#swiftie rants

[joesalw]

Swiftie here. (Please don't be mean!) I'm a big Swiftie, I have all her cd's, own a lot of merch, and even went to the Eras tour. I know the lyrics to like 93% of her songs, and have previously defended her like it was my professional job. But this latest album…dare I say it just shouldn't have been made at ALL? I loved Joe and Taylor together, and felt like she was her best (and most tolerable) when with him.

Joe was handsome, intelligent, and kind. His biggest character "flaw" seemed to have been that he was depressed. And she risks a six year relationship on MATTY HEALY?! Instead of trying to save her stagnant relationship, she has an emotional affair and touches herself to the thought of another man.

She not only did these things, but then wrote THIRTY ONE songs about them! She will never do any wrong in the eyes of 99% of Swifties, but being in the Swiftie fandom and listening to the big circle jerk of this being "HeR bEsT aLbUm YeT", and I've had enough. The way she writes about her emotional affair with a terrible man while the (supposed) love of her life is suffering from depression is just cruel. We didn't need a song like "Guilty As Sin?". I didn't need the visuals that came with it.

I wish I could make this an actual post but let's be real, the Swiftie fandom would dox me in seconds. Sorry to unload all of this on you. I know you tag things "Swifties DNI", but I just needed to say this.

I'm all for swiftie rants/ ex swiftie rants in this blog lmao. feel free to say everything that you can't say in front of them.

[personthattoleratesme]

Is it over now x ootw mashup that was fucking personal how am I supposed to move on from this

[choosesomethingbabe]

Taylor, your fans are not made of money like you are! I would happily buy the 1989 bonus track on iTunes or her store. Buuut I am not willing or able to spend $40 on a vinyl and ~$40 on a record player (or lots more if I want one with decent audio quality) and $12-$14 on a digital album or CD (or equipment to digitize the songs, or $10+ a month just so I can stream it in my car).

All with the risk that in a few weeks she'll come out with another version of the album for you to buy.

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

‼️I think a great message Taylor put in ttpd is that she’s mad at the fans…and good for her. Many fans still don’t see her as human, as a real person, just some toy they can manipulate to entertain them and fit their narrative. Many fans think their entitled to her personal life too: the letter for her to stop dating matty (yes I think Matty sucks but that was just weird af), speculation on who each song is about, the extreme discourse after her and joe broke up, the gaylor shit, even the talk about her and Travis. Taylor is finally saying it is weird to talk about REAL PEOPLE like that, like they’re tv show characters or your little toys. None of us are entitled to Taylor’s personal life and it is extremely odd to believe you should have a say in it. As Taylor says, NO the fans cannot come to the wedding, because we’re JUST FANS. Even now, some swifties need to see Taylor doesn’t know you, she’s not your best friend, not your sister. She makes music for us. She’s not trying to be a little circus for you to direct.

anyways, taylor is a real human, not a puppet. her personal life is hers, not your circus. and taylor doesn’t know you. she appreciates the fans for giving her her career, for listening to the music, but she has never met you; she. is. not. your. friend.‼️

[blazethecheeto]

no no guys hear me out. hear me out here. what if. what if thomas released the finale pt.1 on october 19. because not only is it the anniversary of the first episode, but it is a saturday this year, which is when he posts videos. and and and hear me out, tell me if i'm off my rockers here, this doesn't make sense but it does to me. it's the eighth anniversary of sanders sides, so if they introduce orange, there will be eight characters in the series, including thomas. sorry that made me sound too insane. but like think about it, it's a perfect day to release it! just my prediction.

[serendipititties]

The mental gymnastics people on this site will do to not admit that their fave is racist is actually mind-boggling.

You all have this understanding of racism that is so fuckig basic and naive. Racism isn't just "I don't like POC" anymore. It is a consistent and constant dehumanizing and ostracizing of POC from spaces. It is applying a different set of rules for how you expect POC to behave and function. It is a refusal to listen to them when they tell you something is offensive. It is refusing to listen to our stories and voices. It is refusal to defend and stand up for us when we are being silenced or attacked. It is when you defend a relationship with a racist person by saying shit like "everyone has the right to their beliefs". It's a lot of things and Taylor has checked the box for a lot of those things in turn.

