TAYLOR SWIFT: 1M+ FIRST WEEK ALBUM SALES (US)  Congrats Taylor for being the first artist to sell 1 million in the first week for 7 albums!

Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

sending so much love to everyone who feels like they’re never chosen as the best friend, as the partner, as the favorite. sending love to all of you who have been treated and felt like second best. sending love to all of you who have felt rejected and unwanted. to all of you who have had to try really hard to fit in because you felt like you never will. 

you are so loved. you will be seen and heard by the right people. you can trust that you are valuable and not defined by other people’s perceptions of you. if someone doesn’t see your worth, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

when taylor said "please leave me stranded/it's so romantic" in new romantics and then said "how dare you think it's romantic/leaving me safe and stranded" in down bad

when taylor said "been losing grips on sinking ships" in this love and then said "you said i abandoned the ship/but i was going down with it/my why knuckled dying grip" in so long, london

when taylor said "who you are is not what you did" in innocent and then said "but you are what you did" in the smallest man who ever lived

CLARA BOW | “you’ve got edge she never did.”

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Hey, this is Taylor Swift and I’m so excited to share my version of Fearless with you.

so much of taking care of yourself as an adult is just learning to eat at home and going on walks

I keep coming back to how much Taylor did not need to release this record and how much courage it shows that she did. These lyrics touch on it:

The scandal was contained

The bullet had just grazed

At all costs keep your good name

Because things ended with MH and people generally stopped talking about it and she kept just winning. The general public saw her as at the top of her game and America’s Sweetheart dating the football star. The Brads, Dads, and Chads had something to say but she actually seemed to have more defenders than ever before. Like this is the most recent image the general public has of her

And she chose to put out this one.

She wasn’t on trial anymore, the scandal was contained, so she didn’t need to put in a plea, but she does actually want people to know and understand her

I want to snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me

She’s trusting us with her feelings when she absolutely didn’t have to and we should appreciate it for the gift it is

I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary.

i couldn’t have found a normal artist to enjoy it just had to be this freak

yall. the smallest man as part of the folklore love triangle universe. please tell me you see my vision

A Question to the Stars – Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach // Part of the Milky Way – Étienne Léopold Trouvelot // The Great Comet of 1843 – Charles Piazzi Smyth // Call It What You Want – Taylor Swift // loml – Taylor Swift // The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived – Taylor Swift

i love this album because for the first time in maybe her entire career she's not apologising for a single thing. the album is angry and raw and she's like "here's this chapter of my life, the sad, the bad, the terrible and it's all raw and fucking angry for you all to see and i don't need absolution for a single thing" like she's not asking forgiveness for a single thing from anyone and that's what makes the album so fucking heartbreaking

The analogy of Matty as a “forget him” pill in the Fortnight video and “I took the miracle move on drug, the effects were temporary” is the heart of it I feel. If you had to have an extremely painful surgery and could choose to go medicated or not, what would you pick? She had to end things with Joe but she couldn’t bring herself to do it for years because she knew the pain of actually losing him would be too much to bear, and along comes this person peddling that he can take away all the pain. He sells her a story about how he is the great love of her life, that he’s never forgotten her all this time, that it was supposed to be them all along. He can give her everything she can’t bear to let go of. And who wouldn’t want to believe that, when the alternative is … the love that you thought was forever just ends and there’s nothing and no one? So she does it, she takes the pill, she has the surgery, only to find he was selling not just snake oil but poison that leaves her far worse off than she was in the beginning. She feels all the pain of the surgery and the side effects of the drug in one fell swoop.

going from “chains around my demons” to “and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons, even if i die screaming” is such a punch in the gut