New Photo of Taylor Back Stage(VMA’s)
(Could it possibly be much more than that?)
IMMEDIATELY gave me Deja vu
To Lover era
Looking through this exact pose with a glass, brought me this gem: (also from the lover era)
And her lovely many poses specifically in front of the MEN part of the background:
Clearly this was purposely done since other award winners didn’t care enough to make the picture specifically fit that area:
Wether or not this photo from the VMAs backstage was “leaked” doesn’t concern me, what concerns me is that Taylor posed for the photo back stage, knowing that it would be out to the public a few months later at max.
I know it’s a reach but it almost seems like she’s trying to get us to remember the very reason we have hope.
The lover era.
By posing exactly like that she’s reminding us of a very specific moment in her career for her sexuality. Assuming she knew about her lovely beard-to-be (Tomato Ketchup), she was making sure that we wouldn’t lose hope in the fact that she will be out to the public eventually. I’d like to say in the near future because of her constant hinting at Karma being an album, and her soft launch of her and karlie’s friendship again.
Anyways that’s my two cents, take it or leave it. :)
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There is an old folk song that is sung in Exandria. It goes by a lot of titles--In Marquet it’s commonly known as The Liar’s Love, while natives of Xhorhas would know it as The Fey Groom, and the elves of Syngorn’s version has a title that translates to “The Sacrifice of Truth for Love.”
This is one bard’s rendition of the song in Common, as accompanied by ukulele.
(Best with headphones! With credit for the original idea to @ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods and the original characters to @quiddie and Sam Riegel. Album art generated by Craiyon.)
Lyrics below the cut.
Refrain:
This sordid scene, my love, we're in, oh,
We're in for a scar
And yet tonight by morning light
I'll fall for you once more.
Verse 1:
There once was a fey who chanced one day
From lands so wild and strange
For stories told worth more than gold
Exandria's face would change.
Among the clouds a city bright
And there its beating heart
Did kindle love within his own
For her he'd craft his art.
Verse 2:
A vision clear did guide his dear
With this its one refrain
Her city’d rise beyond the skies
And loose its mortal chain
Beneath the streets his love did seek
Her dream at any cost,
But fortune claimed its pound of flesh,
A friend too soon was lost.
Verse 3:
The fey saw true that if they knew,
Her legacy’d be blight
And so he lied to deftly hide
Her deeds from public sight.
And though his heart was ever hers,
Her work, for now, meant more
She’d fix them soon when she was done
So he walked out the door.
Verse 4:
And soon an hour of arcane pow’r
Was finally at hand
For on that night, with her Leywright
She’d make them understand
But one thing more stood in her way
Her masterpiece abjured
She struck it down, and with that spell
Calamity ensured.
Verse 5:
And with her sin the fiends poured in
With death and fire and hate,
But one last spell at ruin’s knell
Might change Exandria’s fate.
His healing words would keep her hale,
Her spellwork holding fast,
And at the heart they’d both go down
Her work complete at last.
Refrain:
This sordid scene, my love, we're in, oh,
We're in for a scar
And yet tonight by morning light
I'll fall with you once more.
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more Aphrodite and her mortal lover por favor? *hopeful eyes*
Of COURSE! Me encanta escribir esta historia.
How about a nice little POV switch, hm?
She is as lovely the poets paint her. As the bards sing her to be.
My lady is warm as sun-blessed honey, swift-running and golden as the very voice she beholds. Even in her mortal form, the very one that drew me in like a frail moth to a flickering flame, her eyes shine blue as the cresting sea: now light, and now dark. The bubbles of the tide are painted into the hue, white flecks that could very well be misplaced stars in the sky of broad daylight.
Her olive skin glints like bronze, the corn color of her hair flowing down it as a stream tumbles down gentle rocks of a cliff. Her hands, small and smooth, with lightly visible veins, twist and fly through the air as we dance with one another. The rosy dawn cannot hold a candle to the flush on her high cheeks, as plush and pink as the roses that grow where I would come to lay.
We run, through a field of rustling grain, wind whistling as it blows through each strand. The bright sky begins to rumble, a horde of swelling clouds growing dark, moving in towards us. We know of the drops, of the cold tears that will fall when those cotton clumps swarm our once-vast, shrinking skies.
She turns, enough to tilt her teasing form towards me, and extends a hand. It curls out, her graceful wrist like the neck of a sweet swan, bending just so to lay her paled palm flat. An invitation.
When I take it, she laughs, laughs, and it is of falling feathers, snow white and soft. It is the unfurling petals of a waking blossom, and the scent of apples in the breeze. She is perfect, though I did not think a word to exist.
