bar, and let's just say we'll stick the art of acting to the shitty movies. a whole ass page written so far, so i take that as a win!

a somewhat angst, somewhat crack fic... i uh... have the most written for this wip so far of all my wips and im both proud and mortified by that. let's just say it's a story of how hinny finds themselves back to each other postwar... and the path is not exactly a straight route. playlist is a wip as well.

another crack fic because apparently that's all @takearisk-ao3 and me are on... though it's more accurate to say i helped to brainstorm and Hannah, the brilliant Executioner. to quote Hannah's post... "no comment."

im adding a fifth one because why not. hinny!vampire au. though there's only been half a page written for it so far, and hence a lot of white space, im so, so ready for the tools of creativity to lead me to more crackheadery that ive yet to discover. (like i needed more to start with.)

your top 3 biggest improvements in your writing over the past year

i think my writing comes off a bit "cleaner" now? there's more of a coherent plot, resolution to my fics than most of the simple "slices of life" that i wrote more of last year.

i'd like to think the dialogue comes off more natural now too. im finally getting the hang of doing more "showing" than telling and implementing symbolism and metaphors when trying to display a broader theme/concept.

im able to sit with fics and be at ease with the fact that im not going to have the right answer immediately. that i have to wait before i can post to make it better. i started prioritizing quality over mass production - and while this is still something i struggle with a lot of the times - i feel like this is a bit of a step up from last year. and most importantly, i learned that rewrites - not just editing - may be necessary too, and that is okay. that does not make me a bad writer but (hopefully) a thoughtful one.

your top 2 resolutions (ways you wish to improve your writing/blog) for the new year

to not constantly compare myself to other people's writing. focus on how i can improve myself without being intimidated by all the works of the many amazing writers in the fandom. to finally put words on the page fearlessly and authentically, like i felt i did with persist.

to take more risks. keep putting my characters in uncomfortable situations and testing out how they can grow from them. to not feel limited in my writing just because in my young age i havent experienced them. to push my boundaries more. (i thank @fairsquare16 @takearisk-ao3 and @narukoibito for encouraging this and the first goal every single time i feel even the slightest bit down about it; they're also the reason im still entertaining all these crackfics so put the blame on them when they eventually come out)

and your number 1 favorite line you've written this year

my fucking answer to this changes every two seconds...not for any other reason except that it's my biggest conspiracy theory that i have early, early onset dementia and can't for the life of me remember. here's one for now:

Like the story, the moral is just as simple: love unconditionally, act irrevocably. One shouldn't fear wearing their heart on their sleeve if the alternative is to never plant, water, and bathe it with the light of day.

After all, what are mistakes if not signs to grow?

Tagging

@narukoibito @heartstopping-waves @ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey and whoever else would like to do it (i truly mean that)!

[terrainofheartfelt]

*pirouette**arabesque* just dancing in to give another unsolicited song recommendation - "love you like that" by dagny is the song for all your "blair fell first" needs (and workout/power walk mixes). I would include my lyrics of choice, but really it's the whole dang thing, so I'll just drop in part of the chorus: "you know when they say you got the real thing / and nothing else matters? / I love you like that / I love you like that." INSTANT SEROTONIN TO MY BRAIN.

*clumsily soft-shoes in* soooooo funny thing about these lovely unsolicited song recommendations (which are always welcome)…I made you a Thing:

nevertothethird’s Unofficial Dair Playlist

(aka Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf Are Total Saps: the Album)

So I took all of your recs from the ask box and ao3 comments, added a few of my own selected tracks and made 🥁🥁🥁 this playlist!

Youtube link here. Tracklist & annotations under the cut. I hope you enjoy! 💖💖💖

Young and in Love - Ingrid Michaelson

Starting strong with this absolute BOP

And you break my walls down (Coming down) / 'Cause you make me fall apart in a good way

Only You - as performed by Joshua Radin

Pulled directly from the ao3 comments on the milo-verse. I was immediately interested bc I love the original so much. Which may or may not be Captain Swan related

Wonder if you'll understand / It's just the touch of your hand / Behind a closed door

