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[swiftgronmasterpost]

The Swiftgron Timeline Remastered

Hey Guys!  It’s Cam from @whatiwillsay

It’s high time the Swiftgron Masterpost was updated with more content and a cross reference of the Achele timeline and other newly learned information.

Now if you’re just looking to prove that Swiftgron is real to your friends click here for a more succinct summation of proof.  But if you want to read the sad, beautiful, tragic (no that’s not a Swiftgron song) story of Swiftgron, to go through the ups and downs, from the Hunger Games to SNL this is the place for you!

I was inspired to do this partially by this conversation.  TL;DR is there was some lively discourse in the fandom about who the breakup songs on Red are about.  

Personally, it doesn’t make sense to me for them to be about Dianna when the falling in love songs are obviously about her (mentions of green eyes, her name in the 22 liner notes, ect.)  For one quick example: the songs The Last Time and Come Back…Be Here were written and recorded right around the same time.

I’m sorry but I just cannot fathom those two songs being about the same person.  One is about the softest start to a relationship you’ve ever imagined - pining away and missing someone you barely know but are already infatuated with and the other is a gut wrenching heartbreak song about someone you’ve been on and off with for a long time.

Furthermore the Swiftgron masterpost and timeline was laid out by either Kaylors or general Gaylors, but no one who seems to have an in depth knowledge of Achele or even of Taylor’s relationships before Dianna, other than Emily which by all accounts ended in 2008.  

So I wanted to fill in all the blanks left open on the original Swiftgron masterpost to see if it’s possible that it missed anything.

Plenty of this data will still come from the original Swiftgron masterpost and shoutout to them for building such an amazing document!  It’s a great primer but it does gloss over a lot of events such as the Glee tour in the summer of 2011, the circumstances around all the early Swiftgron meetings, and the obvious Achele interactions through early winter 2012, and of course it’s missing all the weird late stage Swiftgron social media shenanigans.

I wanted to make this masterpost to be able to stand alone so I ripped some gif sets and other info (mostly on Achele) that I didn’t personally build because I don’t ever want anyone running into dead links.  If you see an edit or content you made that I haven’t credited please let me know and I will credit you or remove it if you really want me to.

The other reason I made this was I wanted to have one succinct and chronological place to store every single Swiftgron photo, video, or media of any other type.  If it’s Swiftgron related I will find it and add it here.  If I missed something you can let me know by reaching out to me on my usual blog @swiftgron-get-married. 

For those of you that are new to Gaylor here’s a few notes:

1.  If Taylor seems fruity to you it’s cause she does to everyone else.  Welcome.

2.  Swiftgron is the pairing of Taylor Swift and Dianna Agron.

3.  Achele is the pairing of Dianna Agron and Lea Michele.  It happened before Swiftgron (I think summer 2009 - Early 2012).  Achele was real 100%.  Go to Achele References on Tumblr for more info but just know I have reason to believe Achele actually dated beyond public information.  Take that with a grain of salt of course and look at the evidence for yourself.

4.  At some points in this document I reference a forum called The L Chat - that place is a wasteland of biphobia, transphobia, and other gross things but they did closely track Swiftgron and Achele.  I don’t recommend going there as it can be very triggering to some.  I have gone and pulled out relevant data so you don’t have to go there.

5.  There is a notion in the Gaylor fandom that Dianna was toxic, a serial cheater, and I’ve even heard the word “abusive” thrown around due to the fact that the breakup songs on Red do seem to be about a toxic relationship - Taylor has said as much.  

Given what I’ve heard about DIanna from people who have actually had contact with her - this would be incredibly out of character.  She does have the reputation of being a bit of a player but is literally famous for how kind, giving, compassionate, and amiable she is to fans, coworkers, and friends alike.

I believe that this document proves that due to events on the timeline that although Swiftgron definitely had their ups and downs (Babe definitely suggests at least one instance of a lack of faithfulness, and I’ve clocked at least two obvious breakups before Taylor commits to Karlie and the Swiftgron romance is over for good) however the idea that it was a completely toxic mess is just not supported by actual public data, gathered evidence, and Taylor’s own music and words.

With that enjoy!  The pandemic has done some weird things to people hasn’t it?  This what I did instead of going outdoors.  (I streamed Folklore six billion times while building this, honestly it was a blast!)

Click here to keep reading!

Orrrr 

If you want to skip all the preamble of Achele and Tayliz click here to jump into the Swiftgron Spring!

