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who’s afraid of little old me? I was tame, I was gentle.

‘til the circus life made me mean. Don’t you worry folks.

we took out all his teeth. Who’s afraid of little old me.

you should be.

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? by Taylor Swift

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the line "I'm so depressed I act like it's my birthday everyday" is so brilliant because when you're depressed, you make excuses the same way you do when it's your birthday (I don't have to clean or exercise on my birthday, I can eat cake for all my meals on my birthday, I can stay in bed and do nothing all day because it's my birthday). And when it is your birthday, it's fine to have an off day of celebration. But when it's everyday, it goes from indulgence to self-neglect. But then the line itself seems so joyful "it's my birthday everyday" gives such a positive vibe, which makes the true meaning even more sad and sinister

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forgive me for being this dark. but all these people saying Taylor Swift is too perfect and too privileged to suffer would have pitied her and championed her as an underdog if she had successfully killed herself like she said she wanted to over and over on TTPD.

Movies would have been made about the last few years leading up to her death, they’d make theories about whose fault it REALLY is, they’d shame and scold each other for how they treated her, comparing her to Marilyn Monroe and Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. And she would be dead just the same. And they would learn nothing.

They’re playing Drown The Witch. If she lives, her life isn’t that bad. If she dies, oh my god, she was suffering, we should’ve known.

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as someone who's been through lesbian situationship this is so true

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people confused if songs are about matty or joe but the “went from an oven to a microwave” is pretty cut clear that they both hurt her in similar ways and that the songs are muddled and confusing cause it was confusing for her. we never fully know which one she’s talking about cause they both hurt her so similarly she can weave the pain together

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wait hi let's revisit that maroon mention that was insane

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Hoax was the blueprint for ttpd (messy, blurry lines between multiple muses, confusing, lore to be unpacked for centuries to come)

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i think a lot of people are missing the point of the songs. the person behind the pronoun keeps changing. she’s expressing her feelings about joe via matty. for example in fortnight imo “all of this to say, i hope you’re okay, but you’re the reason, and no one here's to blame, but what about your quiet treason?” is about joe and then “and for a fortnight, there we were, forever running, till you sometimes ask about the weather, now you’re in my backyard, turned into good neighbors” is about matty, and the “i love you, it’s ruining my life” is about both of them. also, based on your interpretation, you could switch people around to fit these songs because it seems they’re a lot alike… a lot of what she’s trying to say is “what happened between us [her & joe] drove me to be insane” and the insane part happened with matty, hence, he’s in all these songs. i think we need to think of these songs in hoax light aka about 2 or people at once

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i can picture john mayer one hour and fifty nine minutes into tortured poets. he’s about to let out a sigh of relief. he hears taylor singing about his french press.

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wendy (by maisie peters) is about choosing to not stick around for peter

peter (by taylor swift) is what happens when wendy sticks around and peter doesn’t

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Taylor calls herself crazy all throughout TTPD, but maybe I’m just as insane because I actually think she’s quite normal? Because if I ended a once happy 8 year relationship because the love was gone and we were both no longer in love to then get with a situation-ship who has been pinning for you for years only for them to abandon you when they finally got you, I’d commit full arson.

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So true

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not ethan hawke and josh charles being in the fortnight music video after all my freinds laughed at me for telling them that the tortured poets departement might have something to do with dead poets society

anyway off to go rewatch the movie lmao

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Words cannot describe how obsessed I am with the Fortnight music video.

DR ANDERSON

DR OVERSTREET

LIKE WHAT?!?!

Taylor is feeding my DPS feral brain

My film nerd brain also wants to know more about how it was filmed, the filters used for the black and white effect like is that in post or was it filmed like that??

The costumes ugghhh that black dress when she's sat at the typewriter 😍

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There's a super famous singing festival in italy that airs for a week every year. This year, one of the singers, Ghali, did some very remarkable things on that stage. Ghali was born in Italy from Tunisian parents, his career has been going on for a while, but this was his first time on that stage.

He made a song where he references Palestine where he sings: "how can you say everything is fine down here, where in order to trace borders with imaginary lines you bomb an hospital, for a piece of land or for a piece of bread there is no peace" . He also did a medley, singing also in arabic for the first time in the history of the festival.

Last night, during the final, he ended his performance asking to "stop the genocide!" I don't have to tell you that there's absolutely nothing pro-Palestine on italian media... and he used the biggest stage he could use to say that.

Today on a tv programme he was accused by the Isra*li ambassador of spreading hate and violence, to which he replied with those words in the following video (credits to the person who translated it here):

The italian TV broadcaster quickly posted a press release to distance themselves from this speech and to reiterate their whole support to Isr*el lol Towards the end of this tv programme, a few hours after Ghali said what you can hear in this video, they read the press release out loud. This is how Isra*li propaganda works everywhere, thanks to the complicity of our governments.

Just want to post about him because he really risked it all and I appreciate him incredibly for everything he did...if only everyone could do the same. And fuck italy and its fascist government.

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diamogli una botta in testa deve rinsavire

#letteralmente anche se non volessero farli essere una coppia potevano almeno mantenere la loro amicizia #invece hanno un'interazione a puntata ma che cazzo mi rappresenta #vivono pure insieme e riescono a non avere scene insieme ma seriamente? #un professore

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persone riguarderanno la scena tra manuel e simone sotto casa di nina e piangeranno di nuovo pensando a quanto li abbiano fatti allontanare + a come abbiano trasformato manuel + a quanto stia soffrendo simo balestra (io sono persone)

#io in lacrime #un professore