#long live (Taylor’s version)

[iblocevgum]

[themoon-andtosaturn]

sydney n1

[iknowplaces4life]

🫶🏻

[mariamastermind]

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) as THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

[swiftieinbrazil]

(x)

[beargyufairy]

I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Fanciful Landscape - Thomas Doughty // Upper Hudson, Catskill Mountains - Thomas Doughty // Spring Landscape - Thomas Doughty // Landscape with Stream and Mountains - Thomas Doughty// Romantic Landscape with a Temple - Thomas Doughty // In the Catskills - Thomas Doughty // Long Live - Taylor Swift

[missperfectlyfiine]

I LOVE the tortured poets department but I will NEVER forgive Taylor for removing tolerate it and long live from the setlist😭

[karmaarchersistheblackdog]

🎶: Long Live (Taylor’s Version)

🫶🏽💜 Emotional Mess - all that Taylor has gone through in the past and current, we stood and stayed. She is our Archer and we are her dragons. Sometimes, it feels unreal to know we exist in her timeline and vice versa. She heals us, we heal her. How lucky we all are to Long Live this moment. Have a lovely night. Take care. Be safe. Happy Weekend, #Swifties The Kings and Queens 💜🫶🏽

🎙️: Taylor Swift

💿: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

📷: Disney+ taylornation

🖌️: Me

💜💜💜

[tenfifteenyearsofracing]

I know this has been spoken about before but lestappen ARE long live (tv)

Like the moment they stood on that podium arms around each other. That moment made me go "and the cynics were outraged claiming this is absurd. Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans got to rule the world". It was them against all odds looking down at their world.

And every conversation where they're in their own lil bubble with Steve just standing there makes me go "how the kingdom lights shine just for me and you".

This one is a bit more direct. Whenever they're holding their trophies and clapping for one another - "when they gave us our trophies, and we held them up for our town. Especially in Austria because well I think we all agree no matter what Austria is the holy lestappen motherland.

And of course, every time they're together on the track "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you". I mean I know they're racing against each other, but I don't know why every time they're racing each other I feel like they're racing together. Every move between them is a give and take. It's not max vs charles it's max and charles.

The entire point of long live is the beauty of two people who match each other in every possible way coming together in the spotlight. A world where it's just the two of them. To me, this fights Lestappen's predestined narrative so perfectly. They've always been each other's match, and when it's them, it's them (am I still making sense?).

However, in some ways, I'd say Lestappen transcends long live. One of my most/least favorite parts of the song has always been the bridge because on the one hand its so mature to realize that being on top of the world will inevitably come to an end, on the other hand, I hate the idea that "fate should step in". In the case of Lestappen though, I think the bridge is irrelevant. They've always always always come closer and closer and closer. They aren't momentary like the song suggests. They have been together their entire lives and their names will always be linked. Anyone pointing to the pictures will know it's max and charles.

[mariamastermind]

No one hates Joe, not even Taylor, she hates the fact that her forever started to crumble to the point of no bouncing back. Both of them struggle with mental health, like a lot of people I’m sure, but just saying his “bluest days” doesn’t mean she’s talking about his mental health, it could literally just mean he had a bad day and took it out on her, or she tried to help him and he wouldn’t let her. And the album is actually barely about him. Taylor says in “In Summation” that she writes the “worst men the best”, I’d say a lot of The Anthology tracks are about him as well as like 1 (So Long, London) on the standard album.

He’s not one of the worst men, he’s the one that got away. I don’t think it’s fair for Swifties to hate on Joe, and it’s not fair for Swifties and non-swifties (who for some reason listened to the album?) to hate Taylor for being vulnerable. Joe can make a statement if he wants, and that’s fine by me.

The more I look at the lyrics of So Long, London, the more I feel bad for both of them. Joe wasn’t sure how to deal with whatever was going on in his own life and Taylor going out, doing promotions for Red TV; Taylor on the other hand didn’t know what to do because she felt him slipping and she couldn’t help him like he did for her because he pushed her away, intentionally or not we’ll never know. She says that she stopped trying to make him laugh and stopped trying to drill the safe (“the safe” being him and her trying to get him to talk to her about whatever he was going through and he resisted to let her). It hurt them both. At some point they both just came to the agreement of that this just wasn’t going to work out anymore. They were there for each other through their darkest days (or bluest days) but ultimately things just aren’t meant to be even if Taylor thought it was. It’s just cruel to pick a side when there’s so much no one considered. So no, I can’t back up the people who say she’s “wrong” for writing about his “bluest days” in one line about how she felt about their relationship. And I can’t back up the people who say “she got mad at him for being depressed and not wanting to get married so she could have her perfect wedding” because that’s not what she’s saying at all; I’m sure they’d talked about marriage and at the time it felt right, but their lives were changing and they didn’t want to hurt the other person or themselves even more than they had already. And you know what, I actually think he’s genuinely proud of her for being this vulnerable and putting on a smile every week and singing “Lover” and trying not to cry, and I think he’s genuinely happy that she’s genuinely happy with Travis, and I think he was think “wtf Taylor” when people found out about her and Matty Healy, and I think he was genuinely relieved when he saw things between them ended.

I just think that no matter what happened between them, they still wish each other the best. I think he genuinely thinks she deserves the happiness she’s felt in the past year after getting through a whole lot of shit.

(And to all the people saying Taylor “sent” her fans out to threaten Joe and his friends and costars, A) she would never do that no matter how she may feel about a person and B) fake fans do that, not real ones. Maybe you should start learning the difference since you can’t shut up about her or us.)

[swiftieinbrazil]

[marysong23]

Will swifties ever truly acknowledge Dear Reader?

[ana-cantskywalker]

YOYOK X LONG LIVE

I’m sorry I’M DEAD????

Like the song to her younger self and then the song to her fans?? Basically saying things will turn out fine and they are why I’M WEEPING

“Tell them how the crowds went wild, tell them how I hope the shine, because from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I gave my blood sweat and tears for this”

AHH SOBBING ON THE GROUND ITS SO BEAUTIFUL

[malenairigoyen]

thank god i got to hear the archer and long love BUT i will need her to come back to latin america after this bc

[alexdragonsbane]

In honour of Tortured Poets