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[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

can we play laptops? in the meadow

[biancatstella]

Good Times~ ꜝꜝ 🔹 I made these illustrations in a new record time!! (2 hours)

[fix-me-sixteen]

this country is a fucking embarrassment

[ybep]

they're all fucking. all the dudes in all male rock bands. they're all fucking and sucking and fingering each other.

[monkiekidtwt]

[muffinmoonn]

[doomdoomofdoom]

thought some of you guys might enjoy this contemporary art piece by reddit user u/Old_Lengthiness3898 Portrait of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, made entirely out of "DENIED" stamps.

[surfindead]

cant have SHIT in pennsylvania

[thelaststarship]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

get my pussy up.....get my money up...... (chanting) (barren stone temple) (voice reverberating) get my pussy up...... (cobweb sounds) (crumbling support beams) (emptiness) get my money up.....

[kaerynn]

honest opinion green doesn't deserve anything . ever

[fix-me-sixteen]

”i can’t believe [writer] revealed [plot twist] and acted like it was this huge reveal as if half the fandom hadn’t already guessed it” the fact that half the fandom guessed it doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s a huge reveal. for it to be canon in the story, it has to be like. written. into the actual story. and if the implications of the plot twist are huge, then that’s going to be something the writer needs to acknowledge and work through???? you guessing the plot twist doesn’t mean it’s not as huge, it just means the foreshadowing was good

[agender-mr-burns]

[skunkes]

[spade-riddles]

I think she’d go that far for repTV because that album to me is more performance metaphor than performance art. It challenged people to work to define the concept/purpose of it and it’s her greatest example of plausible deniability.

It’s also why reputation is a great album, but was snubbed at the Grammys—because the people who vote on the Grammys (for example) weren't given the answers to their questions about it beforehand. They didn't get it.

Look at this scenario:

The world’s biggest pop star announces she’s taking a break, but is instead bullied into hiding for a year. She comes back with a new album built around a theme of secrecy and says “there will be no explanation, just reputation.”

People didn't know how to take the album because it wasn’t a typical Taylor Swift album. She didn't really do any interviews about it, but she did tell people that any preconceived notions they had would be wrong (aka, the slideshows of men).

The theme of a “secret relationship” and how it made people question things:

Who was she in this secret relationship with?

Who is Joe Alwyn?

Where had she been for the past year?

Why wasn’t Karlie Kloss on the t-shirt?

What happened between she and Karlie Kloss? Are they still friends? Why did they fall out?

The way she portrayed a falling out with Karlie was the basis of the “secret relationship”. Because all she did was leave Karlie’s name off of a t-shirt and neither of them have spoken much about their relationship since. Karlie denied there was a rift. She showed up at the rep tour (where she posed for pictures backstage WITH Taylor) and the eras tour (where we all saw how Taylor was reacting and that she could spot her from the stage)

Taylor took one person’s negative perception which had been adopted by millions and embraced it as a rebirth. Because when snakes shed their skin, it’s a fresh start. When she fully shed her skin, we got lover, then folklore, evermore, midnights, TTPD. Albums with lyrics that are more open and vulnerable than her previous ones (for example, chase two girls, lose the 1).

The gradual leaning into being somewhat more comfortable in her new skin:

Rep: the rainbow dress in “end game”, using the caption “out now” when rep was released.

Lover: that whole aesthetic. The “Me!” video. False God.

Folklore: The 1, Betty, Seven(being used on the show Heartstopper after the creative team sent letters to Taylor and her team telling them how important it was for the scene and them being “very receptive” 😏).

Evermore: Ivy and letting it be used on Dickinson during a love scene between two lead female characters

Midnights: Maroon

Which all goes back to the performance metaphor of repTV, because her newly-assigned reputation is why she disappeared, but its also why she so wondrously and brutally by design or some violent, exquisite happenstance arrived here.

So given all that's going on as of late, maybe since she has embraced being a snake since 2016/2017, she's once again trying to shed her skin for another fresh start, but not in the environment she's currently placed herself in.

Excellent post, anon.