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your braids like a pattern, love you to the moon and to saturn

eliza’s top 100 ships 42/100: diana barry + anne shirley cuthbert

#anne x diana #anne of green gables #anne with an e #moodboard

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"if only you knew" - some cute and shy crush scenarios

prompt list by @novelbear

awkwardly laughing to try not to malfunction when they're given a compliment

smiling real hard when texting them

^ then realizing what they're doing and smiling even more because they just love this feeling

knowing the little things about them

praying that they don't notice their heart racing as they give them a hug

when they get a little too close and it's over

gazing at them from afar because they're just so...

"i think about you a lot." "aw, really?" [panicking] "no." "oh."

when they compliment something that they've been insecure about and it just breaks them

"you get flustered really easily...cute." "haha...thanks...i think. was that a compliment? why are you laughing."

being asked to take photos of them and of course they accept, but they can't seem to focus properly

unconsciously showing displays of affection (ex. playing with their hair, rubbing their hand with their thumb) because it comes natural when with them

^ but when they get called out for it, they scramble to find an excuse (and maybe give an unnecessary apology)

"would you like to hang out?" "of course! i mean, yeah, it would be nice..."

"you've been kinda obvious." "....what."

realizing that their crush likes them back and it's been clear as day.

#writing prompts #writing prompt #writing romance #writing

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So I know that we think the Lover house being empty means that Taylor's "moved out", but in the Folklore section of the house, the stairs are replaced with a latter. Why did she take the stairs with her...?

#taylor swift #the eras tour #folkore #lover #the lover house

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I am dusting off my little blog here because TTPD has my mind absolutely reeling. I am really wondering if anyone else listened to this and had this feeling that the album confirmed everything that they were thinking was going on with her. I know we talk so much about reading her songs beneath the surface of muses or certain details used to craft a story, but to me, TTPD reads so strongly of her reckoning with her life in the industry. like, it's so much more than the relationships. it's the comp het, it's the religious trauma, it's the being exploited as a child star, it's deep wound of abandonment and neglect when she as a person got split off from her brand and both could not thrive, it's giving everything to this brand and career and fandom and that still never being enough. it's her codependency with the very people that exploit her. it's the fact that she is bigger than she ever imagined and none of it feels how she wanted. it's the simultaneous love and resentment she has towards her family, and relationships, and career, and yes, even her fans.

the rawness of this album, the unrefined feel, the summation poem talking about this as mania, the continuation of the cage imagery and themes of escaping to her mind/fantasy, the coping with criticism, numbing it all with alcohol, the willingness to burn it all down and disgrace her name because none of this is what she wants or at least not how she wants.

I have seen so many criticisms of the album and honestly, I understand where they are coming from, but I also think the things they criticize make the exact point of what this body of work is - something that exists for it's own sake to turn things back on the people that made her into what she is now. art created not to be acclaimed but because it demands to be expressed. it is an exorcism, an expulsion. it is something that erupted from her. and it's so meta because this fandom and the industry are voyeurs in an echo chamber so desperate to see what they want that they miss that this is about them. that is what makes it brilliant to me - it is self-indulgent and metaphorical, and complex, and so direct, but yet still masked just enough that people miss it. her entire life has become performance art. it is a play within a play. and I fear the audience has not caught on.

it feels like she is reclaiming it all. I feel like this could either be a hint at a new beginning or a signal that she has broken and this is the end. this felt like the tell-all memoir written in code that everyone else will finally understand when she really leaves this spotlight. it's the lucky one come to life. she is daydreaming about fucking it all and leaving this life behind so she can finally have some goddamn peace.

I love this album for it as art. it is so expressive. it is so heartbreaking. it's messy and nuanced, and I think it is going way the fuck over most people's heads, especially when you really dig into poetry being the theme and the specific works she references. it's only been a week and I am just starting to really dig in but talk about a fucking iceberg.

#i agree #honestly i'd be so sad if she left but her well being above all else #the tortured poets department #taylor swift

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One week of Tortured Poets (& Thoughts on the Manuscript)

We’ve had this epic double album for a week now and I’m still not over how much of a masterpiece this is. I’m very carefully saying this might be my new favourite TS album.

Still too many thoughts and feelings to process and still a little scared of anything that might happen a week from now (a fortnight after the release). And we’re getting a TTPD eras tour set, I’m so stoked, if she sings But Daddy I love Him to a full stadium every night from May I might just cease to exist.

