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DEATH BECOMES HER 1992, dir. Robert Zemeckis

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I will forever be a tumblr girl

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how it was supposed to be

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excerpt from “the tenth muse: towards a lesbian aesthetic” by jorjet harper in hot wire: the journal of women’s music and culture vol. 6 no. 1, january 1990

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Slightly terrified by my own foresight throughout this. But man, I’m happy for our girl. This is such a powerful message about the determination to fight for the art YOU make with your own blood, sweat, and tears in the age of AI and the burning of journalism as we know it.

OOPS I HAVE MORE

>> I don't think a lick of this will make sense without reading Pt. 1. << But there's also a relatively high chance it simply just doesn't make sense bc I'm half awake with the flu.

Watched the LWYMMD LV for the first time in many, many, many moons — low key it's the best one they've ever done? — and I actually chortled at this spooky familiar typewriter scene (top image above) for the line: "the role you made me play". Somehow this visual combines a typewriter AND screenplay.

Now I'm fairly certain this isn't the only typewriter imagery we get in our trove of MVs or LVs especially bc of TTPD. But I'm fairly certain this is the only other script 👀 we get.

Of course LWYMMD TV is on everyone's radar right now bc of the Handmaid's Tale ep. I didn't intentionally find this — I just remembered there were a few lyric vids from Rep era and haven't seen them in years. Anyway, notable because LWYMMD is the 6th song on the 6th album. Because that could just be straightforward Rep TV egging. But... the math... 6 + 6 = 12. This would take some Cassandra-like abilities to plan tho.

The thing I find v spooky are the words that glitch in The Manuscript LV are "And the actors" and then LWYMMD's lyrics are "The role you made me play." In fact, most of the imagery in this LV repeats itself... but the typewriter scene never shows up again.

This didn't end up being the only eerie visual similarity and I'm sure there are more. Feel free to indulge me if you wanna keep following the golden thread:

So the color scheme is predominantly grey, black, white, with red accents — or the whole scene is red (a spiral snake situation). But there are also very few pops of yellow and notably there are a few full frame yellow "glitches."

Obviously, my eye twitched a bit over the chess pieces because of Blank Space tour/LV visuals and the live chess game Mastermind dance on tour. The queen piece, which says "games" on it, also gets flicked off the board and immediately called the Queen's Sacrifice strategy to mind bc karma is a queen:

In chess, a queen sacrifice occurs when a player voluntarily allows their opponent to capture their queen, even though they could have defended it. This strategic decision is often made to gain a tactical advantage, such as a forced checkmate, a more advantageous position, or more material compensation.

BUT the VAULT KEY THAT HAS "KINGDOM KEYS" WRITTEN ON IT?!?!?? In the Rep era? This vault key being one of the few random yellow objects other than light itself?!

1. The eras stage/vault key game 2. Fearless TV vault key merch 3. Bejeweled MV

Imperfect matches, but again, TS isn't actually a seer. I think... I mean she did say there's only one key to her secret garden and she's got it.

I think she was already thinking quite deeply about the vault, her past + future work, and struggling in 2017... even if her Taylor's Versions idea hadn't manifested quite yet. Just look at the very familiar looking bank vault in LWYMMD MV (1:36).

Anyway, the scene that follows the Kingdom Keys is also familiar looking. In front of a spooky castle silhouette, a yellow crown falls onto ME! (out now) Did Taylor's pennies make them?

We've been getting castle motifs since Fearless (maybe earlier? don't quote me). But I feel like we really ramped up on the castle metaphor during Midnights with the Bejeweled MV, which also makes an appearance in the Karma MV.

At the end of Bejeweled, Taylor ghosts the prince, but gets to keep the Kingdom Keys and castle. We leave her, dressed in her golden princess dress, and smiling/smirking as dragons seem to be burning down the castle.

In Karma MV, you'll be able to spot the "same" castle to the left of Taylor, seemingly the natural end of the yellow brick road for (Friend of) Dorothy Taylor who's skipping in the rubies she gave up... also wearing a lil golden beret.

Now we have so many structure metaphors we've speculated could represent Taylor's body of work - for ex. the Lover House. I think that could still very much apply to her use of castles. It's just the sort of cold, elitist, patriarchal, impenetrable nature of castles - and her smiling as it burns down - that makes me feel like it could better represent her former record label, the industry, or even the contract she signed at 15 for the first 13 years of her career.

