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Either you just made it to TikTok Spade babe or I just got to the right side of TikTok!!!

“https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLn4f912/”

🎃 This is really well done. She made some connections that we missed! This is definitely not me. I am not on TikTok.

To the TikToker, if you want me to remove this let me know and I will do so ASAP.

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champagneproblesm asked:

Kinda tells a story when you pick the outro or last verse from each song backwards :

The only thing that's left is the manuscript. One last souvenir from my trip to your shores. Now and then i re read the manuscript. But the story isn't mine anymore

But now we'll curtail your curiosity in sweetness

She's been many places with men of many faces. First, they're off to the races. She's laughing drawin' aces. But, none of it is changin'. That the chariot is waitin'. Hearts are hers for the breakin. There's an escape in escaping OR she fell through the Ice then came black Alive.

But the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light

When the truth Comes out it's quiet. It's so quiet .

(I'm so afraid I sealed my fate no sign of soulmates. I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige) Spending my last coin so someone will tell it'll be ok

What if your eyes looked up and met mine one more time.

I pushed each boulder up that hill.

This place made me feel worthless

Your words were just still ringing in my head.

I'm hearing voices like a mad man

Leaving me bereft and reeling, my beloved ghost and me sitting in a tree D-Y-I-N-G

Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses, cooler in theory but not if you force it to be, it just didn't happen.

The devil that you know looks now more like an angel. I'm the life you chose and all this terrible danger OR she IS here to destroy you

Pick your poison, babe I'm poison either way

Now I want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons. Even if I die screaming and I hope you hear it.

Only when your girlish glow flickers just so do they let you know i's hell on earth to be heavenly. Them's the breaksThey don't come gently

They said there was no chance, trying to be the greatest in the league.

You hung me on your wall, stabbed me with your push pins. In public, showed me off then sank in stoned oblivion cause once your queen had come you treat her like an also-ran. You didn't measure up in any measure of a man

Cause i'm miserable. And no one even knows. Try and Come for my job

Your arsons match your somber eyes. And i'll still see it till the day i die. (You're the loss of my life.)

Your good lord didn't need to lift a finger.

I am what i am cause you trained me. So who's afraid of little old me?

Am i allowed to cry ?

Go on fuck me up

I did my Time.

All the wine moms are still holding out but it's over.

You'll find someone.

Waving at the ship, fuck it if i can't have him

Left all these broken parts, told me i'm better of but i'm not

Who else decodes you ? or / i chose this cyclone with you

it won't start up 'til I touch, touch, touch you

it won't start up 'til I touch, touch, touch you (fortnight)

Then midnights

I can't find a pulse my Heart won't start anymore

have they come to take me away?

You should find another guiding light

Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

It's been two thousand one hundred and 90 days of our love blackout. The system's breaking down.

I'd pay if you'd just know me. Seemed like the right thing at the time.

Levitate above all the messes made sit quiet by my side in the shade. And not the kind that's thrown, I mean The kind under where a tree has grown

it's all over, it's not meant to be. So I'll say words I don't believe

There's no morning glory, it was war, it wasn't fair. And we will never go back.

Had to do it this way 'Cause we were born to be the pawn In every lover's game

You say "what a mind" this happens all the Time

It's coming back around.

Break up, break free, break through, break down. You would break your back to make me break a smile

I think it's time to teach some lessons i made you my world. have you heard? I can reclaim the land.

I'm on my vigilante shit again.

But you were on somethin', It was one drink after another, Fuckin' politics and gender roles, And you're not sure and I don't know. Got swept away in the gray. I just may like to have a conversation

So I peered through a window, A deep portal, time travel, All the love we unravel. And the life I gave away

I'll run away

to hide that would be so dishonest. And it's fine to fake it 'til you make it. 'Til you do, 'til it's true

Pierced through the Heart but Never killed.

I feel you no matter what. The rubies that i gave up.

I find it dizzing they're bringing m'y History. But you weren't Even listening.

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i just thought of something and i dont know if anyone else has pointed that out before BUT WHAT IF the handwritten lyrics in the So High School music video are the ones that are real for her? I feel like maybe she made a bunch that made no sense so as not to make it too obvious but some are so accurate like: I’m trying to stifle my sighs … every time I look at you OR it’s just a game.. and also on all the handwritten lyrics she has capitalized Ks only which people are attributing to Kelce but what if.. it’s something else?

