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Dear Op,

A few thoughts if I may? No hate, no shade, just an open discussion. Heck, I’m not even sure how much I believe in this scenario. I just observe a few very curious circumstances and think (mostly to myself, so I won’t post more on this issue) that nothing is *impossible*. So yeah… Assuming for the sake of this argument, that these children are Taylor’s in some shape or form…

First, to address the Josh of it all. From what I understand, he is no angel. BUT to me, he very much seems to be hardly worse than your average business mogul kinda guy. If you want to argue that those people are all evil, then fine. But at the very least, I think lumping him in with his dreadful family is doing him a great disservice. If his family is the baseline standard, he seems to be a fairly decent dude. Just my opinion from what I’ve read and heard. No need to agree.

Ok. Moving on. The kids. Since we lack any sort of clarity regarding the situation, I’m gonna be charitable and assume that everyone is putting in their best effort, simply to counter the argument that the entire arrangement is bound to be cruel to the children.

First of all: do you know the saying “It takes a village to raise a child”?

What I mean to say with that, is that it is inherently misguided to insist that the modern western core family is the only acceptable and healthy family structure.

No, we don’t have much to go by, but as far as we can tell, Josh very much seems to be a prominent, very much involved father figure in the kids’ lives. Whether he is their biological father (which is pretty likely imo) or not, he’s there, and whatever happens in the future, who is to say that that is gonna fundamentally change?

Next we have Karlie. Very much seems to be your regular celebrity mom. She probably has some paid help, but she seems very affectionate and pretty present overall. Nice. No notes. That makes two solid parents. Again, we have no reason to believe that Josh will ever suddenly go *poof* out of nowhere. Their family structure already started out pretty unconventional and might stay like that—whether we will be able to see that or not.

Where does that leave Taylor? I don’t know if she’s the “far away mommy” or a very involved auntie… but I think that, if she has a particular connection to and a vested interest in these children, there are so many ways for her to be part of their lives. I can draw personal references to overseas grandparents. With already two stable parent figures in place, a bonus mom only adds to the number of loving, caring people in the boys’ lives. They can arrange catch-ups in secret, they could be (video) calling every single night, who knows.

Let’s not forget, that these children are still VERY young. If this is their normal, without much outside influences to convince them otherwise, for the time being, they aren’t going to question it all that much. Maybe that’s exactly why it feels like we are perhaps heading for a coming out and a reveal. The idea could very much be to set the record straight and smooth potential backlash over before the children are old enough to be hurt by the immediate discourse on social media or the tabloid narrative, which will without a doubt explode like the time bombs they have always been.

There is still time for Josh and “faraway mommy” or auntie Taylor to swap places or something like that. Time for Taylor to come home and stay with the family more. Circumstances changed and she can finally spend more time with them. Josh might move out, but plenty of families can manage co-parenting pretty well. I’m sure that’s all simple enough to explain to a preschooler. The question of who is genetically related to whom certainly could wait until much later, when they can have reasonable talks about these sort of things. But at the same time, even if they wanted to clear this up right away, if it’s treated as matter of fact and just as how their family works, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a huge deal.

Of course you could call it selfishness. But unfortunately, there could have been pre-existing plans as far as 6 years back or sooner that were crushed. And even though that put parts of their relationship on hold, women of reproductive age sadly have their own biological limits to consider. They couldn’t wait for forever if a family with kids was so incredibly important to them. Likewise, it would probably have started to look funny in terms of Karlie’s and Josh’s marriage…

ALL THIS TO SAY…

I don’t know if it’s true. If it is, I don’t know if your scenario is more similar to reality than mine or vice versa. Or maybe they thought of something we didn’t consider at all.

We. Just. Don’t. Know.

How about we continue to cautiously observe what we see, take some mental notes and wait for clear indicators of what’s actually going on. Maybe that’s already more than we should do in the first place.

Let’s not judge before we know for sure, and even then… none of us will ever be able to comprehend what their situation really is like for them, the mental toll it would take on everyone involved.

That’s all, I guess 😌

@spade-riddles has got.me thinking. If the two, almost three, children of Karlie and Josh are not theirs, and they aren't Taylor's and Karlie's, how horrible it must be for these children to be pawns in an adult game.

