#Laura snapes

[zot3-flopped]

Two months prior to its release, would-be doyens of Swift’s Tortured Poets Department have taken its barbed track listing very literally, leading to intense, often nefarious speculation regarding Swift’s six-year relationship with the British actor Joe Alwyn, which seemingly ended in early 2023.

The album’s title, revealed onstage at the Grammy awards, was quickly linked to a December, 2022 interview with Alwyn and Paul Mescal in which they revealed that Andrew Scott started their group chat, the Tortured Man Club. (“It hasn’t had much use recently,” Alwyn said: you wonder if it’s undergone a recent revival.) Swift revealed the leading track list a day later: My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, So Long, London, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, to name a few, sending fans wild with speculation.

Swift, obviously, has every right to sing about her relationships however she wants to (no apologies to Eamonn Holmes). But in the absence of any music, some fans have spread baseless, dangerous and even libellous allegations about Alwyn’s conduct (which, for obvious reasons, I can’t repeat).

Last month, a brief fan-shot video of them dining in a New Orleans restaurant in December, 2022 was recirculated online with AI-doctored audio that made it sound as though Alwyn is saying “you don’t get to tell me about sad,” a line printed on the back of one of the new album’s four physical editions.

When Swift recently told a crowd that she was “lonely” when writing her 2020 album Folklore – some of which was co-written with Alwyn during the pandemic, a lonely time for most – fans took that as further confirmation of their theories. A live medley of three songs that all appear to reference cheating threw petrol on the fire.

Swift could make this stop. She is no stranger to airing her displeasure with the likes of Ticketmaster, Scooter Braun, Spotify and Apple Music, and, occasionally, politicians. Before she released Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) last year, she gave a veiled speech at one Eras tour date effectively asking fans not to go after John Mayer, whom she dated when she was 19 and he was 32 and is understood to be the subject of that album’s Dear John.

“I am not putting this album out so you should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I wrote a song about 14m years ago when I was 19,” she said in Minneapolis.

But for whatever reason – and obviously, no member of the public has any idea what transpired between her and Alwyn so far – this time she has opted to stay quiet.

Establishing a baseline for conduct is neither commercially risky nor unprecedented: just last week, Ariana Grande said, after the release of her post-divorce album Eternal Sunshine: “Anyone that is sending hateful messages to the people in my life based on your interpretation of this album is not supporting me and is absolutely doing the polar opposite of what I would ever encourage”.

It feels like the endgame of a cat-and-mouse act that’s gone too far. Swift’s gestures towards meaning have led every single thing she does to be considered a kind of marketing, a clue to be solved. It leaves a superstar who’s usually hot on her messaging open to misinterpretation: hints about her personal life are turned by some fans into witch-hunts for anyone perceived to have wronged her; her current silence on politics allows politicians to invoke her name, from the New South Wales police commissioner quoting Swift’s anti-haters lines while defending police to Joe Biden joking that the matter of her apparently much sought-after endorsement is “classified” on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

When Swift made a blandly neutral handwritten post encouraging US citizens to register to vote on Super Tuesday, some fans speculated that her unusual left-leaning handwriting was the real indication of her loyalties – suggesting they’re so starved of substance that they’re reading into empty messages because of this dynamic she has established. (The more likely explanation is the insane way she holds a pen.)

For Swift to only direct fans as to her wishes when it suits her, it weakens her status as a truth-teller. If the comparisons with Dickinson mean anything, she might remember that nothing in the world has as much power as a word feels like the endgame of a cat-and-mouse act that’s gone too far.

[dk-thrive]

I have an understanding of what it means to be putting yourself out there,” she says. “And Beth is dealing with an undercurrent of low-level insecurity. That is ever‑present. God knows, who doesn’t have that?

— Laura Snapes, from ‘Stardom is not a worthy pursuit’: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on sexism, ageing and fighting fascism (The Guardian · August 4, 2023)

[notesonartistry]

I'd say for me her 2019 The Guardian interview is still the best interview she's ever done.

