I feel like the main reason why people dislike Taylor Swift is because they believe in that “She only sings about her relationships”¹/“She’s immature”² or something of the sort.
But honestly, ¹ they haven’t listened to most other tracks of hers. People often just listen to popular tracks/‘TikTok’ songs and they come across Blank Space, Shake it Off, Wildest Dreams, or even ME!, Cardigan, etc. Have they ever listened to Afterglow, Daylight, New Year’s Day, Wonderland, Peace, Hoax, Happiness or Coney Island? Probably not. These unappreciated songs also show her maturity ²
Most of the other reasons could simply be that they think she ‘tries to bring others down’ (which is basically the opposite of what actually happened to her)
Like, seriously—it was never her who tried to start a feud with West or Kardashian. Is it that hard so believe?
Or maybe some people are too delusional. Or they dislike her for standing up for herself. Or they don’t want women to get equal rights.
What is there to not like about her? Her maturity, her glowing smile, her writing, her personality!
She baked cookies for her fans (and her father bought pizzas for fans waiting for her Good Morning America interview in the morning), sang to sick children in a hospital, didn't just say she supports the LGBTQIA+ community, but proved it by starting a petition and through her song You Need To Calm Down, but obviously the media found her relationships more interesting than this.
How is her love life anyone else’s matter to gossip about?
These are a few of her beautiful lyrics which show her maturity over the years and how it’s not always the other one who is at blame:
I can't make it go away by making you a villain
I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in Heaven
And I pulled your body into mine
Every goddamn night, now I get fake niceties
No one teaches you what to do
When a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him too
—happiness
After giving you the best I had
Tell me what to give after that
All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness
You haven't met the new me yet
And I think she'll give you that
—happiness
I blew things out of proportion, now you're blue
Put you in jail for something you didn't do
I pinned your hands behind your back, oh
Thought I had reason to attack, but no
Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves
Chemistry 'til it blows up, 'til there's no us
Why'd I have to break what I love so much?
It's on your face, and I'm to blame, I need to say
Hey
It's all me in my head
I'm the one who burned us down
But it's not what I meant
Sorry that I hurt you
I don't wanna do, I don't wanna do this to you
I don't wanna lose, I don't wanna lose this with you
I need to say, hey
It's all me, just don't go
Meet me in the afterglow
—Afterglow
(Honestly, the whole of Afterglow would be more accurate)
There is also the issue of people saying that ‘she goes through men too swiftly’
Now, why would you even say that? Is it your right to judge her actions? How is wearing something that shows your knees a sign of wanting attention from men? Why can’t she wear anything she wants to?
It's not like she’ll find the one at once. Maybe she doesn’t want to settle down. It’s her choice, who are you to decide what she should do?
Now she has been with someone for a long time, and she actually seems happy.
Another admirable trait of hers is that she doesn’t sing anyone else’s songs or let anyone else take credit for her songs.
Every song of hers contains her own writing, and collaboration with her friends or alliances if not so. But she never took credit for something that isn’t hers.
This was not to offend anyone. Just something from my own perspective.
So here goes the question: do you like Taylor Swift? Why?
And as TS very wisely said,
And we see you over there on the internet
Comparing all the girls who are killing it
But we figured you out
We all know now, we all got crowns
You need to calm down
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Unexpected Baggage Pt 3
Erik left the bar with three cooling bodies inside, hands tucked into his pocket as the door shut itself behind him.
Kamala was watching him carefully, positioned far away from the windows. He had asked her to wait outside, but he knew she had heard everything. Whether she could speak German or not, the gunshot and screams and blood splatters should be enough context for her to know what happened.
"I know..." He started off uncomfortably, "I know you have nowhere else to go. But that had to be done. The things they've done- you can't imagine."
"It happens, I guess." She replied dully, "Not, not really my place to say, is it? I just want Monica back."
Right. The woman named Monica Rambeau, who Kamala had come from the future to rescue.
"I have no idea how to do that." He admitted, "Searching the entire world is... An impossible task. But I'll try to figure out a way."
Kamala nodded, and briskly began walking away from the bar, "Let's get out of here. You get any information from the Nazis that I didn't hear?"