If I think about it logically. Like logically. How can Taylor or Karlie, who both have insanely busy lives, take care of these children properly? Karlie especially, who we see more actually doing events and such. Taylor always off stunting... What kind of life would that be for a child? If we think about say. The Louis Tomlinson x Briana Jungwirth stunt which is called baby gate, Briana clearly wasn't pregnant etc. You can look it all up in a masterpost on a wonderful blog called @/twopoppies if you want more info; it's called baby gate and I do believe that Freddie is not Louis's child. It's very obvious there and there are many other similarties between Harry and Louis and Karlie and Taylor in other ways....the point I'm getting at is clearly Karlie was pregnant, wasn't she?

Was K made to do this for publicity purposes? ( I'm not suggesting anything untoward. I'm just wondering).

As for Josh. I don't ever talk about him. I have nothing to say about him or his vile family, only that if Karlie had had to choose a braid, she chose someone loathsome, possibly to separate herself more publicly from Taylor after kissgate and the failed coming out. Whenever I see him he looks miserable.

All I'm saying is how do we really know. If there is a divorce and all three children go with josh, well there we go. On the other hand if they go with Karlie. On the other hand what about Robin? That's one of the loudest pieces of evidence we have for them being K&T's children.

And as for those photos in Italy.... That's not Karlie for sure. It does look similar to Taylor. How do we know.

I hope these children find happiness, purpose and peace as they grow up if they are just... Actors in a stunt and have no way of knowing it.

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what’s your type?

What a curious question… 😅

Hmmmm, let me see… ocean-blue eyes, looking in mine? But also those green eyes when the lights go down. Wouldn’t say no to freckles and bright eyes either 🤔 And whether it’s a lilac short skirt or if she’s got that red lip classic thing going on…

I really am not too picky, but mostly on the girly side please…? But maybe I could be persuaded to have another look at the gal with the James Dean daydream look in her eyes as well, even if her hair is slicked back and she just wears a simple white T-shirt. If I see her in a suit and a necktie… that might be ok, too, as long as she passes me a note that says “meet me tonight” ☺️

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Wikipedia says only July 2nd… I guess first release is the main one? Dunno… 🤷‍♀️ But in Italy first is kinda random 😂

* edited to add:

They do mention it later on Wikipedia, but not very prominently…. Also still … why Italy? She’d long moved on to UK by end of June and her firstly July shows were in Amsterdam 😂 Reasons, I guess 🤷‍♀️ 😂

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And 5 years later that day we get ICDIWABH?! Sus as heeeeeeeeeelllllllll!!!!

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This is probably just me being silly, but….

… crying at the GYM? 😂

Link to the actual page:

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One of the best videos out there, from the actual analysis to the attitude. Love, love, LOVE it! 🥹

New to Gaylor Watch this video

Pretty Informative

If you want to know how I arrived at my conclusions

What she said ⬆️⬆️⬆️

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So I know a lot of people have honed onto this scene from YNTCD. And iirc 2 other Gaylors have identified the images of Stonewall and the denim jacket, but the balloons pic and the people in Pride flags were not.

But I was stuck in bed today so I dug up the final 2.

One of these days I’ll figure out when they’re originally from, but I’m sleepy.

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Is She Gonna Speak Now?

Hey guys! I’ve been noticing that a lot of avenues seem to go back to Speak Now recently, and I’ve been collecting all these “clues” (either real or imagined) in my head till now. But Today’s hockey game outfit kinda made my brain bubble over, so I’m gonna share what I believe to have observed so far…

First of all, 15s have been popping up in various places—though here comes the problem with trying to be chill about it and not going overboard with meticulously collecting evidence… I kinda dropped the ball and forgot WHERE I’ve seen them. Maybe you have noticed them, too and could help me out?

Anyway. This is important why? Because this year’s 15th anniversary of Speak Now. 

Speak Now was first released 25th October ’10. Thats a) 15 years (🥳) and b) there is a perfect mirror date on 10th October ’25, which also is a Friday. Maybe that’s something, maybe not. But it could be a fun opportunity!