Table of Contents

Early Stages - Ships Passing in the Night

The 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Spring 2011 - The Achele of it All

The 2011 Met Gala Klossgron Extravaganza

Glee Live Tour Part 1 - Achele is ON

Glee Live Tour Part 2 - Rivergron in Paris

Glee Live Tour Part 3 - Seriously what the fuck was Shirtgate

Glee Tour Part 4 - Dianna’s Gay Panic Shirtgate Essay

Let’s Check In With Taylor - Speak Now Tour and Tayliz

Fairfax Flee Market - Finally Some Swiftgron!

Fall 2011 - Red and Achele winds down

Winter 2012 - Achele sunset / Swiftgron dawn

The Swiftgron Spring - Everything Changes

Shirley MacLaine’s Birthday

Dianna’s 26th Birthday

The Swiftgron Summer Part 1 - Dominick’s and The Glaad Awards

The Swiftgron Summer Part 2 - Hyiannis Port and The First Breakup

Fall 2012 - They Reuinte in Paris and Haylor Rises

Winter 2013 - The Beginning of the End

Spring 2013 - Fall 2013 - The End?

Winter 2014 - Taylor is Clean but then Swiftgron never goes out of Style

Late Stage Part 1 Spring 2014 - Winter 2018

Late Stage Part 2 Spring 2018 (Babe!) - Fall 2019 (SNL!)

Late Stage Part 3 Folklore Shenanigans 

Late Stage Part 4 Evermore!

[oddgirlsmedia]

Book Review: Cover Story by Rachel Lacey

Hollywood starlet Natalie Keane hasn’t felt safe in 8 years, not since a stalker broke into her home and abducted her for 12 hours. She has built her home and life into a fortress, but when her stalker gets released from prison the little peace she’s gained is threatened. To create a distraction with the press she can control, and more importantly keep her safe, Natalie agrees to hire and fake a relationship with her bodyguard. Taylor Vaughn.

You may remember Taylor from Stars Collide, she was Eden’s Head of Security. Having recently been taken off active duty for a back injury she is itching to get back in the field. So even though fake a relationship and moving in with her protectee is a little unusual she is more than up to the task. If she is immediately attracted to Natalie, so what? She’s a professional, it is only three months.

Even though Natalie is an award winning actress her world is viewed through a very small lens. She goes to work, comes home, mostly avoids going out in public, and never invites anyone into her home. Even though the romantic tension between Taylor and Natalie is front and center in the story, the slow healing of Natalie’s trauma and the safety she feels with Taylor’s presence makes the connection feel real.

I really enjoyed this book. FYI: it is a lot less thriller than you may guess from the first few chapters.

SIDE NOTE: I NEED NOELLE’S SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE STORY PLEASE, THANKS!

[oddgirlsmedia]

Book Review: Quiver by Rachel Spangler

My angst loving friends, I have the book for you. Quiver is a second chance, celebrity, small town, sports and ice queen romance all rolled into one beautifully healing love story.

Kylie Manchester’s once blossoming acting career is waning. In an attempt to save a big audition she tells the director about her amazing skills as a mounted archer… too bad she isn’t one. But she does know one, a champion, only getting the ex-love of her life to agree to help her will be only slightly less painful than actually working with her everyday.

The tension between Kye and Fletcher flares like a wildfire from the start. Their borderline obsession with their work is both what broke them apart, and kept them moving forward for the last 12 years. Fletcher agrees to help Kylie out of a need to give her what she needs to leave as quickly as possible.

The very slow coming together is painful and beautiful, you will want to yell at them and cry for them more than once. I would consider both of the main characters ice queens to different degrees, and their well-earned walls are thick. Without their connection to each other both women suffered in their personal lives never truly able to move on, but unwilling to move backwards.

The combat sport of mounted archery plays a major role in the book and is honestly just so cool. Every scene was descriptive and made me feel like I was there, in the barn, watching the horses and arrows fly by.

[oddgirlsmedia]

I think Regina stole Emma’s jacket.

[fadeintoyou1993]

CHERYL & TONI RIVERDALE (2017-2023)

[erin-hart]

[nevver]

A Knight’s Commute, Sara Alfageeh

[melissa-benoists]

HAPPY 5 YEARS TO SUPERCORP!

The Adventures of Supergirl (Episode 2x01) aired 5 years ago today (October 10, 2016)

[usermeggy]

If I had a nickel for every time Katie McGrath played a repressed magic user, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but weird it happened twice.

