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Ugh I would love to go see maren but I don't have friends who listen to her hdjshddhjsshsb

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Maybe it's because of ttpd coming out at the same time as an Emily Henry book, but I've never felt such an urge to make a playlist with Taylor's songs for one of her books!

#I got ideas

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promise to be dazzling.

#ts edits

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not to nitpick on what albatross anon wrote bc they mostly very correct, but albatrosses were actually a symbol of GOOD luck for sailors, it only becomes a curse if you shoot them down. taylor comparing herself to an albatross is basically saying if you don’t shoot me i won’t curse you. if you don’t want me to write a bad song about u don’t do bad things to me

Yes that's the clever part of it all and the song thus speaks to more than just her presence in these setting in terms of relationships. It's commentary on how she's treated by the public too.

#the albatross

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Oh I just got the chills listening to Clara bow

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Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? Were you writing a book? Were you a sleeper-cell spy? In fifty years will all this be declassified? And you'll confess why you did it. And I'll say good riddance. 'Cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden. I would've died for your sins. Instead I just died inside. And you deserve prison but you won't get time. You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars. You crashed my party in your rental car. You said normal girls were boring. But you were gone by the morning. You kicked out the stage lights. But you're still performing. And in plain sight you hid. But you are what you did. And I'll forget you but I'll never forgive. The smallest man who ever lived

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Wait what did Freydis Moon do? :( I've read their books and really liked them, but I don't follow them anywhere online, so that last ask you got worried me

Freydis Moon has been exposed to be Taylor Barton, a white person from the state of Oregon, someone who had a history of faking their race, being racist, and general abusive behavior. You can read more here about this Taylor person here, and you can find an incredibly long thread here.

Freydis was a colleague of mine, and they took me under their wing when I entered the indie book scene. They presented themselves as a Latine, mystic, queer trans author — who was older than me, I should add — so I deeply admired them and confided in them. I don't think ABM would have ever gotten much attention if I hadn't received their guidance.

There had been some whispers that Freydis was really Taylor, but I'd seen Frey's seemingly darker-skinned hands and heard their real name, which was supposedly Daniela.

Two things I should say before the big reveal: Freydis briefly hired a publicist named Cordi, who was also an agent with their own agency, named The Lynne Agency. Cordi, very randomly, decided to leave the industry and left their clients, and Freydis, hanging. Someone else to mention is Saint Harlow, an author of gay, cannibal erotica. On twitter, Saint was known for peddling a lot of drama — sometimes, he was on the good side of things and sometimes the bad, but he tended to be a massive bully. Freydis allegedly comforted some of Saint's victims.

And the reveal:

Freydis is the race faker Taylor Barton. The evidence is substantial, but most notably, some of the files they shared with other authors, including me, had metadata with the names of Taylor Barton's other identities. I was able to check the files myself to confirm.

They were also Saint Harlow. Meaning Freydis was bullying people secretly on one account and comforting them on another. And the bullying was a lot more disgusting than you might think, but for the sake of the victim, I won't share details.

They were also the publicist/agent Cordi. Why did they pretend to be an agent at all? I'm not sure but they wasted a lot of authors' times, that's for sure. Were they just looking to plagiarize off manuscripts sent to them? Who knows. (A friend of mine who sent their manuscript to them fears so).

There were a lot of interactions between Taylor and I that are much much weirder in retrospect. They critiqued the industry use of #ownvoices, which I agreed about, but blew the issue out of proportion, like thinking #ownvoices gay-trans author book lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, mlm books by mlm authors lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, and that lists of books by people of color about people of color also shouldn't exist because... potential outing? Taylor was, to me, oddly sympathetic toward certain authors accused of racism and shot down my concerns of a certain book with what I felt to be pro-colonizer themes inconsistently — their response to racism seemed to depend on whether they already disliked a person or not.

I could say a lot more but as someone who spoke to Taylor in private at times, there were a lot of things I was unsure about even when I was on their side of things. To some people, apparently, Freydis had said they were part Mexican, but only ever told me they were Peruvian (they might've known I'd clock them as a faker). Regardless, when this all came to light, their response was shockingly dismissive.

This may be more info than you asked for but TLDR:

Freydis Moon faked their race and ethnicity, bullied and manipulated many readers and authors using various fake identities, took advantage of latine author resources, and so on.

#every time their books get recommended #in lists of books by BIPOC authors #I'm always like they're BIPOC??? #LOL #and here it is #it's because they really weren't BIPOC

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the "home is where the heart is" from london boy and "little did you know your home's really only a town you're just a guest in" from florida really sums up everything. got your point taylor

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Someone reminded me of this quote the other day and I was like wait that's kinda like ttpd in a way and I went and look to see if I had it tab and I did!!!!

Now would be a really good time to reread Daisy jones lol

#daisy jones and the six #ttpd

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it has become a compulsion to listen to the bolter every few hours

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#ts edits

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this might be my favourite reaction to ttpd

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Taylor nation's tweet LOLOLOLOLOL

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And I started funny story and I don't know if I can stop 🫢

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My two pretty blonde writer mothers! 🤍💙💛

The cd is there temporarily, it's gonna go on my Taylor shelf.

#herefortayloronly talks books #hfto talks books #Emily Henry

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like or reblog 🌙

#Taylor swift