Like Ships Need the Sea - Emily Hearn

Another ao3 comment rec

Finally, you gave me the hope I'd awaited / Finally, you gave me your heart

Storm Comin’ - The Wailin’ Jennys

The first of my own inserts to pad out this playlist. I picked this one because a) The Wailin’ Jennys are an all-time fave and their albums were the soundtrack of my writing the “I know a place”-verse (plus that series title is a lyric of theirs!) and b) it’s hella sexy

When that love calls, open up your door

Souvenir - boygenius

Pulling thorns out of my palm / Work a midnight surgery / When you cut a hole into my skull / Do you hate what you see? / Like I do

Best Friend - Ingrid Michaelson

It’s the friends to lovers angst of it al

I keep my mouth shut tight / 'Cause I won't want to lose what's not even mine

Love You Like That - Dagny

Blair Fell First™

I know when I say it, it doesn't say enough / With you close, I'm the happiest I ever was / I tend to avoid getting emotional / I'm not shutting you out

So Long, Honey - Caamp

And there’s this feeling I get / When you’re in the room / I want you to stay

The One You Love - Passenger feat Kate Miller Heidke

Another insert because the VIBES. Something something pure & simple love etc etc

Oh, and if you find someone / That doesn't undermind you / If you find someone / That doesn't drag behind you

ivy - tswift

I wish to know / The fatal flaw that makes you long to be / Magnificently cursed / He's in the room / Your opal eyes are all I wish to see / He wants what's only yours

Strawberries - Caamp

Be my books, head on your shoulder with damn good looks

Jealous - Ingrid Michaelson

I used to be so sweet / Now I see a change coming over me

High and Low - Joshua Radin

This is technically my addition, but only bc there was already so much Radin. I’m not mad about it.

Don't you worry, now / Don't let life get you down / Just remember you're mine

Sweet Love of Mine - Joy Williams

Another insert from me. Joy Williams post-Civil Wars era is SO underrated and anyways she wrote this gorgeous love song/lullaby to her son who happens to be named Miles which is a coincidence I will milk for all it is worth.

I was broken, I was blind / Lost in a moment I thought I left behind / Then you woke up this dark soul of mine / Carrying a light I thought I'd never find

Me & My Dog - boygenius

I had a fever / Until I met you / Now you make me cool

Any of My Trouble - Sawyer Fredericks

I’ve thought this was a “Dan Humphrey is a giant sap” song for quite a while but it didn’t feel right on my other playlist(s)...THIS one though…

So set my heart down in the cold / Let it freeze so I will know / How it feels to be shattered / When you go

Missing You - Ingrid Michaelson

Never, you said this had dan/nate vibes so now everytime I listen to it that’s what I think…I may just have to write a fic about it and it’ll be YOUR FAULT <3

I'm in his bed again / Feeling like a stranger / When he's kissing me, I'm missing you

Hate You - Ingrid Michaelson

Okay normally 2 consecutive tracks from the same artist feels Wrong to me but here I think it works.

So much swirling up inside my head / Of what I didn't do or what I should have said

Skinny Love - Bon Iver

I tell my love to wreck it all / Cut out all the ropes and let me fall

Stay Down - boygenius

Wasn't a fighter until somebody told me / I had better learn to lean into the punch / So it don't hurt as bad when they leave / There you were, turning your cheek

Walking on a String - Matt Berninger & Phoebe Bridgers

I knew that I was dead before you touched my lonesome skin / You're never running out of ways to worm your way back in

Hey Kid - Ingrid Michaelson

This song was not one of your og Ingrid recs, but I thought it fit, so it had to go in here.

These arms and this heart / They are the only things that I have left to give

Little Giant - Roo Panes

Have the heart of a giant, but know you're a man / Start small, grow tall

By and by - Caamp

Just wish I'd spent more time / Listenin’ to her speak her mind

Call It Dreaming - Iron & Wine

Say it's here where our pieces fall in place / Any rain softly kisses us on the face…For all the love you've left behind / You can have mine

Today - Joshua Radin

it’s got the romance AND the found family

And you are the one I've been waiting for today

Feels Like Home - Caamp

Know that I lived my whole life long / And gave all the love that I could've given

The Muse - The Wood Brothers

Included for many obvious reasons, the title of course, and the dilf!dan of it all

Times like these so sweet and so true / Thinkin’s the last thing that you wanna do

This Is Why I Need You - Jesse Ruben

it’s about how living is hard but this is what makes it worth it.

