#what tracks are you claiming?

[number-onekidqueen]

TTPD (and rep?) Theories

Come with me as I clown and theorise some things.

1. Ok, let’s start off with some things that I’m actually quite sure of (maybe?). I am fairly positive that the music video released at 8pm EST, will be fortnight. And maybe it will be the first single. Why you ask? Well-

Firstly, using the video she posted today as evidence the first scene is presumably her office. There we have a CD of midnights and four of the special addition vinyls. Midnights is her tenth album.

Now if we remember back to school, and that handy addition, four plus ten would be fourteen. Hence, a fortnight.

Next, on the planning board where she wrote the news we have fourteen tally’s beneath it. Need I say more?

2. Here comes some of my dicier theories. I think somehow four will be a factor in some way. I’m not exactly sure how, but it will. There are four versions of TTPD (the manuscript, the bolter, the albatross and the black dog), there were four stars on the notice board, and there were four cds. Now four and 2 seem to be commonly occurring. Which leads me to think, what if there was a double album release. I know people have said this before, and I’m probably delulu, BUT the cd nearest to the camera was black, you had to get through black before you got to the TTPD office. And it would tie in with no explanation just reputation.

Don’t ask me for dates, idk 😭. Something to do with 4 I guess?

The only solid theory I had was that it was related to the fortnight theory again. If the release date of rep tv was released 4hrs before or after or 4 days or gosh even the day of, and then it actually got released a fortnight later that would be 3/5 (or 5/3 for Americans), which is actually the age she’s turning this year, and it might tie up the fact that she’s getting back her reputation this year as she comes halfway through her thirties.

And also just a random thought, maybe 14 and fortnight is significant especially in this album, because 13 has always been her and her lucky number, and fourteen was plus Joe who was the extra 1, the 1 for her until she wasn’t.

That or there are four singles, or extra songs will come out at 4am EST or there’ll be 4 extra songs.

Will this come true? Who knows, that’s how I’m feeling about it ^^.

That’s all I have for now, but i wished everyone happy clowning. And when TTPD comes, remember tissues and maybe even some chocolate.

#Taylor swift #the tortured poets department #TTPD #clowning #again #ttpd theories #taylor swift theories #taylor swift 2024 #ts #what tracks are you claiming? #mine are loml and so long London #this album will be the end of me in the best way #also ill be on a road trip when its released so that will be super fun

[stuckinapril]

I’m happy for the little life I built for myself

#there’s a lot of ways to go #i am nowhere NEAR the dream life I really want to attain #or the dream person I want to be #but high school me #hell even freshman in college me #would GAWK at the life I have so deliberately made happen. #the solid network of friends I have #the confidence I’m slowly but surely growing into #the discipline I’m harvesting bit by bit. i do not claim perfection but I am 100% improving #I’m just happy idk! i don’t compare myself at all now bc I know I’m on the right track #especially compared to where I was like 5 years ago. such a different mind state from now #and no one can take that away from me #there’s a lot more to go. a lot more. but I thought I’d pause and be intentionally grateful for what has been accomplished #bc it actually puts things into perspective to look at the past rather than just look to the present. it creates contentment #i get so caught up being hard on myself for not accomplishing certain things yet #that I forget I pulled myself out of such a deep rut by the skin of my teeth #and that’s important to keep in mind even as you progress to your goals #anyway <333 happy content in my own lane etc etc #p

[mymarifae]

stupid fucking titty window distracted me on my first few watches (don,xt talk to me ok) but he has his hand held behind his back here... clutching his chips for dear life.. hiding the way he's shaking.........

