#mbobhft

[taylortruther]

he's a paradox -> who else decodes you? -> 'cause it fit too right, puzzle pieces in the dead of night -> in fifty years, will all this be declassified?

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift recording 'My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys' (Via Spotify)

[sombrewoodlandfairy]

The Tortured Poets Department wallpapers - My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys

The Tortured Poets Department | My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys | Down Bad

[sadbeautifutragic]

He saw forever so he smashed it up...

[wineonmytshirt]

my boy only breaks his favorite toys

[jdschecter]

Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me...

[intoallofmypoems]

taylor swift + fame — the lucky one & the tortured poets department: the anthology parallels

“Well, thanks, guys! This is a little one that I re-fell in love with while re-recording. It’s about how horrible being famous is.” — TAYLOR BEFORE PLAYING THE LUCKY ONE (PIANO) IN ARLINGTON, TX, ON APRIL 2nd

[knuckles-bloody-for-me]

My boy is a FANTASTIC song. Queen of sandcastles he destroys? Cause he's throwing temper tantrums like a child. But it's made out of unstable material to begin with. The parallel with london boy and king of my heart. Oh here we go again, versus I've seen this episode and still loved the show, versus come one come all its happening again. Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place versus cause it fit too right puzzle pieces in the dead of night. "Pull my string and I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me" and then it echos "he loves me" as if we the audience pulled her like a string and treat her like a toy too (looking at you clock app). The OUTTRO????? top tier song on ttpd 10/10

[evermoredeluxe]

Taylor performing My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys as the surprise song on piano at Eras Tour in Paris on May 10, 2024 (x)

[thepinktorturedpoetsdepartment]

my boy only breaks his favorite toys paris night 2

[taylortruther]

my boy only breaks his favorite toys is making me think of you fire off missiles because you hate yourself but do you know you’re demolishing me? and you make everyone disappear and cut me into pieces and i'm begging for you to take my hand but when you take, you take the best of me. and what would you do if i took this dagger in me and removed it? and it was rare, i was there, don’t you ignore me and you had me crawling for you, honey, i remember it all too well.

[youareinlove]

if my boy only breaks his favorite toys is about cheating i will riot

[jamespotterbbg]

my boy only breaks his favorite toys as bartylus

regulus’s pov, about barty

“the voices in his head”

“but you should’ve seen him when he first got me”

“and i’ll tell you that he runs because he loves me”

[peterlostwendy]

just say when, i'd play again he. was. my. best. friend.

This one's so personal to me. Hope you like it 🤍

[whatiwillsay]

What if the love story in folklore is either Taylor spending time with Matty in a Joe intermission, or Joe doing something similar.

It adds meaning to the “he wasn’t a fool” convo from long pond between Jack and Taylor. If Jack is saying Taylor wasn’t a fool to spend time with him at a point when things were over. It also links with Taylor’s songs with MH being about being children.

Though there might also be something to Betty’s “show up at my party”, and “crashed my party in your rental car”.

Teenage love triangle needs revisiting!

so taylor says "my husband is cheating" and "We learned thе right steps to different dancеs, And fell victim to interlopers' glances" on the album about joe so I definitely think our long-running suspicion that joe cheated on taylor is confirmed but I think taylor also owns up to her OWN missteps and I think the folklore love triangle is a comment on all of that, not JUST taylor's affair with matty.

i don't think you can just one for one fill in the characters of the love triangle with three concrete people (like for example I've seen people say betty is taylor, halsey is august, james is matty or something like that)

i think they're all vibey songs- cardigan is taylor's perspective of what it's like to have someone from your past come back to you and make you feel better. i do think this song, in general, according to taylor, is about matty showing back up while joe was letting her down if we're going to believe what she said on eras tour (this is about you, you know who you are, I love you).

but i do think betty is taylor and joe talking to each other, both apologizing for cheating.

and i think august is ALSO taylor's perspective perhaps talking about how she felt about being the other woman to matty's partner (fka twigs?) but also I think she may have been trying to take into consideration the feelings of whoever joe cheated on her with.

remember, taylor's team confirmed that taylor and joe were on and off for a long time and had broken up before the big confirmed break up in April of 2023 and I've of course had tea confirming they broke up many times as well. i think one of these iterations was over quarantine (I have heard they got couples counseling in 2020). hence them writing songs like betty, exile, ch probs, and coney island together! and of course, taylor writing songs like illicit affairs and ivy along with the love triangle songs (and also tolerate it and happiness IMO were just about struggles with joe).

i think one of these breakups had to do with matty and also perhaps infidelity on joe's part but they worked it out and wrote songs together to cope and taylor wrote a bunch of songs about infidelity to process and understand it all.

the way the house in ivy burns down at the end and then taylor lights the lover house on fire and burns it down on eras tour to me is just chef's kiss. and it just ALL comes together on ttpd don't get me started on matty's matches in loml ("your arson's match your somber eyes") and all the other connections to folkmore/the love triangle.

i think most of folkmore is about these affairs and the failures of taylor and joe's relationship (while still trying to come back together and heal it with songs like evermore and willow and long story short). you can't really blame her for hiding it all in a fictional setting given how the public would have commented on the drama esp if she and joe were trying to work it out!

i comment a lot on all of this in my Learning the Lore of TTPD series part I is here on spotify and here on apple podcasts!