ON THIS DAY — April 25, 2019 — 5 years ago
2019 NFL Draft in Nashville, Tennessee
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Taylor was recently active on Instagram and liked chiefs' post!
📸: itsliterallydel
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https://lacey-152.ludgu.top/ys/NkWBnEK
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Thoughts on TTPD and how it relates to Dead Poets Society and queerness
(Spoilers for DPS ahead.)
I saw DPS a long time ago and rewatched it before TTPD came out, thinking there could be a connection just by virtue of the similar titles. (This connection was, of course, confirmed with the inclusion of Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles of DPS in the Fortnight music video.) The thing is, before I rewatched DPS, I remembered that Neil Perry kills himself because he is gay. It had been a long time since I’d seen it, and that was what I remembered. While rewatching it, I kept waiting for Neil to try to kiss a boy or come out to his dad or something. But he doesn’t. No one in the film ever says ANYTHING overtly about queerness. There are references to Whitman and Tchaikovsky (both presumed to be queer). Neil wants to be an actor and gets his start playing a literal fairy (Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream). But never does he overtly express any attraction to someone of the same sex, and never does he identify himself as gay or queer. But as a teenager watching this movie, the implied queerness was so obvious to me that I later REMEMBERED THE MOVIE WRONG.
And that’s the same way that TTPD is queer. The queerness isn’t overt. It’s not obvious or clear to everyone who listens to it. But it’s there, baked in, and undeniable when you really dissect the lyrics. Queer themes of the world not accepting your love, feeling trapped, the closet, religious trauma, and feeling judged are obvious in the album. And the genius of Taylor’s lyrics is that they can be attributed to Matty Healy (A Man™️), they can be attributed to queerness and the queer experience, and, I think, they can be attributed to both of those things at the same time.
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Something about the original story of Peter Pan being an allegory for Peter being a guide to dead children & him escorting them to the afterlife & Taylor saying that her relationship was killing her & she was pining for Matty cuz she saw him as her Peter makes me unstable
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my boy only breaks his favorite toys as bartylus
regulus’s pov, about barty
“the voices in his head”
“but you should’ve seen him when he first got me”
“and i’ll tell you that he runs because he loves me”
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The Fearless Tour
April 24, 2009 - Jonesboro, Arkansas
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Nobody does it like Taylor and her black and white albums
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