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tayfabe75 · 26 days

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Did Taylor and Matty meet on Myspace? (And other early coincidences!)

Early on in their careers, Taylor and Matty both utilized Myspace as a way to promote their music. Taylor, specifically, would message with other teenagers on Myspace:

"I'd post my songs on my MySpace and, yes, MySpace, and would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music, but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective."

Matty, too, described himself as "King of Myspace" when he was fifteen. But he brought it up more recently on the Ion Pack Podcast, even mentioning his age as seventeen at the time. And here's a retro clip of Taylor talking about how she wasn't some corporate entity on Myspace, if you messaged her account, you were talking to her! She also filled out her profile in her own words.

She has some things in her profile that might've caught Matty's eye, a fellow teenage country fan and fan of American music specifically, that might've emboldened him to message her:

"I love people who like my music. I love people who are nice to me. I like people who are excitable. I think it's endearing when people cry when they're happy. I'm pretty excitable too. Guys don't ask me out because they know I'll write songs about them. But I'm also the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there -- fully equipped with great hair and an immature sense of humor. I'm fascinated by black and white pictures. I like people who can be sarcastic and laugh about tense situations. I'm a fan of fans."

Say whatever you will about Matty, but that man is a genuine fan of Taylor's music. When he became a fan is open for discussion, but let's just pretend, for fun, that he found her via Myspace early on in her career.

Now, here is the old Myspace page for The 1975 back when they were known as 'Drive Like I Do' in 2008. Note the James Taylor in the list of Influences! (as well as the Jamie Squire in the top 8! How sweet, I'm sobbing!)

Taylor was a bit of a firecracker on Myspace (and not just there, there's a whole conspiracy theory she used to troll 4Chan!). A few of her comments were screenshotted and you can find them around the internet. Here are some. The one from October 31st, 2005 about a queer fellow ("I'm sorry that I'm kinda queer, it's not as weird as it appears") with a Sex van ("take your shoes off in the back of my van") really caught my eye, anyway…

"Listen my queer fellow. I thinketh we shall hangeth out sometime soon, eh? yes, I do believe I am growing fond of this idea. drive over in your sex van and come pick me up, farewell knave."

Notice the spelling here, too. Thinketh? Hangeth? Knave? Feels a little bit Shakespearean, at least for say, a fifteen-going-on-sixteen-year-old girl (as we would later discover, Love Story and Robbers were both inspired by Romeo and Juliet, both written around the same time so far as I know, but it's hard to find exact dates!)

Matty, by the way, used to refer to himself as the "Prince of the Tyne". He's also got some old Drive Like I Do lyrics from 'We Are the Streetfighters' that are suspicious to me: "Well in four thousand miles we'll meet you" (The nearest airport to Macclesfield is in Manchester, and the distance between Manchester and Nashville? Roughly 4000 miles)

Two months later on December 21st, 2005, just after turning 16, Taylor says she's in England.

Did they meet? Who knows! But there's enough weirdness there to make me wonder. Speaking of weirdness… we're going to go on a side tangent about Fearless, but that's part of the puzzle, so bear with me…

I don't know about anyone else, but when I saw Matty's Fearless Love Gaze™, I was rocked to my core! Men do not look at women like that, but especially not brand-new flings. They're too concerned with trying to look cool and unaffected. For most men (stereotypically), romance and love are "dumb" and "stupid" and perceived as a "woman thing" that men can't be bothered with. But not Matty. Matty was utterly transfixed by her. Something about that touch of mischief in the lip bite when she says the bit about "absentmindedly making me want you", the way he just barely mouths along to the words at the end of the clip, well… sirens started going off for me. So, I followed my intuition and started researching all of this.

Now, Taylor wrote the song 'Fearless' sometime in 2006. The hidden message liner note for Fearless? "I loved you before I met you". Taylor describes 'Fearless' as a song she wrote about a perfect first date she hadn't had yet, about something she didn't have but dreamt of. She debuted it for the first time on April 6th, 2007 in Reading, PA (if you don't already know it, that's two days before Matty's 18th birthday). At this show, she debuted 'Sparks Fly' (yes, in 2007! Original lyrics were brown eyes rather than green eyes, by the way) and 'Tied Together With A Smile'. She also played a cover of John Waite's song 'Missing You' which seems to be about a long-distance relationship: "And it's my heart that's breakin' down this long distance line tonight"

Speaking of Matty's birthday, the release of Fearless TV happened to coincide with Matty's birthday! She dropped a sneak peek of Fearless on his birthday in 2021, and the album would release one day later on the ninth (perhaps because albums release on Fridays and that's as close as she could get?)

