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As may or mayn’t’ve been noticed, I haven’t been too active on here for a year or 4.

It would be an error to therefore conclude any of the following:

That I have tottered away to my age-matched peers where I belong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bahahahaha… bless ‘em - they (my AMPs) are wonderful in myriad layers of ways, but all this - [gestures vaguely] - has always been waaaay outside their radar, and that’s fine. I can’t help it that I chased a Pegacorn down in here where zaniness, intellectual rigor/complexity, cameraderie, and a healthy intolerance for BS all converge. Why would I leave? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That Auntie Fossil hasn’t kept a consistent weather eye (theory 🤣) on y’all, my chosen nieces (and perhaps nephews/NBs of course😘).

That I’m any less proud of my (yes, decidedly odd) very-long-term affiliation with such an honorable, fact-focused yet theory-enraptured, downright… yes… (I’m sorry, but it’s true) grace-filled group of (by far mostly) young people as make up this beleaguered, delightful gaylor/kaylor community.

“Affiliation”? That’s selling me short: I may not be an OG Kaylor/Gaylor, but, by heaven, I’m pretty close, if only going by longevity!

Tbh, I’ve tread some rocky paths (health, family, etc.) during my sojourn away, and I’m happy to report that what’s not already well is heading in the right direction. Yea!

So… why am I here? It’s kind of a dumb reason, but hey like that’s ever factored in lol.

Just now, while I was applying my persnickety genius to the proper placement of lights on my 🎄, I thought of y’all with affection and goodwill.

I was listening to a @taylorswift song, and it hit me that y’all really NEEEED to understand something (which I’ll get to in a second just hang on).

I’m old; this isn’t news. I’ve experienced the ups and downs of familiar ties that bind, decade in and decade out. It can all be a tad grinding, particularly if, to date, anyway, one has not been favored with a #HappilyEverAfter scenario.

Everyone older than 35 knows all this, of course. Life’s variety, though infinite, does adore a pattern.

For instance, like most cliches, it’s a literal, perennial truth that folks tend to return to their hometowns for the holidays. If you live long enough, this time of year inevitably dredges poignant stuff up, good and otherwise.

… which brings me, at long last, to why I’m here:

‘Tis the Damn Season…

is an utter MASTERPIECE!!!

PS: Set this post as a reminder for a decade or so from now if you don’t think I’m on the level. Hugs and Love and Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year to every last one of you from an old 👵🏻 who thinks you’re all just peachy!!!

#How does Taylor KNOW all this wrenching beautiful bizarrely life-affirming crap?!?#see Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg for a similar gut-punch-of-sublimity #taylor swift #taylor being taylor year after year #gaylor #kaylor #evermore #karlie kloss

tswiftupdatess

Rolling Stone gives ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ a 5 out of 5 star rating.

(October 3, 2025)

👵🏻 Fossil Facts 👵🏻

It’s incredible how precisely perfect her voice is on this whole album.

Even more bizarre how it literally sounds like she’s right in front of me in some intimate venue somewhere.

#tloas #taylor swift

👵🏻 Fossil Fact: 👵🏻

The Fate of Ophelia is my favorite so far.

columbusswift

the whole damn family’s at graham norton oh it’s serious

🤩 GRAHAM NORTON!!!! 🤩

#taylor being taylor year after year #taylor swift #TLOAS Premier

9w1ft

tumblr mention in the year of our lord 2025

liberalsarecool

Unqualified white men could put in the effort to gain the knowledge/expertise/trust, but they would rather stay bottom feeders, vote for MAGA, stay super unserious/mediocre, and play identity politics.

Truth is: DEI generates better candidates and does not reward cronyism/nepotism/privilege.