She's leaving it worse than she found it for the powers that be, to rubble even, hopefully paving a brighter road ahead for artists like herself. Or is at least getting tf out of Emerald City and following the yellow brick road far, far away. Home, maybe. We all know The Emerald City ends up just being a corrupt farce propped up by machines, gears, cogs, and a heck of a lot of exploitation. Not magic.

Anyway, three last 👀 stills from the LWYMMD video. Folks, we got a clock! A clock in a room that looks suspiciously like TTPD? Idk it gives me the vibe...

So first, when this door opens it smashes the lightbulb - plunging the room into darkness and scattering glass on the floor... which I'm sorry is just gonna remind me of Karma...

But we've also got this clock. We have so many mf-ing clocks at this point. But what have most of the clocks been doing? Pointing to midnight... or 12.

This one might not look like it is, like it's tilted then, but look at the wall in the wider shot. I think it is actually tilted. It also makes sense chronologically because "time" is the last word in the sentence. And my, my, my what a word to pick.

Now you might also point out that the red hand is the minute hand... but it's also the red object here... so it draws the attention? Tbh I'd just go with it personally. BUT whether it's 12 OR it's the minute amount... which would be 0... frankly, that would fascinate me too much...

She's never dodging the mastermind allegations (speaking of a really cool clock LV). To leave so many clues in your last stolen work (an odyssey that would only get worse from there) to be uncovered almost a decade later... I just keep finding Karma/12 everywhere I go.

Anyway, I've just been seeing what "Karma" or even a TS12 means in my head as a possible liberation of her work in a more complete way, but also liberation/freedom on many levels kinda vibe. I think she's been fighting the shackles of the industry/her contract, while communicating it covertly as she could, for longer than we might think... which does not surprise me considering the other subtext I - and my side of a fandom -believes that could apply to as well.

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So she gave a performance

To get the key

To keep the castle

What if I told you she’s a mastermind?

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Taylor Swift, The Manuscript

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Ours. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

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Not to be parasocial as hell, but I wept. What an awesome day/news to wake up to.

You belong with me. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

Letter on my site :)

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Jk maybe it won’t just be rep tv we get, but maybe it should be (obvi if we are lucky enough to get anything!! I’d just take a lewk and some dancing)

Honestly, with all of these deeply infuriating… disturbingly saccharine s****** b**** masters-related headlines circulating after this subpoena got dropped today… first of all this dude is sick. This gets dragged out to make the court of public opinion upsetting… knowing it’d be thrown out. That doesn’t mean it’s not unsettling. and immediately he gets press and social media talking about how benevolent he is to support reclaiming the masters… now… after YOU caused the problem? After it’s worked too well? AND I’ve already seen people with the takes like “how sus/money grabby would it be be if she doesn’t take him up on an offer”… an offer identical to one his camp presented her years ago. One her counsel was disturbed enough by to turn down. I’m not a faultless idol person I promise… this is all on being very disturbed by men in power. And the very transparent media manipulation folks are buying into.

His obsession is disturbing. But it just makes my heart hurt for young artists with less resources too. How is any creative meant to survive this future? I’m convinced her advocating since like 2013 for artists/worker rights in music plays into this bs. She’s been a Cassandra in this arena for SO LONG. If you haven’t heard her Woman of the Decade speech that is pin drop quiet… you should.

But now I’m like, you know what Blondie? You might just feel better if you do say fuck it and drop Rep at the big show. I can’t imagine how much money that must make him. Look what YOU made her do indeed… this has always been on you bro.

Also, if you weren’t aware he’s the majority stakeholder of the crisis pr firm that started this particular film legal circus/retaliation… plz use that info to help defog your vision when the pr spinning feels like it’s invading your brain. What if nothing this dude has been accidental?

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OOPS I HAVE MORE

>> I don't think a lick of this will make sense without reading Pt. 1. << But there's also a relatively high chance it simply just doesn't make sense bc I'm half awake with the flu.

Watched the LWYMMD LV for the first time in many, many, many moons — low key it's the best one they've ever done? — and I actually chortled at this spooky familiar typewriter scene (top image above) for the line: "the role you made me play". Somehow this visual combines a typewriter AND screenplay.

Now I'm fairly certain this isn't the only typewriter imagery we get in our trove of MVs or LVs especially bc of TTPD. But I'm fairly certain this is the only other script 👀 we get.