Taylor describes the Fearless album as her diary from when she was seventeen (misplaced my source on that quote, d'oh!) That said, 'Love Story' interests me as well. There are some interesting facts about Love Story:

Hidden message: Someday, I'll find this. Taylor wrote this song in a very short amount of time after her parents had told her that she couldn't be with the person she wanted to be with. And in her own words:

"'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! For the first time, I could relate to that Romeo-and-Juliet situation where the only people who wanted them to be together were them. That's the most romantic song I've written, and it's not even about a person I really dated."

Taylor's UK television debut (like first time ever performing on TV in the UK) was on Loose Women (Matty's mother's show). Now, Denise was not there during this period as a host, but she had been before that and would be afterward, so maybe there's some significance? Maybe not. But if Taylor and Matty knew each other, he would definitely get to be in the audience to see her if he wanted to. The song she chose to perform was 'Love Story'.

Now, 'Robbers' is also based on Romeo and Juliet (and also written circa 2007), and Matty describes that here in a fan video from 2015. We'd see Romeo and Juliet imagery pop up again in 2014, both in Taylor's video for Blank Space (where she's on a balcony looking down at her lover) and in November where she stood up on a balcony at Matty's show as he serenaded her with Fallingforyou (visual comparisons here)

Blank Space, too, might reference Fallingforyou. There's a scene where she rides bikes with her lover inside her enormous house, perhaps reminiscent of Matty's lyric: "All we need's my bike and your enormous house":

Matty even dresses a bit like the lover from 'Love Story' music video at the 2017 BRITs:

When you fall down the Myspace rabbit hole, you start noticing other strange similarities in their lyrics - like Matty referring to a "girl on the screen" in 'If You're Too Shy', which perhaps parallels Taylor's "guy on the screen" in 'Karma'. In 'The 1' (another song that lyrically parallels 'Robbers'), Taylor imagines "the 1 that got away" meeting a woman on the internet and taking her home, which might be another reference to Matty, perhaps lyrically paralleling The 1975's 'Playing On My Mind'. This theory, of course, makes the entire album 'A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships' suspect, especially given that 'Be My Mistake' is a song Matty wrote "about Nashville", the striking similarities between 'Sincerity is Scary' and 'Me!', a song called 'Mine' that references the year 2009, and the inclusion of a Drive Like I Do track Matty wrote when he was just fifteen years old, '102' (the same age he was when he was "King of Myspace"). Considering 'Love Story' was written for someone who Taylor's parents disapproved of, it makes this lyric all the more striking:

"I hope this song will remind you I'm not half as bad as what you've been told."

Lastly, if Matty is the confirmed 'Cardigan' muse and if 'Willow' is the continuation of 'Cardigan' (based on where the music video begins), the scene where she gazes into the water at her lover could perhaps represent a visual metaphor for looking through a screen, no?

Back to the NYU commencement speech! I recommend listening to the FULL clip. She talks about: feeling lonely, chatting with other teenage country fans on Myspace, and then segues into her motivation behind protecting her private life:

"Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties, but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely."

All of this seems correlated to me (also why it's hard for me to reconcile this whole football charade! But for me, it's easier to believe Taylor here about privacy being important to her, and not assume that some boyfriend kept her locked away in a dungeon against her will or something)

Now, to tie this all into a very nice bow, here's a quote where Taylor talks about how she uses easter eggs:

"Easter eggs can be left on clothing or jewelry. This is one of my favorite ways to do this, because you wear something that foreshadows something else, and people don't usually find out this one immediately, but they know you're probably sending a message. They'll figure it out in time."

What shirt was she wearing during her pap walk with Matty? Think of the "He lets her Bejeweled" meme… She had on an NYU sweatshirt.

