robin being a whole song about how younger taylor doesn’t know the extent of what comes with her dreams, and how she’s so clueless and kept in the dark, but regardless she should still go and chase them. how all the showmanship is worth it, and how she’s doing all these things for her. i think this song on TTPD specifically, an album where she talks about how she had to do her job while going through a whole crisis (to say the least) is so significant because there’s a reason she didn’t give up, there’s a reason why she’s good at doing it with a broken heart. the fame made her already horrible time in life worse, but reassurance that the cluelessness was worth it because if she knew, who knows maybe she wouldn’t have pursued it. the not-knowing is cruel and unfair, but regardless it worked out and she did the right thing by not giving up because this is what she wants, what heals her, what makes her happy.

Realizing that Taylor wrote and rewrote her meeting and falling in love with Joe over and over on each album because she was desperately clinging to the hope that the magic and golden love would come back, but over the years it never did.

Introductory poem “For T — and me…” by Stevie Nicks

everyone needs to reconcile with the fact that taylor actually felt insane and like she should be in an asylum and she actually felt like dying. ofc in hindsight she can see that all of it hyperbolic, but these are not just metaphors. it was true in the moment. she’s also tired of the public image of a good girl because she inflicted that on herself and that hindered her from growing, and public inflicting this image on her is also hindering her, and she hates that. she wants to make mistakes and learn on her own and she has reconciled with the fact that she’ll have to live with herself and live with regret because she chose to do it. she thinks she’s fucked up because she is! and she wants the public to see it! (even though now i think she’s trying to un-fuck herself)

I just have to put my thoughts down

1. I’m literally squealing and kicking my feet and laughing at the domestic intimacy she showed us. Thank you Taylor

2. Why the Jayhawks?

3. Love the lavender skirt. Maybe I would like pickleball.

4. This reaffirmed my desire to learn how to sew.

5. So glad she’s letting us in again.

#ForAFortnightChallenge

I really like the way you put this. And I'm so happy Taylor has come into herself as a female artist so loudly and boldly. It’s like a more hopeful or enlightened nothing new.

what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

she really said ‘and while we’re at it, fuck kim kardashian too’

Taylor calls herself crazy all throughout TTPD, but maybe I’m just as insane because I actually think she’s quite normal? Because if I ended a once happy 8 year relationship because the love was gone and we were both no longer in love to then get with a situation-ship who has been pinning for you for years only for them to abandon you when they finally got you, I’d commit full arson.

thinking way too many thoughts

I knew the "goodbye for now" in Peter was familiar. Harry wrote that in his last posts of the '18, '21 and '23 tours.

https://twitter.com/cherrvfrk/status/1781242343909146811?t=h-p3PTCPQmNOnd7kq8JLNA&s=19

Also I saw someone saying it's a 'cardigan' reference "Peter losing Wendy"...

Peter is very clearly about Harry. From the cardigan reference to Harry’s many ‘one day when we are older we will be together references and Taylor saying that he has it easier than her, which is also in Slut.

There is a theme of Harry saying they will be together in the future, satellite being written when he was 25.

H was 25 in 2019, when fine line was released, they were confirmed to both be at Eds wedding and a few months after they were both stuck on LA writing Folklore/Harrys House including Cardigan with the Peter losing Wendy reference she’s picked up here…

one last souvenir from my trip to your shores

one last souvenir from my trip to your shores

Re-watched Captain America: Winter Soldier and First Avenger (in that order lol) and hey guys

Remember that time Steve woke up in New York City 70 years later and panicked, thinking he was in HYDRA hands and haha, actually it turns out, he kind of was??

Also remember that bit where he found out in the most deadpan way possible (thanks Nick) that everyone he had ever known and loved was dead or aged to to the point of death in the blink of an eye, and no one ever actually like, gave him a moment's sympathy for the fact his entire world ended in a split-second of self-sacrifice that ended up just being one battle in a war that never ended?

Remember when he found out that the only person left who loved him, Peggy, only occasionally remembered him in moments of lucidity haha and then it turned out that the only other person who still lived and who loved him, Bucky, also only remembered him in moment's of lucidity?? Good times, good fucking times, I'm an emotional wreck about it

And one last thing, because I will never ever fucking ever let this grudge go, remember that time Tony fucking Stark who I mostly love but in the context of Steve Rogers specifically I want to tear him to shreds, decided to have beef with a literal traumatized 20-something year old war veteran whose entire world just dissolved into nothing in the 70 years he was on ice, and Tony fucking Stark decided to pick a fight with this guy and rag on him 24/7, despite being in his 40s himself and completely comfortable, stable, and with insane levels of wealth and privilege, because his fucking dad who has been dead for decades apparently loved this guy more, something that would have bewildered Steve who like, barely knew Howard outside of work, and that Steve had fucking nothing to do with Howard's neglect of his son because it all happened while he was unconscious?

Don't even get me started on Civil War, we will be here all day in how these supposedly equal sides weren't even slightly equal in morality or logic at all, but I will die on the hill of Tony fucking Stark was being a Grade A fucking asshole for his stupid man-child fight he picked with Steve Rogers when you actually objectively view Steve's life story as a human being instead of a symbol that he was literally forced to be

Whew. Ok. I'm ok now.

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AND ANOTHER THING...!