Slowly coming around to just how much she’s coming for Scott and the industry as a whole, even though I was expecting that, I’m still shocked about the unhinged raw anger in these songs and I’m loving it. Also, love how much even the swifties have to admit that pretty much none of this album is about JA. I don’t even care who they think it’s about instead, I just love that they were all expecting the ultimate breakup album and instead they got an emotional exorcism of twenty years worth of trauma and a final goodbye. ☺️

A saw someone this morning say ‘The Manuscript’ would have been a great alternative title for this album and I would almost agree. The concept is very much a receipt of all the traumas and lessons learned, and that’s why this song is at the very end. The manuscript of my story is done, final page of this story is written and now I’m leaving that to you as I depart. I’ve also seen it be compared to the ATW10 short film and the lyric video style as a movie script is really interesting:

This is definitely a movie of Taylor’s story and she’s the narrator. The song itself also references a movie being made with ‘the actors hitting their marks and the tears were falling in synchronicity with the score’. A lot of film references. The whole album has a lot of references in the lyrics to film titles, good post here.

So is this about the ATW10 short film or a film that’s yet to come? She says on the first page that the scene is set inside the Tortured Poets Department at night and the person reading the manuscript is part of the scene (she vs I at the end) whereas Taylor is the voice over narrator. She also presenting ‘the entire torrid affair’, not just one relationship, all of it, the ENTIRE story. So, it feels more like a memoir or a documentary film to me than a short film. And I don’t know what this is an advert for but TN shared it to their story yesterday (it’s very film-coded):

There’s a TTPD bus outside what looks like a movie theatre, and the billboard looks to be showing the ‘story of us’ scene from the fortnight mv. (There’s also what looks like Stark tower in the background with a monster/crocodile. No idea why but it stood out to me🤷🏻‍♀️)

#the tortured poets department #taylor swift #gaylor #gaylor theory

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Boq is somehow both a lesbian and a gay man.

We love a blorbo who can multitask 😌

If wicked isn’t gay than what is this

#wicked

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I know I shouldn’t be so upset about this but it pisses me off when people use the term “asexual” to describe a lack of romantic attraction or just assuming all asexuals lack romantic attraction because for me it’s like using the term “lactose intolerant” to describe an allergy to polyester.

#lgbt #asexual

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THINKING ABOUT HER

#taylor swift #the eras tour

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I love them so bad. Girlfriends in every universe

#the owl house #lumity

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I implore Kaylors to take a step back and know that any swiftie who thinks reputation is about toe will not be able to understand the many layers of this new album and I wouldn’t expect them to. There’s alot to unpack it took years for us to fully understand reputation. Don’t be bogged down by the people saying “this is what this song is about” and talking in an overtly arrogant way as if there’s only ever one layer to a song. Each song and lyric are about multiple things at once. When they don’t understand something they attach their own meaning to it but that does not necessarily make that true.

#taylor swift #karlie kloss #kaylor #gaylor #the tortured poets department

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april 27, 2008 | sixteen years ago today

taylor swift and karlie kloss met for the very first time while at the young hollywood awards

andrew bevan later confirmed he introduced taylor to both emma stone and karlie at the same time

#oh wow! #i knew we suspected them as meeting before 2014 but i didn't know tay pretty much confirmed it! #taylor swift #karlie kloss #kaylor #gaylor

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"Quick, quick

Tell me something awful

Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy"

Do we need anymore proof that Karlie Kloss is the love of Taylor Swift's life?

#taylor swift #karlie kloss #gaylor #kaylor #gaylor theory

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I can’t imagine not viewing this album through a queer lens

#gaylor #taylor swift #the tortured poets department

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So, the visual for Robin on Spotify is long grass rustling. This is probably a reference to "way to go, tiger" and all the tiger imagery Taylor has been invoking the last few years.

When people think of tigers, their first thoughts are usually of them as hunters, big cats, whatever . . . but one of the most distinctive features of the tiger is its stripes. That's what they're really known for. And those stripes exist as a camoflage mechanism - to allow them to blend into long grass and move through the world unseen.

It's not an accident that the visual Taylor chose to accompany a song about her little tiger, is of grass moving while something invisible passes through. This whole song is just screaming that it's about a child who is hidden in plain sight.

I do use Spotify so I did not know where to find the visual. If someone wants to add it or send the link in I would appreciate it.

#taylor swift #karlie kloss #kaylor #gaylor #gaylor theory

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#the tortured poets department #taylor swift

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#aphrodite #greek mythology #moodboard

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one of my favorite movie of all time

#dead poets society #anderperry #moodboard