This is just off the top of my head but Taylor's racism includes:

Using antisemitic dogwhistles like "shameless greed" against a jewish man

Not actively calling out the fucking nazis in fanbase

Appropriating the concept of Karma for her shitty song and using a lot of vaguely Indian imagery for the music video

Turning black women into a caricature for her music video

Never apologizing for taking a picture with a guy who had the fucking swastika on his shirt

Being friends with a guy who publicly admitted he gets off on black women being brutalized

Saying nothing while her fans attacked and drove a black actress off of social media for a line she didn't even write

And probably a lot more that I forgot

All this while saying she doesn't want her privilege to lie dormant and wants to be on the right side of history.

She doesn't just get to be called an ally because she wants to be one. She has to do the work for it. She has stop associating with (and consequently uplifting) racist people. She has to start calling out racism in the industry and apologize for her own ignorance regarding the issue.

Sorry for the rant but this needed to come out of me. OP your white girl is racist, no matter how much you ignore it or rationalize it.

[rollercoasterwords]

ok top 5 least favorite parts of that article lol:

1. taylor sings on her tour even when she’s stressed!! (she did have to reschedule one night after a girl died bc of unsafe conditions. taylor was so sad 💔)

2. girls have been told that our natural feminine interests, like love and glitter, are silly. but if we monetize those things, then more “female art” gets made! #feminism

3. horcruxes, infinity stones, gandalf

4. i thought about bringing up the fact that taylor’s career never actually died or even suffered that greatly, but then i decided not to, because what matters is that she felt canceled

5. “female rage”

[princeyralsei]

You know how to ball

I know Aristotle

[shitswiftiessay]

Swifties are PAINFULLY fucking stupid.

I shouldn’t be getting THIS heated over a Disney comparison but the Kristoff slander is absolutely fucking wild. Kristoff (at least in the first movie) is both poor and an introvert. Those are two things that swifties HATE Joe for. He also had to work since he was a child, which is something swifties make fun of Joe for- calling him yogurt boy. And he DEFINITELY would think that award shows are stupid.

Hans is much more like Travis in the fact that he pursued a woman for his own gain. Whereas Kristoff was just trying to live his life and didn’t even WANT to get involved in Anna’s shit, Hans wanted to become king, so he pursued Anna (a naive and desperate young woman- which is what swifties are trying to paint Taylor as) and made himself look like her dream guy- “true love.”

Last summer, Travis publicly and relentlessly pursued Taylor with his story about how he tried to give her a friendship bracelet with his number. And he’s been reaping the benefits of dating Taylor Swift, he’s got new TV gigs, his podcast shot up on the charts, and he might even be getting his own reality show.

He tried to pass himself off as a fan, Even though he’s blatantly obvious that he DOESN’T listen to her music. But his little pretend act of being a fan charmed the shit out of swifties and made them believe he was her Prince Charming. All he has to do is that stupid 🫶 thing and he’s got the swifties swooned, much like Hans had Anna swooned from the minute he met her. But his intentions were completely self-serving.

And another thing I find interesting is the fact that Hans proposed to Anna a few hours after meeting her. IF ANYTHING, that couple is literally a lesson on NOT marrying a guy you just met. And yet, Swifties have been talking about Taylor marrying Travis since that first football game-even BEFORE then.

But Joe, the guy who didn’t want to marry taylor, is just like Hans? The one who was in a long term relationship that ultimately didn’t work out is JUST LIKE HANS??

It beggars belief how swifties could be so stupid, because they either didn’t watch the movie, didn’t fully understand it (because they are less cognitively capable than 5 year olds), or they’re so addicted to painting Joe as this cartoonist Disney villain in their heads that they think it’s perfectly reasonable to compare Joe to a character that was trying to KILL his fiancée and her sister.

I the stupidity of comparing Taylor Swift to Anna- a girl who’s been isolated in a castle for most of her life and has ZERO relationship experience - I think she’s supposed to be like 18 or something? Very young and inexperienced and naive. Taylor was 26 years old when she started dating Joe and she had plenty of relationship experience before then.

Taylor literally wrote MASTERMIND, but swifties still see her as this naive and innocent disney princess who is easily manipulated and taken advantage of by men. So I guess they think it’s a reasonable comparison because they understand disney movies as well as they understand Taylor’s lyrics- which is NOT AT ALL.

[unbotheredalwyn]

Thinking about how Taylor said this:

I’d been thinking about addiction and I’d been thinking about people who, if they’re either suffering through mental illness, addiction or they have an everyday struggle. No one pats them on the back every day but every day they’re actively fighting something. There are so many days that nobody gives them credit for that, so how often somebody who is going through that kind of struggle must wanna say to everyone in the room, “you have no idea how close I am to going back to a dark place."