Of course LWYMMD TV is on everyone's radar right now bc of the Handmaid's Tale ep. I didn't intentionally find this — I just remembered there were a few lyric vids from Rep era and haven't seen them in years. Anyway, notable because LWYMMD is the 6th song on the 6th album. Because that could just be straightforward Rep TV egging. But... the math... 6 + 6 = 12. This would take some Cassandra-like abilities to plan tho.

The thing I find v spooky are the words that glitch in The Manuscript LV are "And the actors" and then LWYMMD's lyrics are "The role you made me play." In fact, most of the imagery in this LV repeats itself... but the typewriter scene never shows up again.

This didn't end up being the only eerie visual similarity and I'm sure there are more. Feel free to indulge me if you wanna keep following the golden thread:

So the color scheme is predominantly grey, black, white, with red accents — or the whole scene is red (a spiral snake situation). But there are also very few pops of yellow and notably there are a few full frame yellow "glitches."

Obviously, my eye twitched a bit over the chess pieces because of Blank Space tour/LV visuals and the live chess game Mastermind dance on tour. The queen piece, which says "games" on it, also gets flicked off the board and immediately called the Queen's Sacrifice strategy to mind bc karma is a queen:

In chess, a queen sacrifice occurs when a player voluntarily allows their opponent to capture their queen, even though they could have defended it. This strategic decision is often made to gain a tactical advantage, such as a forced checkmate, a more advantageous position, or more material compensation.

BUT the VAULT KEY THAT HAS "KINGDOM KEYS" WRITTEN ON IT?!?!?? In the Rep era? This vault key being one of the few random yellow objects other than light itself?!

1. The eras stage/vault key game 2. Fearless TV vault key merch 3. Bejeweled MV

Imperfect matches, but again, TS isn't actually a seer. I think... I mean she did say there's only one key to her secret garden and she's got it.

I think she was already thinking quite deeply about the vault, her past + future work, and struggling in 2017... even if her Taylor's Versions idea hadn't manifested quite yet. Just look at the very familiar looking bank vault in LWYMMD MV (1:36).

Anyway, the scene that follows the Kingdom Keys is also familiar looking. In front of a spooky castle silhouette, a yellow crown falls onto ME! (out now) Did Taylor's pennies make them?

We've been getting castle motifs since Fearless (maybe earlier? don't quote me). But I feel like we really ramped up on the castle metaphor during Midnights with the Bejeweled MV, which also makes an appearance in the Karma MV.

At the end of Bejeweled, Taylor ghosts the prince, but gets to keep the Kingdom Keys and castle. We leave her, dressed in her golden princess dress, and smiling/smirking as dragons seem to be burning down the castle.

In Karma MV, you'll be able to spot the "same" castle to the left of Taylor, seemingly the natural end of the yellow brick road for (Friend of) Dorothy Taylor who's skipping in the rubies she gave up... also wearing a lil golden beret.

Now we have so many structure metaphors we've speculated could represent Taylor's body of work - for ex. the Lover House. I think that could still very much apply to her use of castles. It's just the sort of cold, elitist, patriarchal, impenetrable nature of castles - and her smiling as it burns down - that makes me feel like it could better represent her former record label, the industry, or even the contract she signed at 15 for the first 13 years of her career.

She's leaving it worse than she found it for the powers that be, to rubble even, hopefully paving a brighter road ahead for artists like herself. Or is at least getting tf out of Emerald City and following the yellow brick road far, far away. Home, maybe. We all know The Emerald City ends up just being a corrupt farce propped up by machines, gears, cogs, and a heck of a lot of exploitation. Not magic.

Anyway, three last 👀 stills from the LWYMMD video. Folks, we got a clock! A clock in a room that looks suspiciously like TTPD? Idk it gives me the vibe...

So first, when this door opens it smashes the lightbulb - plunging the room into darkness and scattering glass on the floor... which I'm sorry is just gonna remind me of Karma...

But we've also got this clock. We have so many mf-ing clocks at this point. But what have most of the clocks been doing? Pointing to midnight... or 12.

This one might not look like it is, like it's tilted then, but look at the wall in the wider shot. I think it is actually tilted. It also makes sense chronologically because "time" is the last word in the sentence. And my, my, my what a word to pick.

