acelor: asexual and aromantic Taylor Swift content
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every time Taylor has resembled the asexual flag šš¤š¤ *Ā the aromantic flag *Ā the quasiplatonic relationship flagĀ *Ā the aroace flagĀ *Ā the oriented aroace flagĀ *Ā the lithromantic flag (I know it's a lot!)Ā *Ā here to spread positivity and support for Taylor...just having fun celebrating Taylor's fashion and videos and hopefully raising awareness about the ace and aro spectrums in the process:)
To be asexual means you're not sexually attracted to others. Asexuality is a spectrum, and some may occasionally be attracted (graysexual) or only when they develop a strong bond with someone else (demisexual.) It gets more and more complicated, so I'll leave it at that.
This is the asexual pride flag:
This is Taylor Swift performing You Need to Calm Down, now tied to LGBTQIA+ rights:
This is Taylor in the music video for the song:
On this blog, I find times Taylor looked like different pride flags. This ace pride flag on Taylor's shirt was the first I ever noticed:
This costume from the 1989 World Tour (for the song New Romantics, which features the lyrics "I'm about to play my ace) was the second time:
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Next: Famous Asexuals Taylor References on folklore
So this took quite a bit of time and help from my sister who knows calculus and literature better than I do, but I compiled a list of VERY interesting potential references to the work of various historical figures that are always listed on those web articles of people thought to have been asexual.
Even if you're not compelled by Acelor, this is an interesting read just in terms of Taylor actually meaning it when she said folklore is based on stories and imagination. I don't see many people actually take that to heart and look for references etc.
Enjoy!
Salvador Dali
"And losing on card game bets with DalĆ" -the last great american dynasty
Emily Bronte - writer
There are a lot of parallels between "my tears ricochet" and the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
"May she wake in torment...Why, she's a liar to the end...Be with me always...do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you..."
"Cursing my name, wishing I stayed"
"You say I killed you -- then haunt me!"
"You had to kill me but it killed you just the same" & "I didn't want to have to haunt you"
Heathcliff secretly comes to Catherine's wake
"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
J. M. Barrie - author of Peter Pan
- "tried to change the ending / Peter losing Wendy"
- writing about her friends' three kids (PP was written about Barrie's friend's kids)
- general Tinkerbell vibes in Taylor's styling (lol)
George Bernard Shaw - playwright
So in his play Pygmalion (adapted into the movie My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn...just put on netflix!) Henry and Eliza have a very tempestuous relationship, eventually leading to a huge fight at the end of the play. A lot of stuff in their argument reminds me of "my tears ricochet". And it's super interesting b/c Henry seems to basically just want him, Eliza, and their other friend to just live together in some platonic arrangement. Even before that, at the beginning, he expresses that he has no interest in marriage.
(the quote or example from the play is indented, the cursive is the taylor line that corresponds!)
"This ring isn't the jeweler's, it's the one you brought me in Brighton." *Henry throws it in the fireplace*
"We gather stones...Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring"
After Eliza is transformed into a lady, she is distraught because her transformation is supposed to let her go anywhere and be anything she wants, but when she tries to go home, she realizes she can't be there anymore.
"And I can go anywhere I want / Anywhere I want, just not home"
"You have wounded me to the heart."
"And you can aim for my heart, go for blood / But you would still miss me in your bones"
"Well, you have my voice on your gramophone. When you feel lonely without me, you can turn it on!"
"And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky) / And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)"
- The beginning of the ME! music video also gives me My Fair Lady vibes with the costumes and the green wallpaper...looks like Henry's library.
Isaac Newton - scientist and mathematician
my tears ricochet: a ricochet (a rebound off a surface) = Newton's Third Law (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction)
And
this is me trying: "the curve became a sphere" = Isaac Newton invented calculus
John Ruskin - art critic
Ruskin was an art critic who famously had his marriage annulled because it was never consummated. He fell in love with the Lake District at a young age and was inspired by it throughout his life, eventually buying a home there in the 1870s.
Alexa, play "the lakes" by Taylor Swift!