9w1ft

about that anon who said the only female friend Taylor was sexualised with was Karlie - honestly that part of the 1989 prologue where she says she thought people wouldn't sensationalise and sexualise her female friendships never looked to me like she meant that in a shipping way?? maybe i'm being delusional but i always thought she expressed her annoyance with the fact that she and her friends were talked about inappropriately and judged for their appearance and compared to each other who is more attractive etc etc

no yes so i think that’s what it was referring to on the surface level. the squad. it’s that one story beat she has referred to interviews over the years about how she didn’t get to have a lot of friends growing up because she was bullied or because she grew up on the road and how with 1989 she was enjoying the girlhood and girl friend experience that she never had. like, mid 2010’s taylor and her model friends were a hot button topic of public conversation and the media that drives it: all these articles about how taylor’s new friends are too hot, too skinny, too rich, not diverse, she’s not country anymore, it’s cliquey, etc.

but because this is the taylor swift fan community everybody is trained to look beyond this first layer and see extra meaning. and in the case of gaylor (umbrella term) stuff, and kaylor stuff, when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail. swifties attack gaylors, gaylors attack kaylors, etc, you know the drill

at the same time, when you go one layer deeper, i don’t think people can fully say taylor had no idea what she was implying or how it would be received by some people. so one begins to wonder if it’s intentional in some way.

so a few layers down the discourse becomes distilled into something more meta: “why does taylor throw us under the bus again and again” which is a sort of fandom meta truth. but, i often think the intentions are a few layers up from this, where we are not the focus, and that it’s up to us to see how the benefits for her outweigh our collective peace. like when she does something that leads to fandom drama, she’s also often pushing the entire conversation around her work or persona forward in some aspects that are strategic or meaningful. often times that become more clear as time goes on.

for me, i think that because of this, it’s up to us as a group to treat one another and ourselves the best that we can. to be as self sufficient as we can. not because ‘she’s not looking out for us’ but because like, this isn’t about us first and foremost at the end of the day. and plus, there are many ways we can all stay healthy and upbeat on our own. and anyway, bringing up other ways to look at things, just as you did here anon, as a great way go about it. so thank you for pointing this out!

kaylorfossil

“… it’s up to us to see how the benefits for her outweigh our collective peace.”

#@9w1ft has done it again #stopped me in my tracks with a truth bomb cloaked in eloquence #I’ve kinda been grumbly dealing with major irl stuff and have had difficulty engaging when it - only occasionally- felt adversarial #with Taylor herself #this post feels like a useful and welcome corrective #thanks @9w1ft old friend #gaylor #gaylor swift

lookliketaylorswift

as someone who's been through lesbian situationship this is so true

kaylorfossil

😬👵🏻🤷‍♀️ Fossil Fact 🤷‍♀️👵🏻😬

Don’t think T’s straight but this was still a giggle

#gaylor #kaylor #gaylor swift

tswiftupdatess

Taylor was recently active on Instagram and liked a slideshow post!

archiveofkloss

april 16, 2024

“Patients, not politicians, should make their own health-care decisions”: a Washington Post op-ed by Karlie Kloss

kaylorfossil

Karlie Kloss with an important and timely WPost Opinion article. Way to go, Karlie!!!

#karlie kloss #kaylor

beggars-opera

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

formerlyanon

and we need that! keeps us humble.

dabouse

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

tomboy014

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

dabouse

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

tomboy014

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

digitaldiscipline

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

kabretoss

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

kaylorfossil

Fossils are just crinkly folks pass it on

#too old for tumblr #???#just folks

9w1ft

kaylorfossil

😜❤️👵🏻 Fossil Fact 👵🏻❤️😜

We L👁️VE you, Karlie!!!

