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I’m very busy with my summer job at the science center rn, so please enjoy these pictures of the littlest man

#the cassandra speaks #he LOVED to stare at ppl

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lemme just

#ttpdminutes hype 🤍

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as more and more of taylor’s peers come out in support of palestine while she remains silent, peers who have smaller platforms and more to lose by taking a stance at that, i just become increasingly disgusted with her and her decision to remain silent. for once in your life, stand up for something that doesn’t directly benefit you or help you sell your brand in some way. stand up for something because it’s the right thing to do regardless of how your support is received by the public.

#taylor swift #palestine

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i need to write an analysis on peter today but my brain is very tired ;w; plus i start summer job tomorrow, so we'll see what (if anything) i can manage to write

#the cassandra speaks

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Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul

#taylor swift #ttpd #cassandra ttpd

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and what if i said i saved mastermindmp3 as a url...

#the cassandra speaks #ive been WANTING a mastermind themed url but im also so attached to queendomkey #thinking thinking thinking

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which song on ttpd have you listened to the most??

#the bolter or the prophecy #tag games

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Oh, misery, misery! Again comes on me The terrible labor of true prophecy, dizzying prelude.

- Robert Fagles' translation of Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Cassandra is a song about a universal truth: the warning unheard, and the people who do the warning.

There are many, many variations on the myth of Cassandra, the prophet whose visions were always true, but never believed. In all of them, she is the daughter of the King and Queen of Troy.

Aeschylus said she promised the god Apollo to marry him in exchange for her prophetic powers. When she later walked back that promise, Apollo cursed her to never be believed. Hygneius sources say Cassandra never promised anything, and that the gift of prophecy was only given as an attempt to win her affection. When it did not succeed, Apollo cursed Cassandra. Men who do things for you expecting to be rewarded in sex: a tale as old as time.

Even later versions cut Apollo entirely - instead, Cassandra fell asleep in a temple, and snakes whispered prophecies into ears, giving her this power to foretell the future. In all versions, this power cannot save her. After the fall of Troy, Cassandra is kidnapped by Agamemnon as a concubine and later killed by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra (or her lover, depending on whose telling the tale.)

I don't think Swift is directly mapping her experience to the myth in Cassandra, the song. Instead, the prophetess is a metaphor. It is all about the ways that public opinion is swayed by the first voice it hears, even if the truth comes out later.

The myth of Cassandra has become shorthand in the modern understanding for someone whose warning was correct, but not heeded. Swift's Cassandra, while pulling from this cultural consciousness, is much more concerned with Cassandra as a person; Swift depicts a very personal picture of her narrator, who clearly relates to the Prophetess.

It is empathy, all the way down.

The song itself is very clear with its imagery: Swift's narrator is "patching up the crack along the wall," repairing a small damage, when the unnamed family come along and burn her life down. So, she turns her "smiles into snarls," pacing with pain in her heart and venom whispered in her ears by snakes. The Narrator watches as the world realizes she was right, and then, she throws their image of perfect puritans in their face.

Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul.

It's all very I told you, you should have listened to me. And clearly, now that the truth is out, and it's cool to hate the ones she's held in her ire for years, Swift's narrator gives herself a little bit of room to say:

Do you believe me now?

It's almost very funny that I'm discussing this today - there has been a recent uproar about, specifically, scientific paper mills that exist to make money, as opposed to actually conduct research. To what end? Credentialing is a whole thing, but it's basically buying legitimacy. Scientific fraud is definitely not what this song is about, but the fact that truth tellers are so ignored in favor of profit or not shaking the status quo.

Swift loves a universal truth, and anyone who warns of duplicity is liable to be lambasted. Swift says to them - you were right, justified, and allows anyone in that position to feel both the grief and pride.

New hot take: Cassandra is the song for Retraction Watch nerds (me) and Brian Deer. I'm only partially being facetious.

#ttpdminutes #the cassandra speaks #Cassandra ttpd #cassandra ts #analysis #this is... kinda barely analysis and more a sort of.... i dunno. #an examination on how. universal it is. #the morning warning unheard...

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ok i said i was gonna hop off but I just realized N1 in Zurich is MY BIRTHDAY and the #113th show....

#woman who hasn't updated her passport in year: i could get to zurich #the cassandra speaks #i return back to my nap xoxo

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ok i have to stop blogging to write xoxo i love u swifties in my phone

#the cassandra speaks #if u see me again spray me w/ water

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taylor swift tales: last kiss

#gif #art #speak now #last kiss #oh this is gorgeous

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meme of all time

^ me for all 2hr 2min of ttpd (with a small dance break during So High School)

#the cassandra speaks #camerabitchsmile #answered #BUT ESP CASSANDRA. BLOODS THICK! BUT NOTHING LIKE A PAYROLL!

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hi Cassandra (aka TTP: TA track 27)

LKSDFGKLFDS Taylor rlly truly wrote this for ME and I'm thankful for it

#the cassandra speaks #answered #camerabitchsmile

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tomorrow's minutes is for ME

#the cassandra speaks #named cassandra have literally played cassandra in agamemnon #FOR ME!!! #dsgkfds im being facetious obviously

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Cassandra Imploring the Vengeance of Minerva against Ajax by Jérome Martin Langlois the Younger / "Cassandra" by Taylor Swift

#cassandra #art history

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thanks to the multiple people who submitted this (so clearly it’s not THAT unpopular)! i am always accepting more unpopular opinions. send them in.

#worst is obviously a subjective opinion #but for me i think it'll always be reptuation #there are too many songs on rep that rub me the wrong way OR (more prominently) i only enjoy their live performances #versus midnights i can listen clean through with only one skip (bigger than the whole sky) #polls #opinion #someone in the tags described Midnights as having highest highs and lowest lows but for me thats Rep iM SORRY

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maybe i SHOULD publish the post i wrote about the asylum line in who's afraid, actually

#my main point in it was just. asking people to have more empathy and both criticizing and defending the line #i wish it were different but also i understand exactly what is being said by it #but also i wrote it BEFORE we had the live performance of TTPD where swift doubled down on the institutionalization imagery #which very much turned me off from posting that analysis #the cassandra speaks #ask to tag ? #discourse tw #idk what else to tag this as? #negative in the tags