"He's in Miami." Erik replied, following after her.
"The... Herr Doktor guy or some other person connected to him?" Her question was disinterested, but he knew she was just pretending at it.
"It's Schmidt." He confirmed, and didn't add Finally, but the bitter excitement still poured through.
"He work for HYDRA?"
"Huh?"
Kamala nodded, readjusting her grip on her bag, "HYDRA, scientific weapons development division of Nazi Germany? They took over an American counter-terrorism wing after WW2. Huge scandal when the documents all got leaked. My friend Bruno and I learned cryptography to help decode them."
All this she delivered in quick expressionless monologue, and then tacking on, "Or, you know. Things could have gone differently in this dimension."
But too many details were lining up perfectly in his mind.
"Well." Erik decided, "Good thing America is our next stop."
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Slippery slope fallacy is a fallacy I just personally was already like this way before I found an outlet or communities to try to control and co-exist with myself.
Like. The first time I considered killing someone was at ≈10 or 11 probably. First fetish stuff came earlier. What puritans don't want to realize is that a lot of people just have stuff that may or may not be viable to act on within their personality. I mean, they would realize it if they didn't indiscriminately act on strange saviour complexes and entitled ideas and the desire to hurt other people behind a shield of social justice etc etc but I digress.
Everyone deserves safe and healthy outlets for their feelings and thoughts. And it's not because sex is nasty or because rage is evil. It's because sometimes you want to cry and complain but you know your friend is busy with their own nightmarish issues. You write about it. You call your boss a bitch. You say you hope your mother in law dies in a car wreck. You draw yourself drowning cause that's what the pain feels like right now. You listen to music with powerfully dark lyrics. You punch a pillow or roll up balls of paper and throw them all over. It's not just pain, either. You cannot just give everyone everything all the time. You'll hurt them, or they'll hurt you; you need time with yourself. Read a story. Make a scarf. It doesn't matter if there's blood and guts involved so long as you are safe and not endangering anyone without their consent. You have a crush on your teacher and your friends tell you its gross. Doodle something, related or not. Draft a long mean text to your insensitive friends and don't send it. Just keep it. Or delete it. Doesn't matter.
How it must hurt to deny yourself catharsis; to feel watched and judged even in your thoughts and feelings. How fucking heartbreaking. You don't deserve that, even if you personally are a total asswipe of a person. So stop doing it to yourself. Dance like no one's watching. Cause I promise you, they aren't. And it wouldn't matter anyway. It's not their business. Stop letting people grab away your sketchbook and feeling like YOU should be ashamed of what you make there and not them for the violation of privacy. Stop letting people convince you you must be under constant scrutiny lest you suddenly turn cartoonishky evil. Just stop.
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Random Jason Hijinks I either wish would happen someday or find amusing to think about.
Rose and Jason break Eddie out of hell and steal his soul back from Neron. Jaime is dragged along by Rose because he and Eddie were “friends a few reboots ago”. Jason asked Roy who sent him Connor who is suffering™.
Pre-Red Hood Jason and Pre-Green Arrow Connor first meet up back when Jason was part of the All-Caste hunting a demon. It’s a one-shot adventure and the things you have to know are:
a) this is before Jason’s growth spurt so he’s over a head shorter than Connor.
b) Connor isn’t a cape so excuse him for not understanding demons and fucking up hilariously a few times.
c) When Jason tries to kill the demon who is possessing the human, he and Connor fight about it. The fight ends when the demon explodes out of the person like the Pus of Man from Dark Souls 3.
d) Talia is the one who finds and picks up Jason from the adventure (Connor thinks she’s his mom and Jason just didn’t inherit the melanin) and is also the one who gives Connor contact information for Jason because she wants him to have some sort of friend.
e) They never actually learned the other’s name so anytime they’d hear about Red Hood or Green Arrow they literally don’t know it’s that guy they met as teenagers.
Jason decides to actually dust off his mystic training when Dick walks in and Jason gets hit with so many bad vibes he’s genuinely worried something is wrong with Dick.
