Team Green this. Team Black that. Blah blah blah.

Have you considered that maybe I’m team sexy people? Have you considered that maybe I’m a whore?

Palestinian freedom fighters breaking out of Gaza and reclaiming their occupied territories. They’ve taken over israeli tanks and have chased out the settlers that were on that land. They’ve launched rockets everywhere and the iron dome has failed to intercept. This is about to mark a momentous event in history.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

the connection between “but the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light” in peter and “remember looking at this room, we loved it ‘cause of the light / now, i just sit in the dark and wonder if it’s time” in you’re losing me has me spiralling

you’re losing me // so long london

quick lil drawing because i cannot beLIEVE we lost this song last night 🥲

God, “I love you, it’s ruining my life” just feels like something she would’ve said in a conversation.

she literally wrote “i would die for you in secret” and now here’s a whole song using death as a metaphor for her heartbreak

and now we have “we hereby conduct this post mortem” she really killed off all these parts of herself in the hopes it would fix things

you might just have dealt the final blow

I keep saying this, but I’m going to say it again:

I don’t understand how people can watch the scene of Laurel gr00m1ng Tyler and still think he’s the abusive villain. He had no control over what he was doing, he had to listen to his master and can’t control the Hyde himself. He was just a neglected teenager who only wanted to know about his mother. His father would never spend time with him, and Laurel was the only person to take him seriously, so of course he was going to get closer to her. That’s what gr00m3rs do. He was injected with chemicals, was physically and mentally ab*sed. None of what happened was his fault.

Thoughts on TTPD and how it relates to Dead Poets Society and queerness

(Spoilers for DPS ahead.)

I saw DPS a long time ago and rewatched it before TTPD came out, thinking there could be a connection just by virtue of the similar titles. (This connection was, of course, confirmed with the inclusion of Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles of DPS in the Fortnight music video.) The thing is, before I rewatched DPS, I remembered that Neil Perry kills himself because he is gay. It had been a long time since I’d seen it, and that was what I remembered. While rewatching it, I kept waiting for Neil to try to kiss a boy or come out to his dad or something. But he doesn’t. No one in the film ever says ANYTHING overtly about queerness. There are references to Whitman and Tchaikovsky (both presumed to be queer). Neil wants to be an actor and gets his start playing a literal fairy (Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream). But never does he overtly express any attraction to someone of the same sex, and never does he identify himself as gay or queer. But as a teenager watching this movie, the implied queerness was so obvious to me that I later REMEMBERED THE MOVIE WRONG.

And that’s the same way that TTPD is queer. The queerness isn’t overt. It’s not obvious or clear to everyone who listens to it. But it’s there, baked in, and undeniable when you really dissect the lyrics. Queer themes of the world not accepting your love, feeling trapped, the closet, religious trauma, and feeling judged are obvious in the album. And the genius of Taylor’s lyrics is that they can be attributed to Matty Healy (A Man™️), they can be attributed to queerness and the queer experience, and, I think, they can be attributed to both of those things at the same time.

thinking very long and hard about “the sickest army doll, purchased at the mall / rivulets descend my plastic smile” and “fighting in only your army, frontlines, don’t you ignore me”

(from my own twitter @ellie_elizabet 🫶🏼)

Oh? Suddenly we all love the Percy Jackson movies and hate Joe Alwyn?

Suspicious but you know what let me mind my business yall stay safe out there

Trying not to think about her singing “my one and only my life line” on “Dress” and then “I can’t find a pulse/my heart won’t start anymore for you” on “You’re Losing Me” and her saying that writing The Tortured Poets Department was a lifeline for her and got her through everything.

You’re Losing Me / So Long, London