Link

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vague theory i’ve been working on:

does anyone think The Black Dog is possibly about borchetta and The Bluebird Cafe? it started bouncing around my brain when there was all the confusion about which bar/pub was the Real Black Dog™️. i’ve made a couple extra links though.

firstly the dichotomy between the symbolism of blue birds and black dogs speaks absolute volumes.

following this line of thought one could interpret this as taylor saying that the place she once saw as the home of her happiest and most promising beginning (or the starting line??), she now looks back and sees it for the death omen it was.

also, reading through the lyrics we’re told the story of someone taylor was extremely honest and open with. this person then went on to tell her that she needed someone to handle and plan around her “longings” and volunteered themselves for the position.

in the next verse she expresses the question of “was this the plan from the start?” which, to me, brings that bluebird ➡️ black dog dichotomy back to the forefront. she thought this person was a bluebird, but in truth they were the black dog.

now let’s get into the bridge!! first of all, we’ve all seen the non literal way she’s used the word fortnight. so i’d like to argue that she’s not talking about six weeks of clean air, but the fact that november of this year will be the six year anniversary of her leaving big machine. her desire to sell her house and burn her clothes sounds, to me, like a desire to destroy what this person helped her build. like the money she’s made and the things she’s gotten from it have been tainted by this person’s presence in her career. like if you were to go through a breakup and burn a box of all your ex’s stuff; however, i’ve never heard of someone being so mad at an ex that someone destroys their own things. the last couple lines of the bridge are the most heart shattering to me. in this context it feels like she’s saying “you know what, i wish i was ‘normal’ too. so maybe i’ll just destroy myself being who you want me to be and you can just sit there and watch as all your ‘hard work’ slowly kills me.”

my interpretation of the chorus feels a bit more farfetched, so i decided to save it for last. i believe she’s essentially saying that she hopes one day borchetta has the opportunity to “discover” another young (possibly queer) girl, but this girl is too young (to say that this girl would have grown up in a more accepting time) to fall for the same song and dance that he put taylor through. i do also think it’s very interesting to add that the night borchetta discovered taylor she mostly played covers, but the few originals she played included Beautiful Eyes, Me and Brittney, and Songs About You.

overall, i feel like the “old habits” are closeting, and the song is an obfuscated version of the real dynamic between taylor and borchetta.

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I again have random thoughts...

I was tame, I was gentle 'til the circus life made me mean. "Don't you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth"

They use to remove bears teeth in circuses to be sure they couldn't attack their handlers.

IS THAT WHY SHE WAS A BEAR?!

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I used to live in NYC and knew/ was friends with a friend of Karlie’s- she (my friend) once mentioned a bar her english boyfriend took her to called the black dog, and how she and Karlie had been planning to go there together. Could be related?? She also once was talking to me and said “I need to tell you about how Kar and Tay got together, crazy story-“ and then she cut off and played it off. When I tried to ask her about it later, she acted like that never happened and told me she’s too good a friend to talk about it. Shut me down every other time I tried to talk about it and I don’t know her now.

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That picture of Taylor in the bear costume always gets me. There's so much unhappiness in her eyes, but people glossed right over it to laugh about the costume and speculate about Easter eggs. It really feels like TTPD in a single image.

I both can't believe she posted it, and completely understand why she did.

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Quote from the dead poets society

You're playing the part of the dutiful son / dutiful daughter all my plans were laid (Aka her career and who She'd be able to love publicly)

Show him who you are, what your Heart is/ i want to be defined by the things i love, not the things I'm afraid of

I'm trapped / you caged me

Truth i, it'll Never bé enough, it'll Never cover us.

True swear scout's honor /i promise dead poets honor

Robin shall restore the amends

We hereby conduct this post-mortem

champagneproblesm asked:

Info found on the Robin passage : the register of Robin's passage is quite informal and friendly "Give me your hands if we be friends" because he is trying to offer the audience his apologies if the play was dissatisfying for them. He promises to mend it and become friends with the audience - if not they can call him a liar.

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Is there a correlation btwn the no of days since we got the clock to when tn had the clock or something like that?

I am not sure what you mean … but we received the first message two days ago, the second message yesterday, and TN posted the 🕰️ today:

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Josh on a trip abroad and knock on wood but yet to post Karlie!

He hasn’t shown himself there either. He is just posting scenic pics that could be taken by him or someone else … and could be current or old pics.

It’s been awhile since she has interacted with him publicly. Let’s hope they are really done.

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“THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” has now sold more than 4 million total units in the US.