Now, could be just a giant coincidence, trust me, I know, I get it. However… maybe she's really hinting about an old Myspace pal that she has protected fiercely. I mean, she did seem to use that speech to easter egg/foreshadow YOYOK & Labyrinth lyrics…

Speaking of 'Bejeweled'… On July 15th, 2023 Taylor flubbed the lyrics: "Sapphire tears on Myspace", and then she giggled. Freudian slip, perhaps? But this is the woman who assures us that "nothing is accidental"... and in a song that mentions a "Top 5", no less! (reminiscent of a Top 8, perhaps?)

Maybe James and Betty were involved in a "teenage love triangle" for a reason, and maybe TTPD references "teenage petulance" for that same reason… or maybe it's nothing but a bunch of eerie coincidences! Who knows! In the meantime, I'll keep on clownin'! 🤡

#tatty #maylor #taylor x matty #parallels #coincidences #early timeline speculation #theory: myspace #overlap: myspace #overlap: dixie chicks #overlap: romeo and juliet #overlap: country music #topic: drive like i do #song: fearless #song: robbers #song: love story #if you saw this on reddit five months ago in a private subreddit #yes that was me #been clownin' this theory since last july tyvm

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somnimagus · 8 months

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did some vesperia chibis, i always forget how happy i get drawing these guys. i love them dearly

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#tales of vesperia #tov #tales of #the raven chibi's kinda old though. but i wanted to draw the rest #i do feel a little bad cause i always forget patty when i draw the whole cast. have to make myself add her in #mostly because i played tov years before the definitive edition; wee lass does not feel real #though honestly all of def edition just feels like a fever dream. people who played that version first/only:#did you notice yuri gaining an almost southern(?) drawl at random. and did it drive you insane #the way he says flynn. flyeahn. it's burned into my mind #and flynn's just like. yes yuri my best friend. you have sounded like this the whole game. you are not a frankenstein of 2 voice actors #fan art #my art #sorry that was probably super off topic; i just still think about it all the time. and i think i'm a little scatterbrained recently #i've been making time to draw and think about dumb things so i don't just sit and doomscroll all day

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public-trans-it · 3 months

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i was a trans man until after a lot of build up of doubting myself, i finally realized that we are putting ourselves further into boxes by not accepting that we are the biological sex that we are and we can do WHATEVER we want at the same time.

clothes and makeup and certain interests do not equal gender.

and not liking being a woman is an unfortunately natural symptom of puberty and/or experiencing society’s deeply ingrained misogyny. and everyone deserves support for those problems.

but we can all fight together against gender social constructs in a healthy way without prescribing people hormones and invasive cosmetic surgery to make them more like the sex they “should” be according to… social constructs…. and help them be comfortable in who they are

Alright. Its been like 9 fucking months that I have been staring down this ask. What better time than to give TERFs some nuance than right in the middle of a fucking hate campaign going on where people (well... singular person probably) are calling me a TERF. This wont backfire.

This post arrived in my inbox shortly after I made another post about gender, and just how fucking weird it can be, and how I genuinely believed every single person on this planet has a fascinating relationship with gender, and so much nuance and personal identity in theirs. Even cis people. Even TERFs. In the tags, I even begrudgingly encouraged TERFs to talk about their gender on that post if they wanted. I genuinely think that TERFs do have really cool relationships with gender. As I mentioned in those tags, the quickest way to explode a group of TERFs is to get them to start talking about their own relationships with gender, and see how vastly different it is, and watching them stab each other in the back over it. So I told them to ramble away about how they view gender, as long as they stayed the fuck away from the rest of the blog WHICH THIS ANON CLEARLY FUCKING IGNORED.

But... this anon does bring up another topic I want to talk about.

Detransition.

I am a huge supporter of detransitioning. This is... surprisingly... not a very common stance in the trans community, and it breaks my fucking heart. Like, I get it. I understand why. A LOT of detransitioners, like the person in this ask, end up weaponizing their feelings of gender against other trans people.