MERLIN (2008-2012) SUPERGIRL (2015-2021)

[oddgirlsmedia]

I’m okay… just sitting here pretending Morgana reincarnated in the form of Lena. Because that makes as much sense as anything else on this show.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream

[northisnotup]

THAT is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted

[relevantlyrambling]

I swear if this isn’t floating around on the internet I’m gonna cry

[cyanideending]

Oh buddy IT’S ABOUT TO BE. I am like, 98% sure this was my high school’s production and I’ve got photos and video clips like craaaazy…

Here are some fun additions… the Mechanicals were also based on the characters of The Breakfast Club (here I am below, eating an actual Captain Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich on stage.)

…and the one on the longboard was actually our Puck - he rode it through the whole play in the background. Please note his “Forest Cafe” shirt… which we also had logos for on the cups.

…and we had both a flash mob at the end AND an interlude where myself and one of the other Fairies danced to “Sexy and I Know It” while we were cleaning up the tables at the cafe.

I will post more of this later. I have a DVD at my house and will endure cringing at myself to bring you some quality clips… there’s probably one of K eating the burrito before the start of the play, too.

@hullaballoons Here is more Ktown Lore for you 

@cupcakelirry 

[cyanideending]

Here ya go kids… all 2h20m. if you make it through the whole thing once, that’s probably more times than any of the cast watched this DVD. You can probably see why. Tbh if you watch this, I am sorry in advance.

Important notes:

- Chipotle burrito makes a cameo about 30 min in,

- the end has a flash mob and a “commercial” for the Forest Cafe, 

- unfortunately, the lunch scene where all the mechanicals whistle like the Breakfast Club got mostly cut for some reason?

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@vampireapologist in case you have any interest in reliving this… at the very least you can prove to any doubters that there was, in fact, a Chipotle burrito onstage.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I cannot even fully conceptualize, much less put into words, how wild this chain of events has been.

I have dozens of posts going around that have broken 50,000 notes, and plenty that have broken 100,000.

On every single one of these posts, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of comments and tags calling me a liar and the story fake, but none so much as this post.

This post was my most doubted of all.

And you came in………

with a Two and a Half Hour Long video.

I’ll never forget this.

We have a bond forged in fire and spirit now.

[katsuko1978]

This whole thing originally felt like some online urban legend… and then @cyanideending comes through with video proof and first person participation. What a time to be alive

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

NEVER forget

[ahallister]

I am now forced to ponder if this was all just a setup so that we’d be forced to believe that all of vampireapologist’s other exceedingly implausible stories must actually be true as well. Certainly this has changed the threshold of reasonable doubt in my mind, such that I probably shouldn’t sit on a jury any time soon.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

this response is so funny. someone tells you something wildly false and you’re like, “once I wouldn’t have believed you…..but ever since that shakespeare post I saw on tumblr…well….who’s to say”

[catchymemes]

“My cat realizing I am watching him do what I have repeatedly told him not to do”

[valeria2067]

Theologians: Animals can’t sin, because they cannot comprehend right vs. wrong in a meaningful way.

Me, a Cat Owner: Yeah, Bullshit.

[anaparamosart]

“Partners”

Part two of this supercorp story I publish before.

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[supercorpbookmarks]

Supercorp Smut  II

lost and (almost) found   - Jazzfordshire              

Lena and Kara meet at a bar, but lose track of each other – a few months later, Lena gets a new neighbour. As it turns out, glasses and a ponytail really are a good disguise.

i’ll be your light, your match, your burning sun -  Valkyrees            

Lena only joins the uni’s ultimate frisbee team because Sam keeps talking her ear off about needing more players. But then she meets the captain, Kara Danvers, and suddenly her summer gets a lot more interesting.    

God Is a Luthor - Aspidities      

You don’t ever want to play Truth or Dare with Lena Luthor.          

did you mean it (when you said i was pretty) -  amaltheaz  

“Lena takes a deep breath to steady herself before she finally dares to look up. Dark blue eyes meet her gaze and she tries to swallow down the dry feeling in her throat, tries to see why Kara is looking at her like this because she’s sure that friends don’t do this.”  aka my own little twist on that friends with benefits au      

Stuck on You - DangersUntoldHardshipsUnnumbered + thebraveandthebroiled

Farmer Kara and City Girl Lena Supercorp, Inspired by this wonderful art of foleypdx on tumblr

crash through the surface - Valkyrees        

the fic where Lena gets involved with something dangerous, Kara’s in over her head with everything, and neither one of them know how to deal with their feelings for each other.     

sleeping here right next to me (but will you ever mess with me) -            littlemousejelly                

Kara and Lena have their first sleepover together and everything’s great! But, oh my god, there’s only one bed. (And, it really is totally an accident that Kara’s finger goes in.)