Jason: “Did they not fix the Brother Blood mind control thing fully? Did Raven miss something? Isn’t Dick friends with a million people? How have they all missed this????”
It ends with bringing Danny Chase back to life and the only person remotely happy about it is Jason and even that’s a stretch.
Rose, why are you part of the Wild Hunt?!!!
What do you mean Biz got taken by the fae?!
Roy, why is this werewolf saying he’s your husband?!
Eddie, why didn’t you tell me you were a prince of hell? What do you mean that one of Trigon’s sons is buried in Gotham?!!! No wait, you still haven’t told me how you’re a prince of hell!
Jason and Talia's road trip where Jason comes to the uncomfortable realization that he views Talia as a mother/aunt figure.
Bonus Artemis suffering Jason’s Mom Has it Going On.
Jason gets a new dog named Ellie and he loves her and Dog very much. What do you mean she’s a Blue Lantern!?
Ellie is short for Elpis and she’s absolutely Hope Corgi.
Roy finds out that he has a whole-ass checking account under one of his aliases that he never knew about. Turns out Jason created it for him years ago and Roy’s actually under W.E. employed as an independent contractor and he’s been making 6 figures for years because Jason never bothered telling anyone that he still owns Wayne R&D.
Jason slowly but surely claims Park Row and the surrounding areas as his territory. It has the unforeseen consequence of magical folk moving into the neighborhood because Gotham is a nightmare to live in normally, Magic Gotham is even worse and the only people who can survive are big hitters like Blood, Zatanna, and Ivy or small fries like the kitchen witch near Leslie’s. Welcome to the big leagues, Jason.
Jason keeps getting mistaken for Jason Blood and it is annoying. One day some demon hunters threw something at Jason and did anyone know Jason used to be in heaven because he sure didn’t and these angel wings are a fucking nightmare.
Rose busts a gut laughing because she somehow became friends with the least demon-y demon Eddie and Jason as an angel.
Jason, Ivy, Sideways, and Impulse (Impulse voice: “Why am I even here?”) vs the Madness Wavelength in Arkham.
Jason kills Joker and finds out that he cannot. Not as in “He doesn’t die” or “There will be a new one” but a secret third option, “The universe literally resets the day every time he’s killed.” Instead of being a tragedy, it becomes a comedy as killing Joker slowly becomes Jason’s go-to when shit goes wrong/killing him is good stress relief. Stephanie discovers what happens because she’s had to write the same essay nine times once. Instead of being horrified they (and then Helena, Tim, Duke, etc.) make killing Joker a gag. The only ones not allowed to kill the Joker are Dick and Bruce because then the universe decides it’s the bad timeline instead of just resetting again.
Tim: *drops his latte on a hot guy and then embarrasses himself in public trying to apologize and becomes a meme.*
Tim: I guess I have to kill Joker now.
Jason and Kory remeeting and wow it’s really awkward that we only got close because of a universe meddler and then you dipped and never contacted me again even though I was a hundred percent serious that you were one of my first friends and are very important to me.
Oh no. Not the talking. Not communication! Kory take mercy on me and just drop me like a bad memory don’t have us open a dialogue where we reconcile all of the bullshit that happened to us and the fact that we did genuinely get close at very low points in our lives and be willing to try and be friends again!
Give! Kory! All! The! Friends! She doesn’t care if you think it’s a bad idea, it's her life!
Gotham Vigilante Tabletop Club (GVTC) featuring Jason, Tim, Stephanie, Duke, Helena, and Harper. They each get a turn as dm and every one of them brings in a different game.
Why is Damian’s friend (Colin) asking me for love advice? I’m a gay disaster ask anyone else please. ??? I guess I can try to help??? Who’s your crush?
It’s Lian and Jason regrets agreeing to help because Roy is going to murder him.
Countdown 2 Electric Boogaloo. Except for this time they were all shoved into the dimension separately and by separate events and there is no danger. It is just a multiversal road trip with the people who vexed you greatly but are slightly grown up now.
Bonus scene includes Jason’s gleeful face when he realizes he understands what all of those words Donna keeps muttering under her breath mean because Artemis was a bro and taught him Themysciran Greek.
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