Florence Nightingale - nurse
Nightingale was an English nurse who revolutionized nursing on the warfront. I can't help but see a parallel in the heart-wrenching
"epiphany"
H.P. Lovecraft - writer
So there's this short story called "Colour out of Space". They made a movie of it recently with Nicholas Cage lol. Basically there's this meteor with an alien virus in it that makes plants really big, then turns them to brittle ash and leaves the fields barren....
"My barren land / I am ash from your fire".
This guy finds the stone and keeps it, not knowing its destructive nature....
"We gather stones never knowing what they mean"
Edward Gorey - artist
Gorey did this cartoon which really speaks for itself.
"I'm still on that tightrope" -mirrorball
Innocence, reputation, 1989tv liner notes....
Nikola Tesla - engineer
Okay, this is one I want to do more research on because there is just so much to read about this guy and his brilliance/quick mind makes me think of Taylor. But a kind of similarity I found was that he drew a diagram of a solar eclipse and ironically, three years ago, Tesla car batteries had this weird thing happen when there was a solar eclipse...
my eclipsed sun
Also, at one point, people in the press began turning against a project of Tesla's, saying it was a hoax.
your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in
Kinda goofy one, but I thought I'd put them out there as long as I was writing something up. And I'll leave you with the most amazing thing I found about Tesla, which kind of reminds me of Taylor's love for her CATS:
I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.
Wanted: blonde woman who puts narcotics into all of her songs.
Tell us without telling us, which track currently has you singing along the most? š¤š¶
Why would you say this? WTF.... I have lost hope in TS and her company being mature or professional. This is pathetic and that's coming from someone likely half the age of whoever ok'd this post.
The TTPD logo will never not automatically make my mind go to toilet paper. In fact, when I dare speak of this album, I usually accidentally say The Toilet Paper Department. And I didn't even work that kind of retail.
Lana's A++++ Met Gala look reminded me not only of Taylor's frequent inspiration, the myth of Apollo and Daphne, but also of my own artistic brilliance. Literally and hour and a half before Lana graced the steps, I took the canopy that hangs over my bed and threw it over myself as part of my tradition of creating last-minute DIY Met Gala looks. As this blog slows down, I hope this image will bring you all even a quarter of the joy this blog has brought to me.
Take care of yourselves, dear readers.
Hope is a dangerous thing for aces like us to have...but we have it.
I... can't fathom the stupidity of letting your talent attend the charity gala of someone attached to two family members who have committed multiple DUIs and battery against women. Specifically, three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one of battery. The Mahomeses have doubled down on defending Patrick's dad and brother and Taylor has continued to be publicly attached to them.
Seeing as Taylor devoted 2019 to speaking out against sexual assault of any kind, I am very disappointed. Disgusted, really. Especially since the victim of the assault was bullied mercilessly after speaking out. Hm seems like something Taylor has also complained about in the past.
I am sick of this bs and Taylor being used to clean others' reputations. Nauseated by the continued NFL affiliation.
I'm returning my copy of TTPD. You're losing $18+return shipping and the confidence of a 15-year fan. If karma is real, eventually this repeated bs will catch up with you, TS management. Because the variant nonsense already had me pissed.
"aroace people are emotionless" "aroace people are cold" i don't know where that notion came from. i love passionately, obsessively, almost clingily, just not romantically. i love my friends, i love my family, i love my cats. what makes you think i can't love?
"You take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on. And that's the closest I've come to my heart exploding." - TTPD track
So David Tennant is stimming alongside his kids around I'm guessing the beautiful utopia that is Universal Studios. I'm guessing this was posted during Autism Acceptance Month. That's wholesome.
It's giving subtle ace flag vibes with the rug and wall
š¤šš¤ this is acelor where we document every time Taylor has looked like the asexual flag (black, grey, white, and purple stripes) or aromantic flag (green, black, grey, white) š¤šš¤
š¤šš¤ this is acelor where we document every time Taylor has looked like the asexual flag (black, grey, white, and purple stripes) or aromantic flag (green, black, grey, white) š¤šš¤