If I was your vampire  - wonderwrath                

Blue eyes focused on blood red lips and green eyes hovered over the pulse point on Kara’s neck. Lena never had any problem in keeping herself from biting someone, but now she had to urge to dig her teeth deep into Kara’s neck, needing to know if she tastes as good as she smelled.

will you touch me like you know me  -  drfitzmonster               

Kara rescues Lena from a creep in a hotel bar and they flee to the safety of Lena’s suite. Once there, they talk, and Kara shows Lena all the kindness and tenderness and love she deserves but has never experienced before.

The Feeling of Your Skin Locked in My Head -  disappointingcroissant            

Lena gets home after a long day at work and asks her Kryptonian girlfriend to help. Kara delivers.

snapshots and lace - potstickermaster      

And, well, in simple terms, Kara thinks Lena is gorgeous. In more complicated ones, she’ll start spouting superlatives that describe beauty, because that was how Lena looked—no, is. Lena is beautiful. The impact of this specific shoot to her career aside, Kara may or may not have accepted the project just to meet Lena Luthor.She totally did not. That would be insane.                                                  

love the player (hate the game) - Jazzfordshire                

When Lena begrudgingly attended a charity polo game to appease her mother, she expected a long afternoon full of bad hors d’oeuvres and boring people. What she gets is Kara Danvers, who shows her how fun polo can be.

so if you’re gonna lie (do it in my bed) - littlemousejelly               

PWP. Three times Lena lets Kara lie to her about her identity just to have her for the night, and one time Kara stops lying.

 Losing Sleep - TheMoiralOfTheStory     

Life would be simpler if only Kara’s insanely hot neighbor would stop having really loud sex. Seriously. No one has that much sex, like ever. Also Kara would love to get some sleep. Any day now. Please. Please let her sleep.      

we could slow dance to rock music, kiss while we do it   -  Valkyrees            

 College AU, where Lena’s a baby goth with nipple piercings, Kara’s her roommate and completely smitten, and they get matching tattoos somewhere along the way.

The Cat and the Cream -  NightmareWalker         

In which Kara still doesn’t understand many of Earth’s sayings, but it all ends in the Best Way, all thanks to one persistent Luthor.     

Previous Lists

Smut Rec List 1

Smut + Fluff

[supercorpbookmarks]

pure smut?

Not a Fantasy - wallofcrazy

Over the years Lena has been very proficient when it comes to taking care of herself sexually. She has never had a problem with her sexuality and the fact that she has desires and needs that require being taken care of, even if she doesn’t have someone to share that with. Well, at least until she came to National City and became best friends with a certain superhero journalist. OR Lena never thought that being impossibly sexually frustrated could be a consequence of being in love with her best friend.

Restraint - DaniJayNel

Lena had always known that there was an undeniable attraction between them, a pull that Kara was the only one strong enough to resist. And now her only reason for resisting was gone, and Kara was looking at her like she hadn’t had a drink in years. Lena knows that Kara is Supergirl and helps the DEO on the side. An experiment gone wrong gives Lena all of Kara’s abilities, including her invulnerability. And like that, Kara doesn’t have to fear that she’ll hurt her. (a.k.a they fuck. hard)

Unavoidable Dreams - C_AND_B

“Kara had sex dreams. About Lena. Kara Danvers had extremely vivid sex dreams about Lena Luthor and she couldn’t stop thinking about it. It comes in snippets, and flashes, and visions and then it slams into her all at once, so fast she can barely breathe through the palpitations in her chest. Then it lingers. It’s there when she blinks, and when she sleeps, and every time she turns and finds Lena by her side (which seems to be increasing with every passing day).” Or, Kara has sex dreams and then just awkwardly fumbles through interactions with Lena.

Love Me Harder - JediFighterPilot2727

Tumblr Prompt: Lena calling Kara, Daddy, and it triggers Kara taking her right there in the hallway of her apartment and not even bothering to take her inside.

need you - ShippingThings

Have you ever thought about the fact that Kara’s awkward ass has probably accidentally sexted Lena, and not like “oh I sent this to the wrong person accident” awkward but “I didn’t realize how what I said sounded” awkward

In Rao’s Light - rileynoah

It’s not like they weren’t having sex. Lena was extremely satisfied when it came to the bedroom in almost every sense. Almost. Kara would touch her, and love her, and worship her. She used to count her orgasms and now, she really couldn’t keep up. Kara’s focus was entirely on her, and her pleasure. But Kara wouldn’t let Lena return the favour. Or Lena recruits the help of Alex to dampen Kara’s powers enough to finally touch her.

not quite a damsel - blatant_sock_account

“You saved my life, Supergirl,” Lena said, her voice breathy. She offered a coy smile, so out-of-place with the way she rested her hand against Kara’s chest, her fingers rubbing small circles into the bulletproof fabric in a way that sent small jolts of electricity zinging throughout Kara’s torso. “I don’t know what I would have done without you.”