I really like that interview too anon. I haven't read it in a while, but I wonder about the difference in her self-confidence that would be evident in going back to it compared to the Time interview. I think it's one of the bravest interviews she's done - to be honest about the impact of the public backlash when it was all still pretty recent took a lot of spirit.

Gotta head to bed now, but maybe I'll read that tomorrow!

[lizzygrantarchives]

NME, January 28, 2012

In the weeks before she went truly massive, Lana Del Rey talked intimately to Laura Snapes about fame, lies and danger…

It’d be nice to think September 9, 2011 was a more innocent time for Lana Del Rey. ‘Video Games’ had gradually seeped into consciousness over the preceding months, building anticipation around the YouTube premiere of its b-side ‘Blue Jeans’, that morning.

That day I met Lana in her small, posh west London hotel room. It was a few days before snarky blog Hipster Runoff would publish an “exposé” on her past as Lizzy Grant, daughter of a moneyed family with a shelved album to her name (nothing she had ever denied); a few days before she would play an invite-only secret show at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, and then postpone her October tour dates – which had sold out in a heartbeat – until November.

But even on the cusp of becoming the phenomenon she is right now, as her debut album looks set to hit number one, there was something about Lana Del Rey that suggested she wasn’t all that innocent. It’s in the way she avoids eye contact, staring at her feet as she ties her vest in knots, awkwardly trying to run her rectangular, baby blue and pink nails through her stiff auburn curls.

We sit around a table at the foot of the bed in her room, as the TV on the wall displays a home shopping channel hawking ceramic Disney princesses on mute. She speaks like one of them – all wispy “oh my!” cautiousness and beauty queen charm. She asks if I mind her smoking the first of the many long Pall Mall cigarettes she’ll get through, saying that her PR man has told her – rather presciently – that people will write about everything you do.

She’s disarming in her nerves, often sounding as though she’s about to burst into tears, but equally for the prevailing suspicion that this could all be an act. For all the accusations that will be levelled against her over the coming months, Lana Del Rey certainly isn’t dumb. If you ask her a tricky question, she’ll answer through dipped lashes before looking up and forcing you to confirm what she’s just said; she girlishly asks, “Don’t you think I look similar?” after I’ve asked her if she’s had plastic surgery.

For all the bands that have recently peddled intrigue and mystique in their bid for popularity, none have done it as well as Del Rey – even if she’s achieved it unintentionally. Arguably, she would rather remove all doubt and speculation about her past in order to get on with the job in hand; but it’s one of the things that’s made her such a beguiling pop star from the first time we set eyes on her….

This must all seem very strange.

Strange is the right word. When things go absolutely nowhere for so long, you can tell when the energy is shifting around a project, and in the last two months, I’ve been, like… is this real?

‘Blue Jeans’ went online this morning. Have you been keeping up with the reaction?

I’m so nervous that I haven’t really looked! I feel like the album will walk the line between ‘Blue Jeans’ and ‘Video Games’. It’s still really fresh, but glamorous.

You can hear your unreleased album, ‘Nevada’, online. Would you rather it wasn’t there?

Yeah, it bothers me. The internet’s a really good place, but definitely a scary place too for someone when not everything that you’ve done has been good.

I found MySpaces for your past projects under the names Sparkle Rope Jump Queen and Lizzy Grant & The Phenomena. When are they from?

Wowwwww! Well. I would say Sparkle Rope Jump Queen was maybe 2008, 2009. I was playing guitar. I actually saw that about three weeks ago, something on Google came up. I thought, ha, you cute girl, look at what you did. They’re pretty dark. I was just playing into Garage Band.

There are lots of interesting stories about you on the MySpace for Lizzy Grant & The Phenomena – that you were a trapeze artist in Alabama, for example.

Haha! That’s not true. That is very funny. I’m a psycho. I was born on the day of the worldly rapture, according to the most famous biblical birthdays, June 21, a Gemini. What else did I put in there… I think it was Alabama, I did visit there, but I’m not a trapeze artist!

With Lana Del Rey, how important is it to tell people the truth?