#oh kakavasha for a guy who actively risks his life in hopes that something will finally just fucking kill him #and who is so sure of the value of his life (nothing) you sure are very scared to die huh #think it's like. he wants to die because he doesn't want this life and given his track record it seems death is his only way out #but he wants A life #but he doesn't really believe that's possible at this point so he just gets more and more reckless #how far can he go until his lucky streak finally runs out...? #but he wants a life!!!!! why can't his luck ever give him the opportunity to claim his freedom and have A LIFE!!!!! #also he's just like. scared. natural fears #he doesn't want it to hurt. he doesn't want to suffer more right before he breathes his last breath #and he's scared of the unknown aspect of it. what's after this? where will his existence go? will anyone even remember him? #will anyone even care? #he seems to be more at peace with the unknown and the 'pointless' struggle against death after his conversation with acheron #now he just needs to finish surviving his last gamble.. and maybe he can have A life #ok brain turned off my blood sugar just dropped ibcan't finish this coherently #AVENTURINE. AUSGH

[cuddlytogas]

oh! by the by, for folks not aware of my weekly breakdowns on twitter, I've been compiling a Comprehensive OFMD Soundtrack as we go through s2 (here; and my s1 playlist is here)

it's all about trying to be able to basically listen along with the show, and contextualising all the classical music a bit more. except I don't actually have a good memory for repertoire, so y'know, it's a bit cobbled together from other people's insights and copious Shazam-ing, and there are still a few notable gaps.

still!! it's allowed me to make some cool connections and notice some fun themes! I'm currently tracking the use of the La Follia theme in s2, and let me tell you, it's a fuckin doozy so far!

please let me know if you have any additions or insights to make!! I love soundtracks and classical music a lot, despite my shitty memory, and I think it can provide such an interesting window into the show! <3

#Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #OFMDs2spoilers #OFMD s2 spoilers #spoilers #Our Flag Means Death spoilers #Our Flag Means Death s2 spoilers #I'm being so cautious but really even if you follow the link it'll just spoil a couple of needle drops XD #I have a whole list of gaps somewhere lol #problem is it's hard to tell what's a gap (unnoticed existing classical piece) #and what's just a bit of thematic original transition music that's just not on the official soundtrack :\ #ah well. we persevere :) #also sidenote: my personal version is better than spotify :) #because I manually split up the Good Impression/Real Pirates track #and ripped the credits track off 1x05 when I couldn't track down what Shazam claimed it is #ofmd soundtrack project

[incarnadinedreams]

There are a couple common claims about things MXTX has said in author's notes which I just wanted to make a little note-to-self with the exact context/source of because they keep coming up again and again. I find that between general translation issues and then further filtered through summaries and offhand comments and then repurposed for... uh let's just say spirited debate, they tend to be presented as much stronger or more emphatic or more serious statements than the impression I got when reading them in context (the translated versions, of course!).

'Morally perfect' comes from the postscripts (published by Exiled Rebels as chapter 113.5):

Both WWX and LWJ are highly ideal characters, so there wouldn't be too much dispute on their moral standing. They're perfect as the protagonists. Of course, I do like WWX a lot, but if I'm looking for a boyfriend, sorry, I'll only have LWJ please.

This is the same postscript where she talks about the difficulties of publishing on the timeline she did and how she was worried the structure of the novel would do badly in serialized/webnovel format, how Xue Yang was like a has-been internet idol in the comments section compared to the Jiang Cheng haters (lol), how she threw everything she liked about an ancient setting in a pot and changed whatever she liked without any intention of historical accuracy at all, etc. So the focus of the postscript wasn't like a morality essay or anything, just offhand comments and notes and trivia.

'MXTX wants us to be like Wangxian' comes from the final author's note of the last extra (ExR ch. 126):

Without care for anything at all, I shall give the entirety of my soul to the pen and the paper.

I no longer like to tell my readers, 'I love you.' These words are too light, and yet these words are too heavy.

I hope each of you who enjoys this book can be like Lan WangJi in virtue and Wei WuXian in character.

P.S. I received the help of many in the publication process.

There's more before and after, from talking about how she decided the type of story she wanted it to be, outlining process, and then after she goes on to thank her editors, the webnovel platform, supportive friends, etc.

