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Ngl I heard a couple of TTPD leaks and I’m thinking about cancelling my preorder of the CD
#i listened as far as track 6 (but daddy i love him) which surprisingly i loved but i totally get why people don’t lol#i mean yes i hate that it’s (probably) about HIM but it’s still a good song. idk#i liked so long london as well#but the first 4 songs imo were just bland#i’m hoping the rest is better. hoping albatross is good. because i fucking preordered it and i can’t work out how to cancel it#if the first taylor album i’ve bought a physical copy of since red is also her worst album it’s going to send me over the edge to be honest#personal#also no one yell at me for listening to leaks. i’m at work tomorrow so won’t get much time to listen & i wanted to hear some of it#you CAN yell at me for a link to the leak. i will give it to you idc
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HAPPY LONDON N1 YALL!!! i can just feel this run of shows is going to be CRAZY. also if you haven’t realized hi it’s me juli titsthedamnseason and yes even under yet another new url i am hosting the surprise song game! the rules are simple: leave your guesses in the tags or replies and if you’re right i will give you a shoutout <3
i’m personally about to give the worst guesses ever but i already submitted them to mastermind so i feel like i have to stick with it. so im going imgonnagetyouback / better than revenge and robin / never grow up i definitely should be going with a london song or the black dog but hey. whatever
#i’ve won a lot lately anyway i can take a back seat now#also i really hope when she does robin it’s just by itself tbh#i’m such a mashup hater i’m sorry i don’t know why im like this#when i watch the performances they’re always amazing i don’t know why i insist on this negative mindset#I JUST WANT EACH SONG TO HAVE ITS MOMENT OKAY#also if now is when she plays the albatross and i don’t guess it that will be a double sting#mine#taylor swift#surprise song game#anyway i’m literally THRILLED to hear so long london on piano at some point in the next few days#i just hope it isn’t tomorrow because i AM a truther#i just felt these guesses in my bones and if she doesn’t play so long london n1 i plan on guessing it every night until she does#as well as the black dog#london boy….idk about that one though haha i guess we’ll see#also yes both my guesses are ttpd / speak now mashups. i didn’t plan this but alas
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i need a spinoff of dead boy detectives about all the sad lonely gays the dbda left in port townsend (jenny, monty, the cat king)
#i mean. i guess there's still the possibility that jenny will follow them to london. but i dont think so#and you may be like 'what would that even be about?' well. jenny can see ghosts now. she lives in a town with a lot of ghosts with a LOT of#problems. AND the dbda were running an office out of her shop for several weeks. so it just makes sense for ghosts to continue to show up#and try and get their problems fixed. is jenny at all prepared to start solving ghost issues? no. would she try anyway? probably#and then there's monty who's a free crow for the first time in who knows how long and all the stories that could be told with him and his#journey.#and the cat king? he's just cat kinging. (also i rlly just want to see him and jenny interact)#anyways. netflix please. i need more of them#dead boy detectives#dbda#jenny the butcher#jenny green#monty the crow#the cat king
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hey do you guys know about
the history of the bus?
they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!
(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)
they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!
then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!
AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)
a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em
then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses
then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.
thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day
#i went to a transport museum and I've been thinking about it CONSTANTLY lfjsjdhsj#this is london perspective btw since it was... the london transport museum#long post#it was like. in the 1910s a battle between buses and trams/light rail systems#and buses tended to be safer bc of the nature of traffic laws and pedestrians back then#so london prioritised buses. but people were going on the underground too bc it was muuuch faster lol#anyway. transport! fascinating#and short-stagecoaches existed before buses did for intra-city travel but they tended to be by hosuehold rather than location#also expensive. well omibuses were expensive too. this is very high level fldbfjdjfj
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hmm yeah i think this experiment is going well. i might even finish it before 1900 hits
#fallen london#i’ve been working on this for a bit actually since i want an impossible theorem (ha) for the railroad#and i need to grind watchful#so i just sit here and blow 40 actions in between waiting for the arbor card to hearts desire#is it efficient? likely not. but as long as i’m careful i don’t get menaces and can get 1 1/2-2 levels of watchful for 40 actions#‘well why wouldn’t you just use one of the shorter experiments and just not turn it in-’ because this is infinitely funnier#god forbid a mad scientist have hobbies
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:)
#it's time :)#yin-thoughts#fallen london#okay it's not quite time yet. we have 2 more memories of chains (aka a few more knives traded in exchange for less prison time)#and iirc each step towards st arthur's proper will require a searing enigma? so it's underclay time#but OTHERWISE. we are HOME RUNNING.#if all goes well i can get st cerise via the noman this christmas. which is hype#well. definitely not for hype for the continuation of caeru's lifespan. but hype for me!#st beau's sacrificing health will be extremely painful but manageable. st destin has the torment destiny route#which i'd go for even if it wasnt an easy alternative just for the fulfillment of the 'doomed' part of caeru's title#st erzulie is..... st erzulie. iykyk.#st fortigan as far as i can tell is practically a freebie#and st gawain is! well! gawain!#and we Sure Will Get Gawain :)#happily plotting out this long and torturous road to self annihilation like it's a road trip highway map#i'll get back to progressing nemesis at some point but as far as i can tell lilac will be a pretty big hassle#so i wanna get a bit further in seeking + do current rp stuff first#maybe hold that wedding. it's about time we hold that wedding.
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hey beloved mutual have you picked a fallen london ambition yet. if so which one is it. asking both out of curiosity and out of curiosity
OH!! I'm SO glad you asked bc I finally started the Heart's Desire ambition for Vaine :]
not very far along in it by any means- but I think he is going to have SO much fun with this ambition I feel like a desperate scramble to investigate and participate in the mysterious (and kinda sketchy) card game is just what he needs
though I think he is pretty annoyed at the moment, he is. not having a fun time trying to get all 77 of those first city coins. he is running out of criminal favors and does NOT like that fucking monkey
#nebbles talks#fallen london#the monkey makes him significantly nervous but he is tolerating it. for now#he also HATES how long this is taking but thats fine he needs to learn some patience anyways#im having a blast on the other hand. still trying to figure out how and/or where to get a lotta these items/favors#but i am having such a fun time with it :]#i feel like the epitome of the fl experience is if ur Silly Victorian Guy isnt having a good time then YOU absolutely are#like. we are putting this guy into SO many situations#but yeah! Hearts Desire looks like a lotta fun#and i think itll work very well for Vaine rp wise too#not that he can actually remember exactly WHAT he desires at the moment#but. the yearning. its there for suresies#and he'll do just about anything to fill that great big yearning void in his chest
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an um. snippet. from me. for the first time since. july :-)
#from a fic you likely will not see for at least. two months. but still <3#reallt brave of me to snippet considering ive still got no plan from one scene to the next and have only written um. four scenes but. well#if you all bear witness to evidence of the wips existence then maybe it will help me commit to finishing it. :-)#this is also. this snippet is from the very first scene and it is not my favourite but the snippet i WANTED to share is simply too long so.#sorry about that. :-/ also im just talking now you don’t need to read these tags but it is so lovely being in remus’ head now im so used to#it it used to be so unnerving…but i live here now i love it…im also in a bit of a#loving sirius era atm so actually im enjoying writing about how pretty he is. (<- me after being visisted by three spirits on Christmas Eve)#special shout-out to hope lupin. kicking things off immediately with her funeral she is so killable and i really appreciate it.#tsahonip feels like a silly acronym so i think we’re sticking to shortening it to.#tsah#snippet#my fic#r/s#anyway. if it goes the way i want it to the whole fic is very. london and dreary flats and bars and mugs of tea and resentment + melancholy#you know. because ive never done that before have i. also the discography of the smiths so prepare for that on the playlist soz :-(
