im once again thinking of taylor uses marriage in her songs as not literally but more metaphorically to show us, the reader/listener, what she was giving and promising. cause in high infidelity she says “dragged my feet right down the aisle” which is definitely her picking a guy at the age of 25 to settle down with because that’s what everyone wanted but her choosing wrong and her being stuck cause if she broke up with him it’s all “when’s the new album taylor?” and “she can’t keep a man” and so then we get stuff like the infamous locket post i posted earlier saying “one year down”, like she just ran a marathon.

like she was talking about this relationship as like “i’m doing it i’m doing it” and not “i’m in love”… and then you hear stuff like “lock broken, slur spoken” “your picket fences sharp as knives” or even her describing being with him long term (marriage) as suffocating and draining and she felt herself slowly dying praying for something, praying for attention it love from his person she now has to be with for life… like “dragged my feet right down the aisle” “at the house lonely” “wait by the door like i’m just a little kid” “my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hands taking mine, but it’s been promised to another” “walking all over my piece of mind, in the shoes i gave you as a present” “you said i was free loading” and so much more i can’t type out cause my phones dying so tumblrs being a butt about my typing speed.

but it just makes you think… what was it like behind closed doors? what was he saying or doing to her? we know from interviews that he didn’t like going to award shows with her unless he was nominated cause he was intimidated by her. so the reference to marriage we hear in folklore and evermore (and on high infidelity) are more about this idea of being trapped in a loveless marriage by outside forces, in both instances of fake and real marriage divorce is almost like being shunned by society and shamed for it since you promised your life to each other… and she was like “no more dating around i settled down… oh wait no wrong guy”

but then when we hear references on lover it’s more sweet. like “i take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover” and the final bridge of its nice to have a friend have it been more like, she’s willing to commit to him cause she’s seen what will come of a committed relationship to someone, she knows what can be said if it doesn’t work, but she isn’t worried this time cause she picked right

i don’t think i’m explaining it right but just… taylor using marriage as more of a metaphor for her life rather than actually being married is so interesting cause marriage is supposed to be this symbolic bond between two people of love forever but it’s being used here to both trap her but also be freeing to her in other relationships

Quotes about stancy (1/2/3)

At the mountain all day with no service and I drive back to see that fob announced a new mv drop. Life is good.

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"she's just writing about what happened to her and how it made her feel, and Joe is a character in that story"

Thoughts? 

It's not as simple as this. Taylor Swift is in a position of enormous power, and if she goes in too hard, Joe Alwyn will literally be at risk of physical harm from her volatile, aggressive, overprotective fandom. She is the commander of an army of millions in a very real sense and, as such, bears huge responsibility.

I saw someone say they think the fact that there actually weren’t that many songs on ttpd about Joe (as far as we know) is actually a sign of respect for him and I couldn’t agree more. The few songs that are most likely about him aren’t speaking poorly on his character they’re just heartbreaking, and the most vengeful songs on the album are likely about Matty. I feel like so many people went into this album expecting to hate Joe after but instead we just learned what we always knew - Joe was a generally good guy and Matty Healy sucks.

wrestling has achieved its goal of making me feel things by way of the fucking DEVIL storyline, so i think its safe to say ive had enough of the mysticism of cunty men half naked in the ring

I think I have to engage with Taylor Swift as a performance artist rather than a person or I will break my brain trying to figure her out

felt zero excitement with taylor's new album announcement, she ruined our relationship once she decided to become a chiefs fan

I dont' even hate Travis but some Swifties are living a bit to vicariously through their new love affair and what they think this releationship means long term (Seeing her more often, marriage imminent, 'real' American man) like who knows what will happen in the future?

Their posts about this relationship are just so heteronormative with the whole "she has a real strong man!!" and even if you just say you're not that invested in it, you'll get people being like "you're a fake fan who doesn't care about her and her happiness!".

i know Taylor said breakups happen everyday you don’t have to lose it, but idk man i’m losing it. 😭

I actually can’t imagine anything worse than finding your person, your soulmate, and believing that they’re it for you, that you’re going to spend the rest of your life with them…and then the relationship ends.

It makes me so afraid to really, truly fall in love because I’d just be terrified of losing it.

By the depth of some of you guys’ bitterness one would think that Joe didn’t “keep his promise to stick by her forever!!!” to YOU personally. “I’m trying to be sympathetic towards him, but it’s hard”, “I’m trying to understand him, but I’m still disappointed”… please be for real.

Taylor herself said she doesn’t have a single bad thing to say about Joe. So why do you?

one of these days I'm gonna draw Joe riding Forest's horse, Askeladden... most annoying little fjord horse in all of Nevada (and probably the only one)

It’s always ily and never idwtbuikphhyayflibbowybinytktmliwbbimy

great. people have already started calling taylor a slut again and it’s not even been a day