Whether any given person cares what her opinion is out-of-text or not is another matter of course! But since it gets brought up so much as if they're very serious Word Of God proclamations... well... it's probably pretty obvious my opinion/interpretation lands in the 'it's not supposed to be that serious, bruh' category.

Though even if it were meant to be super serious I'd personally still be like, 'well that's just like, your opinion, random author lady.' But at the same time, these quotes tend to be used in a way that gives a distorted impression of how serious and thorough they were intended to be and often add confusion.

Also I don't think MXTX is saying we should go feed a guy's fingers to a ghost child in front of him while he's forced to eat his own leg but that's really just wild speculation and assumption on my part, maybe she would appreciate that idk.

#definitely inspired by @thatswhatsushesaid 's recent post because it made me track down where they were getting the second claim from #but the first floats around more often #obviously both of these quotes are from the ExR translations so you know #the translation may give a VERY different impression than the original which I cannot comment on #but I think most of the people bringing these up constantly are also basing it off these translations #and I disagree with their interpretations of what's presented #when someone pulls out the 'MXTX says x is moral!' my reaction is something like 'so if MXTX told you to jump off a bridge would you do it? #that's my boomer soul leaking out though

[quietwingsinthesky]

See, the thing about the Amy episode that makes Dean’s actions so reprehensible is not only the part where he doesn’t trust Sam and goes behind his back to kill Amy or even the hypocrisy of Dean ‘you can’t change what you are so you’re going to kill someone eventually’ Winchester sparing the kid right after stabbing his mom, it’s that Amy is very explicitly supposed to be a Sam parallel. There is no other way about it, from the they’re both freaks part of it to Dean dropping the line about ‘the other shoe’ right before he kills her, she is Sam, how Dean reacts to her is supposed to give us insight into how he feels about Sam. And Dean. kills her.

The not very subtle subtext being that Dean is ready to off Sam if he goes too far off the deep end? He’s aggressive and mistrustful of Sam at every turn in the episode, lays the feet of it all at Sam’s hallucinations maybe leading him astray, but end of the day, Sam’s crimes here are A) was tortured in Hell and B) is traumatized by that in a way that makes Dean’s life more difficult.

And it is hard to watch. To spend this whole episode with Sam being completely functional on his own, making a rational decision based on past experience and on all the information about Amy he has available, and for the episode to end with, ‘but yeah, if dean thinks sam goes too far, he’s probably gonna kill him. because sam can’t change or be fixed, so it’s for the good of everyone that he be put down.’

#and then of course there’s the issue of the subtext setting something up that gets no resolution like. there is no point where dean is ever #really going to be able to kill Sam. no matter how bad his hallucinations get. not even a mercy kill crosses his mind later that season #which means that the Amy episode gets rewritten later from ‘explicit Sam parallel’ to ‘well we can use this for Brother Drama™️’ #god. god. and really what gets me about the Amy episode in general. like Thee Horrifying Part to me. #most of their hunts are very life or death. that’s how we get around the morality of it. either they kill the monster or it kills them. #Amy’s. not that. Dean tracks her down while she’s running and kills her while she’s asking him not to. #like if she had attacked him the scene would be totally different. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t even fight back. and he kills her. #like she has a kid and Dean is an unfriendly hunter in her motel room. it wouldn’t be out of the question for her to try to kill him #to protect herself and her kid. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t. I don’t know what you can take away from that except that she was telling #sam the truth about not wanting to be a murderer. if she won’t even try to kill Dean to protect herself. #there is no way to look at this episode that makes Dean come out looking good unless you’re willing to claim everything Amy said was a lie #AND that Dean would be right to kill Sam for *checks notes* Being Visibly Mentally Ill #fucked up. why’d they do this. #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #amy pond #like to be clear if you’ve got a different view on this that’s. not the above thing I just said. please tell me. #because from where I’m standing Dean doesn’t come out of this clean in any way

[theboytatu]

seeing ppl trying to cope with their faves dropping bad music is so funny

#i did it with aespa last year and with exo during dftf so i get it but at one point you need to just accept a song sucks and move on #this is directed at shawols still trying to claim hard was remotely good as a title track #but also at lil freaks getting mad at nme for their review of good and great #let's not even talk about what armys are doing on twt trying to deny taehyung's solo sucks absolute ass

[swagyna]

was listening to NPR this afternoon.

the way that women's trauma is used for political purposes is wholly disturbing. Israel calling upon the UN because the UN claims to be a champion of women's rights. What a joke. No country in this world is a bastion for women's rights, because every country was developed under a patriarchy.

