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Merch truck experience in Arlington was awesome!!! We have the best community. My fav item is now the tour glow baton!!!

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taylornation

What if there was a version of Lavender Haze that made you feel like you were floating in a fluffy lavender cloud? 😌☁️ Oh wait… there is? Lavender Haze (Acoustic Version) out now!

Go to Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (Acoustic Version).

lipslikethegardensofbabylon

happiness // Taylor Swift

paolaortiz11

worldsoldestswiftie

I love @taylorswift and that's all I really know

languill

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

flavoracle

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

c-is-for-circinate

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

moi-ennepe-deactivated20251213

thank u <3

holygraund

FEARLESS TOUR - OUTFITS

blushingallthewayhome

THE VOCAL MATURITY!!!!! THE EASE!!!! THE FLEXIBILITY!!!!! THE RANGE!!!!!!! THE WARMTH!!!!!! THE HIGH NOTES!!!!!!!! THE DICTION!!!!!! THE RESONANCE!!!!!!! THE ARTICULATION!!!!!!! SOMEONE SEDATE ME!!!!!!!!!

lovestory

Taylor & Abigail in the Fifteen Lyric Video

tolerateit

The Best Day (Taylor's Version)

cataclysminrepose

there’s something inherently romantic about being so fucking familiar with an album that you can catch every minute change from a breath somewhere new to a lengthened vowel and what it all boils down to is fearless was a formative album for me and it always will be and i love revisiting it in such a wonderful way

shedidntevenswear

i think the real vocal difference is that on the originals you can tell little baby taylor is having to give it all she’s got full force every take, and adult taylor masters these songs so effortlessly and with so much control and confidence. not that she didn’t sound good before, she just sounds so much more relaxed in reaching that level. like she has nothing to prove, she has come home, she owns it.