im opening my birthday items rn (VERY grateful to my aunt and grandma for the gift cards!!), and i could NOT wait until i opened everything to make a post because like. LOOK AT HER!!!!!
oh my god she is just. so beautiful i cannot handle it!!!!! AG had her up for black friday, and im SO glad i took the opportunity to get her (and so grateful to have had gift card money to spend, because otherwise I probably would not have gotten her!)
out of the dolls with colorful hair AG has made, ive always thought she stood out so much - i love the blend of her natural roots with the amazing colors, especially because that’s how my hair looks most of the time (i have colorful hair but I don’t touch up my roots for months at a time haha)
these pictures do not show her beauty in full tbh - but im too excited to take better ones!
i actually held off on getting her for ages, even when i had opportunities to do so, as im not really a tm collector (i mostly focus on historicals), and i kept telling myself “you already have a ton of josefina molds in your collection, you don’t need another one!”
past me, you are very silly!! it is ok that i have a preference for josefina molds lol. i will not give myself such silly restrictions in the future.
now i gotta figure out a name for this little lady!
You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.
The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.
It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.
I've actually been meaning to draw @star-sparkler 's Augustine for a while now; I got struck with the urge again today and uh, well I kinda went a little crazy.
She has the most wonderful design, this little lady is just so much fun to draw!
they literally got rid of her eye bags and under-eye dark circles and made her cheeks fuller and more flushed along with her letting her hair down... to show how happy she was on the farm...