Women's suffering is going to be used to try and further push the UN into complacency. Which will ultimately cause even more suffering for the women in girls in Israel and Palestine alike.

#im personally still skeptical of the claims made by Israel #if these rapes and abuses did occur.. what is the point of waiting until now to talk about them on thr world stage #it can't be because the world is watching and demanding a ceasefire. riiiiight? #'oh women are still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza' IF YOU CARE THEN STOP BOMBING THEM??? #to note: freed hostages are not being allowed to speak on their treatment by Hamas #im getting off track #women's suffering means nothing to men.

[countessklair]

iiiiiiiii didn’t

come here to makefriends

we were booOOOooorn to be

Suh•bur•ban Legends

when you hooOoOOOOLD meit

holds me together

!!!!!! AND YOU KISS ME IN A WAY THATS GONNA SCREW ME UP FOREVER !!!!!

iiiiiii know that

you still remember

we were boooOOooooOorn to be

NAT•ION•AL TREASURES

when you TOOOOOOOOLD me that

we’d get back together

!!!!!! AND YOU KISS ME IN A WAY THATS GONNA SCREW ME UP FOREVER !!!!!

#taylor swift #taylornation #1989 taylor's version #from the vault #suburban legends #suburban legends Taylor swift #claiming myself as an original Suburban Legends stan because yes all the vault tracks are good #BUT TAYLOR WHAT DID YOU PUT IN THIS?!?!!!

[chaosinstigator]

if y’all love and appreciate daniel's input on the team so much... why not repay him in the form of a car he can actually drive

#dr3 #daniel ricciardo #visa cashapp racing bulls #vcarb #visa cashapp rb #f1 #last year he was fucking taken out by other peoples parts on track and so far this year its his own team who claims to work to improve #the problems hes presenting to them only to unlock new ones/other ones instead like #the fuckin floor thing yknow how he prefers to drive by now surely why the fuck would you do this when you know itll make things worse #make it make sense?! #anyways i was happy w peters interview but now im just tired yall cant keep praising him and then pulling this crap do you know how #irritating it is to have to keep reminding people of his technical issues bc they keep happening ofc people are gonna be dicks about it bc #they just want a reason to talk shit they dont bother actually getting into whats going on adsfgh sorry sorry im pissed off actually #barely 5 am and im already fumin its gonna be fun to watch quali ey #joey rambles #i just want him in the fuckin redbull already we know he can drive it we saw the proof last year he can pull podiums with that one GIVE HIM #THE GOD DAMN REDBULL #FUCK

[void-tiger]

Someday I’ll just have my Howl-esque whimsigoth cottage core with geek couture corvid layer. Lots of soft curtains and tapestries and lamps and fairly lights. Me and my cat and my bird. Tea kettle on the stove screaming. Full spice rack.

And if people wanna see me they can come to ME and invite ME out into The Great Outside.