You are the who, love is the what, and this is the why

My My Love - Joshua Radin

a simple sweet unadorned song. the perfect finale

It's something new because of you

[popstarryeyed]

red (taylor's version):

- state of grace and holy ground somehow aren't hitting the same, which is a shame because they're some of my favorites on the album

- in contrast, red, a song i've never really liked, has grown on me a bit. the bridge is pretty great. FLASHBACKS and ECHOES and i still see it all in BURNING RED

- we are never ever getting back together really replicates the particular 2012 "like ever!" of the original, however the "oh-OH!" on this i knew you were trouble is not nearly as ear-splitting as i remember

- this doesn't have anything really to do with the re-release but putting stay stay stay after we are never ever getting back together is a weird decision since wanegbt is all about ending a relationship because you're always fighting and stay stay stay is about staying in spite of that fact

- also stay stay stay is just a bad song in general. it's never going to rank as the worst tswift song when look what you made me exists but it's like if she played her character from blank space totally straight and the song sounded like a chipper ad jingle. it's all "teehee i'm cRaZy" and i hate it so much

- generally these rerecordings sound pretty similar to the original but i feel like there's a new streak of bitterness in the lucky one. i swear i heard a break in her voice on "your secrets end up splashed on the news front page". like, the song was always kind of about her but "all the young things line up to take your place / another name goes up in lights" really hits different coming from 30-year-old taylor

- this album is two hours long so i'm listening to the re-recordings and the from-the-vault tracks as two separate albums. stay tuned for another post

[itssuji]

2017 in a nutshell

First of all...

Hollyweed

Salt bae

Cash me ousside how bow dat

Dancing Winnie the Pooh 

African guy tapping his forehead 

Ed Sheeran released his new album

Ed also appeared in Game of Thrones and it was kind of weird

La la land smashed it at the oscars 

The white guy blinking in disbelief 

Student athlete memes 

How Italians...

Italian hand gesture

Mess with the __ you get the __

United Airlines disgraceful conduct and the memes that followed

Your week as told by ____

SpongeBob MoCkiNg MemE 

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

Donald fucking Trump is still president. Seriously America...

The floor is lava 

The ground is ___

The tragedies in London and Manchester 

Ariana Grande's inspiring response to the attacks and the wonderful concert she held 

Shootings in Las Vegas 

How to talk to short people diagrams 

He protec, he also attac, but most importantly...

Love is officially dead - Chris Pratt and Anna Farris broke up 

Everyone really took this past year or so of not hearing about Taylor Swift for granted 

TSwift dropped her song Look What You Made Me Do. She tried to come across as a bad bitch, but everyone really knows she’s still that girl who was obsessed with horses in high school 

Taylor and Katy are racing to see who can drop the worst album in 2017. Unsure who's winning 

The meme with the guy looking back admiring a girl walking by, and his girlfriend is looking at him angrily 

Snapchat made snapmaps which is kinda creepy

Post Malone puns

You've heard of "elf on the shelf" now get ready for... 

Y'all were so keen to fuck pennywise

Kylie Jenner's pregnant 

The screaming seagull memes

Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad

Ke$ha tried to hug Jerry Seinfield, he refused, and it was just so awkward

Everyone's favourite male celebrity is actually a rapist

Despite recent tragedies, America still hasn't changed their gun laws/gun control 

61.6% of Australians voted yes for same sex marriage. This resulted in the same sex marriage Bill passing in the senate. So, SAME SEX MARRIAGE IS FINALLY LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA. 

Stranger Things - the kids are so adorable, and anyone who thinks otherwise can fight me 

Fidget spinners

Improvise, adapt, overcome 

Snapchat Hotdog filter

Man's not hot 

Net neutrality 

Elf practice 

Pen is short for penjamin

Zootopia prolife comics 

Brexit

The people who have the power are too busy abusing it to care 

Guys literally only want one think and it's fucking disgusting 

Beyonce was pregnant again

Africa by Toto

All Star 

The barber cutting the monkey's fur 

The earth's flat 

What in Taranation 

Meryl Streep singing

[loveralbumtaylorswift-blog]

For My Friend!

Here is my friend Rick’s unusual but very interesting Taylor Swift story if anybody wants to help share it. He posted it to Medium.com in May 2018.

