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i’m feeling pretty good about this ranking

credit to @jobazzle for the sorter!!! https://jobazzle.tumblr.com/ttpd

#ttpd #the tortured poets department #the tortured poets department ranking #taylor swift

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hey (with the intention of stealing a Lexus, being detectives riding around picking up clues, naming our children Jackie and Wilson and raising them on rhythm and blues)

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Johnny Cade from The Outsiders edit to Florida!!! by Taylor Swift and Florence + The Machine

#johnny cade #the outsiders #ponyboy curtis #se hinton #ttpd #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #florence + the machine #florence welch #i have been in agony over this for days now and if nobody was going to make an edit i suppose i have to take matters into my own hands #im not an editor so sorry for the poor quality lmao

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THE PROPHECY BY TAYLOR SWIFT WAS WRITTEN FOR HAZEL LEVESQUE

A CURSE!! A PUNISHMENT!! SHE DOESNT WANT THE MONEY OR THE GENS BECAUSE THEY END UP CURSING THE PEOPLE WHO TOUCH THEM SO AS I RESULT SHE PUSHES EVERYONE AWAY EXCEPT SAMMY BUT SHE WARNS HIM NOT TO TOUCH THE PRECIOUS METALS AND WHEN HE DOES HE ENDS UP NEVER SEEING HER AGAIN

THEN SHE WADES THROUGH THE FIELDS KF APHOSDALE FOR DECADES PONDERING HER LOSSES AND HER CURSE BUT THEN NICO COMES AND GIVES HER A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE

#hazel levesque #heros of olympus #hoo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #pjo #son of neptune #mark of athena #house of hades #blood of olympus #sammy valdez #hades #nico di angelo #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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Soda, in his letter: Ponyboy we miss you so much :(((( Come back Ponyboy :(((( Darry's so upset because you're missing :(((( Things have been so awful Ponyboy :((( Ponyboy :((((

Ponyboy: Soda's spelling fucking sucks :-/

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THIS ONE FUCKING PICTURE FROM THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL!?.?;?!?.; HOLY SHIT???

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does anyone else ever think about how in a way “birdie” is the realest name robin swift ever had

#because he wasn’t called his given name ever since the day professor lovell took him from canton #and robin swift were just words he picked to anglify himself #meanwhile birdie was a term of endearment bestowed upon him by the first person to actually SEE and KNOW him #true over the years he became robin swift but he was always ‘birdie’ deep down #he just needed a ramy in his life to tell him so #babel: an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #robin swift #ramy mirza #hahaha this book ruined me ahahahaha

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Babel, by RF Kuang, is fun cause the first half is sad but also really sweet and hopeful and relatively low stakes and you’re like “aw this is nice, found family, thanks” and then suddenly it’s the most intense most emotionally heart wrenching book you’ve ever read in your life so that’s cool I guess.

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By the time they'd finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other— but not quite yet because true love takes time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them. The days had not yet come when Ramy wore Victoire's sloppily knitted scarves with pride, when Robin learned exactly how long Ramy liked his tea steeped so he could have it ready when he inevitably came to the Buttery late from his Arabic tutorial, or when they all knew Letty to class with a paper bag full of lemon biscuits because it was a Wednesday morning and Taylor's bakery put out lemon biscuits on Wednesdays. But that afternoon they could see with certainty the kind of friends they would be, and loving that vision was close enough.

Later, when everything went sideways and the world broke in half, Robin would think back to this day, to this hour at this table, and wonder why they had been so quick, so carelessly eager to trust one another. Why had they refused to see the myriad ways they could hurt each other? Why had they not paused to interrogate their differences in birth, in raising, that meant they were not and could never be on the same side?

- Babel, p. 88

#babel #babel: an arcane history #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #robin swift #ramy mirza #victoire desgraves #she who shall not be named

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Allow me to introduce you to the City of Folklore est. 2020, population 1,989.

I made this because one day (9/6/20 to be exact) I got a visual in my brain of this town where all the folklore stories were playing out down the road from each other. You had the swanky hotel, downtown bars, a childhood haunted house, the salt box house by the sea, cannons firing at the yacht, robbers to the east, clowns to the west, etc etc. I decided that when i finished it (which wasn’t until July ‘23) I would gift it to Taylor if I could, partly as a thank you for her generosity and kindness to me during the early days of the pandemic … but also bc I thought it might be cool for her to see how her music created all this imagery and was so inspirational.