#eye theory #all eyes on us 2024 #gaylor

9w1ft

I'm a gaylor myself so this isn't coming from a place of hate but I really don't think karlie and taylor are still together, I think taylor still references her in her art and probably will for quite some time because that relationship -- whatever the nature of it was -- left such a deep impact on her. but I really can't see them still being together, I think she's forced herself to move on from karlie and has since dated a lot of other women. that doesn't mean her feelings for karlie have faded, just that they will probably always be there but they broke up for sure before 2019, I think. folklore and evermore, midnights even, are all breakup albums, I just can't see how they could still be together. especially all her anger and sadness in those songs that are thought of to be for karlie (like my tears ricochet or exile or mad woman) also the cover art being shoot in bedfords, new york, the exact same place where karlie got married feels more like taylor revisiting this place to really say goodbye and mourn her for one last final time so she can move on

sorry, this got a bit long, I just don't understand the appeal or the reasoning for lsk's because taylor has indicated so many times that they are over, she's been mourning her relationship with karlie quite publicly since 2019 (wearing all black during the lover era) so yeah

hi! i don’t usually respond to these but i’m not sensing any ill will so i’ve decided to give a reply a go.

first off, for me, i kinda just interpret her wearing black in the back end of lover era because her masters had gotten bought by scooter. and maybe the fact that she decided to not come out. there can be other reasons, but i really do not think that her breaking up with karlie has to be one of them.

another thing i can’t shake is the fact that it was a very notorious troll/manipulative person on tumblr who spread the first rumor that they broke up in 2019, a fact that is well understood by a lot of OG’s, and this troll got in the head of a few popular kaylor and gaylor swift accounts at the time and in doing so she got a lot of people to fold. she then went on to write all this progressively unhinged fanfiction about taylor and karlie trying to make one another jealous and sleeping with all these women, presented with the same level of seriousness with which she pushed the breakup agenda. even to this day, i see present day gaylors talk about stuff that stems from narratives this account and a few other power hungry accounts spread around many years ago and it honestly just goes to show how a lot of well known gaylors may be platformmed up but that don’t really know what they’re talking about.. i only write this because the troll deactivated about a year ago (maybe they’re lurking on platforms with more malleable minds—once a troll always a troll—but at least they’ve left here), they were a really dangerous person.. and several have wild receipts to prove it.

anyways sorry i recognize that’s a tangent, i guess what i mean to say by it is, a lot of the sentiment surrounding the idea of a 2019 breakup and the reinforcement of the narrative by a gaylor community none the wiser stems from the work of someone with disingenuous intentions. a lot of “masterposts” or “realistic timelines” draw from what this person made up and it’s gone through enough filters for it to seem like credible sentiment but like, if you were there and you read all of what she wrote you know how silly it all sounded and how incoherently it was all written.

okay so to circle back to more of a content-centric angle, in my interpretation of the events that gave us folklore, evermore, and midnights, taylor had so much to be sad about. her mom had been very sick, the pandemic arrived and she had to cancel lover fest, she had to come to terms with scott b having sold her work to her sworn enemy… songs on midnights and folklore, and on her lover era apple music playlist allude to certain other things that may have had her in a mournful mood. things were bad! and i don’t doubt that her and karlie have been through a lot. but for me, when you’ve got a ride or die love, you don’t just break up. this has been something frustrating for me and others, i think, to see so many people treat a relationship as either being all systems go or broken up, as if long term partners can’t experience sadness together, difficulty together, even heartbreak together.

i don’t like getting in to touchy subjects so much but there’s just been too much pointing towards what i consider to be a rather simple narrative that is a natural progression for people committed and in love. how did the lover music video begin and end? whats a randomly specific word in a song she performed at the grammys minutes after someone was announced to the world? what about taylor’s envisioned future stands out about the anti hero music video? i think i’ll stop here but idk man 😆 poke around my archive if you feel like wasting a few days of your life… there’s just been a consistent flow of the same kind of hijinks that we’ve seen from them for years, and i’d say that there are many songs that back up everything i’d want in order to stay invested in seeing if what i believe is true.

now, i know i just wrote what reads like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to people not following kaylor. but im okay with that. i’ve accepted that. and i know that the whole patterns and koincidences and twinning and symbolism beat isn’t for everyone and so i respect people’s decisions to believe they aren’t together, but in closing i’ll just say im sometimes at a loss to see time and time again people suggest that kaylors believe in kaylor because they find it appealing or because they want to ship it. when it’s literally not that— it just makes the most sense to a lot of us!

also, does this look like the face of someone mourning?