I am a self-proclaimed Taylor Swift superfan who wants to share his remarkable story with others. I have only shared this full story with one other person and have struggled with how to communicate it, but here it goes.

Since my elementary and middle-school days I had suffered from body image issues, thinking that I was too heavy and needed to lose weight. For three years I would revamp my diet, count calories, weigh myself almost daily, and slim down. Deeply entrenched feelings of self-worthlessness would ensue. I had to receive perfect grades — nothing less than a score of 96% on an exam would suffice — and if I wasn’t “perfect” or “near-perfect” I was undoubtedly worthy of draconian punishment. I would look in the mirror and was nearly disgusted with myself.

In April 2009, I was formally diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, also joining a special group of the mere ten percent of anorexia nervosa patients who are male. For four months, I participated in out-patient care with other high-schoolers suffering from anorexia and bulimia (and yes, as the only male). In the midst of my eating disorder treatment, I was beset by a string of other diagnoses: depression, anxiety (hello, Ativan!), and Asperger’s syndrome. Unfortunately I was very close to ending my own life that summer.

During times of tumult many of us can turn to music to find comfort, and for me, Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” became an instant hit. Being in high school made relating to that song fairly natural. I recall the conversation at our clinic’s lunch table the day after Kanye West’s infamous interruption of Taylor’s winning of the MTV Video Music Award in September.

What struck me most about Taylor was the fact that she was so pure and unsullied. She was so innocent (excuse the song reference). Contrast her and her personality to the rest of the mainstream world of entertainment and there simply was (and is) no comparison. While most music stars exuded raunchy, troubling behavior in an overtly coarsened culture or went from child star to drug addict, Taylor stood alone among role models for the younger generation.

Although my eating disorder was officially under wraps by the summer of 2011, what remained was myriad fundamental issues — mentally, emotionally and socially. While my body weight was normal and I was no longer malnourished, nearly all of the underlying causes of my eating disorder still lingered: depression, anxiety, a near total void of self-worth, and social awkwardness. I would spend some lunches sitting by myself at school and walking around school thinking people abhorred me. Inwardly, I still felt as though I deserved to feel miserable.

While I share what may be a conventional, ubiquitous story about how her music helped me through a particularly trying time in my life, my story runs much deeper.

Like so many twenty-somethings, I fell in love with Taylor’s music, especially her “Speak Now” and “RED” album. Although I never attended either of those tours, I deeply yearned for such a chance; unfortunately, that desire never came to fruition.

Unfortunately for me, I began to experience another problem stemming from my eating disorder, which turned into an all-out addiction. Since I had previously met the criteria for Asperger’s and still juggled severe depression, it remained difficult for me to make friends. Complicating matters, the fact that I was (and remain) an extreme introvert did not play to my benefit. Meeting new people could be daunting but was even worse with my feelings of worthlessness. In what is all too common an occurrence for today’s younger generations, on November 2, 2013, suicidal thoughts engulfed me again. Thinking my days were numbered, I was nearly convinced that suicide would win the fight for my life.

On a brisk night soon thereafter, I prayed to the Lord at school. I prayed for a friend, a girl whom the Lord would send to me to comfort me and somebody to whom I could relate and talk. Little did I know what would happen next.

During Lent of 2014, I experienced the all but mandatory “there is no God” phase which people experience especially in young adulthood. Among various thoughts, I thought, “If there is no God, then there can be no love. Nobody loves me.” The night before my birthday, I turned on “Saturday Night Live.” Now, “SNL” is not a show that I watch and I had not watched it for some time. It just so happened that Ed Sheeran was the musical guest. During host Seth Rogen’s monologue, Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance. (Clearly Taylor was there in support of Sheeran, although this possibility had not crossed my mind.) Suddenly I felt a sense of comfort. At the time I didn’t know what had happened. But by the grace of God my disbelief phase was very brief.