I was fortunate enough to be able to give this to her dad for her (I folded it up and put it in a gallon ziploc) at the July 28th show at Levi’s and while I don’t know if she ever got it - and got to be the one searching for Easter eggs for a change 😉 - I hope maybe she did. 💞

(second but lighter pic of it with some pins still in it while i was quilting it… like the complete fool that I am, I didn’t take a ton of pics of it when it was done).

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is this a safe space to say as much as i love aaron tveit i LOATH his fans

#tveiter tots are ruining broadway #zero theater etiquette #don’t care about anyone/anything but aaron #aaron baby you don’t deserve these weirdos #sweeney todd #(let’s be honest he was miscast in sweeney but say that and you’d get obliterated by his fans

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reina and callum are kind of my favorite duo from the series

#a messy gay and a lesbian with a god complex is the only dynamic ever #reina mori #callum nova #i could read a whole book on their adventures manipulating elections #the atlas six #the atlas paradox #the atlas complex

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rip percy beheading crusty, abandoned by the show but never forgetten

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo series #annabeth chase #grover underwood #the lightning thief #i was so looking forward to twelve year old percy murdering a salesman for torturing his friends :( #when he walked in and immediately said the beds were a trap i was sooooo disappointed #just a little off the top 2005-2024

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i think you missed the point of my original post tbh. nowhere was i implying that all district folk and rebels are morally superior (in fact i was merely saying that district CHILDREN are human and not treated as such). in this post i was comparing the way the capitol reacts to the deaths of children of the capitol vs deaths of children of the districts.

they are shocked and appalled when a girl who was snatched from her home to be killed in an arena kills someone who was cruel her. if this event had happened in the arena- a fellow tribute was taunting her with food, that death would have been celebrated and considered fair play, but because this happened outside the arena with someone not a tribute in the games it was considered a crime.

if you want to get into the morality of average capitol citizens vs average district citizens that’s a whole different post, but this one is about the hypocrisy of arachne’s death, and how snow’s relationship with district folks makes his tyranny so much more despicable

rereading tbosas and i KNOW that the capitol are demonic people who see the district citizens as less than human, but it’s SO clear with the reaction they have to arachne’s death (a capitol child killed by a girl brought to the capitol for the sole purpose to kill and be killed) vs orchestrating the slaughter of hundreds of innocent children. this privileged girl who died making a cruel joke was a hero, but the 230 children who have died, and the countless more who will die in the upcoming 64 years are necessary causalities for a war they didn’t fight, and on top of everything a pleasure to witness suffer.

and somehow of everybody it’s snow who sees the hypocrisy and how arachne’s death was her own fault for taunting a girl with nothing to lose for a cheap laugh, and yet her cruelty ends up being spun into heroism.

which arguable makes snow so much more demonic than the average capitol citizen- maybe even more evil than dr gaul, he sees the humanity of the district children and acknowledges that the capitol can be wrong, and yet he pushes forward anyways and continues to boost the credibility of the games for his own personal gain.

while dr gaul is cruel and probably clinically a psychopath the way she takes such pleasure in torturing animals and humans alike, snow doesn’t take the same kind of pleasure yet still consciously makes descion that will lead to more torment and spectacle of district suffering as long as it means he gets an ounce of respect from other capitol citizens

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gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

#CR: the atlas complex #nicogideon #the atlas six #the atlas complex #nico de varona #gideon drake #i’m so afraid #if nicogideon is being fed this well so early in i’m terrified of what that means for the other 400 pages 😭

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as someone who loves to reread books, i feel like the hunger games has some of the best rereadability

i’ve read each of the trilogy each least 5 times each, and tbosas twice, and every time i pick up something new, sometimes about panem as a whole, sometimes it’s character insights, sometimes it’s connections to the real world.

ive said it before, but suzanne such a brilliant author, and she manages to give every character such depth that makes them ALL such compelling characters

i just think it’s incredible how she can write books that fall perfectly into a ya dystopian genre and also provides such profound commentary on society and government

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark #finnick odair #book tumblr #the hunger games might just be my magnum opus #one day i will write down all of my many thoughts and truly there are MANY #i could write an essay on gales character #i used to be his number one hater but recently i’ve been seeing him in such a different light and i think he’s a perfect representation #of young oppressed men and how their oppression can radicalize them #also i am so obsessed with pollux’s character and i want to know everything about his life and how he became an avox his family EVERYTHING #i just want to sit down and talk with suzanne about these books for hours and hours

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mockingjay finnick you are so dear to me

#the hunger games #mockingjay #finnick odair #my sweet boy #you deserved so much better