In the folklore long pond thingy. And then does not say Jack shit when swifties mass harassed Joe, Alison, Emma for simply existing. Honest to God saw swifties tell joe to kill himself (someone even said he should h*ng himself)

I truly hope Joe stays offline because fuck people are genuinely disgusting. And what gets me the most is you know he might not see it (I pray he doesnt) but someone struggling with depression might and they just might see it as their last straw.

[joesalw]

ok since you said you're all for swiftie rants, i feel a bit better sending this in 😭 i'm still a fan of her music (for the most part) but her as a person? never again.

i've been a casual swiftie since i was little and since her debut. i say casual because i didn't involve myself with fandom drama. never had any fan accounts or went to concerts. i didn't obsessively follow her life. i just loved her music and she seemed like a cool person. i always looked forward to her albums and new music.

when she started dating joe, i remember liking him from the beginning. he seemed grounded and chill. and kind. and i loved that she found someone like that. that he helped her through a really difficult time in her life and career. she just had a different glow with him to me. he helped her for the better in many ways imo. then 2023 happened and i was just... very confused. i wasn't on anyone's side in the beginning, just a "they were together for so long and they're probably both hurting, i wish people would leave them alone" and then she started dating THAT man like a month after their breakup was announced. i didn't know who matty was and god i wish it stayed that way. her dating him was a big wakeup call for me to think "yk what maybe she's not as cool as you thought." that saying "show me who your friends are, and i'll tell you who you are" is true imo. i don't know how someone can be friends with let alone DATE a man who not only does this, but admitted to it and LAUGHED about getting off to black women being brutalized. and that's not even all he did, idc if it was just a "joke" or an "act." it's not fucking funny and never was.

joe got harrassed and slandered repeatedly for a whole year. multiple of his female costars/friends did too because swifties were convinced he cheated on her with them. and taylor did absolutely nothing at all to stop it. not surprising ig because she never does, but still disappointing. if anything, she encouraged it. and what do you know? she was actually the one who cheated on joe. with matty fucking healy, who she had been pining over for a decade. she was the one who left joe. all because he was "too depressed" for her. i'm sorry but i have to laugh. what is this??

as far as the album goes, personal drama aside, i did like it for the most part. wasn't my favorite but i still liked it and i would've enjoyed it A LOT more if it wasn't so on the nose about everything that happened (and yk the whole "without all the racists" line. really? after dating matty? i think you'd be pretty fine if they were there idk). i would REALLY love "guilty as sin" if i didn't know it was a confession to emotionally cheating on her bf of 6 years because he was depressed and masturbating to matty healy who's just about every ist and phobic out there. i would really love "but daddy i love him" if i didn't know it was her jumping after her fans for actually having more morals than her and calling her out for dating that man. it's just... ugh.

sorry i kinda went off there 😭 it's just really disappointing to see her act this way. thank you for this blog! it has been very helpful for me and i'm sure a lot of other fans upset with her and everything that's happened.

yup

[fxllfaiiry]

my conclusion -

[angeblancrose]

What THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is actually gonna be like : folklorevermore + Midnights.

Here are the Easter Eggs (Hairstyle Version) that point to this ↓

1. Buns of folklore.

2. Turned into braids of evermore (a little less complex / opening up more).

3. Turned into a ponytail for Midnights (even less complex / opened up more).

4. OPEN HAIR WITH A TINY BRAID AS IN SHE'S OPENING HER VEINS OF PITCH BLACK INK WITH A LITTLE INTRICATE WORDING OF FOLKLOREVERMORE TOO.

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

accidentally went on the “anti taylor swift” tag and holy shit maybe it is possible for some people to have never gone outside.

[mostlyvent]

Taylor Swift is truly something. She's a mastermind who knows everything yet she is so unaware of the heatwave in Brazil. She didn't know that the fans might need water. And to charge the water? And for what? Aren't you a billionaire Taylor? Why do you need to be so greedy? And the way her fans justifies her actions is so stupid. She is responsible to a great extent because I don't believe that she did not know what the stadium was doing. The way this is a person of colour and her actions are once again pointing to how racist she is yet swifties are blind to all this is baffling. Like come on people, are you that dumb?

[stood-onthecliffside]

swiftie halloween gift for @allthekingdomlightshine