It is the first album of 2024 to achieve this!

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Just a quick, friendly reminder that before the word "eras" was used by the gp and everywhere on socials, karlie kloss used it to describe her 13 looks in a tiktok about a year before eras tour....which was a direct connection to taylor because 13 and only ts fans were really using the word "era" throughout tays career...now with tays eras tour everyone uses the word "eras" in regular speech. These two girls constantly intertwine and definitely know something about the other...way ahead of the gp knowing....kind of proving karlie is with the coven around a sorceress table 😉

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The incomplete rainbow 🌈 (Am I the last person to notice this??)

I noticed last year when people were painting their nails the eras colours for the tour, that the hand you start on is always the more colourful one, and the other one ends up looking kinda...dull.

Now, am I the last person to notice that the first 5 TS album colours were all part of the traditional six stripe rainbow flag, the only colour missing after TS5 was orange to complete the rainbow. And then TS6 ended up NOT being orange, but black instead, and we've not had an album that was a bright colour since, all albums since rep have been muted/non-rainbow colours:

I know we're already heavily clowning for karma to right the wrongs of the rep era/what could have been after 1989, but all of this recent orange seems even more significant now:

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One thing the KK hating fans never mention is that KK has never ever said one single bad thing about Taylor publicly or otherwise. Sure they think she’s the mastermind behind the catalog sale, but that is ridiculous. That’s all they have. Versus the many times Taylor has written about her love for KK.

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And so I enter into evidence

File #31 - Flagging

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Eras Tour Outfit - 1989

First night in Stockholm

Swifties: It’s the Swedish Flag colours! 🙌

Second night in Stockholm

Swifties: What do those colours mean??? 🤔

Gaylors: It’s the Lesbian Flag colours! (again!) 😍

Taylor: “Lookin’ backwards might be the only way to move forward”. “None of it was accidental”. 😏

Swifties… are you ready for it? Taylor WANTS us to know that she is dressed in the colours of the Swedish flag! It is an Easter egg for us to read into what the following night’s outfits may mean. By doing this, we are looking into the past, to assist in deciphering the now. And only then, can we see the bigger picture.

Queer flagging has been around for decades as a way of signalling our sexuality to other queer people without fear of judgement and to keep us safe. There are many ways in which this can be done and this is just one Taylor’s most obvious examples.

If you take a close look at her visuals, you will notice that the shades of the lesbian flag ❤️🧡🤍💗💜 are used together quite frequently, especially during the Eras Tour!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Kaylor & Swarovski

Karlie and Taylor have been associated with Swarovski before now but 2024 seems special. The Met Gala...

The Eras Tour...

Preparing for The Eras Tour stop in Milan, Italy, Swarovski needed a poster. Which to select?

The choice was easy! Karlie sporting THIRTEEN starfish!

Even going to the trouble to obtain a special Kaylor address...

Piazza del Duomo 31 flips to become THIRTEEN!

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Have you talked about How Did It End?

If the goal was to make us uncomfortable, then the goal is was achieved with me.

I haven’t, other than saying it’s one of my favorites.

Oh boy this turned out to be long. Sorry.

I think this song is primarily about having to deal with the gossip surrounding your relationship, specifically with the perceptions of the end of a relationship that everyone thinks they know a lot about, but actually don’t. And as a celebrity like Taylor, having everyone talking about how it ended and thinking they know the various reasons, based on Taylor’s own storytelling she’s done about it (which is never going to be 100% reality) and also based on gossip that’s just “out there” based on what people think they know about Taylor, whether it’s what she has pushed people to “know” or some of the more salacious stuff she’d rather people didn’t think.

Now, most of us have had to deal a bit with this. Having to tell people something ended. Some have even had to tell about calling off an engagement or letting everyone know you’re divorcing. It’s gonna be hard, having to first tell intimate friends/family who may know a lot of details already, but then also people less close to you over and over again: coworkers, your hairdresser, your 2nd cousin you only see at Thanksgiving who may have heard tidbits from your Aunt who heard tidbits from your mom. This second group in particular don’t know all the drama and non-dramatic stuff that happened that led to the end. They might be shocked because you seemed so perfect for each other. Or they may say when you’re not around, “yeah that’s not surprising, you know how she is.”

But when you’re Taylor Swift, you meet A LOT of people. And when your life is splashed across the news front page, and you’ve made a career out of singing about your life and letting people in on the intimate moments (songs about sex, songs about depression, songs about joy) and you’ve built a parasocial army of people who think they really know you, the response to the ending of a relationship is going to be an overwhelming cacophony of opinions and expressions of sympathy from people who really don’t know anything, but think they do.

