#Tpd

[mintysneezes]

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum in which the raised me

[new-york-no-shoes]

And what if I said I think allowing herself to bask in joy lately helped make her brave enough to share how truly broken she was making this album. And how much the music (the writing, the performing, the crowds, the reminder that her lyrics are a connective tissue between us all) helped to put her back together

[emmaitoshi]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

19th of April

16 tracks

bonus track: ‘The Manuscript’

“𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓈ℴ ℐ ℯ𝓃𝓉ℯ𝓇 𝒾𝓃𝓉ℴ ℯ𝓋𝒾𝒹ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ

ℳ𝓎 𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓈𝒽ℯ𝒹 𝒸ℴ𝒶𝓉 ℴ𝒻 𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈

ℳ𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈ℯ𝓈， 𝒶𝒸𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓇ℯ𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝒷𝓇𝓊𝒾𝓈ℯ𝓈

ℳ𝓎 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈

𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓀， 𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓀， 𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓀 ℴ𝒻 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒷ℴ𝓂𝒷𝓈

ℳ𝓎 𝓋ℯ𝒾𝓃𝓈 ℴ𝒻 𝓅𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃𝓀

𝒜𝓁𝓁，𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅ℴℯ𝓉𝓇𝓎…

𝒮𝒾𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓇ℯ𝓁𝓎， 𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓃 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒯ℴ𝓇𝓉𝓊𝓇ℯ𝒹 𝒫ℴℯ𝓉𝓈 𝒟ℯ𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓂ℯ𝓃𝓉．”

[hadesisqueer]

I appreciate The Dragon Prince because it gave me tragic antagonists or villains that I love (Claudia), villains that while I don't really like them I understand how they came to be and can feel a bit of sympathy for (Aaravos or Viren), villains I straight up fucking hate (Sol Regem) and villains that I don't really hate because when they appear on-screen I just sigh wondering how they can be so fucking stupid (Karim). They really give you everything.

No but for real, Karim's entire character arc consists of 'The risk I took was calculated but I am bad at math' because. He's so dumb. He keeps saying he wants to restore the Sunfire Empire to its former glory, but like-- how? What plans do you have for the future? Are you going to try to retake Lux Aurea? Because you can't. Oh, you want humans out? Okay-- how would that help to restore the former glory, though? You're just being a bigot?

The thing is that all Karim ever did was talk about his birthright —that's not even his birthright, actually, because he's the youngest sibling— and keep babbling about history demanding blah blah blah of people and how his sister wasn't a competent queen when actually it is the opposite. Janai proves, by allowing the architect to live while still giving her an according punishment, that she is a fair queen who chooses mercy and allows people to grow while still choosing justice; also, that she's more practical, because what good is a talented architect dead —who did something awful but still was sorta right about fire being dangerous around the camp— when you can just make her build a shrine so this kind of incident never happens again. Janai also had the Sunseed and plans to nurture it and help it grow, help her own people grow. She actually had plans for the future, and she had the patience necessary. She understands that you must learn from history but that it also doesn't define you, that you must not let it define you.

Karim doesn't get that. He was obsessed with history and the old ways. He didn't have any patience. And he didn't have any long term plans. Or even backup plans for when his plans inevitably failed, either! He was so convinced Janai would refuse his duel he was shocked when she actually fought him, and resorted to fighting-- with fire magic-- against someone who's fireproof-- again, no actual plan. He tried using an assassin to kill his sister, the actual person the assassin had a life debt to. He wants to steal the Sunseed, actively fucking over his people. When Ezran tells him to take his followers and start somewhere else, Karim refuses because he says he doesn't want crumbs off his sister's plate, but at the same time it's like-- that's exactly what you were gonna get, buddy. You wanna use Sol Regem to torch your sister's army. The only thing you're gonna rule over is the followers you have now plus what remains of Janai's, if they even accept you. So, yeah. Literally crumbs.

Also, again, he's so fucking entitled. 'What's rightfully mine' he's the youngest sibling, nothing is rightfully his, he's an usurper. Part of his demands being that humans leave and go back to 'their side of the border, where they belong', buddy, you'd be the king of the Sunfire Elves, not the King of all of Xadia. As king you could make humans leave your territory, but not Xadia. If a bunch of humans, hypothetically, befriended Moonshadow or Skywing elves and lived at the Silvergrove, or wherever the Skywing elves live, with them-- what, now you're gonna try to wage war against the the other elves, too, because they're not following your ways? You can threaten them with Sol Regem, sure, but also consider, because you didn't even consider it when you went to him-- he's an Archdragon, yeah, but the weakest of the Archdragons right now. Let's say Ezran and Janai follow through and give up and leave. They could go with Zym and head straight up to the Mushroom Mage and come back with Zubeia, the current Queen of the Dragons, right after she's done with her treatment. They arrive. Who's gonna win? A healthy Archdragon on her prime or an old, blind Archdragon that hasn't flown or fought in centuries? Also, once you give him the Sunseed he actually has no reason to be on your side, he already got what he wanted. Even if the Katolis thing didn't happen, he could've turned against you very easily. He likely would've done so.

He's an awful leader who doesn't actually care about his people. He disrespects other world leaders like Ezran immediately. He's an entitled, bigoted idiot who doesn't actually think things through and that actually makes him both incredibly annoying and very realistic, which actually makes me like him as an antagonist but still makes me let out a exasperated sigh every time he talks. Best part of him is that he's obsessed with going down in history as someone great when, with his actions, he's only going to pass down as the prince who tried to usurp his sister three times and failed the three times, each failure worse than the previous one. Lmao.

[ebodebo]

so…i just spent an ungodly amount of time making this😭😭😭and it’s prolly shitty BUT the song and pen is just so ahhhh I HAD TO DO IT

[mydreamsarentrare]

[blackthornarchives]

marauders fans are we okay rn

[toxxenn]

“You won’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me”

[taylorcurl1]

All of The Tortured Poets Department front covers so far, but make it ✨cats✨ (to be continued…)

@taylorswift @taylornation

[tunaa13]

tomorrow is the day everything will leak, people will get their cds shipped early, stores will sell the album early, twitter will be full of baits and it will be a game of “is this video going to spoil the entire album for me or is it just a ME! snippet” and chaos will ensue and I will dodge all of those bullets like I’m in the matrix

[new-york-no-shoes]

“April 19th is gonna be a wild night for us.” Woman is that a THREAT!?

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

swifties and brainrot are a match made in heaven

like come on guys y'all know that not a single one of those break up albums paint any of the guys in a good light (and i don't know enough about what they did to say whether it's justified or not, but i do know that their all painted as bad people).

So the fact that the album is primarily about Matty should say that Joe wasn't that bad. Like no-one in their right minds would want to have their entire reputations destroyed by an album, so like why the hell would he be upset that the album is not about him?

Like i want the logic? Cause weren't y'all swifties the ones who were hating him and hyping this album up as "all the shit he did is gonna come out" but now when it's not about him, y'all are saying look how shit he is because he didn't get an album? As far as i'm aware getting an album probably makes you shittier right?

[cancersunthatsit]

HEAR ME OUT

post-prison reid & reader !!!!! Fanfic they are not together just sort of situationship

I LOVE WHEN SPENCER BECOMES SHITY AND HAVE MAJOR DICKHEAD ATTITUDE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[princess-posting]

thee tortured poet

you guys need to understand, ttpd is going to be for her

[taylors-polaroids]

the tortured poets department | file name: the bolter

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“Everyone’s like ‘why do you make so many albums?’ And I’m like, man because I love it! I love it so much! I’m having fun leave me alone.”

She’s so real for that.