Now you might also point out that the red hand is the minute hand... but it's also the red object here... so it draws the attention? Tbh I'd just go with it personally. BUT whether it's 12 OR it's the minute amount... which would be 0... frankly, that would fascinate me too much...

She's never dodging the mastermind allegations (speaking of a really cool clock LV). To leave so many clues in your last stolen work (an odyssey that would only get worse from there) to be uncovered almost a decade later... I just keep finding Karma/12 everywhere I go.

Anyway, I've just been seeing what "Karma" or even a TS12 means in my head as a possible liberation of her work in a more complete way, but also liberation/freedom on many levels kinda vibe. I think she's been fighting the shackles of the industry/her contract, while communicating it covertly as she could, for longer than we might think... which does not surprise me considering the other subtext I - and my side of a fandom -believes that could apply to as well.

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Was thinking about The Manuscript LV - which I rambled on about after the release of TTPD - because of all the hubub about the AMAs. It def feels like something is a brewing and I've been personally leaning more toward a TS12 that ties into a"karma" concept. One that possibly is more about true freedom/liberation. Tho if it's lost music, then, in a way, it's both new and a re-record. The gold/invisible string/daylight theory got me there. (I get into TS12 stuff in the 2nd half)

Obviously there's been Rep red herrings per usual and we're used to a 2 re-record, 1 original album release schedule now. But it's kind of interesting to think of the time before Rep (allegedly) representing the first era "glitch". It's a clever roll out plan.

Anyway, I've always thought about this bit from my musings back in April 2024 - originally I was focused on how a song called "The Manuscript" was represented in a screenplay format - complete with a title page, camera directions, dialogue, and page numbers.

And I click back to the first seconds of the video... looking at those underlined letters and asked myself... is it The Man U Script? *if i was a maaaAAn*

And today I thought to myself... you know what would be crazy? If it scrambled into something else...

Did you know you can get the word chairmen out of "the manuscript"? And in fact, what you have leftover could very well be "ttp" and "us"? Like the tortured poets chairmen = us? Doesn't feel all that different from seeing "the man u script." Or out of line with a song that ends with "the story isn't mine anymore." Feels like a weird coincidence, but I guess stranger witchcraft has happened.

In general, I've spent today hyperfixating on the MVs and LVs (my favorite way to dig for clues) and finding more 12s than I feel can be coincidence lol. I mean she's been dropping clocks pointed at 12 for eons now — even popping up in Fearless TV.

I'll try to keep this quick, but look at the Glitch LV...

First, the video runtime is 2:31... 2 + 3 + 1 = 6. Rep is the 6th album, the scene of the original era glitch, and the most anticipated re-record.

The video is full of color coded imagery and glitches that are too numerous to list. But when we get that electronic music break/glitch in the song at 1:56 (1 + 5 + 6 = 12) we get a glitch that looks like this...

Which is a color scheme that makes many of us 👀 lol... but it's conveniently referenced by TS (many times atp) in the Eras tour book.

Interesting.

Oh, and as I mentioned in my original post, there's a little glitch in The Manuscript LV. As she sings the word "synchronicity," the words "And the actors" 👀 disappear for a flash. And what might the timecode be?

Yeah, that happens at 2:55... which adds up to 12... conveniently on page 6.

Now, do I also think getting a screenplay as our final thesis song from the previous original album could be a good hint at a movie/doc bc we've also gotten those hints? Sure! And I for one would be STOKED.

Truly, the funniest option is if she ghosts like the previous award show... Which might not be as far fetched as it may seem (5:10 -> 5 + 1 = 6).

Using numbers in any of my TS musings is very out of character so forgive me this time. I'm hoping for some chaos on the 26th tho!

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I know I'm going to lose a great love and a good friend. So tell me, how will it be? Me without you? 🎶

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The Reaper x The Morning Knight

Darrow of Lykos & Cassius au Bellona

don’t look too closely if you haven’t finished Dark Age……..

*Do not steal/copy/print or reupload to any other platforms without permission. Reblogs appreciated!

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Darrow | Red Rising

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My intrusive thought of the day was THIS freaking passage, which Kool Aid Manned into my peaceful afternoon for no discernible reason. Truly one of the most painful, devastating, cruelly poetic things I have ever read.

There simply isn't a world in which I could persevere in the hellscape Pierce Brown made with his mind.