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I should not be left to my own devices They come with prices and vices I end up in crisis header image by the lovely @notmuchfordancing and used with permission

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FATE OF OPHELIA MUSIC VIDEO (missing the first 30 seconds and a teeny bit shaky, im sorry!)

[lilacs-and-daisies-screw-roses]

I’m going to be a Swiftie on main for like 60 seconds.

If I have to watch one more man try and mansplain “The Fate of Ophelia” to me while simultaneously getting the meaning and intended reference in the song wrong I’m going to go postal. The song is about how her relationship with Travis saved her life not about how she or her life resembles Ophelia’s. But even still she can and does draw parallels between herself and Ophelia, and they WORK!

Ophelia was used, abused and lied to by the men in her life, causing her to go mad and eventually drown herself. Taylor has been used, abused (we can garner from her previous works she’s at minimum been emotionally and potentially mentally abused by former boyfriends ie. Gyllenhal in All Too Well and Mayer in Dear John and Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve as well as Heely in Smallest Man Who Ever Lived) and lied to by the men in her life whether it be the men she’s had romances with or the men she’s had business relationships with. There are several instances in Midnights and TTPD where she implies she had thoughts of self harm and talks about how she felt she was going mad.

The parallels are there, she’s using the reference correctly, but most importantly the song isn’t talking about Ophelia’s life as a whole but instead how Taylor’s life was spiralling her toward a similar FATE as Ophelia. It’s a love letter to the man who saved her from going mad and drowning herself.

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TLDR in Hamlet, prior to the death of his father, Hamlet was courting Ophelia, head over heels in love. But in Hamlet’s descent into madness as he learns that his uncle murdered his father, he becomes increasingly erratic and oftentimes quite nasty to Ophelia, saying none of that was true and more or less slut-shaming her (the famous “get thee to a nunnery” scene, which was slang for brothel at the time). Hamlet then accidentally kills Ophelia’s dad, thinking it was his uncle, and in the wake of Hamlet’s cruelty and the death of her father, Ophelia herself descends into madness. In her final scenes, she is singing her own made up songs (!!) and gathering flowers, sort of living in her own world and not responding normally to those around her. We later learn that off stage, Ophelia has drowned in the river, and while it seems like a suicide, it’s not 100% clear if it was an accident, given her state of mind.

…taking this back to Taylor’s past work, specifically TTPD, Taylor wrote about her own descent into “madness” as she lost the love of her life, a tortured poet (sound like Hamlet himself, anyone?). With TLOAS being described as effervescent and exciting, perhaps the Fate of Ophelia is how she escaped Ophelia’s doomed fate, not losing herself to her melancholy, but stepping into this new era?

Ophelia’s fate is also influenced by the men in her life - her lover, Hamlet, her father and her brother, all 3 of whom try to control her life in different ways, and her ultimate death isn’t even told in her own words in the play. Taylor could maybe be taking the narrative back for Ophelia, giving her a voice when hers was silenced, with sort of a feminist lens.

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Thumbnail for 'The Fate Of Ophelia' music video on Youtube. The music video will premiere on Sunday at 7 pm ET.

(October 3, 2025)

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

an interesting thing about Ophelia to me i was just reminded of is "I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I / right before you lit my sky up" because it's such a cool way of saying "I swore off dating again until you came into my life."

It's like being "I choose me" and then someone comes in and says "what if I choose you, too?"

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⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖ if you’d never come for me

i might’ve drowned in the melancholy

paintings of ophelia by: Eugene Delacroix, John William Waterhouse, Alexandre Cabanel, & John Everett Millais

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And if you never called for me I would have sat in purgatory

Pledge allegiance to your

HANDS

YOUR TEAM

YOUR VIBE

[stillgotscars]

the fate of ophelia - taylor swift

[reputayswift]

keep. it. one-hundred. on-the. 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹. the. ₛₑₐ. the. ˢᵏʸ. pledge allegiance to your ʰᵃⁿᵈˢ your ₜₑₐₘ. your 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓈. don’t. care. where. the. hell. you. been. ‘cause ₙₒ𝓌. you’re 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒.

[staringatthesunset-things]

You best believe my literature obsessed mind is losing it over “The Fate of Ophelia” right now

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift on her thought of process writing 'The Fate Of Ophelia':

"I just have this fixation on Shakespeare characters that I fall in love with and I can't stand to see them meet a tragic demise. I can't, I don't want that to be what happened to them because I'm like 'Wait, are you talking about Ophelia? she died? what do you mean?' I was really excited to see what happened with her and Hamlet. They seem great. And I'm kind of going back to the song 'Love Story' which I wrote when I was a teenager. I was just like, I can't watch Romeo and Juliet not work out. What do you mean they both die? They don't in my version of things. So it's like you just turn the movie off before the bad ending. But this is a little bit like that, The Fate Of Ophelia talks about how Ophelia was driven mad by love and it talks about- the hook says like, you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of ophelia. It's a love song, and it's also just got one of catchiest post hook kind of sections that I'm pretty proud of. It's crazy to talk about the songs this much, it's been a secret for over a year."

(October 3, 2025 | via Hits Radio)

[cateyeswrites]

OMG WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK KARADEC AND MORGAN AT HIS HOUSE??? AT NIGHT WORKING ??? OMGGGGGGG

Im gonna cry 😭 she ditched Tom for karadec? Im dead I love this

NOT HOZIER OVER IT AHHHHHHHHHHH

High potential had the best comet back episode eveeeeeer

NO SHE IS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER DUDE TO KARADEC WHYYY

They are so domestic I am crying 😭

KARADEC WAS ENGAGED??? I’m so dead, THATS CRAZYYYYYYYY

[cateyeswrites]

Morgan and karadec have a dynamic 😭 I love that

“Morgan don’t forget”

“ I hang back, you go first, how can I forget”

They have grown since last time 😭

[kcdahippie]

Not Morgan ditching hot janitor Tom for Karadec. LMFAO

[itsmehi-imtheproblem]

Hey Gilmore Girls Swifties, yes hi, any video editors out capable and willing to make a Lorelai video to the Bolter? Because please.

I would even take a Rory vid to it but like Lorelai y'all. I can see it so vividly.

[itsmehi-imtheproblem]

this post isn't for monsters on hills, which I mention only so that all the babies out there will know how sexy they are for reading. WHAT'S UP YOU SEXY BABY?

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