#ts discourse

[jakeperalta]

final thoughts on the whole taylor/matty mess before I can finally move on and find peace: whilst I am obviously glad they've broken up, that's not just flipped a switch with how I feel about her. it being a short fling doesn't change the fact she chose to date him and was happy to be publicly aligned with him. I'm a bit less uncomfortable about her now but the distance is still there for me. whilst she may address it in some way in the future, ultimately I'm gonna be having a hard time reconciling the taylor I'd like to think she is with the taylor we've been seeing recently for a while yet.

[thenewromanticspod]

the amount of homophobia rife in this fandom is concerning. if you don’t agree with someone’s take then that is fine, but when people get so angry at gaylors over us making our own theories in our own spaces…. it can come off a little weird

[fadeawaywithyou]

im refusing to listen to the new taylor swift album. i gave midnights a chance, and was HEAVILY disappointed. everything I've heard in tiktok snippets and everyone's reactions have put me off, and i want to say that both adoration and annoyance, critics and applause, have put me off on both sides. so don't come at me with "oh don't listen to the HATERS" idgaf. i don't give a single fuck! I'm getting fucking TIRED of her brand being more and more obviously not who she really is, despite her being more and more insistent that it is. she's not a "tortured poet" she's a fucking billionaire pop artist. it's so weird seeing her try and capitalize on two very different personas: one where she's the queen of everything, a girlboss, god of pop, maker of the industry nobody can beat, haters can kiss her ass...but also so misunderstood and deep and introverted and please feel bad for her. Like, I'm sure she has problems, but i don't wanna listen about them after being subjected to her goddamn eras tour online and seeing her carbon footprint. go to a therapist, girl, I'm SURE you can afford it. what's her brand is now with the grey photography and shower thoughts feels so disingenuous when the first lyric i see (that's not a copypasta) from her long awaited "deep, tortured, you'll never understand how i grew up" album is about how your football boyfriend fingers you while on call with his video game buddies. i thought the line about wanting to live in slave times was a copypasta but it's real! girl shut the fuck up. the creek near by grandparent's house is deeper than you're entire 31 song album. the asylum that raised you gave you more power than GOD and you can make your fanbase sob with a london reference to a 4-month relationship TEN YEARS AGO. she has good music, but I'm hesitant to say she's still making good music. and even if she did every day i see her fans sob piss and shit themselves over a "thesaurus entry + middle school level philosophy" lyric i hate her more and more.

[luckyduckydyke]

I'm going to be distancing myself from the Sanders Sides fandom. I will say that I no longer see Thomas Sanders as any kind of role model or person to look up to. Some of his actions recently aren't things I can easily overlook. I was already feeling the hyperfixation fading, but. Yeah. Final nails in the coffin. He doesn't need my views, obviously, but I won't be giving them anyway. Changed my header and pfp. Honestly, some of his characters will probably still bring me comfort, but the channel itself cannot be untangled from his actions for me. Considering orphaning my ts-content fan works on AO3 too. That's a hefty decision, as those works make up the vast majority of my creative efforts over the last six years. We'll see. I don't want to let his actions ruin my creations for me. Sorry this is scattered, but. Yeah. Idk, I'm just very disappointed.

[pulchrasilva]

Roleslaying fans who don't like Youngblood or don't pay any significant attention to him. I do not fucking trust you. Gonna need a 6 page essay on why you're not racist on my desk stat and I'm barely even joking about that

[with-the-flickers-of-light]

my formal stance on the ice spice collab is that it most likely was born before the healy rumors. ice spice would have to write her part, then both have to record, then it goes through post-production. ice spice would have to plan to show up at the eras tour concerts.

so. let's not with the "this shows taylor IS anti-racist, because this is her way of telling us matty's ice spice comments were inappropriate!" OR "this is another pr stunt to distract us from matty's transgressions!" takes.

[willievermakeithome]

the backlash against this lyric change is wild fr

[sagesparrow394]

So with all the discourse happening on SaSi tumblr rn, I’m just gonna make a quick statement to sum up my feelings

Which is basically… I don’t really have any feelings toward this

Maybe it’s because I’m really into all the content Thomas creates, not just mainly SaSi - like his music, his second channel stuff, RWR, etc - that I haven’t really fallen off as other people feel they have, and because I’m a part of multiple other fandoms with regular content to ‘tide me over’ in a way

The long gaps haven’t really phased me personally. Of course I completely understand the opinions and feelings of other people who wish there was more content.

But at the same time, this fandom is something I use to escape stress, and seeing all this discourse and feeling this pressure that I’m not supposed to be satisfied with what we’re getting is, well… doing the opposite. Which isn’t great, because irl I am at one of the most stressful points of my life with some big important exams coming up soon.

So I guess what I’m saying is I’m gonna treat this blog as, like, a break from the discourse. This is gonna be the last comment I make on it for now. I won’t reblog posts about it. So… if anyone is in a similar situation and wants a moment of respite, you’re okay here.

Again, I personally see the validity and truth in the opinions of people on both sides of the discourse. I just really am not in the headspace to get involved.