Reality ruined my life

Frédérique. 22. Montreal.

[taylorswiftdaily]

He built a fire just to keep me warm

[taylorswift]

Lover 💕 Friday, August 23. 

Pre-add, pre-save, pre-order: taylorswift.lnk.to/lover

[flashbacksandechoes]

Hi @taylorswift !

Isn’t it crazy how time works? The left picture is me at the Speak Now tour and the right is the most recent pic I have of me at one of your reputation shows!

I’ve grown up with you, and you’ve been there for me from my middle school years all the way through college. I’ve met the most incredible people thanks to you, and I’ve made the brightest memories. From sleepovers with my tumblr and twitter friends, to NYC adventures, all the way to flying across the country to see you for the last night of the reputation tour.

I’m so excited to hear Lover, and even more excited to create more memories with my friends through your music. Thank you for always being there for me and for endlessly helping me through every bump life has thrown at me.

I love you forever.

Xoxo,

Maria

[demidorks]

me: *makes an unoriginal and unfunny shittypost*

my three loyal followers:

[lennonstella]

she really had to make the live stream 13 minutes long huh

[taylorswift]

I swear I don’t love the # it loves me

[zagreusavenger-deactivated20200]

If y’all wanna know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality.

Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives.

I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of the guy until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t.Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay.

And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered.

[outlanderalien]

This man has had a profound effect on the world, it’s estimated he shortened the war by 2 years, saved countless lives and was the father of modern computing. Without him the world would be a very different, and very dark place.

[piss-bong]

He wasn’t just chemically castrated. The injections they have him were intended to decrease his libido as part his sentence for “gross indecency”. About 2 years after his trial he was found dead in his apartment next to a half eaten apple that was filled with cyanide (which became the inspiration for the Apple logo).

Turing is one of the most amazing people in all of history. He developed our modern method of computing (see: the Turing Machine) and advanced computer science by immeasurable amounts. And he dies when he was 41. Just imagine if he lived in a world where he was accepted. Imagine the technology we would have today and how many more lives would have been saved. No person deserves what Turing got, especially not someone as brilliant as him.

[nikola-like-tesla]

TEACH. CHILDREN. ABOUT. ALAN. TURING! WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT WWII, THEY DESERVE TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAN WHO ENDED IT!!!

[kittysparkleslove]

This was in the News today, in the UK.

❤️🙏

[ashtray-girl]

You forgot the best part! The binary on the ribbon of the new banknote is 1010111111110010110011000, which translates to 23061912 in decimal. Alan Turing was born on the 23rd June 1912.

[nosdrinker]

[chrystelle-deactivated20181001]

why is one girl missing an eye tho

[hangchillin]

shes keepin an eye out for selener

[morgan-handlettering]

Stranger Things 3

[nowiseedaylight]

[taylorswift]

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

[biloveyou]

you’re being too loud

[heatnap]

[krakenguts-deactivated20140908]

did he commit a crime? wheres the warrant? 

[daytimeblogger]

no its his last day of kindergarten and its for his mom

[wellbutrinboy]

recognizing ur being manipulated into feeling guilt for something u shouldn’t feel guilty about but feeling guilty regardless

[allaroundtaylor]

THE THREE MUS-CAT-EERS

[unlimited-memes]

[seravph]

lorde really wrote an album about being the kid that stayed home when people went out and had to keep a reputation of being nice and modest and polite but secretly wanting to go crazy and dance wildly and go running and bounding and sobbing but feeling as though your whole life hinges on other people giving you the opportunity to do it and so you feel as though you’re wasting your youth

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

America is the world’s largest terrorist state.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Up to 200 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are being held in this tent city outside Tornillo, Texas:

[tiredsnail]

just in case anyone doesn’t already know what it looked like, this is the aerial view of auschwitz I:

feel free to compare that to the pictures above.

[thetourguidebarbie]

oh hey guys remember that time i and almost every other jewish person i know was like “trump is literally going to make concentration camps” and all the white christian people were like

“it’ll be fine”

“That’s what Checks and Balances™️ are for :))))”

“It can’t happen here this is AMERICA”

”We just need to survive the four years until Kamala Harris”

Like….not to be r u d e but 1) you were wrong and 2) there are mass protests on June 30th and if you actually care about this country your ass had better be there.

More info on locations here: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/

[thenihtgenga]

Pretty sure white Christian people were saying those things in Germany back in the 1930s, too.

[thecommrade]

Oh. They did.