My Aphrodite guides me, out bare feet leaping and landing upon soft earth, the soil that will soon be damp with water from the domain of my love's familiar, lord of cloud. Was he chasing us, pursuing us then? I could not say, for I thought of no one but her. Though I did not think so. We were small and unimportant to such a great gaze, especially then. To us, the world was not ours, nor were we owned. We simply were.
She led me gently over a hollow log, dark and soft with impending rot, and we were there.
Together we tumbled backwards, as she tugged me into her embrace and we landed upon the spongey moss that cushioned our fall. I laughed, then, louder than before. Giggles that shook us both, holding fast and clutching one another gently, for we knew neither of us would escape.
Mortals fear gods will come to them in forms of doves, of oxen or bulls, in showers of light. Some fear gods will leave them the same ways. I did not feel weary of either. My dearest was many things, but I knew her, for how little we had been acquainted.
The skies rumbled again, vibrating deep within the earth. The sound of the rain began to approach earshot, incessant white noise of the showering pull. It smelled of rain.
A fig tree loomed over us, shielding the remaining sun and the imminent rain from our skins, and casting the gentle comfort of its matronly power over us.
I pressed my face into her neck, her soft locks like myrtles crushed beneath my cheek. She let me nuzzle my nose into the underside of her jaw, feeling out the sweet concavity of the bone. I kissed the space there, where tongue tissue connected with the muscle inside of her mouth.
She hummed, contentedly. "My dear," she spoke, so smoothly and with such ease that it would have brought tears to my eyes at the loveliness. "If we do not return to your home soon, we will be caught in the haze of the storm."
I chuckled. "You do not think I hope for such?"
She was quiet, but even I could feel the grin spread on her lips. She need not say a word, just the buzz of the laugh in her throat was enough for me.
The clouds consumed the sky, and drops dripped from their vastness, dropping down and rolling like sips of water down thirsty throats. The chilly tears landed sweetly upon us, one by one, dissonantly. I tipped my chin up to watch her blink a drop from her dark lashes.
"Do you truly look like this?" I asked.
She was curious. Not surprised, simply curious.
"The way you see me?" She closed her eyes, in place of where a head shake would be. "No."
"No?"
She laughed, a songbird's throaty call. "I appear differently to every mortal. But I know how they see me." Aphrodite cast me a knowing glance. "Blonde, and blue eyed? That is your peak of beauty?"
I flushed. "Like the ocean, and the sand over which it drapes."
She snorted. "Like the children of Zeus."
My hand flew up and swatted her shoulder gently, her body rocking harder with larger giggles. "Oh, please, my lady. Do not scorn me."
"I do not, love." My Aphrodite laughed. "I simply wonder what beauty is to you."
"You are beauty to me," I replied, much too quickly to have been untrue. "In whatever form you may take."
She paused, but there was no word to speak, no comment to mutter. She simply was, and so I was, too. Silence enveloped us, the comfortable and easy quiet that cupped us so gently.
At last, she spoke.
"I do have a true form." Aphrodite said.
I waited. "You do?"
"Yes." She spoke, simply.
Perhaps I could have said a million things: show me, or what shape does your hair hold? Or asked if she even had hair.
But I did not. I did not say any of those, or anything close.
"Good." I said, because it was the only thing I needed to say.
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Pearls
If you haven’t been living under a rock you’ve probably noticed how obsessed with pearls society has been lately, now that aside I wanted to bring up this post I saw earlier, and tie in some very recent things we’ve seen from Karlie and Taylor: (go heart their post again for me <3) Here’s a screenshot of what I’m referring too:
Not only do we have all this dropping pearls imagery, but we have Karlie wearing this to the met gala not too long ago:
Also this month from karlie this bracelet that couldn’t be seen from this angle in any posts before this one, posted 4 days after the first:
Unsurprisingly I don’t think Taylor could say no to this necklace, (although I do understand it was sentimental towards Phoebe because she’s gonna miss her on tour): (once again go check out their posts they’re so good)
Looks suspiciously like it was designed to look a little pearlescent, huh?
The charm itself is called the ‘Give You the Moon Charm’
Which brings me up to the relatively hidden moon lyrics we’ve gotten since lover:
Seldom, but still there and the moon is obviously out at midnight. Aka the time this whole 10th album revolves around.
What is it they always say? It’s always darkest before the dawn? Or Til’ dawn should I say?
I’m not saying she’s coming out, we all know there’s so many things that she would have to overcome in order to be able to do that smoothly. I’m just saying, what happens when the dawn comes?
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