very funny how all the visuals and marketing for this album give the vibe that it was all outsourced to some company who had absolutely nothing to go on but the phrase “the tortured poets department” and cobbled together a couple different directions based on what that sounded like without ever being able to hear the album. except that this is taylor swift so like she was definitely involved in and signed off on all this. her complete and total lack of aesthetic sensibility will never cease to amaze me

already there. i'm doing my part 🫡

what life is truly about ^^

HELLO?2!2$)3)3!3

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the dev patel girlies have KNOWN how hot he is for years and years but the little giggle I heard from a grown man seated next to me when he took his shirt off in monkey man tells me it's truly over for everyone else. god bless

Dev Patel in MONKEY MAN (2024)

“real poets are often mentally ill. as opposed to incredibly popular musicians, famously a sane and normal group of people,” like do you hear yourself

continues to be a tough time for poets embarrassing themselves on the internet! here’s a link to an editorial where the guy who first published research identifying a link between poetry and mental illness explains why his methodology was flawed. (he actually doesn’t even mention what crossed my own mind reading this sentence: “My study was based on brief biographies in reference works, and it is easy to over-extrapolate.” — it strikes me as possible that the aspects of a biography that would be coded as indicating mental illness may be more likely to make it into such a text for poets precisely because of pre-existing cultural associations between poetry and mental illness.) also not sure why i would trust a literary scholar’s assessment of rates of mental illness, lol???? but please carry on reminding everyone how special you are 😊

eminem is trans masc to some, trans fem to others, and an enemy to all

i typed up my annual plea for you to love yourself today (sign up for dracula daily, one of two good things on the internet)

this one was for me tbh

like imagine someone reviewing leonard cohen like "well i've never had sex with a fellow musician who told me 'we are ugly but we have the music' at new york city's chelsea hotel, so i couldn't relate." like what????????