#<3 my swiftie mutuals

[riecaloca]

ok so i’m sorry if this is annoying but i’m genuinely confused- your pinned says you don’t care if swifties interact but you also post/reblog alot of stuff with swifties dni tags ?? /gen /nf

-a swiftie who’s also mutuals with you (has been for awhile)

Its not annoying, don't worry! :-)

I genuinely don't mind having swiftie mutuals because like, while I don't like taylor swift, my mutuals are cool and i respect them a lot, and I like a lot of other stuff they post, along with their vibes!

The reason I tag some of my stuff as "swifties dni" is geniunely because I care about my swiftie mutuals. I figure y'all probably don't wanna interact with my anti taylor swift stuff.

Like, back when I was a swiftie, I had the tags "swifties dni" and "anti taylor swift" blocked because I didn't want to see that negativity. I understood that people didn't like taylor but it hurt to see others talking negatively about her, so I took it upon myself to block those tags and enjoy the other stuff my mutuals posted. So now I give my anti taylor stuff those tags just in case my swiftie mutuals block those tags. I don't want to put anti taylor swift stuff on your blog if you're trying to block it. :)

I mean I probably could just tag that stuff as anti taylor swift, cause that alone gets the message across and since a lot swifties don't wanna interact with anti stuff anyway (so the menacing and foreboding "swifties dni" tag is somewhat unnecessary)

anyways, to sum up, I really like and respect my swiftie mutuals. I don't mind if y'all are swifties because we are both can respect each other's opinions. I just use those tags in case my mutuals want to block that stuff, but since youve brought it up, I will just tag it as "anti taylor swift" and if you don't wanna read it, I guess you could block that specific tag or ignore it

Not to worry, though, I am not primarily an anti Taylor Swift blog. Now that TTPD has been out for a bit, my dislike of Taylor is not the center of attention, so you won't be seeing a lot of any anti ts stuff (aside from a few posts here and there). I will return to reblogging and posting about merlin and Narnia and umbrella academy and the women I like and all that jazz.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Love y'all, and if you ever wanna unfollow me cause of what I post, that's okay 👍

❤️

Rieca

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[darkacademiaarchivist]

i hate to say this caro. but i agree with mieke lebkuchen should be a year round food

deep sigh.... Geht das schon wieder los?? (Is this starting AGAIN??)

(traitor)

[chinzhilla]

every time i see a taylor swift song used in a queer-themed edit i lose a year off my life

[jakeperalta]

how it feels just trying to scroll through my dash every day for the past two weeks

[bloodyfinalgirl]

Hello sleeper swiftie tumblrina. Before you is taylor swift's newest album. You are to listen to the entire duration without inundating the dashes of poor innocent supernatural bloggers with taylor swift posting. If you cannot complete this task, idk your head will explode. The headphones have a bomb in them actually. Live or die make your choice

[rollercoasterwords]

rae give us your thoughts on taylor swift more specifically her rich white feminist thing she’s got going on and her influence on the current ‘girlboss’ trend and the current perception of women in media today???? asking bc i love reading your opinions on this stuff ��

it sounds like u have some opinions of ur own lol but sure i can talk abt taylor swift! will be putting it under a cut bc i love my swiftie mutuals tho...swiftie mutuals look away im going to be mean sorry....

i mean yeah overall u kinda summed it up lol. i don't think i'd really care much about taylor swift were it not for the way she's been branded as some sort of groundbreaking feminist and subsequently played into that perception to profit ("the man" makes my eyes roll out of my skull sorry...)

i think my dislike of her was first seeded when "you need to calm down" came out--before then i just hadn't really cared abt taylor swift, knew a few songs but wasn't crazy about them, etc. but then she dropped "you need to calm down" and suddenly she was getting TONS of praise for doing SO much for the queer community and i was like. well first of all the song is bad second of all she's literally comparing her online haters to violent homophobes as though those two things are in any way equal or similar experiences third of all she's getting praised for profiting off positioning herself as a #ally. like this song and music video are not some sort of feminist praxis they are a way to funnel money into her already bulging pockets.

but because literally everyone around me (many swiftie friends) was gushing over how amazing she was for hiring all those dykes + faggots to dance behind her i felt like i was being gaslit + the fact that taylor swift was just happily accepting the money + accolades at the same time made me dislike her

when folklore came out i actually did enjoy the album which was. the first time that's happened for me lol i usually like maybe one or two of her songs and think the rest are mediocre at best but i was like huh maybe she's like changing as an artist and sort of settling into a new groove that's kinda cool. and then i didn't like evermore as much but i was still like okay cool new sound new vibe. and then she dropped midnights and i tried really hard to like it for my swiftie friends but...honestly i was shocked by how bad it was lol. just felt like a new level of low in terms of bad lyrics and the music was incredibly bland and boring to me, nothing new or interesting going on there. and then i felt gaslit again by all the swifties raving abt the lyricism of lines like "draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man" like!!! babe that is a tumblr post from 2014...

