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23;  Preferred Pronouns: she/her; I have no idea what I'm doing, and it's starting to scare me 🤷

[kabaks]

@ the rest of the world, get on istanbul’s level with respect to cats 

[dsxsbx]

[perrfectly]

[livingstills]

[dangerly]

[taylorswift]

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

[avengers-posts]

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Grunge | Quotes

[bioillogically]

sometimes u gotta just say weird shit and not worry about what u mean

[feministism]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

[Description: Tweet from Lucas Brown Eyes: Natives protest the pipeline… States pass laws saying it’s okay to run over protestors. Natives swing a ND Senate seat… they take away their vote. An Indigenous Actress gets an Oscar Nomination… There’s a push to make Oscar qualifications stricter.

I’m noticing a pattern. End description]

“They take away their vote.”

Wait – WTF?!?!?!?

[hey-bobert]

Oh yeah. In North Dakota you can’t vote if you don’t have a physical address and most people who live on reservations use PO boxes bc their roads and houses aren’t on mail routes. This was literally done last year specifically to disenfranchise native voters.

[nezukokins]

i’m calling it right now that Marvel is going to ‘Breaking Dawn’ us and we’re gonna get a scene with at least 50% of the characters dead and then Dr. Stephen Strange is gonna bring that time back real quick and restart the fight

[joeypottrs]

oh jesus christ

[spiderbrats]

and then it’s gonna get called one of the most “groundbreaking” plot twists of the century

[autumnyte-old]

When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere. 

Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.

The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay. 

Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.

[stayingmachine-moved]

and something else: your career doesn’t have to be your calling. you can do what you love (writing, music, drawing, knitting) as a hobby. it doesn’t have to pay the bills. it’s okay to do an office job and then go home to your hobby. there are different paths to passion.

[fuck-customers]

A few years back, I was a waitress at a breakfast diner. On the menus there are pictures of omelettes. The omelettes pictured are yellow.

It’s 11 at night, I get the last table before closing, and it’s a girl my age. She asks for tea and an egg white omelette. So I bring over her egg white omelette, and she starts screaming. Why? Because it’s not yellow like in the picture on the menu, it’s white, so something must be wrong. I explained that the yolk is what makes omelettes yellow, and she didn’t want egg yolks. She’s still mad, and yells again. And then realizes she could eat while she’s yelling, so she does, and I get to watch her chew with her mouth open while she rants about eggs. I’m exhausted and dying inside. She finally stops. I ask if she wants a refill of tea, and she says yes. She’s quiet for the rest of her meal, for which I am very grateful.

After she paid and left, I collected her receipt. On it, she wrote in all caps “I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW EGGS WORK BUT IT WAS YUMMY.” She left a $20 bill on the table as a tip. She also left some pills in a bag that my manager sent to the police, which were identified as some sort of amphetamine. 

Don’t do drugs kids, you’ll forget how eggs work.

[yiffmaster]

your boss can’t garnish your tips like that

[vaspider]

I’m watching Jurassic Park and dreaming of a remake where the dinosaurs all have feathers.

[teaboot]

NO BUT THE BOOK EXPLAINS WHY NONE OF THE DINOSAURS ARE ACTUALLY PROPER DINOSAURS BUT NOBODY READ IT

[teaboot]

Okay okay okay so the book explains that the whole park was a terrible idea basically from the start. The genetic engineer (or like the rich nut in charge) once made a super tiny elephant as a pet and it was awful. Just an ill-tempered bald corgi of an animal. Just bad.

Now, the dinosaurs in the park aren’t exactly ‘clones’ of the DNA in the mosquito- in fact, the DNA in the mosquito isn’t really a big player. The book says that the dinosaurs aren’t really DINOSAURS as they existed, but essentially homemade animals built from scratch to Look and Act the way we think a dinosaur Should. Like glorified toys. They could have just as easily made one eyes one horned flying purple people eaters, and it wouldn’t have mattered.

Which is actually quite clever, seeing as it sort of bakes in an excuse for any factual inaccuracies in the movies, no matter how up-to-date the critters are at the time of production.

They don’t look the way dinosaurs ACTUALLY DID because their designs are BASED ON INCOMPLETE DATA, not solid and complete genetic samples taken from real life.

[injuries-in-dust]

They had one line in Jurassic World to explain all that: 

Henry Wu : “Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn’t ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.”

Took four movies, but they explained it.   

[humanfist]

Frog DNA was mentioned in the first movie, it just took beating people over the head with it.

[vaspider]

Fluffy T-Rexes Eating Capitalists.

That’s all I want.

[fandomsandfeminism]

My favorite Jurrasic Park theory is that none of the creatures have any real dino dna at all. That the whole “mosquito in amber” story is a lie to make it believable; those animals are just chimeras of frogs and iguanas and emus and crocs and whatever the fuck to make them look “right.” Total fabrications.

After all, why invite an archeologist to the park and not, say, a zoo manager?

Because the archeologists arent there to evaluate safety at all. They are there to see if these chimeras can fool even an expert.

[locuas642]

meanwhile, the blood-sucking lawyer who had oh so devious intentions such as “investigate the safety of the park after several reports of missing or dead workers.“ only bothered to hire… an expert in chaos theory who can help asses how safe the park is and who (in the book) accurately predicts how the park would fail massively…

…

man, those theories about Hammond being actually the bad guy of the whole franchise might actually be right…

[fandomsandfeminism]

Oh, Hammond is 100% the bad guy. Like. You perfect that level of genetics technology and your instinct is to paton the hell out of it and try to find a way to make as much money as possible out of it?

“Capitalism corrupts scientific advancement to dangerous extremes” is a pretty solid interpretation of the film.

[katjohnadams]

I mean, that’s not even interpretation. That was very explicitly textual.

“I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it.”

[fandomsandfeminism]

Malcolm really has his finger on the issue that whole movie.

[tinynebula]

can we stop only blaming british people for colonialism and how they don’t take any responsibility today? because hi, spain massacred the entire center and south america. france? destroyed entire civilizations and ruled the worldwide slave market. european countries literally sat down and divided africa to themselves. y'all don’t get blame free just because it’s more trendy to be after british people on tumblr.

[visibilityofcolor]

my god, spain and italy were some of the worst. britain was bad but spain and italy were right next to it. 

let’s not forget christopher colombus was an italian colonizer commissioned by the spanish monarchy to fuck up the “new world”.

[cephalophor]

Portugal too is guilty of it and should be hold accountable

[feministism]

[livininablanketfort]

Fuck Brunei

And fuck anybody who doesn’t react to what they are doing with anger and sadness