And so Out Of The Depths Of Hell, I Ran.

25, Melbourne, they/them, suffering from CFS/ME & Functional Neurological Disorder(FND).

[taylorswift]

Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

[tsarcasm-deactivated20180922]

not to harp on this point but the care with which a girl you’ve known for maybe three weeks will ask you “what’s wrong?” if you look even mildly distressed is more emotional labor than you’d receive from any man over the course of six lunar cycles

if my dad sees me crying, he pretends he’s getting a call so that we don’t have to have an awkward conversation, but a drunk girl who stumbled across me in a public bathroom would literally become my emotional triage nurse

[chronicillschronicpills]

sex and disability are not talked about enough.

whether its figuring out how to have sex with your new parametres or figuring out how to navigate your new sex drive or how to find ways to be intimate without expending too much energy or figuring out your relationship with sex itself.

Its just not talked about.

[mossbian]

girls are like “i’m cute and worthy of love” and they’re right

[1000drawings]

by Lera Efremova

[favorite-aesthetic]

Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.

[profeminist]

Lizzo Wants You To Stop Calling Her Brave: "I'm Just Sexy"

"I am a bad b*tch that takes risks and wears whatever she wants."

“When it comes to standards, Lizzo says f*ck em, especially the ones that are only applied to certain groups of people. After slaying every damn award show performance she touches, the 31-year-old songstress has received standing ovations from the likes of iconic superstars like Queen Latifah, Rihanna, and Missy Elliott, encouraging us all to twerk ourselves into body positivity, but her blessings didn’t come without being burdened by a lot of bullsh*t.

In a recent interview with Glamour, the singer shared that she is tired AF of people calling her brave because she has the courage to love herself in public. She explained:

“When people look at my body and be like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so brave,’ it’s like, 'No, I’m not. I’m just fine. I’m just me. I’m just sexy. If you saw Anne Hathaway in a bikini on a billboard, you wouldn’t call her brave. I just think there’s a double standard when it comes to women.”

According to Lizzo, self-love isn’t just a trend that should be awarded in public, issa necessity that she values in private. She told The Hollywood Reporter:

“Loving who you are should start in the buff. You should essentially, by the end of your self-love journey, be completely in love with who you are with no makeup, no extra hair, no styling, no corsetry. That’s my opinion for my life — I don’t think anybody should have to subscribe to that. But I feel like if I can love that person, then anything else is possible within the spectrum of self-love. My skin, my face, no makeup — that’s fine.”

Read the full piece here

More Lizzo posts

[fallinyourtidalwaves]

i want to lay in a lot of tall grass where no one can see me and i can stare at the sky in peace 

[mjalti]

don’t allow ur insecurities to create ur reality. no one is “too good” for you. Nothing is “too far” and everything you imagined yourself doing as a child is within reach. that’s the secret difference between your adult self and your child self; your child self doesn’t allow insecurities to dictate their day. everything can happen for you if you work for it. anyone can be yours if you allow your true love to shine from your heart. The world is here for the experiencing.

[amelia-the-vampire-slayer]

I can’t believe back in the day on here I used to get anon’s all the time from baby gays asking cute lesbian questions like I was the older, wiser gay who had all the answers.

Look well, I did and still do tbh. But I just am no longer an older wiser lesbian, I have evolved now into an older, wiser non binary person.

[tinylilbi]

[angelwarm]

i hope that one day i will finally be ok….i’ll make a cherry pie when it is all over

[angelwarm]

today is the day

[joshpeck]

reblog the cherry pie to be ok

[pumpkinylink]

The cherry pie worked for me and here’s to hoping it’ll work for you too

[tiktoks-we-like]

[profeminist]

Update: the creator of this meme wrote me, here’s the source! That Reddit page was an uncredited repost.

Creator’s Tumblr: https://plaidassmofo.tumblr.com/

[slimetony]

I love my friends and refuse to speak with them

[armandyke]

Reasons straight girls need to stop calling their female friends “girlfriends”:

- The word “friend” already exists and is gender neutral you don’t need another word for friends of the same gender

- I’m gay and confused

- That’s it

[lizzieunfortunatelynotbennet]

“I m gay and confused” is probably my new life motto

[reallytinylaura]

Once a co-worker of mine confused the crap out of me by asking how my girlfriend was and I’m like “….fine?” and then she’s like “oh so is she home from the hospital?” I realized she was taking about my friend who was in a car accident a week earlier.

Stop confusing the gays. We’re sad enough already.

[devenka]

Language policing at its finest

[armandyke]

28,000+ gay women: This is annoying and confusing

Y’all: 

[amelia-the-vampire-slayer]

Why my joints be like this? They don’t hold together why it be like this?