My support of transition comes from the intersection of two very central beliefs of mine:

Everyone should explore their gender without feeling a need to commit! This is a pretty common belief in the trans community! Damn near universal in fact! We even have a fun little term we use for people who decide to play around with gender, only to end up a bit closer to where they started and being perfectly happy with that: Cis+. Someone who is cis, but at least put in the work to understand the trans experience, and actually CHOOSE to remain Cis instead of just defaulting to it with societal pressure. Many trans people are much more comfortable around 'Cis+' people, because they know these are people who have taken the time and put in the work of being an ally. Self examination isn't easy, especially not publicly, and doing so is genuinely one of the strongest ways a Cis person could ever show their support.

It is never too late to transition. This is also a pretty common belief in the trans community! It is... sadly not quite as universal though. But it is something very important that needs to be said. You could be 80 years old, sitting in a retirement home, and go "You know what? I think I'd rather wear a dress and be treated like a lady. I don't want to be buried as a man." And I think every single trans person should have that freedom!

I was discussing this with @thydungeongal the other day, far more paraphrased than this post, and she said something incredible that has been knocking around in my head ever since.

"Gender is an ongoing process"

Those five words they said to me sum up my feelings far more than this entire post could. Gender IS an ongoing process. My gender has changed SO MUCH over the past three decades. From the straightjacket of assigned gender that I was once forced into; to the very stylish and still lovable finely tailored suit of femininity that grew a little too stuffy to wear constantly, even though I do still enjoy it and try it on from time to time; to the wonderful and freeing losely fitting clothing of being aegogender, finally feeling free to be myself and just act naturally and feel natural without having to keep up an appearance!

And I think, there is no length of time you can try out being trans, and trying out new genders, before eventually coming to the realization you were cis all along. Even if you started HRT. Even if you got SRS. Heck, I don't even think you should have to call yourself trans to do either of those things in the first place, why would I be upset that someone did them and then realized they weren't trans? No single moment in your life should EVER lock your gender in place into some unchanging, set in stone thing.

So I support detransitioners completely, with my entire heart. They deserve just as much support as every other 'Cis+' person out there.

So anon, while many people may hate you and lash out at you for detransitioning, I want you to know, that I am not one of them. It sounds like your detransition might have been forced by peer pressure, which is heart breaking to hear. No one should ever force their own gender expectations on another. I hope that wasn't the case. I hope you came to the decision yourself, after realizing whats right for you. I will never give you hate for your detransition.

I WILL ABSOLUTELY GIVE YOU HATE FOR BEING A FUCKING TERF THOUGH. YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE WITH GENDER DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO POLICE THE GENDER OF OTHERS, FUCK OFF. GET THE FUCK OFF MY BLOG, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

#I think I'm gonna start doing that for Read Mores #so you can find your place easier after click it #since my 'style' in these long posts is like... a fairly longish NON-readmore post. followed by the actual readmore. Let me know if it work #text essay #gender #detransition #I uh... also have some more... complex feelings of detransitioning #that may be a LIIIIIIITTLE more controversial.........#none of it goes against what i said here #its more personal stuff with my own gender and how detransition specifically is something that exists not as gender itself #but as the societal perceptions of a persons gender #but thats a more complex topic that I'll add on to this at another date #also I am absolutely taking this ask at face value for the sake of this post #but I am not so naive as to believe that the blatant TERF that sent it was being genuine #this is ABSOLUTELY the kind of thing they send people to drive a wedge in the community #I'm not even going to fucking dignify that part of it with any mention in the body of this post #edit: ........... okay the readmore accidentally moved somehow #I fixed it now though

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aropride · 4 months

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sorry for the rant i am reaching a breaking point 👍 (cis person asked me why i dont "just change my name" and seemed baffled when i said i live with my parents. what's not clicking girl draw your own conclusions here.)