Very important. Because I don’t like to get caught! I was probably 20 when I put [the …Phenomena MySpace up], no-one was paying attention to me so I was writing whatever I wanted. Even though the project has kinda taken a sort of exotic twist, which I did want, what I say is usually pretty straightforward.

There’s been a definite change in image between your former projects and now. Did it all come from you? And also… did it go further than just being aesthetic?

There aren’t many pictures of when I was singing before. They’re paintings that my sister had done from photographs. My face actually looks exactly the same as when I was really little. I know everyone talks about my lips, but my lips are my lips, and I’ve never gotten anything done. Also those paintings from those photographs, they’re taken when I was like 17, 18, the only real difference was that I had short platinum hair. But I don’t think they look that different.

Does it bother you that you’re being asked whether you’ve had surgery?

Well… yeah. I think as a girl, when you work for a long time and you don’t really get anywhere, you work on keeping a lot of integrity in your music but then all anyone talks about is your face – it’s not something you can really plan for. I don’t have a new face, I look the same.

What kind of pop star do you want to be? ‘Video Games’ came up through YouTube, but you’ve been working with some big people.

In terms of being a pop star, it’s not something I’ve thought about for a long time now, because it was so long ago that I started. Even though I’ve been singing and writing again for two years, I haven’t been on the stage for 16 months. I started living a regular life, so I’m not really sure. I don’t have to be a singer at all, it’s not the end all or be all any more.

Did the idea of being a pop star drive you?

I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half inspired because I didn’t really have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love with and start a community around me, the way they used to in the ‘60s. I wanted to be recognised as a good singer, and not much more than that.

Did you not have a lot of friends at school, or in your hometown?

I did find it hard to make friends, but it wasn’t because of the people, but because I was sort of a cerebral person, an over-thinker. I was trying to figure out a vision for my future that would make me happy when I really was not happy doing that many things.

Danger seems to recur as a theme in your songs…

I think I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people. I am attracted to the dark side, but in the same way that everyone else is. Sometimes the things that are really dangerous are because the situations or people are really magnetic and imperfect, but then when the pendulum swings you see the reason things are so amazing is because the situation is really strange.

Any specifics?

I don’t know… It just felt like fighting for survival for such a long time. Having no money, or a place to live, living day-to-day trying to figure out how to keep making music and stay alive. You sometimes find yourself in situations that you wouldn’t exactly uhh, that aren’t like, the safest, but um… Just figuring out how to make ends meet.

What kind of jobs did you have?

Basically I did anything on Craigslist. $100 a pop: I would move people out of places, paint houses, wear bike sports jackets for a truck magazine, or NYU students would pay $100 to spend a week doing a film.

Amazing – have you got some poncey student films made about you?

Well they’re not pretentious, but I am terrible! The kids who would ask me to do it probably thought I looked right, but then we would get on location and they’d be sorry they asked because I’m really shy in front of the camera!

Were you not tempted by a regular job?

I definitely thought, ‘If it’s gonna be this hard I’m not gonna be a singer and have nothing’. That would have been fine, but it’s only in the last two years that I started getting tired.

Did you ever nearly quit singing?

In my mind, I was always thinking about it. I stopped playing shows. I definitely didn’t wanna be a singer any more after a while.

Originally published in NME with the headline “I'm so nervous…”

[biglisbonnews]

Ed Sheeran: singer ‘didn’t want to live any more’ following deaths of friends Jamal Edwards and Shane Warne Singer tells Rolling Stone he sought therapy in wake of grief – and that as well as his forthcoming sixth album, he has two more records ready for releaseEd Sheeran has said that following the deaths of friends SBTV founder Jamal Edwards and the Australian cricketer Shane Warne in 2022, he “didn’t want to live any more”.Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine ahead of the release of his sixth album, – (Subtract), he said: “I have had that throughout my life. You’re under the waves drowning. You’re just sort of in this thing. And you can’t get out of it.” Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/21/ed-sheeran-didnt-want-to-live-jamal-edwards-shane-warne

[discordsmuse]

Discordsmuse Masterlist

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Hello friends! Finally putting together a masterlist to make it easier for you guys to find all my fanfics here since I only post to AO3!

