Tinatin Dalakishvili as Ketevan in Extraction 2 (2023, Dir. Sam Hargrave)
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Tinatin Dalakishvili as Ketevan in Extraction 2 (2023, Dir. Sam Hargrave)
Terrible blog summary: "I will make you love Taylor Swift, that is your redemption arc!"
AHHHH I love it so much 😂😂😂😂😂
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YOU’RE MY SAVIOR!!!!! omg thank you so much 😭😭😭
28 with Mario :)
It took an embarrassingly long time to start and finish this fic and I’m not even sorry. Wait, yes I am. Thank you for requesting and I hope you enjoy –– as always, take my interpretation with a grain of salt because I am rusty as hell and writing is like pulling teeth right now.
PROMPT: ‘You’re like a giant cinnamon roll,’ starring Mario Mandzukic, Luka Modrić, Dejan Lovren, Šime Vrsaljko and Domagoj Vida.
Revelation
Revelation: what unexplained thing has God done in your life?
Honestly, the fact that I’m still here on this planet. Like, I nearly died twice in the first six months of my life, and God was like “Nah, son, I got big plans for you.”
I don’t know what that plan is, but I have faith in Him. Absolute, resolute faith.
Maggie Lang appreciation post.
As a non-Taylor fan myself, can you describe what drew you to her music in the first place?
I can’t remember what it was exactly. To paraphrase Mr. Darcy, “I cannot fix on the hour or spot or look or words that laid the foundation. I was in the middle before I knew that I begun.” But the first thing I remember being drawn to was her voice. It felt like there was such space in it, like there was room for me and all my emotions. I loved when it was sharp and reedy and sarcastic and angry, but I loved even more when it was soft. Somehow her voice was soft to me from the start. She said words in a way that made me understand them immediately and intuitively. She shaped them in way that put into words aches and longings and feelings that already existed in me but I didn’t know how to express. And it felt like being known and seen and like being set free to express emotions too. I cannot explain how deeply Taylor has affected my writing journey. She’s kind of the one who unlocked all the words inside of me. The one who first even gave me the idea that emotions and feelings could be put into words and writing about her has made me a one million times better writer. (Despite the disaster that is this ask.)
But the process itself was gradual. Again I fell in love with her slowly, I guess. (And then all at once.) I heard Fearless first when a friend sent me it as a birthday present and my first reaction to it was more troubled than anything. I knew intuitively that I loved it (and her) but 1) I didn’t know for SURE what I was listening to and 2) people around me were not helpful or kind about it (tbh) and so I felt kinda isolated and alone with this feeling and I struggled with it a lot. Speak Now was the album that broke through all of that. I listened to it when I was 15 alone in bed and when she sang innocent and never grow up I cried and cried and cried. And that’s when I could hear it! That’s when I knew she’d broken past all my walls definitively. It just felt like she was talking to me. About me. For me. And it felt like relief to hear the emotions outside of myself, and it filled me with joy to see them being given such beautiful form.
And I loved the form. Taylor’s voice was the initial magic that spoke to me but I loved the form she was using it in. I loved that her songs were perfectly, PERFECTLY, almost mechanically constructed pop songs that were nonetheless full of real, messy, sometimes bratty human emotion. I was fascinated by that juxtaposition. How could her songs be SO controlled and yet pulsing with life? How could the rigidity of the structure actually HELP express the emotion better than unstructured ranting?? But they DID! Her songs produced catharsis because she’d built them to. And she was effortless at moving between the different stages of a pop song, matching every melodic phrase with words that fit perfectly, and somehow making every melody and hook match the emotion it was expressing. Forever and Always?? A stunning, hilarious, perfect song but also perfectly constructed!!! Every word has a place! It all builds just as it was supposed to. I loved her bridges before I even knew the technical term. I was obsessed with them. What I’m trying to say is that after her voice the next thing that grabbed me was the construction her songs. I love pop songs for one but I loved hers especially. I thrilled to the way a Taylor song was this neat, complex but very organized package but effortlessly so, naturally so, in a way that enhanced emotion. I knew other pop artists were using the same formula but in my opinion they just weren’t doing it like her. They weren’t filling up the formula with their personality or their voice in the same way; they didn’t have her skill with words and phrases, the way she could twist a cliche to perfectly capture an emotion, the way she was so beautifully humble and basic but also very, very specific and weird. And they weren’t telling a STORY the way that Taylor was. And I don’t just mean the story of each song; i mean the story of her LIFE. And I relate to that too. The shaping of her life’s story not just as a story (this helped me a lot already) but as an ongoing search for love. Love being her subject also spoke to me on a core level because I too wanted to think about love forever.
There is so much more about what made me stay that this is leading me to. But that’s a different question and one you didn’t ask.
Thanks for asking, Alex!
Thoughts on the ultimate dessert?
ahhhh!!! I love dessert so much. If I go to a restaurant and don’t get any, I am sad. But I have such uninteresting taste in food. I love cheesecake? I didn’t use to but it’s grown on me so much. I also love ice cream and ice cream cake. A nice piece of pie is hard to beat, especially cream pies. Usually I like the simplest, most popular desserts. The fancier it is often the less I like it.