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[folklesbianpoet]

i love everything about this look. the natural curly hair. the patchwork quilted jacket. the rose. this is the first time in a while that taylor looks like her real queer self

[9w1ft]

came back when it mattered i saw you

[your-perfectcrime]

“I knew you, through the daze of the blades of the grass in the summer, parachutes for the free fall of being younger” is an insane first three line run

[stillgotscars]

taylor swift - midnights prologue // emily dickinson - in a letter to elizabeth holland written c. 20 january 1856

[dearreader]

one thing about jack antonoff is you give him an instrument and he plays it like his life depends on it

[wewontbesleeping]

midnights was not just aoty it was also album of the decade, album of the century, and album of the millennium. and we’ve just been listening to that shit quite casually

[sadbeautifutragic]

jack haters lose yet again we love to see it

[jellogram]

It's interesting that Taylor Swift seems to have handled her fame and success so well that people are completely unwilling to swallow the idea that she's suffered from it at all. Like the press has done full-on Britney shit to her but for whatever reason, she's never crashed out. She's been globally famous since she was a teenager but when she tried to sing about the impact that's had on her in TTPD, people tore her to shreds for "playing the victim" and "being dramatic" for describing herself as unstable, as if she hasn't been stalked and harassed every day for twenty years.

It feels like a catch-22. Taylor hasn't made her struggling visible enough for people to take her side when she writes about it. Somehow it's easier for people to rationalize that all the press and discourse about her just runs off her back because she's just so damn privileged, than to open their eyes and realize nobody could survive that shitstorm unscathed. So people who otherwise believe in defending women feel perfectly fine ignoring the amount of misogyny that comes her way, and instead rely on the fact that she's rich (like every other celebrity?) to dismiss any idea that she might have been wronged.

But if she did crash out and go to pieces, go to rehab, visibly lose her mind in some way that makes it obvious how much she's struggled, then people would crucify her for that too. So the only option for a woman in her position is to just... shut up and take it.

[h-f-k-deactivated20230406]

And right there where we stood was holy ground.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

the absolute best dynamic to read/write about is between 1 person who is so good at performing and wearing masks that they don’t know who they really are and 1 person who cannot be anyone but their most excruciatingly authentic self at all times and sees right through them; the mirrorball and the one who is not like the regulars, so to speak

[batteryoperatedtrashcan]

Autism is underdiagnosed in girls and maybe that’s why high school is hard: a web weave

When There Was Me and You - Vanessa Hudgens | The Outside - Taylor Swift | White Teeth Teens - Lorde | I Am The Problem - Sophie Hunter | this is me trying - Taylor Swift | Liability - Lorde | Valley of the Dolls - MARINA | You Signed Up For This - Maisie Peters

Extra special thanks to @funnybubbly for reminding me of the HSMS soundtrack, and @ohdorothea for the feedback while I was putting this together!

[great-gatsby]

the thing about taylor swift is at least half of her songs could be classified as her best song. (two thirds, really. or three fourths? no, four fifths.) and it changes depending on what you just listened to

[great-gatsby]

new romantics is her best song hands down. wait, haunted just came on. well as long as nothing from evermore shuffles, it’s fine…,oh fuck, it’s happiness.

[kindofmakingmewet]

"But as even Joe must have realized, these songs aren’t really about boys at all. They’re about girls, the topic Taylor has pursued more relentlessly than any other pop artist in history. She’s written more songs about girls than anyone, even Paul McCartney, and like Paul, she has nearly no interest in male characters. The boy in a Swift song is usually just a mirror for a girl’s experience of self-discovery and self-figuration. He’s the blank space where she writes her name." - Rob Sheffield

[cellphonehippie]

they nicknamed her "the bolter"

sticker

[waggot]

Will you twerk like Miley? Or top like Taylor?

[agnes-nielsens]

[waggot]

She did not write "What must it be like to grow up so beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominoes. My mind turns your life into folklore" about a man