#loml ttpd

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

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

[whatdoiwhisper]

Anyone else notice that in loml, after he tells her she’s the love of his life (1:40) she says about a million times and it’s the same tune and intonation as when she says ’cause you were never mine right before the bridge in August?!! This woman is a genius and I’m sobbing

[anotherunrealfantasyworld]

Neil Gaiman x Taylor Swift

Part 4 : Good Omens 2 (Neil Gaiman) x loml (TTPD, Taylor Swift)

Credit : (in video)

P/S: Thank you for liking and reblogging my previous posts. I'm very touched!!

[hightideswift]

I can’t get over how good loml is.

[uslostinthememories]

I keep thinking about loml from The tortured poets department and I just want to know what it means!!

Love of my life

Loss of my lover

Loss of my life

Light of my life

Love or my life

Last of my letters

Lie of my life

Last of my lessons

Last of my lines

Luck of my life

Lament? Lust? Litany? Line-break?

Mimesis (as fundamental to human experience, a practice that precedes language but is suppressed or distorted by society)

What if she starts with Love, moves to lie, then to loss and finally to light? Ooor what if it starts with love and ends up with loss?

[boybasher]

[funtheysaid]

TTPD is about IWTV

(Part Six)

This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.

11.) I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

Loustat? Lesmand? Armaniel? This song could apply to all of them.

But, let’s dedicate this one to Loumand. My first instinct was to say that Louis would be the narrator of this song - needing to “fix” Armand’s gremlin, manipulative ways. But I actually think a more compelling take on this would be having Armand play the narrator, and Louis being the one in need of “fixing”.

Take, for instance, Louis’ mental breakdown after Claudia’s (and Lestat’s) death. He’s so numb and despondent that Armand starts acting increasingly more and more desperate to get his lover to feel something - to “fix” his depression.

Armand even admits to killing Claudia in an attempt to ignite something in Louis - to no avail, of course.

Armand then tells Louis that Lestat is actually alive in NOLA, hoping that’ll bring some light to Louis’ eyes. But, it doesn’t.

He continually tries to pull Louis from his anguished spiral, trying his best to “fix” Louis’ problems, but in the end he has to admit to himself that he can’t “fix” Louis.

You can also totally look at this through the lens of Louis thinking he can “fix” Armand - make him a better person, be his moral compass so to say.

“He had a halo of the highest grade, he just hadn’t met me yet”

“They shake their heads saying God help her when I tell ‘em he’s my man”

“I can fix him”

“No, really, I can”

“Woah, maybe I can’t”

12.) loml (aka loss of my life)

Nicki and Lestat, duh. I think Lestat would consider Nicki to be the greatest loss of his life. And so many of these lyrics fit them. The way Nicki grew to resent, and then hate Lestat is just so heartbreaking.

“If you know it in one glimpse, it's legendary”

“You said I'm the love of your life”

“When your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes”

“Well, you took me to hell too”

“Our field of dreams engulfed in fire”

“Your arson's match, your somber eyes”

“You’re the loss of my life”

Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv

Part Seven: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749135905171832832/ttpd-is-about-iwtv

[ohmyswift]

Swifties, I'm curious

I made this kind of poll for every song on The Tortured Poets Department, here is the link to the master post

Don't forget to reblog for a bigger sample

Also if somebody has already made poll like this, let me know

[adultswiftie]

Random musings on 'loml'

The general understanding of this phrase is that it is text-speak for "love of my life." But why use the abbreviation? This is not a woman overly concerned with short song titles

So my brain has jumped straight to: what if that is how Joe referred to her when texting with each other, or something along those lines? And then the song would be snarky musings on how that did not end up being true, or why she only rated an abbreviation and not a whole phrase

[stillgotscars]

loml - taylor swift

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Great Fire in a City During the Night – Franz Edmund Weirotter // Prairie on Fire – Charles Deas // South London Forever – Florence + the Machine // loml – Taylor Swift

[new-york-no-shoes]

Loml is the saddest song I’ve ever heard. “It was momentary. It was unnecessary” makes me wanna vomit every fucking time

[hightideswift]

Once again, loml is one of Taylor’s best songs. I’m going to say this until people get it.

[1989taylorsversion]

If "loml" ends up standing for "love OR my life" I swear to all the deities I will FIGHT!!!!!!!!!

[lizzy-bennet]

#I think we all know who ttpd track 12 loml is REALLY about

[reputayswift]

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT + literary references (part 2)

(sources: loml, I hate it here, the albatross, so high school, thank you aimee, clara bow)