These will be organized by fandom and character.

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Baldur's Gate 3

Halsin

dance me to the end of love, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav and Halsin admit to their feelings post-Moonrise and fuck on a balcony.

Silence, NSFW/18+ : Fem!Tav and Halsin fuck in a closet

Do Unto Others, NSFW/18+ : Fem!Tav wants to give Halsin some attention and convinces him to let her be the giver for once.

Enver Gortash

body more than just a flesh, you can sell it for success, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav is invited to dinner with the Archduke and things get a little heated.

i will give you all that you need, NSFW/18+: Sequel to the above, Fem!Tav and Gortash bathe together before Enver gets a little handsy.

gracious men are those who suffer, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav and Enver w/ a free use kink.

legacy with no memory, NSFW/18+: Fem!Durge and Enver Gortash w/a pregnancy kink

I wanna know my god, At least enough to fear Her, NSFW/18+: Fem!Durge and Gortash have a lil bit of hate sex

Gale Dekarios

be my nightfire, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav catches Gale mid-alone time. Feelings and sex ensue.

Abdirak

sanctify you bedsheets with the sweat along your hips, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav is fascinated by Abdirak and nervously asks him to teach her about Loviatar.

Raphael

delightful little detour, NSFW/18+: Canon rewrite for what happens when Fem!Tav tells Raphael he's bad at sex.

Let the Dream Begin, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav/Raphael Phantom of the Opera AU, slowburn

Office Hours, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav/Raphael College AU

she keeps the candle burning, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav/Raphael post-game

Haarlep

Ask prompt, Haarlep/Fem!Tav when Haarlep shows up at camp.

Rolan

i wanna have a home, i wanna share it, NSFW/18+: Fem!Tav and Rolan get together post-saving the tieflings from moonrise.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

Hector Barbossa

The Pirate Lord, NSFW/18+: Barbossa/Reader post-Elizabeth being kinged.

All That Glitters, NSFW/18+: Longform Barbossa/Reader canon rewrite pre-CotBP

Liar's Bet, NSFW/18+: Longform Barbossa/Reader canon rewrite during CotBP and DMC

feel the edges start to burn, NSFW/18+: Barbossa/Reader where reader is friends w/Carina

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Harry Potter

Severus Snape

isn't it lovely (all alone), NSFW/18+: Snape/Reader closet sex

no death in rebirth, NSFW/18+: Snape/Reader longform amnesia oneshot

Brought to Life, NSFW/18+: Snape/Reader marauder's era classmates to lovers lol

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Dead by Daylight

Canon/Canon

Contention, NSFW/18+: Ace/Meg against a tree hatesex

Breaking Point, NSFW/18+: Megmillan first time

It's Alright, Teen/16+: The survivors and killers recover post-entity

Anna/The Huntress

Not so much taming as growing accustomed, Mature/16+, Huntress/Reader friendship to lovers

Herman Carter/The Doctor

Untethered, NSFW/18+, The Doctor/Reader where reader annoying him but in the fun, bratty way

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Resident Evil Village

Karl Heisenberg

Business Partners with Benefits, NSFW/18+: Heisenberg/Reader where reader is Moreau's niece

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Spider Man

Dr. Otto Octavius/Doc Ock

Working Overtime, NSFW/18+: Otto/Reader where reader is his lab assistant

Bedside Manner, NSFW/18+: Otto/Reader where reader is Doc Ock's lover

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Labyrinth

Jareth the Goblin King

Midsummer, NSFW/18+: Jareth/Reader at the midsummer fae ball

don't leave me lonely, NSFW/18+: Jareth/Reader sequel to Midsummer

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The band Ghost

Papa Emeritus IV/Cardinal Copia

Better Than, NSFW/18+: Copia/Reader where he's a little insecure about Terzo being better than him

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Dracula

Dracula (lol)

Nice Costume, NSFW/18+: Dracula/Reader in a modern setting at a party

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Our Flag Means Death

Israel Hands

we do get desperate, now and again, Mature/16+: Fem!Reader/Izzy hurt/comfort unrequited love.

i wanna be yours, Mature/18+: Fem!Reader/Izzy first time together

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The Quarry (2022)

Travis Hackett/Laura Kearney

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• fell in love with the fever, Explicit/18+: Travis and Laura are forced to spend some time together 6 months after the incident.

