the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling

ttpd really is the anti-reputation

This album is so quintessentially Taylor Swift and so much a culmination of her experience and talent and life that no one will ever come close to replicating it.

we’ve had a double album theory every release since lover i’m BEGGING y’all to drop it

this whole album is literally “never take advice from someone who’s falling apart”

‘and sometimes it gets me when crossing your jet stream, we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon in different galaxies’ is so fucking devastating bc not only does it allude to call it what you want, but also all of the references across her work implying that what they had was fate, sent to her by the universe, divine intervention. all the imagery of ‘starry eyes sparkling up my darkest night’ and ‘once upon a time the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned’ and ‘he’s passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky’ come crashing down into the reality that they were always just outside of each other’s orbit

i think the criticism of taylor that infuriates me the most is that she’s not self critical. she’s self critical to the point of self hatred. to the point of loathing. sometimes, she is downright sinister towards herself…not sure how you could walk away from ttpd with this claim.

Please never leave, Aaron Dessner

@wouldvebeensweet i’m dying

alexander hamilton ass woman

Taylor Swift on "The Tortured Poets Department" prologue

"A smirk creeps onto this poet's face. Because it's the worst men that I write best."

Fucking he'll

this as an album outro 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

This is how you guys act about surprise songs

Taylor Swift, "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"