Oh, and here are 2 15s for you that I DO remember:

So High School.

The song that some love and others love to hate. The silly little number that many don’t think deserved a spot on the Eras set list. 

It just so happens to run for 3:48 min, which equals 15.

It also MAY reference Enchanted with lyrics such as 

🎶 I feel so High School 🎶 (Taylor may have been freshly out of school around the time she wrote Enchanted)

🎶 I wanna find you in a crowd 🎶 (reminiscent of the setting we start out with in Enchanted)

🎶Tell me ‘bout the first time you saw me 🎶 (Enchanted is all about how they saw each other and were immediately drawn to each other)

🎶Blink of a crinklin’ eye🎶  ,  🎶 Brink of a wrinkle in time 🎶 and  🎶Bittersweet sixteen suddenly🎶 all may refer to a a muse she originally met when they were both very young

Another 15: The Alchemy—Track 15 on TTPD, a song about returning to someone she’s previously been close to.

🎶 What if I told you I'm back?

The hospital was a drag

Worst sleep that I ever had

I circled you on a map

I haven't come around in so long

But I'm coming back so strong 🎶

OK, so far so good. That’s the 15th anniversary done. But there’s also a 2 year anniversary this day for Speak Now TV, which first came out on 7th July 2023. 

I find it a little funny that 7 + 7 makes 14… with the Fortnight of it all… and now it’s been two years…

Now. Today’s outfit. Taylor wore this sporty number by AREA, a New York brand. Not exactly a staple in her wardrobe, so I immediately noticed this ONE other outfit by AREA that she sported in January. Let’s compare dates.

Today: 12th June (12 + 6 = 18)

January: 17th January (17 + 1 = 18)

Coincidence? 🤔 Then, I kept pondering about the name of the brand because the outfit names didn’t give me much, other than a vague bejewelled theme which I couldn’t place… and call me crazy, but I converted the letters to numbers:

1 18 5 1 = 18 and 7? 

A R E A

Funnily enough, January and June (1 + 6) also give you 7 (July?), so this mathematical argument seems to be going in circles, centring around 18 and 7… Just for fun, I looked up her 2024 Eras surprise song performance from July 18:

Gelsenkirchen, Germany:  Speak Now/Hey Stephen and This Is Me Trying/Labyrinth

This this really a plausible coincidence?!

And just the idea of “Speak Now” as an opportunity to speak ones mind, one’s truth… could this be a hint that something of that sort is coming soon? Maybe in July, once the June “danger zone” (because that’s when things derailed previously) is over? Just wondering 😌

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Taylor creating the wittiest kind of lyrics: “…I slur your name ‘til someone puts me in a car…”

Swifties: “OMG IS THIS ABOUT MATTY HEALY”

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The restaurant is called Buccan — a buccan is a wooden frame to grill or smoke meat on.

Her purse is called a “frame bag”

It’s all framed. Fake evidence for a thriving relationship.

Dear Travy is even wearing a chessboard on his pants as an ode to Miss Mastermind. Checkmate. ♟️

… or is it… a Finish Line?! 🏁 😂

🎶 Now we’re at the finish line, I did my time 🎶

I know one of the pumpkin messages maybe pumpkin messages 5 said their might be things that ring a bell her bag really is called the bell heart frame bag

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Same dress appears on the last slide of today’s TN post…. Must be pure chance… 🤷‍♀️

Sorry I can't post the video

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Message in a Bottle — She’s Standing Here, Hoping It Gets To You 📝

For those who were lucky enough to attend Eras, how many of you were a little bit “meh” about your surprise songs? If so, which underwhelming song did you get? PLEASE don’t say Message in a Bottle! Pretty please! Just don’t. 

… but just in case you did… let me show you, how you truly were one of the chosen ones to receive her message, and please, please let me change your mind!

Throughout the duration of The Eras Tour, Message in a Bottle was played three times in total, and each occasion was a definitive attempt to throw a bottle with a secret note into the ocean of fans, hoping it would get to at least some of us. 