It took me a few weeks to process what had happened, but I realized that I had received a sign from God. Over the next nine weeks I would receive communication ad infinitum from the Lord through Taylor, mostly through her songs, especially through her landmark 2010 hit, “Mine.” Specifically, the signs conveyed the message, “I am here. I exist” from the Lord. To this day “Mine” is my favorite song not only since I enjoyed it but for this reason as well. How did I know that these signs were from God and what were the signs telling me? For starters, songs of Taylor’s would come on the radio — admittedly not too uncommon — but at totally unexpected times. Her songs also came on in various stores. They would also begin almost right after I entered the car or the store. One thing that I had learned about the Lord was He works on His own timetable, not ours. Surely the Lord had to have known where I would be at all those times. What was more, the continuous nature of the suspected signs was too suspect for them to be mere coincidence coming from Taylor Swift. I also saw her in newspapers and on television, all at times when I happened to be in the right place.

“Mine” proved especially to be an important song to me: In overcoming my second addiction, I remembered the words of Taylor Swift in “Mine”: “Hold on. Make it last. Hold on. Never turn back.”

Seeking out more information, I spoke with my psychologist who had helped me since my eating disorder days. I asked her for counsel on whether I was truly receiving divine signs. Confirming my signs, she told me, “Because that’s how He [God] knows how to reach you.” Indeed, part of the reason that Taylor was the perfect medium through which the Lord sent me signs was the ease with which I would recognize the signs — and, having as much righteousness and being as selfless a person as she is, Taylor fit the mold.

In terms of further explaining how I knew these signs were divine, I would tell others that I just knew. My countenance confirmed it time and again. Furthermore, I would experience a feeling of joy deep down. This emotion was the most beautiful, enthralling feeling I have ever experienced. The Lord cared enough to communicate with me, His son! (And He cares about you, too.)

I have dreamed of meeting Taylor Swift and speaking with her at length for a good 5+ years. I have desired to share my story with her and to thank her for what she has done for me (i.e., “changed my life,” in the words of my psychologist). I wish that there was some way I could repay her. I intend on seeing her “reputation” stadium tour multiple times. [He ended up seeing her show twice that tour.]

I am currently working on a memoir of my eating disorder, recovery, and mental health experience. This TSwift story is going to be expanded upon in more detail and given its own chapter.

I am so, so blessed that God sent her and her music into my life. What an amazing gift it has been. I recall the byline of one Swiftie’s Instagram account: “If you ever get sad, just remember that you were born to live in the same time period as Taylor Swift.”

[njawaidofficial]

Taylor Swift Just Released A New Country Song And It Will Take You Back To 2007

https://styleveryday.com/2018/04/21/taylor-swift-just-released-a-new-country-song-and-it-will-take-you-back-to-2007/

Taylor Swift Just Released A New Country Song And It Will Take You Back To 2007

Country Taylor is back, y’all.

Here’s a little bit of American history for you: Back in the olden days of the late 2000s, Taylor Swift was a country star.

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And while we’ve all been BLESSED to experience her pivot to pop in the last few years, any diehard Swiftie still holds a candle for the country queen that once was.

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Well, friends, I have some good news for you: TSwift just released a BRAND NEW country song — it’s one she initially wrote for her album Red. And hearing it has filled me with so much warm 2009 nostalgia.

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The song is called “Babe,” and it’s a collaboration with the country duo Sugarland. Go ahead and take a listen:

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In an Instagram video posted Friday, Taylor thanked her fans for their support and provided a little background on the song.

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“It’s a song that I wrote with Pat Monahan [of Train] when I was making the Red album, and I’m so happy that it gets its own life.”

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“I’m so happy that Sugarland wanted to record it, and has done such a great job with it,” she added. “And I’m so stoked to be able to sing on it, too.”

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In an interview with E!, Sugarland described the moment they got the call that Taylor wanted them to record one of her songs — an offer that she rarely makes, since she usually performs them herself.

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“She hasn’t made that offering very much, so we were like, ‘Uh, YEAH,'” lead singer Jennifer Nettles gushed.

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I will leave you all with one last incredible throwback pic. Bye, y’all!

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Honestly???? Idc about TSwift but I will say that she probably capitalizes on good or bad media regarding her new song/video, like... people are at least talking about it which is spreading the word and making her more popular so I mean if you don't like her the best thing to do would just be to ignore her and everything she does bc then she wouldn't be popular. If you're tired of hearing about her, don't post about it bc then you're just adding to everyone else's stuff?? But also, people are trying to defend her but she has shown that she can defend herself, she's shown she's not going to be a victim so i don't think there's a reason to go up in arms about everything