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#cinderella #fairy tales #lucy punch

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#cinderella #disney #ouat #fairy tales

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Just discovered this old sin. Graphic design was my 13 year old passion

#random #i want to use it as a reaction to everything

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By the way, Jezebel's sin was not being a seductress (that wasn't mentioned in the bible story) giving lip or rebelling against male authority (not the point at the very least) or the fact that she ran the kingdom while her snotty nose baby husband Ahab was pouting. but the fact that she killed the prophets of God and also plotted murder to please her loser husband's whims.

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john green defending TTPD on twitter I know that’s right

#ttpd #john green #reminds me of john green defending allegiant

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You're a good boss, boss.

thanks unidentified italian mob goon

#random

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#jurassic world

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🎶She’s the albatross she is here to annoy you🎶

#my greatest aspiration #random

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children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear

neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years

#amen #random

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"Taylor Swift says she's a functioning alcoholic in her new album"

No, the speaker in "Fortnight" says that. The speaker also talks about being married to a cheating husband, and living next door to her married ex-lover in a suburban neighborhood.

#maybe she meant that line to reflect herself that's totally possible but fortnight is also very clearly told from a fictional perspective

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""This town is fake but You're the real thing"

"he said since she was so wise beyond her years"

Something in these two statements feels analogous to me.

#ttpd #clara bow #the manuscript #the clara bow line reminds me either of those 'so mature for your age' statements or like a 'not like other girls' thing #where it's flattering her by putting her at odds with others #and even if it's meant genuinely (which I think often it is) its manipulative and isolating and betrays a deeper problem #a carelessness in the admiration of the subject which is more focused on comparison than anything else #on the 'dazzling' or the way her 'shine reflects on you' than on her herself #and because of that is eminently replacable #it's the same state of being 'picked like a rose'

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Even completely out of context But Daddy I Love Him has this terrible thread to it which makes me think it's not meant to truly be Love Story 2.0 because if she really did love him and didn't mind why would she care about seeing our faces. The song isn't about the love, it's about the anger and vengeance towards other people, even the name is about her father not her lover.

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Jess and Rory + The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology

#Gilmore Girls #literati #taylor swift lyrics

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”rory believed the most in jess”, ”luke was the most supportive of jess”, WRONG, not as long as this king exists

#gilmore girls #jess mariano

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I love you alien abduction in Down Bad you're so stupid and so valid

#ttpd

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The Tortured Poets Department in New Girl gifs Pt. 1

Fortnight

The Tortured Poets Department

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

Down Bad

So Long, London

But Daddy I Love Him

Fresh Out the Slammer

Florida!!!

Guilty as Sin?

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

I Can Fix Him (Nor Really I Can)

loml

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

The Alchemy

Clara Bow

#taylor swift #ttpd

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"But Daddy I Love Him" isn't about a love story, it's about the speaker's conflict with onlookers. However the speaker does believe that she's in the middle of a great romance that is going to end in joy and a wedding and the vindication of her commitment to her lover. But while the speaker believes this, the author does not. The song is situated in perhaps the most turbulent part of the album, and is followed a few songs later by "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)".

These two songs are linked lyrically, by a sort of western small town setting populated by the same "Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best" who are "shak[ing] their heads saying 'God help her'". (From "But Daddy I Love Him": ' how the West was won'; 'Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best/Clutching their pearls'; 'Tendrils tucked into a woven braid'; 'Soon enough the elders had convened/ Down at the city hall'. From "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)": 'Like a freight train through a small town/The jokes that he told across the bar'; 'They shake their heads saying, "God, help her"...But your good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger'; 'On a six-lane Texas highway/His hand so calloused from his pistol'.) "I Can Fix Him" is a continuation of the same story, but the speaker's tone has shifted from the wild, almost petulant, exuberance of "But Daddy I Love Him" to defiant, almost spiteful, edge of "I Can Fix Him". And in the end her romantic hopes which are still cherished in "But Daddy I Love Him" come crashing abruptly down with turn to 'Whoa, maybe I can't' right at the end of "I Can Fix Him".

So while "But Daddy I Love Him" can be taken on its own as a song with a (maybe naive) optimism and joyful romantic hopefulness, in the context of the broader work of art (the album) it is included with the foreknowledge of the turn in "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)".

#ttpd #taylor swift