#text #WHILE I'M ON THE TOPIC #'why cant you drive' ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT I WAS HEAVILY DISCOURAGED FROM LEARNING TO DRIVE TIL I WAS 18 #ASIDE FROM THE COST OF DRIVERS ED #ASIDE FROM GETTING A CAR #ASIDE FROM HAVING SOMEONE TO BE THERE WHILE I GET MY HOURS IN OR WHATEVER #LOOK ME IN THE EYES. HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO GET TO DRIVERS ED????? HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO GET THERE????#I LIVE IN MAINE. WE HAVE NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT. ONE TIME I SPENT $90 UBERING TO CLASS #HOW. DO YOU WANT ME TO GET TO DRIVERS ED. ANSWER QUICK #'just do it online' 'you dont need drivers ed now that ur over 18' I CANNOT PASS ONLINE CLASSES. DO YOU WANT ME TO GO ON THE ROAD LIKE THIS #DO YOU REALLY. you want me to get behind the wheel of a car and freeball it????? because im 21?????? your funeral man #kidding . it's OUR funeral NO ONE is coming out of 'driving freeball' alive #neg

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 1 year

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pls reblog

#polls #hyperspecific poll #kai rambles #personal #doing this i realised how much if my weird experiences were either too depressing or violent to put as an option #or would need a lot more words to explain #i decided to skip out on ''had a local drug dealer try to groom you into being a mule''#i find it funny because he tried it while my mom was in the room?#but im aware its a sensitive topic #i also did not know how to casually word the times my dad would randomly drive us to like some ruins in the english countryside #and like say ill be back in an hour #and then leave us there #because what the fuck even was that?#also how to explain that my maternal uncle and maternal grandad were in opposing local gangs that folded before i was born #but like in an alternate universe id probably be raised in a gang?#and also anything about my aunt meryl i dont know how to phrase any of that in limited words because she is just the most bizzare lady #i maybe could get the neck brace thing in where she accused me and my mom of stealing her neckbrace and handcream #and told us to never speak to her until we were ready to admit it except we didnt take it #and its probably coming up to a decade now

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sugarkillsall · 1 year

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AI art can "improve" all it wants but it will forever be bland, there will never not be a point in time where it won't be bland and it will not stand any test of time beyond being a small footnote in the entirety of art history

#I really shouldn't get into this topic but it drives me up the fucking wall sometimes #It's valid to be concerned but I can't stand ppl posting how much “better” it's getting when it's still so souless #Ppl trying out here saying the mistakes are things humans do and it's like IT'S NOT THE SAME BUT ALSO YEAH BC IT'S STEALING FROM PEOPLE AAA #I will never be convinced it's terrible and I know it in my bones it will always be terrible and people WILL SEE THAT #Just u wait if they try to utilize chatgpt for the writers strike right now everyone is going to find out real quick how bad it is #Why would I look/read/listen to anything someone didn't bother to make themselves #ANYWAY I just needed to vent I need to express something other than the shit I see :')

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send-me-a-puffalope · 3 months

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nat idk how you write so many banger metaphors idk why but i can never find a space to put them 😭😭😭 like idk where they fit if that make sense??? especially in my SL abby fic. so like. How do you decide when to use metaphors. and how do you make them. (let me know if this question makes no sense 😭😭😭😭)

ummm okay so how i work is that i’m a character study guy more than a plot guy LMFAO, i tend to write chunks of metaphors before i do the dialogue and setting description. I’ve had loose lines and paragraphs sitting in my notes from stuff that pop up in my head during class.

(you’ll see i changed them all slightly to fit the fic better in the actual chapter)

I try to fit metaphors/similes where there’s setting description to set the atmosphere, compare it to something dangerous or tragic. Or to elaborate on how a character says or does something. I tend to slot in a paragraph of vivid description after Vanessa realizes something. Like this is her internal dialogue, you can really dig into a character here.

To come up with metaphors, personally, it helps to like dissect a character’s, well— character. How do they act? Is this a character trait that’s is often associated with an animal? Maybe a myth like Sisyphus, trapped in a cycle of falling and getting back up again and again? Self-destruction like the Nemean Lion? Selfishness? Obsession? What about their relationship with the people around them? Or think about the situation they’re in. Is it something they can control or is it some force of nature greater than them? Is this situation self-made or did it befall them?

#nat’s rambles #hopefully this makes sense #and helps in some way #i like dissected Vanessa before even starting the fic at all #i get a lot of inspiration from quotes or stories and descriptions or even just things i see in day to day life #OH AND LYRICS. i get a lot of inspo from lyrics #and it reminds me of Vanessa #ik this is off topic from the whole metaphors part of your ask but #ig it’s important to have the character your working with’s actions to drive the plot rather than vice versa #and when a character makes decisions/actions— well why do they do it?#ask!!!#jasminetea1234 #jasmine!!!