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the thing that keeps getting to me about the line "and i'm mad as hell you let me give you all that youth for free" and "i'm just mad as hell cause i loved this place for / so long, london" is that it ties back to "the manuscript", actually. it ties back to "nothing new," it ties back to "never grow up," it ties back to the red tour fundon london shirt. she loved this city for so long, she let older men take her girlhood ("give me back my girlhood, it was mine FIIIIIIIRST"), and my god "come one, come all, it's happening again" in "how did it end" really brings it all home
it's not just this guy. it's every guy. it's constantly trying to make this fantastic fairytale romance happen in a city americans associate with castles and romance and history. it's like one day you wake up, and there's no fuckin fairytale, no fountain of youth, and the city is a smog-filled wasteland ruined by the industrial era. she loved this place for so long, how DARE you ruin it for her. it's a star imploding and sinking down into a black hole of thought
#so long london#like i think once again this is where trying to fit one muse doesn't work#because the muse IS taylor it's HER life#and the fundon london shirt lives rent free in my head#i'm mad as hell because i loved this place for....#LIKE#the association with london and taylor has been so strong since 2010#since speak now#since i can see you#since all too well#like oh my god#i hope it's fuckin shitty in the black dog FR
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I have so many thoughts about this album I cannot even account for all of them, they're just one violent greek chorus screaming in various tones, getting louder with every song
#ts ttpd#ttpd: the anthology#the tortured poets department#taylor swift#im fine (lies)#on that note the guitar at the beginning of the Bolter sounds like All Too Well#the only thought i remember since im listening to it right now#also cassandra sounds like mad woman and you can waltz to Peter#i look in people's windows has major willow vibes#and So Long London sounds exactly like an anxiety attack#best regards I'll be back with more probably
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I just don't understand how you don't miss me in the shower and remember how my rain-soaked body was shaking / My spine split from carrying us up the hill, wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill
#lyric parallels#the tortured poets department#the black dog#so long London#I’m not saying or not not saying the muses are the same#nor does it matter#i just like the rain/water metaphors ok!#it felt like the time she fell through the ice and came out alive!#the wet through my clothes weary bones caught the chill line is sooooooo#and i have percolating thoughts about it#(well not percolating as in new just as in it’s loaded on several levels and i don’t think i ever got around to talking about them)
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taylor’s new album, ranked:
preddy good: so long, london
florence is in it :): Florida!!!
the only song taylor actually sings in, as opposed to just speaking rhythmically while occasionally elongating a vowel: who’s afraid of little old me?
camp?: i can do it with a broken heart
vocally, lyrically, and musically the middest shit you’ve ever heard: the other 27 songs on the most bloated album i’ve ever heard.
#so long london is also vocally just taylor doing slam poetry. but i liked it. so it gets a pass djxjsjsh#anyways the bar for whether a singer is actually singing is whether i can sing along without my voice breaking in half#if i can then you aren’t singing. you’re talking in a pattern. and. well.
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people being like "well if people don't like ttpd it's because they don't know the lore" is making me mad because first of all art should stand on its own without you needing to know all the details of the artist's public narrative to Get It and second of all i DO know the lore and i still think it sucks. so where do we go from here.
#blahs#i have been in the swiftie game for 12 years i know a truly heinous amount about that woman so supposedly i am the target audience.#and yet!#i don't like her old albums because of the lore i like them because they are good regardless!!#you do not need to know who tf jake gyllenhaal is for all too well to resonate. so why should people need to know matty healy for this.#i will say i've been listening more and there are some songs i like more than i first thought#melodically i like fortnight and guilty as sin but i still think they have some silly silly lyrics#so long london is genuinely good!#but there's so few out of 31 and it's like... girl.