but aside from finding it genuinely incomprehensible that she gets so much credit for being an amazing writer or lyricist when the bulk of her discography is simply incredibly mediocre or straight-up bad imo (bc honestly that alone wouldn't be enough to make me dislike her; ik these are all subjective measures so even if i find it annoying to hear people rant + rave about music i think is bad it's not gonna make me dislike the artist or the people raving necessarily) what bothers me more and solidifed my dislike of her is the continuation of the way she acted when "you need to calm down" dropped. which is to say, it's infuriating enough that her fandom has sainted her, but what's more infuriating to me is the she seems inclined to play into that sainthood.

she often leans in to portraying herself as either a victim of misogyny or a #girlboss feminist. and like--this isn't to say taylor swift hasn't experienced misogyny, or that she shouldn't talk about those experiences, or that rich white women are exempt from sexism. but her feminist consciousness seems to begin and end with her own personal experiences of sexism, with no effort at a deeper political engagement made. she flies her private jet around and poisons the environment and when people try to call her out for it she sits back and lets her fans accuse anyone that criticizes her of being sexist. in fact, it seems that any criticism of her is met with accusations of sexism, which is an infuriating obfuscation.

at the end of the day, her politics such that i have seen are incredibly liberal and toothless, and her feminism seems largely focused on making herself more money ("the man" being about "getting ahead" faster, the whole thing with that one guy owning her masters centering around a dispute over property + who gets to make money, etc). she is a capitalist first and foremost, and because of that her feminisn kind of sucks, so i hate seeing people treat her as a Feminist Figure. i also think the gaylor thing is sooooo stupid and annoying and reinforces the concept of identity first and foremost as a discrete ontological category rather than something socially constructed + materially rooted. like the idea that taylor has some mystical gay Essence inside her that exists regardless of how straight her music + lifestyle is, the makes her Queer--sorry but give me a fucking break lol. i don't give a shit if she kisses other girls, taylor swift is not a Queer Icon, and i don't understand why people desperately scrabble to find proof that she is when there are already plenty of openly gay pop singers!

in conclusion taylor swift is the epitome of #girlboss liberal feminism to me and her supposedly genius music being aggressively mediocre is just the icing on the cake lol

[vampiricbisexuality]

I should be allowed to call you GAY for whoever this girl is

No!!!!!!!

I’m not gay for Lee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not at all!!!!!!!!

[miseria-fortes-viros]

rb this and tell me the best lyric of all time

[dacuslucy]

amelie fun fact i don’t even have taylor swift blocked i just scroll

THIS IS SO FUNNY you still count but ik i have mutuals that really dont like her/have it blocked

[cottoncandywhispers]

@seals-are-cool has made me this drawing and it IS SO REAL (I'm the one in pink, in case anyone doubted it)

[milf-harrington]

i love that my mum always tries to change the radio for me whenever that anti-hero taylor swift song comes on because it drives me fucking insane

[permanentreverie]

evermore and red tv for the ask game!

Evermore:

my favourite lyric: 'I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones, in a faith forgotten land, in from the snow, your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand' /

my favourite song: gold rush / marjorie / long story short

the song that makes me cry: evermore / tolerate it

the song that’s a fucking bop: ivy / no body no crime

the song i most dislike/least love: dorothea / cowboy like me

Red (Taylor's Version):

my favourite lyric: 'and did the twin flame bruise paint you blue, just between us did the love affair maim you too?' /

my favourite song: treacherous / holy ground

the song that makes me cry: run

the song that’s a fucking bop: message in a bottle / the very first night / 22

the song i most dislike/least love: I bet you think about me / come back be here

send me an album and I'll tell you!

[sleepless-crows]

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[talkurtalk]

heyitsmebee -> talkurtalk

okay folks its official.... I've changed my url!! 🫡

got good feedback from y’all so thanks for helping an indecisive bitch make a decision <3 It feels SO WEIRD to have a different url, but I really like this one. new haircut syndrome I guess lol

I’ll be releasing all the others I had grabbed for consideration, so if anyone wants thisluvspiral, crimsonclover-uh-huh, thatsarealfinglegacy, somethinginthehaze, beenbetrayed, or burgandyscarletmaroon from my poll... go for it lol!

[jakeperalta]

after like three years of going "ugh I need to get out the taylor fandom it's doing my head in" I've somehow finally managed it.... these days I see annoying fandom stuff and instead of it bothering me I can just go "I don't have to care about that" and scroll on....... freedom