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gifti3 · 11 months

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I wanna imagine a demon asking asmo what mc likes cause theyre interested in them

I think he'd sabotage them on purpose by convincing them they arent MCs type (whether thats true or not) or giving them misinformation

#And uk hes trying to act innocent and cute about it like he didnt just crush someones hopes #How mc gonna get ass like this? 🙄#Lol but seriously mc wont even know that person was interested in them #Ud think he wouldnt have to do that since hes the 'most beautiful being in existence'#And id like to unpack that on my endless rant about how asmos jealousy and insecurities manifests in a way #Where he needs to bend situations to his liking instead of just processing and accepting like a well adjusted person #And him having that strong of an ability to charm people is so not fair ahajajs #An mc that hates him and makes it known would probably drive him nuts #*walks back and forth in my empty room while talking to the walls*#If there were proper routes i think wed get to see amazing character development!#Ive seen fics touch on this before and i love fandom for this #Belphies route would be so cool too #But im not trying to get off topic #ANYWAYS Asmo trying to charm mc without thinking when they have a disagreement #Mc is like 'really dude? 😠'#Asmo: oopsie #This would be a (possible) scene in the asmo route that exists in my head #Obey me #obey me asmodeus #obey me nb #Anyways this is just my speculation #I could be off my word isnt law or anything

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tayfabe75 · 1 month

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2005: Before they were known as The 1975, Matty, George, Adam, and Ross released a cover of Fall Out Boy's 'Grand Theft Autumn' for their Forever Drawing Six EP. (source 1, 2)

#year: 2005 #early 1975 #topic: drive like i do #topic: forever drawing six #album: without walking once #overlap: fall out boy #overlap: grand theft autumn #song: grand theft autumn #connection: taylor's playlist

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kazoologist · 11 days

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Under appreciated side effect of me binging dts and analyzing the editing bc I’m a reality tv nerd before all else is my dad watching with me despite being a notorious hater of race car related sports and also deciding he likes Lewis and Fernando Alonso a lot on pure vibes (he appreciates my fun trivia about both of them)

#it’s Bridgerton all over again and it’s SO funny to me he was like ‘damn this shit looks like a fifa doc’#kazoo noises #zoomies posting #sports posting #He also keeps giving me shit for liking Williams you leave me alone you know I like losing dogs #dad I love you but we are from stl the highs are high and lows are comical and absurd here what do you WANT #Had to explain a villain edit in reality tv to him. Quoth my father: why is that music there???? Me: oh it’s the villain edit they’re givin #Him bc you know. Controversial first championship and then RBR cheating drama #Him: *scoffs in Only Cheating If Your Caught* but he just drives the car???#Me: I’m not saying he is one I’m just telling you it’s a villain edit. See the cuts on that scene? They’re clearly talking about other #Topics just vaguely for the edit. Also lewis’ is in two different shirts in those talking heads so they spliced him #Dad: *suddenly realizing there’s a villain edit* VILLAIN? HES JUST DUTCH!#shoutout to my dad for having the funniest response to f1 content btw #He’s just Dutch….dad u would do fucking numbers on sportsblr.

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toytulini · 8 months

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god this stupid fucking intracommunity infighting bullshit never ends and im so god damn tired. stop it. and if youre fucking discoursing this stupid shit you should have to add a fucking disclaimer to your fucking posts at least im tired of having to search yalls blogs when smth slightly off about your wording that i cant explain has me like hmmmmm and then i end up right and i really dont want to be

