Cannot believe this album exists. Cannot believe they blessed the world with that cover photo. Cannot believe how the quiet, deliberate, oh-so-careful The Rockrose and the Thistle gave way to the almighty crash of The Horror and the Wild. CANNOT BELIEVE they gave us "Welcome to the stooooooorm, I AM THUNDER, welcome to MY TABLE, BRING YOUR HUNGER" and expected us to just cope with it!!! And then there's Wild Blue Yonder, which is basically "relationship in crisis, but fun" versus That Unwanted Animal which is "relationship in crisis, but feral." One song has a robot vampire, the other has erotic cannibalism, just because they COULD. Cannot believe Fair and Marbles exist in the same damn album, like Madeleine and Joey were like, oh while we're here, why not raise the fucking bar for romance and commitment just to see how many people dissolve into puddles of yearning? The audacity, honestly. Then they decided to also turn a pair of rainy day footwear into a symbol of tenderness and grief, because why not? And in Battle Cries, they're like, we're gonna deal with breakups, and also aging, and we're gonna help you find the poetry in both. The whole album is poetry, actually. BUT ESPECIALLY FAREWELL WANDERLUST. Holy shit, Farewell Wanderlust. Every other song by The Amazing Devil could be erased from my memory except for Farewell Wanderlust, I'd still be their biggest fan on the basis of that one (1) song alone. It's no exaggeration to say that there's magic in that song that saved me in so many ways. I cannot believe it exists.

The Horror and the Wild isn't really the kind of music you just listen to, it's the kind of music that happens to you. I am so so glad, if still in stunned disbelief, that it happened to me.

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DID YOU LIKE MY COUNTDOWN!? That was fun! I had fun. That was actually more fun than I thought it would be! There were too many good posts to name. It was very fun reading all your comments and theories.  Though side note: animal anon has no problem with people joining her BUT it must be animals and it must not mess with my countdown. No statues! Animal anon does animals, not statues. Side side note: can someone settle the debate of if that emoji is a hedgehog or a porcupine? Because I have no idea. Side note side note side note: sorry if you got multiple asks in a day...my system isn't perfected yet so sometimes I send two (or three) because I forgot I sent one and didn't want to accidently miss anyone (also sorry if i did miss you, still perfecting the system, no one has been animal anon blacklisted, i promise!)

Anyway, GUESS WHAT TODAY IS!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It's been one year since I started animal anon! How exciting is that?! Phew, what a year we've had together! I mean what better way to start this second year than some chaos since that's how animal anon started to begin with! I will admit, it was slightly stressful coming up with something to meet the occasion of this event. I hope the countdown and this post live up to it. No, I'm not going to reveal myself just yet.. maybe that will be for year 2...😏😏. BUT I will give you some fun facts about me! So let's see; first, I'm from the Midwest (so not Canadian, but close so I do have a slight accent), but I currently live in the TriState area. Second, I am a MASSIVE theater nerd. No, seriously I have been to 21 shows since Broadway reopened in September and I'm actually going to my 22nd tonight. I don't know if this makes that fact better or worse, but I've really only been to about 12 different show because out of those 22, 10 of those are one specific show. Third, I am fluent in German and English. Though, I suck at writing in German, I never learned how to, so don't ask me to do that please. Fourth, my favorite color is red, so you can guess my favorite Taylor album (and coincidently also the show I've been to see 10 times on Broadway...). Fifth, I love to talk A LOT if you couldn't tell by the essays I send yall. And lastly, I can also confirm I am not Taylor...but I will say that I do share something very important with her... tell me your guesses down below as to what very important thing you think Taylor and I have in common, and I'll send some extra animals to whomever I see gets it right first!

So contuining on with my dissertation here, this week I have been trying to figure out a prompt to live up to this occasion. As I already mentioned, my system isn't perfect! And I've been thinking a lot about community lately and how that's been lacking for so many because of Covid. So what I want yall to do is if you get this dissertation of mine, please send a message, post, anon, whatever you want to at least 1 other blog (though you can do more), telling them something you like about them and giving them an animal emoji! That way we can keep spreading the love all day long to as many as possible! 🥰

As always, you are all brilliant, kind, worthy, beautiful and as this past week has shown, hilarious and unique human beings. No seriously, some of your posts had me kneeling over in laughter. If you would so like, you can tag #animalanon so I and everyone can read all your lovely posts! IM STARTING EARLY TODAY SO WE CAN PARTY ALL DAY LONG BECAUSE I LOVE YALL SO MUCH 🎊 🦥🦁🐯

HIIIII 💖 animal anon my bestie <3

happy one year anniversary!!! 💕🌼 you're the sweetest and i'm glad you've been making this fandom a happier place for twelve whole months!!

ohh i love that you're a theater nerd, i don't know much about musicals but i really want to get into it! and red's your favorite taylor album, that's Taste! my favorites are folklore and 1989 but red is a masterpiece and definitely on my top 4 (right after evermore) 😌

i have no idea what you have in common with taylor sos brain empty sgshfjks and i'm team hedgehog btw! 🦔

you're the kindest and sweetest, thank you for doing this! this ask put a smile on my face and the countdown was so much fun and really brought all of us together! 💗 i hope you're having a lovely and magical day, angel! 💌💐🦋🌈