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eye theory canon

Dorothea wants me to be in her album. Well, she claims PERSONA is all about me, but she wants me to really be involved. This means doing what I do best: posing for a camera. We're hovering behind her album artist as he superimposes my eye over hers. “Because only so many people really see us,” she overexplains the message, but still — it's clever, and it tells the world I'm part of her. I see what she sees. No beauty in the world matters except filtered through me. No one knows how to recognize beauty in the world except for me. Dorothea said something like that to me once. That I'm one of the world's last true believers.  I turn, I close my fingers around her jaw. She looks surprised, her eyes dart to the editor — oh, who gives a fuck what some NPC named Joey thinks, Dorothea — and I kiss her. She's tense for a second, and then she melts into my touch, pulling me into a hug. It's… too sweet.  “Khloe,” she whispers. I watch her - her blue-grey eyes, her lips pillowy with well-settled filler. “You're gonna be immortal.”

Where the Armour Ends

Everything was fine until the 2016 elections.

Chapter 1: Mansion With a View [AO3]

"Oh, there's your brother in law." Dorothea angles the remote at my screen like she's got half a mind to throw it. "Looks like shit." "Uh, yeah," she agrees, opting to drop it onto the carpet instead. She lowers onto her elbow then climbs back on top of me again. "Who's he wearing?" "Nobody," I snort as her stubby fingers brush my cheek. Dorothea raises her eyebrows at me and I shrug against the pillows. His wife is in Carolina Herrera, like I give any fucks about men's suits if I don't have to stand beside them. Getting it into my contract that neither I nor Sam could be made to look like Republicans was already a bitch and a half and I had to borrow Dorothea's lawyers: the less I have to think about James, the better.

This is obviously fiction, but it is based on Taylor and Karlie's relationship circa 2016 onward with some... uh, twists. Actually, everyone is OOC. The story is offensive so if you're especially vulnerable don't read it. The characters are portrayed as misogynistic, homophobic, bitchy, and manipulative. I don't endorse the actions or opinions of the characters.

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Where the Armour Ends

Everything was fine until the 2016 elections.

Chapter 4: But She Does It So Well [AO3]

Dorothea wants me to be in her album. Well, she claims PERSONA is all about me, but she wants me to really be involved. This means doing what I do best: posing for a camera. We're hovering behind her album artist as he superimposes my eye over hers. “Because only so many people really see us,” she overexplains the message, but still — it's clever, and it tells the world I'm part of her. I see what she sees. No beauty in the world matters except filtered through me. No one knows how to recognize beauty in the world except for me. Dorothea said something like that to me once. That I'm one of the world's last true believers.  I turn, I close my fingers around her jaw. She looks surprised, her eyes dart to the editor — oh, who gives a fuck what some NPC named Joey thinks, Dorothea — and I kiss her. She's tense for a second, and then she melts into my touch, pulling me into a hug. It's… too sweet.  “Khloe,” she whispers. I watch her - her blue-grey eyes, her lips pillowy with well-settled filler. “You're gonna be immortal.”

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"We need more complex female characters" you guys can't even handle Chappell Roan, Real Life Woman with Boundaries

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Fuck you delilah what the fuck is new york city

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🤎💛💚

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im still shook about people being mad at chappell roan for thinking genocide is problematic

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someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around

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I can do it with a broken heart is kinda fucking bonkers if you think about it. to release a very self aware song about a tour while still on said tour, then to perform it on the tour, the intro to the performance, including the line "all the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting MORE" thereby forcing the crowd to participate in the very behavior the song is ostensibly critiquing, "I was hitting my marks" paired with choreo from the rest of the set list, the music video. I want to see inside her head.

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my fave kind of kaylor posts are when it's a blurry picture of karlie in leggings and sunglasses standing with some cars and the caption is like

what started in beautiful rooms ends with meetings in parking lots

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An Instagram video about the difference between US and UK washing up has me curious.

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also I'm ngl when white activists circulate these arguments it really makes them seem out of touch with the realities of reproductive justice. as much as coercive births exist so does coercive or forced sterilization esp for eugenics purposes. preventing poc and disabled people from having children has been an agenda of power for decades and femicide isn't a joke. bending yourself into a pretzel to explain why there might be a kind/selfless motivation for aborting a girl on the basis of sex (actual post i saw on here yesterday) is not actually meaningfully doing anything to advance women's rights or reproductive justice. the principle of reproductive justice is that the desires and health of the pregnant person are to be prioritized over any other considerations - this allows us to talk about how people who do want to have children should have the right to in the same discussion that we're talking about abortion rights and access. entertaining strawmen and bad faith arguments just leads to self contradiction and sometimes in doing so your efforts to stand by one social justice point lead to compromising on another.

politics

tbh i wish people on here would be a bit more judicious about what questions they entertain and how they phrase their responses. if you're asked a question like "do you think people should be able to abort children just for being girls" you actually don't need to get into the weeds of responding to what is ultimately just not a fair question. personally if i were asked this i would just stonewall and say "people should always have access to abortions" or "the first priority should be the health and desires of the pregnant person." you don't need to allow yourself to be baited into a eugenics conversation or justify femicide. especially bc there's literally no way to enforce this kind of ban since people can just lie the conversation is not worth having.

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politics

tbh i wish people on here would be a bit more judicious about what questions they entertain and how they phrase their responses. if you're asked a question like "do you think people should be able to abort children just for being girls" you actually don't need to get into the weeds of responding to what is ultimately just not a fair question. personally if i were asked this i would just stonewall and say "people should always have access to abortions" or "the first priority should be the health and desires of the pregnant person." you don't need to allow yourself to be baited into a eugenics conversation or justify femicide. especially bc there's literally no way to enforce this kind of ban since people can just lie the conversation is not worth having.

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Hey 👋

Favourite swift songs are..?

hi! my #1 fave is seven, my other faves are blank space, treacherous, and don't blame me !