#toy txt post #INNOCUOUSLY WORDED POSTS THAT YOU AT FIRST AGREE WITH AND THEN YOU SEE THE PATTERN #WITH YOUR HORRIBLE BRAIN OH SO PRIMED FOR THESE STUPID FUCKING DISCOURSE HINTS FROM THE FUCKING YEARS OF #UNAVOIDABLE ACECOURSE. ARE YOU ACTUALLY CALLING OUT TRANSMISOGYNY OR DO YOU BELIEVE #THAT TRANSMASCS DISCUSSING TRANSANDROPHOBIA AND CREATING THEIR OWN TERM TO DESCRIBE IT IS 'TRANSMISOGYNY' AND #YOU CONSIDER DISCUSSING THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSANDROPHOBIA TO BE TRANSMISOGYNY? BC THAT IS A DIFFERENT THING.#YOU ARE MISUSING THE WORDS TO ENTRENCH YOUR STUPID FUCKING DISCOURSE #YOU ARE EXACTLY LIKE ALL THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS IN 2016 WHO MADE INNOCUOUS POSTS COMPLAINING ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA AND CISHETS #THAT AT FIRST YOU READ LIKE YEAH HOMOPHOBIA SUCKS AND THEN YOU RECOGNIZE THE URL. OR YOU SEE THE COMMENTS. AND YOU REALIZE #OH WHEN THIS PERSON SAYS HOMPHOBIA. THEY MEAN A-SPECS EXISTING AND COINING TERMINOLOGY FOR OURSELVES. WHEN THEY SAY CISHETS THEY MEAN #A-SPECS. BUT BC OF HOW INNOCUOUSLY WORDED THE POST IS YOU CANT CALL THEM ON IT WITHOUT LOOKING INSANE. ALSO. THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF #THIS I SAW. THE PERSON WAS ALSO A FUCKING APHOBE. LMAO. BC OF COURSE THEY WERE. FUCKING OF COURSE #GOD. FUCKING. IM SO TIRED OF THIS. IM TURNING REBLOGS OFF ON THIS POST. I AM NOT GOING TO ENGAGE WITH ANYONE ON THIS TOPIC #to be clear. not every post. not saying every post. but enough times now ive seen posts where like. i already knew context 4the situation #and the person was absolutely just trying to hide behind their marginalized identity. or like the op was innocuous but their mutual #replied showing their true colors in the notes so Now. everytime i see one of these posts im like yeah. that is a fair point #I will agree that when transfem ppl online do anything ppl slightly dont like the response is often disproportionate in a way that is like.#hmm some transmisogyny at play here for sure. however. now i cant fucking trust you ppl making the fucking POSTS. and im so TIRED #conservatives are like making trans genocide like one of their main fucking platform points for 2024 and youre trying to drive more fucking #wedges in the community rn? really???? REALLY?#im so tired im so fucking tired. im turning reblogs off. do not contact me about thos post. check the context of posts ig bc ppl will #just fucking say anything #also god. i forgot about cl0set k3ys being an aphobe lmaooo #even if theyve apologized im just blocking based on that 2017 post alone god that was rancid. why did yoh say that. shut up forever. bye #im about to just start fucking blocking every user i see without bothering so search #like just every user regardless of vibes or content. just going to be me and my mutuals in here and all the posts they reblogged from #everyone i have blocked

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theclosetedskeleton · 8 months

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i kinda wanna read needful things but. Jamfaces music HGFHHD STARTS BITING THE NEEDFUL THINGS PDF I HAVE SAVED

#WAIT just remembered abt the #HISTORY project i have to do #BOOOOO TOMATO TOMATO #0/10!!!!#GET OFF THE STAGE BOOOOO #its due tmrw morning when I get to class i should do it soon #or maybe ill do it in class #probably not the second option #hopefully #wait guys #negativity session OVER i just started thinking abt my qpp #grins #IT FOUND MULTIPLE CASTLE ROCK BOOKS AND THE SHORT STORIES/NOVELLAS AND PUT THEM IN GOOGLE DRIVE. FOR ME.#LIKE JUST OUT OF THE BLUE. goodness GRACIOUS /VVPOS #RATTLES THE BARS OF MY CELL AND THEN PUTS MY HANDS THROUGH THE CELL AND STARTS SHAKING YOU VIGOROUSLY #HGHHJHJH I LOVE IT SOSOOSOS MUCYHSDH !!!!!!! IM GOING TO EXPLODE !!!!!!!!!!111/VVVVPOS/GEN/QP #ENOUGH THE 111 #BACK ON THAT TOPIC OF THE CASTLE ROCK PDFS THING #I AM LIKE FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR MY QPP FOR DOING THAT i havent been able to find any physical copies of some of the stories #so THIS IS LIKE. AMAZINGAND IS PROBABLY GONNA FUEL MY HYPERFIX MORE HOORAY #now i gotta see what specific characters show up in these novels. because i NEED more content of these characters #I may start reading cujo. or wait.#UGHGH GUYS i wanna read needful things but i wanna read cujo but i wanna read the stand BUT i wanna read the dark tower series BU #i think im just gonna read needful things for now #closet rambles again on tumblr