She first played the song in Seattle, on July 23rd 2023. In her sunny yellow dress, she happily strummed away on her guitar. The cheerful tune was followed up by Tied Together With a Smile on piano, which—if you consider them both together—totally takes the joy out of it all. Cheerful front. Broken heart. Well, she’s been telling us, that she can do it with a broken heart, right?

The third time we got Message in a Bottle, she packaged it in a neat mash-up with Sparks Fly. More happy, happy! Until you get to the piano mash-up: You’re Losing Me/How Did It End? Urgh. Thanks for crushing my soul like this! This was on November 23rd 2024 in Toronto. 

Did you notice something? They both took place on a 23rd. Probably, because these bottles are being sent from a certain restaurant, where there’s a Taylor, with her pinned up hair, still 23 in her fantasy. 😭

But wait, I skipped one occasion: May 19th, Stockholm. 19th, like 2019 perhaps? And wow, this one was a doozie! Message in a Bottle/ How You Get the Girl/ New Romantics. Hardly couldn’t get any gayer!!! And how did she end it? With How Did It End? on piano. Wonderful. Brilliant. 

She played Message in a Bottle three times. Each time, it began with joy and elation, only to end in devastation. 😮‍💨

So yeah. There sure was a lot of planning and preparation that went into these surprise songs. But also, there was a particular reason why I suddenly thought to write about this. 

As some of you may know, I’m active on Stationhead, the app, where Taylor/her team occasionally host listening parties. I’ve been particularly preoccupied with a little song called This Love, which is behaving a bit oddly on the app, playing sometimes short, and sometimes in full… but that’s a story for another day. Suffice to say, I discovered, that Message in a Bottle also doesn’t play in full. This is a bit more of a hidden hint, as it doesn’t feature on the major playlist (which I also described elsewhere). However, if any fan station attempts to broadcast Message in a Bottle, it only plays for 12 seconds, unless they know which specific file to pick (and it’s not the one suggested by the app). 

12 seconds? Like maybe TS12? Obviously, this is the wildest speculation I’m going to attempt in this post, but… The nature of the song itself, the way it has been used during Eras, along with what some of us have been pondering about TS12 anyway… I’d venture, that TS12 will be another message in form of a hopefully strongly queer coded album, heralding an eventual coming out. I think the odds look rather good, as the evidence keeps adding up bit by bit, and this is yet another tiny piece of it. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

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😂😂😂😂😂

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She gets her masters back…all of her work… her fucking VOICE back right before pride month?? 🥹♥️🫶🏼

Poetic.

We’re ready for those vault tracks and your new debut whenever you are babe; but today, we celebrate. 💃

This love is ours ✨

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😂😂😂😂😂😂 💋

Amidst the chaos, I was made aware by my friend—who we’ll call Sleeping Beauty because she was sleeping through this and she’s beautiful—that Taylor walked out of that restaurant with a lipstick stain on her face

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So true 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

What a glorious day in so many ways!!!!

9 years ago, when Taylor learned that Rep didn’t receive any Grammy nominations, her immediate response was, “I just need to make a better record.”

Today she told the world, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon my redoing it.”

The GROWTH. That she can see Rep for what it is - raw, beautiful, perfect. The best of her first six albums, even if it’s not the most awarded. Even if not everyone “got it” at first.

I’m so happy for her. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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Taylor was seen last night at a restaurant in NYC called Via Carota.

I unfortunately happen to be Italian, so I can give you some insights, giggles and fun facts about this 😂

“Via Carota” means “Carrot Street” and as far as I understand they named the restaurant after Via del Carota near Florence (Italy). This is hilarious, because carrots are ORANGE 😂 Taylor stop the Karma trolling, please!

Also, the chefs are wives and again… TAYLORRR YOU’RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE

Anyway, the menu looks divine… our girl has good taste 😌

They also own another restaurant called Bar Pisellino which has nothing to do with Taylor but it’s beyond hilarious to me that “Pisellino” is what English speaking people would call a “willy”, and a couple lesbians calling a bar “willy” has me falling off my chair 😂

Edit: I found out that the original villa was situated in Via del Carota 22. I thought this was another funny coincidence… OR IS IT