And I think this is part of what my interpretation of this song differs from what others have said (though admittedly I haven’t read any long winded analyses of this song. Maybe this is obvious.) I feel like most people read through the list of reasons it ended in the verses:

Hot house flower to my outdoorsman (him introverted, her extroverted)

Incurable maladies (both have depression)

Birthright became foreign (soulmates to distance between)

Blind to unforeseen circumstances (unexpected bad stuff popped up -stuff like the masters heist or whatever paper thin best laid plans they had)

Different dances (not on the same page)

Interlopers glances (cheating, emotional or otherwise)

Lost game of chance (bad luck)

as Taylor telling us and the gossipers how it ended.

But if you look at it a different way, you can interpret it as this is a list of speculation by the gossipers of how it may have ended. It’s not Taylor saying why it ended. You can recognize everything on this list as things people speculated about what caused it to end.

Look at the first line of the song :

We nearby conduct this post mortem

Who’s we here? If it were Taylor telling all, it would be “I hearby conduct”. Also “We must know.” So to me, the We here is us, the GP, her acquaintances. In other places in the song though, we is them as a couple. “This is what happens to us.” It there are clear points where it’s the audience giving their opinions or asking why. Whenever I think of these people in relation to Taylor, I picture her hairdressers (same as the person at the beginning of Paris.) This is just my own personal visualization of people who gossip. But you can also just as easily picture a few swifties you follow who always pretend to know her and what’s going on, often people who met her once or twice, or you can picture some podcasters who make money off pretending to understand her best, or DeuxMoi who claims to have sources who know her, or the people at the office water cooler saying “oh did you hear about Taylor and her boyfriend, what was his name? Joe something?” Or teenagers texting each other the news on April 8th. It’s all of us, some who think we know a lot (stand) and some who only know the bare minimum (average GP person who reads People magazine at the hairdressers.) But I like to imagine it being someone who does actually know Taylor a bit, which is why I choose the hairdresser. Notoriously gossipy, notoriously able to get people to tell them some personal things, but Taylor certainly won’t tell them the whole truth. Imagine the question “oh honey I heard the news about you and Joe. How did it end?” And she’s gone through this so many times. Since she was 18 years old. People being nosy, thinking they know more than they do. And then those people tell all of their friends (even if there was a bit of a promise to not) and gossip spreads within the industry and people think they know. Same with gossip spreading through the fandom or gossip spreading through the GP.

And since I believe many of her public relationships have been fake and she has had private relationships that began and ended generally without these people knowing about them, but also in some cases these people did know about the secret things but they only knew a tiny bit, it brings a whole other layer to this. *Hairdresser whispers* “Oh I heard that secret thing I know about ended, gosh I’m so sorry. How, you two seemed so perfect for each other?” And all the while they are thinking: Did she really betray you? Did you really turn down a marriage proposal from her? Did she really cheat on you? Did you really fall in love with the beard? Did you hear about your ex friend’s sister hooking up with that wanna be Z-lister?” They may not directly ask these questions or say these things but want to. They know not to cross that line but they certainly are curious and they certainly gossip about it later. “I did Taylor’s hair last week after the news came out and let me tell you she looked sad/manic/fine/robotic and I think this must be what happened…” And some of them probably do ask these questions straight to her, and she has to answer in ways that protect her and the other person’s privacy. It must be really hard. And the thing is most of these people are decent people. They aren’t trying to hurt her. They are the empathetic people she mentions in a couple of songs. At least they think they are. But Taylor knows the real motivation here is curiosity and gossip. They might also care about her but not in a real way, because she is mostly a fictional character to them. The gossip is just as, if not more important. And part of her does want to be understood. She wants to be seen. But she also wants desperately to protect herself. It’s such a double edged sword that she grapples with constantly.

Finally, we get to the bridge, a place where sometimes in her songs she changes perspective, goes outside the story told in the rest of the song, changes it up, adds a twist, and I believe this is her herself silently screaming into the void how it really felt, what really happened. Her and her ghostly lover, metaphorically dying together, mourning their loss together. This bridge is some of the best writing on the album.

And it’s like her herself ending the song with this mysterious:

I still don’t know, how did it end?

Why wouldn’t she know how it ended?

All around a great song full of the folklore of Taylor Swift.

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