#michelle reads

[theodysseyofhomer]

that one scene in hecuba

[justanapparatus]

Death of the Tortured Poet

Taylor Swift and other poets in conversation with Roland Barthes's "The Death of the Author" (1967) and Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?" (1969)

I want to say thank you to @ttpds @youmeetyourself and @ohdorothea. This post would not exist were it not for your musings on the topic, our conversations, and your encouragement. Seriously, thank y'all.

Sources:

Unless otherwise noted, lyrics are from Genius and screenshots/scans/etc are from taylorpictures.net

Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author"

"delicate" music video

"Dear Reader" lyrics

Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?"

"Style" music video

"mirrorball" lyrics

Barthes

Taylor Swift before singing "betty" on the Eras Tour in Glendale, AZ on March 17, 2023 (text from @cages-boxes-hunters-foxes)

Siken, Richard. "The Torn-up Road" in The Iowa Review

Promotional image for The Tortured Poets Department from Swift's social media

Savage, Mark "Midnights: What we know about Taylor Swift's songwriting" for BBC.com

Foucault

reputation prologue

Barthes

Promotional image for The Tortured Poets Department

Barthes

Halsey. "Gasoline" lyrics

"mirrorball" lyrics

Barthes

Florence & the Machine. "King" lyrics

"Dear Reader" lyrics

Foucault

"22" lyrics

Foucault

"Out of the Woods" music video

"...ready for it?" music video

"Anti-Hero" music video

"look what you made me do" music video

"if you're anything like me" from the reputation magazines

Foucault

Album covers for the Taylor's Versions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989

Taylor Swift in Musicians on Musicians: Taylor Swift & Paul McCartney for Rolling Stone

"look what you made me do" music video

"the lakes" lyrics

Foucault

"look what you made me do" handwritten lyrics from the reputation magazines

"my tears ricochet" lyrics

Foucault

"my tears ricochet" lyrics

"look what you made me do" music video

Foucault

"hoax" lyrics

"why she disappeared" from the reputation magazines

Barthes

1989 prologue

Foucault

[sinomin]

[haliaiii]

I know I was supposed to finish persona 5 but I got addicted to persona 2 lmao 😭😭 (+ persona 1 doodles cause I played that for a bit)

[wiihtigo]

isnt fatherhood wonderful

[firelise]

I've seen thousands of Evelyns, but never a Evelyn like you. You have so many goals you never finished. Dreams you never followed. You are living your worst you. I can't be the worst… what about the hot dog one? No. Everyone here agrees. This one's worse.

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

[soracities]

It was March. Trees were displaying a fuzz of green [...] The insatiable force that put new leaves into the world was at work in me, too. My body felt insolent, squally, ready to sing.

Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters

[queenmelancholy]

Mary and Thomas are so alike as lonely souls who try to be honest with themselves and go against social conventions. It makes them bitter people under cold facades, constantly lashing out only to be more misunderstood. They have so much to offer to the world but have always met with disappointments. Their existential angst is real and that's why I love them.

Only wish more people could see their true selves.

They are two of the most human characters.

[trinitea-fics]

In the universe where Kepler was played by a woman, the toxic yuri between her and Rachel would have been INSANE

[aquagirl1978]

Everyone has been afraid of him. His mother, his father, his brothers, his grandfather - all afraid of him at some point. When everyone avoided him, hid from him, out of fear, you faced him.

In the sweet end, you worry that he's not petting you because he also hesitated to pet the wild bunny you found earlier in the story. But then you consider the fact that he might not have known how to interact with small animals.

In premium end, he confirms this, and more.

from My Honey's a Bunny, sweet and premium ends

But then to find out that he didn't not touch the wild bunny because he was inexperienced, but rather...

He simply wanted to touch you instead.

[chirp-a-chirp]

Replace reading with taxidermy and Chevalier’s transformation to Elbert is complete.

[grogumaximus]

Schmidt emphasizes. 'Horner already had the feeling at the beginning of the season, when he had headwind, that he could do anything. According to him, Red Bull would become world champion anyway. With Newey or without Newey, with Verstappen or without Verstappen.'

Horner then gave the 'there's no i in team' speech and that Red Bull would not force anyone to stay. Schmidt sees an interesting change in that area in particular. 'When the competition suddenly came closer, when they noticed that McLaren was getting stronger, that's when things changed. I remember speaking to Horner in Canada and he was worried that it was going to be tight with the constructors' championship. I think that's when he realised that it was getting serious.'

In Canada, Sergio Perez crashed for the second time in a row, after things had already gone wrong in Monaco. 'He knows that he will only have the support of the Thais as long as he is successful and wins with Red Bull. Then he suddenly realised: I need Verstappen', Schmidt thinks. 'He is very important to the team, because if the car is not top, Verstappen is the driver who takes victories and podiums, and not Perez or another driver who could replace him.'

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[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis Presley in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) — Dir. Norman Taurog

[anneeeboleyn]

i love everything about this photo : michelle getting ready to serve cunt, yassified maisie williams and nikolaj looking like a renessaince art.

[professional-bulshitter]

so I dunno how much sense this makes but Derry girls season 01 ends so perfectly and says so much with just the way they place the scenes and communicate w cinematography and chronology of the scenes? like there's one moment where you're feeling fond and gooey on the inside as the girls dance on the stage with Orla at the talent show (so that people don't laugh at her alone) and suddenly it transitions into a scene wherein erin and orla's family are watching the news about the conflict and how there was a sudden move and now people are dead and it's tragic and people are mourning and then right back to the girls laughing and holding each other and giggling on the stage

and the way I went from smiling and laughing at my screen to tears down my face is insane because this show is so good at making you care about them as characters with lives and personalities who are placed in the middle of a conflict while they still act and go along with their days as people because there's nothing more for them to do,,, it also suddenly makes you come to your senses in the way you've come to love and adore the characters and the way you relate to the world as a whole,, tying it all up in a pretty bow as a season finale

when I say that it makes you aware of the way you relate to the world,, what I meant by that was,,, that we become aware of the girls and the adults as two separate entities and two separate ways of us understanding the world,,, it's in the indication that you're supposed to be a (Derry) girl (a frame of mind) and live your life to the fullest and take care of the people you love and adore and laugh and enjoy what you have, and go about your day and,,, in the way you're supposed to be a (Derry) adult who exists with and outside of their immediate surroundings and cares about more than what's happening to them and is aware of what is happening outside (which is esp relevant when we talk about the times we live in with so many active conflicts everywhere and the way we deal w and relate to them)

this is not to say that a (Derry) adult or a (Derry) girl is limited to that kind of existence,,, just that, this is the way I understand what these particular frames placed in this way together communicate (to me)

[therosecrest]