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i was so excited (well kind of excited) for the hijack series but oh my god it's bad. and i havent even gotten to the good part yet! the first ep alone has so many plot holes (spoiler warning) from the behavior of the crew to the pilot opening the cockpit door just because they're pointing a gun at his fuckbuddy to the fact that he is able to CHANGE HIS MIND about the emergency on board talking to atc like "yeah never mind it's all good now" LIKE YOU HAVE TO LAUGH
#i get that fictional stories involving planes have to take certain liberties#because aviation is so highly controlled#but that is exactly the point#everybody knows that there are procedures and check lists for every little thing#it's completely ridiculous to expect your audience to believe that a pilot 22 years post 9/11 would simply open the cockpit door for the#hijackers (after knocking his first officer out with a fire extinguisher no less)#this guy SEES A MAN WITH A GUN outside his cockpit and rather than squawking 7500 or using that code when talking to atc#he's like um... possible security incident on board#i dont care if some screenwriter somewhere doesnt give two shits about aviation protocols#one single google search along the lines of#what pilot do when hijacker#and this could have gone somewhere#and ANOTHER THING#the real time narrative#😐#these people made a seven hour long miniseries about a seven hour flight from dubai to london because#well thats the question isnt it? i sure as hell dont know#because they could i guess 😶 anyway point is#narrative focus aint just a river in egypt#the discrepancy between story time and discourse time exists because some things will always be omitted or summarized BECAUSE NOT ALL OF IT#IS INTERESTING#if you want to tell your story in real time you better have a reason for it#who the fuck looked at a seven hour flight (argaubly one of the worst experiences a person can subject themselves to) and thought#oh my god i wish i could watch this on tv#granted there's a bit more going on with the plane getting hijacked and all#but the pacing is already becoming an issue#and again: I AM ONLY ON EPISODE ONE#anyway im determined to finish this show#im still hopeful that it could improve (as i said: i havent even gotten to the good part yet. this is a show about idris elba negotiating)#and even if it doesnt at least ill be able to shit on it properly lmao
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i love that taylor has so many songs because you can sing literally any song on top of another one and it will work
#not literally any song#obviously#but like#so long london and call it what you want#you’re losing me and cornelia street#castles crumbling and today was a fairytale#i don’t wanna live forever and dress#is it over now and out of the woods#my boy only breaks his favorite toys and i wish you would#like it just works#so well#and people wonder why she does so many mashups#it just works#taylor swift#the eras tour
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#I have thoughts about the new tour yet I am not sure if I should share (given why I do so in tags)#I am not surprised to see denmark is absent#I am a bit surprised to see no scandinavian country AT ALL#not surprised to see germany and the uk have most dates (that's sadly something I've seen a lot from bands/artists I like)#a little befundled with the route he has scheduled for both germany and the uk dates#glad to see other countries like switzerland france and the netherlands get their debut#not surprised it is in october since that seems to be around the same time for his europe antics last year as well#all this said I am a bit conflicted what to do myself#I'd like to go to gigs on this tour#yet I've already run out of the country four times these past upcoming five months (three times to finland)#since it is quite expensive and maybe not something I will have time for given I hopefully get an internship in august#with that in mind I feel like I should probably go for only a few dates#and yet last time I felt very much like I was missing out and overlooked because I didn't go to “more than two shows”#and here is where I feel like my thoughts are probably not great#i was thinking about maybe going for hamburg as first priority since it is the closest (4 hours in train)#then have frankfurt and munich as second priorities making it a little mini tour#I am not sure if I'd physically and mentally be able to do more than three gigs in a row#yet if I am I sort of want to go to zurich too because I've never been there#two days to decide is not very long#I feel very stressed tbh#and I hope noone will take this in any wrong way#please I really dont want to feel shit again#I know my last concert related take was on the fence#(even though as it turned out the venue did worse than me in that regard)#but this one is really just me thinking about what would be the smartest plan#other possible options would be to go for zurich since it is in a weekend (sunday) and then - depending on whether or not I have work#either go home or follow jere to amsterdam (then maybe paris and brussels)#another option is berlin then hamburg and then to home from there (so two shows)#or london and bristol since its the weekend (maybe manchester as well if it is not far - so up to three shows)#the latter I am a bit concerned about since being trans in the uk is not great atm
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