#tis the damn season!!1!1!1!!!

[kvtnisseverdeen]

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[mimimar]

finally completed my comic based on the song ivy by taylor swift!✿ please zoom in to read the text and see the details~

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you can get the digital zine pdf here! it includes extras like character profiles, costume design, more art of willow and ivy, zine-exclusive sketches and an illustrated guide to the symbolism of all the flowers in this comic.

you can also get prints of individual pages here!

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[ohmymymymyy]

Normal People & Taylor Swift - folklore+evermore

“There'll be happiness after me”

[forevertrueblue]

Updated thoughts on the Eras Tour changes

Taken on their own (like, as songs) the cut songs (The Archer, Long Live, Tis The Damn Season, Tolerate It, The 1, The Last Great American Dynasty) are much better than the songs chosen for TTPD (But Daddy I Love Him, So High School, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, Down Bad, Fortnight, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart) on the whole and tbh it's not really a contest.

BUT in terms of performances looking at what was cut vs how TTPD act is staged the latter is stronger. Long Live was a good inclusion to the tour because we only have oneguitar song besides it per show (the first surprise song) (EDIT: I forgot about ATW10MV so it's actually two) and so little Speak Now as is. TLGAD and Tolerate It were some of the more theatrical numbers and also should have stayed (Tolerate It being theatrical yet chill was cool and unlike anything else on tour). But the other cuts are fine from a performance perspective. (I assume it was because of dancer costume changes but tbh TTDS should have never been the opening song to the Evermore set, Willow packed a much bigger punch in that regard.) The 1 (and previously Invisible String) being performed on the roof was cool but we still get those visuals just with Cardigan, which originally had a performance that looked very similar to several of the other Folklore songs.

TTPD choreo and aesthetics are very good and even if certain song choices were not it the performances gave life to some of them, much like they have for songs like Vigilante Shit. So I can see the appeal there and why some people might see this new version of the show as stronger.

(THAT SAID the cuts still should have been spread out a little amongst the eras. Some of the more generic pop numbers should have gone in favor of the three that I said should have definitely stayed.)

[evermqrenthusiast]

something about zukka and taylor swift. it just works.

[swiftiesbuddie]

nobody talk to me

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nobody talk to me x2

Edit again

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! God, NO!!!!

[the-eras-bracket]

Round 1, Matchup 4

[aberooski]

thoughts on paris night 1? IM SO SAD ABOUT THE SET CUTS 😭😭😭😭

OOOOOOOOH BOY PARIS N1 !

I was getting the twitter notifs as it was happening and I was SHOOK! When I heard she cut The Archer I knew none of us were safe ✋😭 DEVASTATED by the tis the damn season and tolerate it cuts especially, I'm so happy I got to go last year Chicago n3 and got to experience them! And don't get me started in the Long Live cut that is FOUL of her 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

BUT ALL THE NEW OUTFITS????????? THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL! THE BIBLICALLY ACCURATE FEARLESS DRESS!?!??! BE STILL MY FEARLESS GIRL HEART! The way every era had a new outfit but Rep is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen especially as not the biggest Rep girl out there aksksksk BUT I'M NOT OVER THE MULTICOLORED 1989 LOOK EITHER IT WAS STUNNING AND THE TORTURED POETS OUTFITS!?!??!?!?!?!?? I'M DEAD

FOLKMORE !!! REUINITING THE SISTERS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Also I didn't think she would add a whole ttpd set before but as soon as I saw she was cutting songs and rearranging things I was like oh yeah, there's a new segment and so I was expecting it at that point but I was N O T EXPECTING SO HIGH SCHOOL IN THE LINEUP AND THE WAY TRAVIS WAS AT THE SHOW TONIGHT AND SHE WAVED TO HIM DURING THE SONG I'M SICK 😭😭😭😭 AND THE VISUALS AND THE STAGE AND EVERYTHING FOR WHO'S AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME AND HER V O C A L S WERE INCREDIBLE I SAW A FEW CLIPS AND I'M SICK I'M SO UPSET I DON'T GET TO SEE HER AGAIN 😭😭😭😭😭

also her playing loml as the piano surprise song I am truly unwell that is a major loss and none of this even affects me this leg of the tour I already had mine ✋😭 DREADING the day she plays Peter that is my favorite song off the album and honestly one of my favorite songs in the last few years and I don’t just mean of hers either. I don't know why but that song has me in a CHOKEHOLD

BUT BRO PARIS N1 OH BOY WAS IT EXCITING AND ALSO SCARY AND DEVASTATING AND I WASN'T EVEN THERE AKSKSKKS

[jaylor]

my folklore + evermore ranking.

[always-rolling-my-eyes]

The road not taken looks real good now 😢

Might be my favorite Taylor lyric of all time

[taylorswiftsongshowdown]

[celfrd]

[dontmeanyoudontmissit]

the 1 live btw????? I have never felt more at peace in my LIFE.

[ilostyou]

i like that everyone collectively decided today marks the start of tis the damn season season

[forevertrueblue]

Notes taken during Eras Tour Paris N1 livestream

I like the new Lover outfit(s). I've been waiting for Taylor to embrace orange more so that was nice to see! Sad about The Archer getting cut but I guess I get it?

