#the tortured poet department

[rowaelinsdaughter]

and so i enter into evidence

my tarnished coat of arms

my muses, acquired like bruises

my talismans and charms

the tick, tick, tick, of love bombs

my veins of pitch black ink

𝐚𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲…

𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲.

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

[ladycamz]

ABOUT TTPD AESTHETIC:

We were thinking about "Poets Department", but Taylor was thinking about "The Tortured".

[maybeitsmay555]

When I said dear reader was Lemony Snicket coded and we’re getting the tortured poet department in succession…

[kissessandaisyss]

New album is so gay god

[areyoureadyforswift]

[larrytaylor28]

Another TTPD aesthetic

[stuck-in-total-drama-hell]

courtney coded: the tortured poets department edition

track 10. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

Courtney coded to hell and we should fear her. The girl has been screwed over in each season she’s been in and we need revenge Courtney. Personally, I wanted to see her set fire to Total Drama.

Let's look at some lyrics:

"Is it a wonder I broke? Let's hear one morе joke. Then we could all just laugh until I cry."

Courtney is so often the butt of the joke. Like from getting wrongfully voted off in Island, to the lawyer jokes and such in Action, to World Tour everyone acting like she shouldn't be upset?? Like the girl needs counseling.

“So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street. Crash the party like a record screech as I scream: “Who’s afraid of little old me?” I was tame, I was gentle til the circus life made me mean. Don’t you worry folks we took out all her teeth. Who’s afraid of little old me? Well you should be.”

And we are afraid. I think so often about how sweet and cordial Courtney was in Island compared to Action. And like, don't get me wrong, she was still capable of being mean and she's always been fierce. But I think getting screwed over in Island (especially because of her relationship with Duncan) changed her a lot in how she was going to compete.

"So tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is? Then say they didn't do it to hurt me, but what if they did?"

God, I can see someone in the cast saying "it's not all about you" to Courtney and like it is (everything is). Kidding, but there are times in the show where people act like Courtney doesn't have the right to be pissed off.

[stillgotloveforycu]

great, now all my eras bracelets are WRONG (PS: what color is ts11? white?)

[mysweetsong]

Honest thoughts about the tortured poets department:

Too department

not enough tortured poet

[denimbex1986]

'Taylor Swift fans are at it again. The superstar surprised the music world during the Grammy Awards on Sunday night by announcing the release of a new album, The Tortured Poet's Department, and the internet quickly got to work in trying to pick apart the 'secret meaning' behind the title.

Fingers immediately started pointing toward British actor Joe Alwyn, who dated Swift from 2017 until 2023. What people weren't expecting, however, was for Irish actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott to somehow get caught up in the mix.

But Swifties work in mysterious ways, and within hours a group of them had tracked down an old video of Alwyn and Mescal discussing a Whatsapp group they used to have with Scott. The name of the group chat? Tortured Man Club.

Mescal, a Co Kildare native, brought up the chat during an interview he and Alwyn had with Variety in 2022. Scott, from Dublin, apparently started the group after Alwyn was cast in Conversations With Friends.

"What's the name of the Whatsapp group we were in? Tortured Man Club," Mescal says to Alwyn in a video of the interview. The pair laugh and make jokes about Scott before Alwyn reveals that they had stopped using the chat. "It hasn't had much use recently," he says, to which Mescal jokes: "I feel like were less tortured now."

Alwyn also spoke about the group with GQ that year, saying that the name was a reference to his and Mescal's characters in Normal People and Conversations With Friends, which were both adaptations of Sally Rooney novels. He reached out to Mescal and met him in Dublin after the group chat was made, presumably to get his advice on playing a Rooney character.

Now, some Taylor Swift fans are saying they hope he can still lean on the chat - even if it is no longer in use. Clips of the interview have been circulating on a variety of social media platforms since Swift dropped the album name, and many seem convinced that The Tortured Poets Department is a direct reference to the chat.

"Taylor’s new album being called The Tortured Poet Department when I know Joe alwyn was in a group chat with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called the Tortured Man Club," one X user wrote. Another said: "Finding out Joe Alwyn was in a group chat called the Tortured Man’s Club is my villain origin story."

Another fan quipped: "I hope for Joe's sake that he still has that group chat. I feel like he's gonna need it."

The breakup between Alwyn and Swift was reportedly amicable, and her new romance with NFL star Travis Kelce has been highly publicized. However, many expect the new album to have some digs at Alwyn - and Swifites will no doubt be busy drawing conclusions again when it drops on April 19. Let's just hope this is the last Mescal and Scott have to do with it.'

[diaryofaditi]

the tortured poets department, folklore and evermore are now going to be my TOP 3

[rowaelinsdaughter]

YOU CAN TELL IM NOT OKAY, IM NOT OKAY 😭😭😭😭😭💌💌💌💌💌

[etherealsw4n]

here's my prediction of ttpd's aesthetic (its veryyyyy vague but that cause ive only seen the album cover)

it would be 70% folklore/evermore and 30% mindnights

[kissessandaisyss]

Oh Taylor the woman you are..

[areyoureadyforswift]

[larrytaylor28]

T.S 11 ON IT'S WAY!

On april 19th stream the tortured poets department 🤍🩶

@taylorswift