She Persisted - yesverygoodallright

52 SuperCorp smut prompts for 52 weeks. Some shorter, some longer, all smutty. Chapter summaries within!

Kara Danver’s Most Successful Press Conference - luthorbitch

“No one else in that room had X-Ray vision, after all. And so if anyone else took off their glasses to wipe at the lens — just for a damn second — and chanced to look up in Lena Luthor’s direction, they wouldn’t have seen what the woman in question was wearing beneath her elegant dress. Which just happened to be. Red. Fucking. Lingerie. With matching stockings. And an honest-to-God garter belt. So no one else accidentally smashed their favorite pens either. ”

here we are, two helping hands - falsealarm

A chord of unease vibrates in the pit of Lena’s stomach as Kara sets the folder in front of her and says, “I need to talk to you about something important.”

Pursuit and Power - anamatics

Lena Luthor likes power. She’s attracted to it, she wants to possess it. She’s spent so much of her life without any power at all that the moments when she can steal it and hold it close are precious to her. She guards them like a dragon its horde, protective, caring, and never, ever, willing to let go.

Power - Kassebaum

Lena Luthor had always enjoyed power and the perks that came along with it; she actively sought it out and craved it, which was not surprising she mused, given who her adoptive family was.

Duality - MsSirEy

Kara is trying to get close to Lena, while Supergirl is physical with Lena. Life is complicated. This is an examination of trust, with equal parts angst, fluff, and smut.

touch my body, make me insane - satvrno

“Kara just landed her dream job as a reporter and they know she’s happy, truly. She’s always talking about how exciting having a notepad and pen is at big events, she tells Alex about the articles she writes even when it’s supposed to be secret, and she got them all two copies each of the magazine with her first article. It’d all be easy to deal with if Kara wasn’t overworking herself. She was barely sleeping, spending too much time at the office just to make sure everything was perfect before turning it in. She was stressed most of the time even if she denied it, and her constant mood changes and the purple bags under her eyes were confirmation that she needed to take a break.” Or, the yoga au nobody asked for in which Lena is a yoga instructor and Kara is a very stressed and very gay reporter.

Bite me… - Kassebaum

Lena longs to be able to leave marks on Kara’s skin and Kara is in need of a birthday present to Lena…

There’s No Privacy (Nowadays) - yellowclock

A cyber attack meant to out Lena as an evil alien-hating Luthor backfires when the only thing Lena does is have sex with Kara or Everyone in National City hears Kara and Lena talk dirty

[nightmare-xy]

A Beginning of Something Beautiful, an artwork for @missluthorwillseeyounow‘s fic for @supercorpbb titled come to my window (i’ll keep it open for you)

Kara grins, because A.) this girl is clearly height-challenged, and B.) this girl likes a challenge, given the way she always seems to go for the most obscure books. And C.) based on the way she huffs adorably in frustration, Kara has a feeling that she’s about thirty seconds away from climbing the stacks or falling and breaking her neck.

Kara takes pity on her and taps her on the shoulder, her grin still in place. “Let me.”

I am really glad that I got to partake in this collaborative event! I had fun in meeting and working together with the admins, artists, and authors. I hope I could participate in another event like this one that brings contributors of the fandom together!

[weinzapfel]

Alternative Supercorp AU for Spooktober: DJ Lena and Photographer Kara  Lena decides to take a chance and tell Kara how she feels about her, taking her to her secret place: A tall rooftop downtown where she goes to be alone sometimes. Kara is a photographer, so she figures the blonde would like to go there. It’s beautiful and she loves it, but Lena is not sure if she should risk it all and maybe ruin everything. That’s a concept I came up with while listening to some emo stuff hahah Are there any fics with this concept? If there isn’t any, can one of you talented souls write something like this? I would love you forever 🖤

[mcnostril]

So I saw this tweet and all that came to mind was the men who came up with those terms who probably lived in terrible fear that an unmarried woman might reach the ancient age of thirty and ascend to True Royalty, then proceed to dethrone the current rulers and become the rightful Queen of the land. 

[antique-scarecrow]

here’s the tweet