• perspiration and alcohol, Explicit/18+: Travis and Laura meet again and become gym buddies. Laura pushes the line as per.

This list will grow/change as I write more :D Thanks for reading!

[slyther-bi]

This picrew didn't have the color brown as an option so I gave Laura blonde hair cause I didn't know what other color to use.

In my little au involving Laura, Lily is jealous to hear that Severus has someone else. So she tries to win him back and Laura is spiraling cause she doesn't want to lose Severus and poor Severus hates the drama and just wants to draw pictures with Laura in peace in the mental hospital.

[superfallingstars]

Playlist for Snupin dancing in the kitchen?

(from Remus-poopin btw)

send me playlist prompts! please i still want them!

Gnjfhfjjdkfjsk this is like the ideal playlist ask THANK YOU

This is a playlist of warm and sunny 60s/70s/80s songs to dance and cook to, with a healthy amount of (slightly complicated) love songs. I'm gonna go thru this song by song because as per usual I have shit to say

Track list:

Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?: so Snupin is kinda an enemies-to-lovers thing, right? So this lovely little song – "Let's admit we made a mistake, but can we still be friends?" – is rather fitting. Also I just love Todd Rundgren and his warm jazzy 70s piano songs, he makes great kitchen music.

Laura Nyro - Stoned Soul Picnic: I'm going to need to remove the phrase "warm jazzy 70s piano songs" from my vocabulary by the end of this, but that's exactly what this song is. Also I'm just a huge Laura Nyro fan and looking for an excuse to talk about her. Unrelated but also she looks like how I imagine Eileen Prince

The Cleaners from Venus - Lukewarm Love Song: IMO this is the best song on this playlist. Like I mentioned in the Remus playlist ask, The Cleaners from Venus (with their adorable jazzy lo-fi jangle pop songs) are peak Remus to me. This song is one of my favorites of theirs and imo fits the Snupin dynamic very well. The lyrics are SO ambiguous in the best way possible: "I would not be with you unless I wanted to" could be a comforting reassurance if that person is, well, with you, but if you're in a complicated enemies-to-lovers situationship, it might mean something else...! In this context, I read it as someone (let's be real probably Snape) convincing themselves that they don't like the other person, even though they are with them, and they do call them, and they think about them all the time (as the rest of the lyrics go)... and maybe THEN they realize that they're doing all of this because they want to. You done gone and fell in love idiot!

Shira Small - My Life's Alright: Ok I just have to say this album is amazing, this is Shira Small's only album and she made it in college and it's just the loveliest most comforting jazzy 70s thing in the world and I love it so much that I transcribed all the lyrics on Genius and it's great. To me this song is about slowing down and noticing the small things and being grateful for being alive and dancing in the kitchen and I like it!!!!

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London: I like to imagine that Snape antagonizes Lupin with this song but Lupin begrudgingly enjoys it. I should finish that comic I started about this

Todd Rundgren - Izzat Love?: another W for Todd Rundgren and his warm jazzy 70s love songs

Shira Small - Here I Stand: A lovely little song of platonic or romantic devotion that also is surprisingly matter-of-fact. Here I stand with you but also you need to make up your mind about whether you want to enjoy life or not. Aka Lupin @ Snape

Orange Juice - Falling and Laughing: This is just kinda of one of the best love songs ever, I don't make the rules

The Replacements - Swingin' Party: This is very, we're cleaning up after everyone's gone home from the party but the music is still on and we're not quite sober yet. Also "if being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side" ?!!!! screaming crying throwing up

Ronnie D'Addario - Nice Meeting You Again: I think this song is very fun in the context of two people who met a long time ago and fucking hated each other. "With every day, I see the way our love's brand new again" – CUTE.