#tiger’s roar #…sorry just. in a mood. #on one hand. mama’s upset. which gets me on edge #on the other. pretty sure I know the chain of events: I admit I’ve been more neurotic than usual ‘cause she keeps going aVOiDiNG yOU #in my ear for. y’know what? months actually #and…if the pattern holds…the person I finally admitted that to y’know. after assuring me things are Fine very calmly and kindly and sweetly #(okay but what if I want a different friendship that whatever this hodgepodge is what then. right. letting it go. can’t force shit. #(and inadvertantly ousted my apparently even deeper than I thought attatchment issues. good grief.) #then…contronted the person who hurt me months ago by claiming I hurt them #who then privately pulled mom aside to apparently apologize? idk the details #and…mom’s now mole hunting. when. it’s me. I’m the mole #because I actually trust someone who. while IDK what to even call this #seems to have the tendency to not onlu care about me deeply despite What Level Friendship IS This #and then go tell people to apologize to me (or my mom apparently) #without…telling me that’s what’s been done but. that seems to. y’know. track. #which…if you really do care I just. I just want an actual rapport vs us dancing around one.

[tariah23]

Outside of light bright’s always being weirdly colorist (natural mixed female….. you’re saying that about yourself? If so, let me guess, the mother is of the completion of a napkin. It all makes so much sense.) can people please learn to not record complete strangers in public, please.

#she went viral recording a woman with a BBL at the gym and the woman ended up DMing her and now this lady is getting backlash and doesn’t #seem to care in the slightest for trying to make fun of someone else’s appearance by claiming that it’s a public space and that she can do #what she wants #I feel like if you see someone recording you if you even so much as catch a whiff of it then it should be within your right to push these #people onto train tracks #it’s just so mean spirited #it’s grammar school levels of bullying #taking videos and pictures of ppl in order to go viral and have people laugh at them because you think they look #ugly ridiculous and stupid #same thing with ppl recording people having an episode that they cannot control #people talking to themselves the homeless fat people #etc #you just come out looking like a weirdo at the end of the day #recording people without their knowledge and consent should be a crime tbh especially if it’s done with malicious intent in order to shame #them #or bring harm to them #rambling

[thought-42]

I opened this post an hour ago to observe how there's something deeply hilarious and deeply upsetting about Eight having had the entire Matrix stored in his head for actual years and yet never knowing that information about the Doctor's true originws was stored in there, but then I opened Eight's wiki page and went on an hour long wild fucking ride.

#anyway sorry for Doctor Who posting in 2023 but like #my guy (non-gendered) that's too much amnesia even for you; put some back #the wiki entry just. keeps going. and going. and going. #what do you mean you saved Santa? what do you mean you had a whole thing with River Song? #what do you mean you got so depressed you went to the end of the universe? (actually that tracks) #he was possessed by the Master! he became an unwilling landlord! he fought the Tenth Doctor! #the BFAs really just. kept going huh #also lost it at 'claims to be physically incapable of experiencing survivor's guilt' #i am begging you to address your mental health #The Doctor went through COVID quarantine! #dw

[akkivee]

thinking about this one post i saw that suggested bat’s been taking over other territories this whole time because they started out saying they represent nagoya in drb➕, a city within aichi prefecture, to saying they represent the chubu area in hella awesome banquet which encompasses 8-10 other prefectures in the area lmao

#this is vee speaking #it was also brought up that it could be a bit of nagoya pride slang in the comments #how some nagoyans consider anything inward bound from mt fuji is nagoya lmao #but takeuchi-san who is from somewhere in aichi makes sure everyone knows he’s from aichi and NOT nagoya #so i think that should be respected lmao #anyway this is so funny to me LMAO and you can even track their progress apparently #dba➕ i think kuukou says they rep aichi #hitoya says they rep owari region in one two law which is an outdated region that consists of aichi and some of gifu #and in survival of the illest➕ kuukou says they got the toukai area which consists of aichi gifu mie and shizuoka lol #it took three years but bat has completely taken over the entire region they get classified in i’m so proud lmao #does dh rap about being on top of kansai at all???? 🤔 kansai i know includes kyoto so i’d assume it’d be harder to claim full kansai rep lo #but it would be so funny if bat’s been actually doing the territory battles part behind the scenes this whole time lmao #the last time ​kuukou had a mic pre current era was when they actually had territory battles #so what if he just assumed that was still a thing and wrangled jyushi and hitoya into it lmao #bat: *beats gifu division* kuukou: and now your division is mine 😈 #gifu guys: wait what this was drb qualifications— hitoya: *completely on board* not anymore it’s not #c: kuukou👑 #c: jyushi #c: hitoya

[quietwingsinthesky]

I think what bothers me most about that argument is that dean is talking down to Sam so much

Implying that he’s not mentally sound and that dena HAS to be the one to clean up, telling Sam to stop moping about it and then ending it by saying he can stop acting like a bitch now?