Nice to see the silver brought back from the Fearless tour. Not much else to say about that era.

Red third now, okay. Nice shirt lol and also like the new bodysuit! I don't care for most of the inclusions in this era tbh since it's mostly the singles and the majority of Red's singles are mid IMO. And All Too Well 10 Minute Version staying is surely going to end up pissing me off in the long run when we find out what else is cut.

I like the new Speak Now dress but Long Live being cut is AWFUL, like there were only two songs in this era to begin with, cut something from Red instead ffs. (I swear I do like Red but the album is better than the way it's represented on this tour.)

Reputation is the same which I'm cool with since I liked the way that era was to begin with!

I've been predicting Folkmore combined which I'm not happy about but I think this is it. Pretty yellow dress. Glad Cardgian is safe but she's singing it on the roof and I do prefer Invisible String or The One. :( Glad all three triangle songs are safe because it's weird to do some but not the others especially if she's talking about that storyline in the Betty speech. Some of them were chopped down but that's okay, I guess.

Okay yeah Champagne Problems so a combo. I knew that one was gonna be safe from the rehearsal footage. Few more Folklore songs...okay finally more Evermore! Marjorie and Willow! It would have been weird for her to cut either of those (for different reasons). But TLGAD and Tolerate It are pretty big losses. I don't LOVE Tolerate It but the performance was different from anything else on the tour.

1989, nothing cut. (Something really should have been cut from both this and Red, but it probably would have been Wildest Dreams which is one I really love so glad it's safe!) I don't like the new outfit because of the colors looking strange together in this context.

TTPD looks like the dancers are prisoners for the first part of the set which eh, don't really love how basic the outfits are. Taylor's dress with the poetry is nice though (can't wait for someone with eagle eyes to decipher it!). Happy that So High School was included, if only for a bit, to get that Anthology rep in there. Pleasantly surprised by WAOLOM because people had me convinved she'd destroy her voice if she did it (hoping they're wrong lol). Some of these song choices are dull af (both Fortnight and Down Bad for a stadium show, really?) But LOVE the intro and performance of ICDIWABH! I kind of think this should have been the new finale set but I get why it's being kept the same.

Nice new dress for surprise songs. Paris was a predictable choice and I figured the other would be from TTPD, but was expecting an anthology track.

I love the Midnights set (surprising since the album isn't my fave) but if she doesn't cut something from it I'm gonna be annoyed. And that something better not be Vigilante Shit. Aaaaand the whole thing remains intact.

TLDR: The best eras (literally my top 4 albums were the ones that lost songs and my top 2 were combined) were chopped down and the more basic (dare I say mid) ones remain completely intact making the tour a bit more of a generic pop show on the whole. I understand cuts needed to happen but the wrong ones were made IMO.

[cookie-de-baunilha]

Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses? • If our love died young / I can’t bear witness • Still alive, killing time at the cemetery / Never quite buried • In my defense, I have none / For digging up the grave another time • And I confess, babe / In my dreams you’re touching my face • In dreams / I meet you in warm conversation • And I wake with your memory over me / That’s a real fucking legacy to leave • Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts / Flashbacks waking me up • But I felt a hole like this / Never before, and ever since • Give me some tips to forget you • I persist and resist the temptation to ask you / If one thing had been different / Would everything be different today? • So I peered through a window / A deep portal, time travel / All the love we unravel / And the life I gave away • I look in people’s windows / In case you’re at their table / What if your eyes looked up and met mine / One more time? • I look through the windows of this love / Even though we boarded them up / Chandelier’s still flickering here • And I won’t confess that I waited / But I let the lamp burn / As the men masqueraded / I hoped you’d return • Lantern burning / Flickered in my mind for only you / But you were still gone • Just between us, do you remember it all too well? Just between us I remember it all too well • Did you wish you’d put up more of a fight / When she said it was too much? / Do you wish you could still touch her? • Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me? • And the road not taken looks real good now / And it always leads to you and my hometown • But are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? / I guess I’ll never know • I wish I could un-recall / How we almost had it all • Why the wound is still bleeding? • So if the story is over / Why am I still writing pages? • I guess sometimes we all get / Some kind of haunted, some kind of haunted / And I never think of him / Except on midnights like this • I’m addicted to the “if only” • But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss / I knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs / The smell of smoke would hang around this long / ‘Cause I knew everything when I was young / I knew I’d curse you for the longest time / Chasing shadows in the grocery line • I tried searching faces on streets / What are the chances you’d be downtown? • I see you everywhere, the only thing we share / Is this small town • And I see your face in every crowd • I see you around in all these empty faces • Your arson’s match, your somber eyes / And I’ll still see it until I die / You’re the loss of my life • I wish you knew that / I’d never forget you as long as I live • I’ll be getting over you my whole life • Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? / Time went on for everybody else, she won’t know it / She’s still 23 inside her fantasy / How it was supposed to be • But it would’ve been fun / If you would’ve been the one • You said you were gonna grow up / Then you were gonna come find me • And it’s been so long / But if you ever think you got it wrong / I’m right where you left me / You left me no choice but to stay here forever • And if you wanna tear my world apart, say you’ll always wonder / ‘Cause I wonder

Will I always wonder?

— Taylor Swift, on being haunted by the what-ifs.