Thank you so much for this ask and letting me gush about all of these songs. I have such brainrot for this ship. Hopefully this playlist shows the dynamic I'm going for and doesn't just make me look insane 👍

[evermoredeluxe]

i’ve been mostly offline today, but today has been a not-so-fun Swiftie Day huh. one article after another after another. it’s just never ending.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Maya was clear that she saw Liam's abuse as a result of distress that ran deep and his coping strategies with that distress. So if I talk about Liam it will be in those terms. ///

In her book she said some of the distress arouse from the contrast between his career and Harry's and the poor reception of LP1. I remember the same Guardian critic Laura Snape was very cruel about LP1 (awful 1* review) and very nice about Fine Line which was released a week later.

I just think the whole solo fandom thing is fucking toxic. The fans, the media, the industry ... all pitting them against each other and the same person coming out on top year after year.

Oh anon - I know fandom is notorious for blaming women for the actions of men - but responding 'Laura Snapes wrote a negative review of Liam's work' in response to a description of Liam's abuse - is taking fucked up fandom to another level.

But far more importantly - the way you present mental distress here You focus on the fact that Liam is being compared to other people and the fact that in this comparison external validation is not being distributed equally. Suggesting that if only external validation was distributed equally - if he got enough of it - Liam would not be experiencing this distress - is a model of mental distress that sets you up for failure.

(And of all the forms of external validation to suggest should be distributed equally - using reviews as your main example is completely absurd. People respond to art in all sorts of ways - which will always be complicated. When you put something out into the world you are taking a huge risk - including that people won't like it. But I'm mostly leaving that alone and are going to pretend to focus on a form of external validation where some form of equity of distribution would be reasonable)

External validation can be nice (although it can also be complicated), but it will not and cannot address the fractures in our psyches. There is all the evidence in the world (including within 1D) that external validation is not a solution to mental distress.

We need some kind of recognition - we need to do things people value and we need to be seen. We don't need, and can't all have, the extraordinary recognition that you describe as Harry coming up on top. Stadium tours, awards, even someone with authority engaging with and appreciating something we've created - those only go to some people - and they never have been distributed fairly and never will be.

Our mental distress lies to us - it sends us in completely the wrong way to try and fix it. Chasing after external validation as a way of trying to eliminate mental distress is a fools errand. Short term distress around rejection, or not getting something we want, or failure - is really normal. Learning to sit with that distress and get through it rather than running in all sorts of directions is a skill that it's possible to strengthen (one of the most important changes of my adult life has been experiencing applying to jobs as something that felt unbearable distressing, to something that was possible, with a significant toll).

Of course Liam experiences some distress at career difficulties - we all would. That's not what his ex-girlfriend wrote a book about. Liam responded to his distress by being cruel and abusive to people around him (particularly his ex) and seeking relief in substances that had a history of making him more abusive - in this condition he chased his girlfriend with an axe.

Our brains are lying to us. It's really common to feel distress and think 'I must do X then I will be valid and not feel distress'. That's a trap that will only keep people on a hamster wheel of distress - chasing relief that will not come. Even if you do achieve X it will not be enough - your brain will give you another goal. I think it can be useful to think of eating disorders here - the idea that being thin enough will cure someone's eating disorder will strike a lot (not enough) people as obviously illogical. The same is true for Liam and success (or Harry and success for that matter) and for so many people in different ways - if we chase things because we feel like we're not good enough - then getting those things are unlikely to make us feel good enough.

There is an alternative (although it is not to listen to that voice, and build our ability to tolerate our distress, manage triggers, and eventually heal some of the wounds that made our distress so strong in the first place.

[tayfabe75]

"Listen, I'm not doing anything like that to be a 'woke king' or to like, earn brownie points, it's just that that was the best thing that I had read, you know. I mean, it didn't read like an opinion, it read to me as like, a truth. I don't know, it was just… it was all I was thinking about that day. So I just thought that everybody else should think about it, and Laura had said it better than I ever could. It is frustrating, though. It's really… it's a frustrating thing, as like being in that room, and if I was to speak about it, I wouldn't be speaking from ideology, I'd be speaking from experience. Like, every man in that room knows a woman in that industry who has been, at one time, subject to misogynistic behavior by a man when professionalism should have been at play. End of story. And you have one of those anecdotes. I have one. I'm sure everybody here has one, and it still happens. So that's like a question that surely we, everyone… all men have to ask themselves in that industry, like, why? Must be permitted somehow."