That’s what they view as dean standing up for himself?!??!

I really like the Amy benny Emma situations cuz it tells us so much about dean (Sam too but mostly dean) but like so little of what it tells us is positive. ESP since I personally think so much of the benny stuff is projection like immediately telling Sam not to kill benny and assuming Sam will go after him and then immediately going after amy when he finds out about her

alsjfjlfjs I barely have anything to add here, you hit the nail on the head

the whole argument just. Dean does not come out looking good there huh. Especially the jab about Sam’s hallucinations. And the earlier line, “There are certain people in this world, no matter how dangerous they are, you just can't.” There’s no way Dean is saying that without knowing how Sam is going to hear it. That Sam is the dangerous thing that Dean could never put down. The whole shifting of this situation to be on Sam is (fun for me because I love when Dean uses how well he knows Sam to hit him where it hurts) really messed up.

Him starting with telling Sam he’s got a right to be angry, but then following that up with telling him he’s been angry long enough and needs to stop… i Need to chew on him, when did he decide he was the authority on how long Sam gets to feel resentful or to grieve his friend…

Something horribly delicious about Dean appointing himself timekeeper on Sam’s feelings.

#dean winchester #ask #spn #also. also. I would be remiss not to mention that Dean poking at Sam’s hell trauma specifically IS the part of this that makes me go :/ #like. :/ that’s a little ooc coming from the guy who also went to hell. claiming Sam can’t make the right ‘moral’ choice and kill Amy? #yeah that tracks with Dean. he’s judge jury and executioner babyyy. #but him going after Sam’s torture and using that to add to his argument? #I mean he is pissed off. it could just be something said from frustration. but still. #again this whole situation is very. Keep The Status quo. you know? #supernatural’s never ending tension of how badly it wants sam & Dean to learn monsters are people too #and the fact that if they ever do. the whole premise of the show collapses in on itself. #so they never can. and they keep fighting about it. and they keep hurting each other and also anything that gets in their way. #show of all time. 10/10. no notes. what the fuck were they thinking.

[faecaeli]

can not STAND the amount of radfem posts that have show up on my dash "based on my likes" because i've liked posts related to feminism. like what in the world. i should be able to like a quote from bell hooks or a post on reproductive rights and not have this wild and hateful terf shit pop up

#just had a post pop up where the OP was saying drag was similar to blackface #so now i have to deal with my anger about that for the rest of my life #all bc this platforms shit algorithm facilitates extremist thinking and radicalization #as if all women and transfolk arent struggling enough irl huh #fucking all these ppl need to go outside and see whats happening in the world to trans people like........ get off the internet and wake up #how do you look at the trans community and go oh yes! the reason for our oppression! #girl you are looking in completely the wrong direction #you have all the reason to be mad when it comes to the horrible endless misogyny in our world #but how is blaming this very small and widely unaccepted community going to help your cause #its the oldest trick in the fuckin book #u cant scapegoat the minority and make your problems go away #thats just a fast track to violence #like if yall are really interested in feminism why aren't you spending more time looking to men in power #vs people who are already struggling to be themselves in a way that DEFIES the gender norms that you claim to hate and rally against sfm?? #gnc people are not threatening your 'womanhood' u just gotta fucking chill #dont u want to build a future BASED on your sex being of less importance? isn't that the whole damn point? #that our differences are acknowledged and celebrated and accommodated #not used against us #like... c'mon #so full of shit #show me the real feminists on this site who actually care about women and building a better future for everyone #and wanna have real convos rooted in compassion for one another