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ruffgem · 4 months

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group work is Not It. I should have known better than to enroll in an engagement course that involves planning workshops with a group of other students……. guess who is doing all the work! :^) Back in tha day my teachers called me a ‘natural leader’… fun fact!!!! I am actually not! I do not like being in charge! it is actually just that people take advantage of me! Hope this helps

#God. I wanted to take the class so bad bc it’s about the history of art in prison systems #and it involves a weekly art workshop in a prison #the group that runs it is pretty blatantly abolitionist and partially run by formerly incarcerated ppl #so it’s made pretty clear that we're not ‘teaching’ art bc thats weird and enforcing a hierarchy if ur a 'teacher'#its more like a way to get materials inside and basically hang out with and make art alongside incarcerated ppl #under the guise of ‘volunteering’ as the dept of corrections labels it #anyway that’s all off topic but basically I am doing all the fucking work lmao we’re supposed to go in for the first time tomorrow and #my group members suck shit at communicating and the person who’s supposed to drive is like radio silent whenever I ask #where we should meet and shit #FUCK!!! I hate logistical shit like this #its taken us a million years to get cleared by the system (on purpose i stg) so its literally midterm time and we havent gotten in yet #i swear if our first one gets jeopardized by this girl who refuses to check her damn texts or emails or even come to class im gonna be so #pissed. lmfao #goddddd this is giving me flashbacks to when i took the class where we were supposed to do workshops at an elementary school #different vibe because in that scenario it was definitely supposed to be educational and we lowkey were 'teachers'#but my classmates also didnt do shit and i also ended up doing literally everything #WHY TAKE A CLASS LIKE THIS IF U DONT WANNA DO IT LIKE SERIOUS QUESTION #maybe they just want to put it on their resume LOL #they need a vetting process for this class i stg like interview these bitches before they enroll #cuz some of these people fr do not care

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shikai-the-storyteller · 11 months

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Going insane rn remembering how amazing Karmaland 5 was. I'm rewatching old clips and animations and rereading my old notes and analysis and I'm like dang. I'm so glad I was able to experience this live.

It does make me think a lot about preservation and streaming as a medium for storytelling though. When it comes to servers with multiple people, inevitably there will be POVs you don't see and stories you miss out on (especially if things aren't archived or deleted). You'll never get the full picture unless you see every single thing from every possible angle. A single line from a POV you don't watch could change your entire outlook on a character -- it could change the entire story itself. As someone who's committed to knowing every single thing about a story, it's extremely frustrating, but at the same time, it's such a fascinating way to tell a story. I do wish it was a little easier to re-experience these stories though because streams take so much more time to consume, and even if VODs are edited down, sometimes things are lost and those single story-changing lines are left out solely because an editor might not deem them "important" to the narrative as a whole.

I dunno man. As a writer and a story-enjoyer, it gives me a lot to think about.

#i talk #Karmaland talk #Went off on a bit of a tangent here but I've been thinking about that a lot #I think my number 1 complaint about streaming as a storytelling medium IS the inability to consume all perspectives #as well as how time-consuming it is to even do a few perspectives #I run the QSMP Vod Timestamp archive so I'm regularly watching like 10 POVs (which is insane and unsustainable. 0/10 do not recommend)#but even then I'm like!!! frick dude!!! I'm still not getting the full story!!!#It's frustrating!!! I do love Karmaland and QSMP but it drives me up the wall #anyways we're getting off-topic here. In summary:#BRO I FRICKIN MISS KARMALAND #If QSMP wasn't eating up quite literally 99% of my time I'd binge the entire thing #K5 was so short but SO frickin good like it was SO insanely good #it raised my standards for everything #also Luzu and Q were especially insane for that #agh #I miss them #Luzu come home so I can get a taste of the high Karmaland 5 gave me again

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