February 28, 2019: Matty discusses his choice to quote Laura Snapes during his acceptance speech at the BRIT Awards. (source)

[ohdorothea]

Dear Reader: a web weave (citations under the cut)

Dear Reader / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / I Know Places / …Ready For It? music video (2017) / Dear Reader / End Game / Reputation Stadium Tour visuals / Getaway Car / Photo of Reputation Stadium Tour / Nothing New / Dear Reader / Picture To Burn / Photo of The Eras Tour (LINK) / Look What You Made Me Do / Look What You Made Me Do music video / mirrorball / Dear Reader / If You’re Anything Like Me / Dear Reader / Forever Winter / Why She Disappeared / Forever Winter / willow / Dear Reader / it’s time to go… / Dear Reader / Image from The Ellen Degeneres Show / Paris / King of My Heart / Taylor Swift: ‘I was literally about to break’, Laura Snapes (X) / King of My Heart / Dear Reader / Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve / Photo of Lover promo using lyrics from Cruel Summer / Dear Reader / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / I Know Places / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / Dear Reader / End Game Music Video (2018) / Death By A Thousand Cuts / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / Soon You’ll Get Better / Dear Reader / ivy / Bigger Than The Whole Sky / Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve / Dear Reader / Tied Together With a Smile / Dear Reader / reputation prologue / Dear Reader / A Place in This World / Dear Reader / High Infidelity / Photo of The Eras Tour / Dear Reader / This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / right where you left me / If You’re Anything Like Me / Mastermind / The Outside / Dear Reader / Anti-Hero music video (2022) / New Romantics / Wonderland / Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince / Blank Space / A Place in this World / Lavender Haze music video (2023) / Nothing New / Dear Reader / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / Sweet Nothing / Anti-Hero / Anti-Hero / Bejewelled music video (2022) / Anti-Hero / Dear Reader / Tim McGraw / this is me trying / Bejewelled / Dear John / mirrorball / Bejewelled music video (2022)

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Taylor Swift eras deathmatch! Making the case for the superstar’s best album Nashville prodigy, teen-pop voice of generation, panto villain … who is your favourite Swift? As the pop juggernaut launches her Eras tour to celebrate her 10 albums so far, our writers present the argument for each oneIn a pair of cowboy boots, 16-year-old Taylor Swift stepped into Nashville’s country music scene, released her eponymous debut album and changed pop music. Swift’s debut is often written off for her excessive vocal twangs and banjo flourishes, but singles such as Tim McGraw, Teardrops on My Guitar and Our Song, which rocketed up both the country and pop charts in 2006, have stood the test of nearly two decades. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/17/taylor-swift-eras-best-album

[omikki]

Marauders era as songs from the 70s/80s

James Potter: Girls on Film - Duran Duran (listen and tell me I'm wrong)

Sirius Black: Take it Easy - The Eagles (chill)

Remus Lupin: Modern Love - David Bowie (Yes yes)

Peter Pettigrew: Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart (dun dun dun dun)

Lily Potter: Dress You Up - Madonna (It girl!)

Regulus Black: When Doves Cry - Prince (Best prince song)

Marlene Mckinnon: Into the Groove - Madonna (Trust me)

Dorcas Meadows: Cruel Summer - Bananarama (her last summer was cruel)

Barty Crouch Jr: Self Control - Laura Branigan (It's a serial killer song)

Evan Rosier: DMSR - Prince (crazy)

Pandora Rosier: Video Killed the Radio Star (she too could tell the future)

Serverus Snape: Every breath you take - Police (it's a stalker song)

[slyther-bi]

The day after Severus comforts Laura.

She refuses to leave his side and he can't decide wether to be annoyed or happy about it.

[knightofleo]