#IF CLARITYS IN DEATH THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE

[supesideblog]

Do Taylor Swift lyrics ever leave you like: HE DID WHAT 😦👺🖕🏻

[ofbetterbodies]

Going to watch the wcs performance and feel like shit not being there

[bratspike]

my toxic trait is turning would’ve could’ve should’ve into a love song

[burytheminflorida]

i hadnt listened to wouldve couldve shouldve in sooo long until today so that mashup really just tore me limb from limb

[strawbbfluff]

IF CLARITYS IN DEATH THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE?? YEARS OF TEARING DOWN OUR BANNERS, YOU AND I!!!!! LIVING FOR THE THRILL OF HITTING YOU WHERE IT HURTS! GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD, IT WAS MINE FIRSTTTTTT 😭😭😭

[tortured-swifties-cardigans]

IF CLARITY’S IN DEATH THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE

[virtualtoybox]

okay wait i have another question…so spencer is a clone but she was born a baby and grew up yes? what was it like for shelby to have to experience childhood through spencer?

also wait separate question just about simon and the intent behind cloning…cause he doesn’t know shelby’s soul is in there yes? and he didn’t name her shelby so it’s not like he wanted her to be exactly like shelby like what was he aiming for? what was his whole deal….

OKAY SO THAT INTERESTING ACTUALLY SO shelby and spencer and both trans girls- shelbys deadname is spencer. so simons intention wasnt exactly to raise the exact same daughter, but moreso to raise his daughter right this time. he wanted to be a good father to the clone and be there for them in a way he wasdnt for shelby. so when spencer lived past infancy is when he named her spencer- he wanted her to chose the name shelby in her own time. but the thing is spencer is raised very differenly than shelby- and ultimately does not think of spencer as a deadname while still being a trans girl. so when spencer comes out to him he expects to hear a name change that he never gets and its kind of a moment of clarity for him of like. spencer really is her own girl. because up until then spencer had really been hitting the same milestones at the same times and keeping up with shelby a great deal, so when spencer stood firm that she wanted to keep her name, simon was kind of like . huh. hm. and it was this epiphany of my first born daughter is dead forever,,, but i have a beautiful second born daughter who is alive and lovely and has her own wants and needs and intends to care for them until she reaches shelbys last year and he will hold her hand through death. (only it has been. a solid ten years past that.... he has no idea how shes still alive) that being said watching spencers childhood through her head is like. shelby is in hell. she was 12 and hated her life and her parents and she hate hate hates seeing spencer love her life and love her dad and quite frankly from day she was sending psychic ray blasts of DIEEE I HATE YOU WHY WONT YOU DIE ALREADYYYYY that at best give spencer terrible migraines .

[dorotheado]

IF CLARITY'S IN DEATH THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE YEARS OF TEARING DOWN OUR BANNERS YOU AND IIIII LIVING FOR THE THRILL OF HITTING YOU WHERE IT HURTTTTSSSS GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD IT WAS MINE FIIIIIIRSTTTTTT SO YEAH ITS A FIRE ITS A GODDAMN BLAZE IN THE DARK AND YOU STARTED IT!

[youareinlove]

GOD REST MY SOUL I MISS WHO I USED TO BE THE TOMB WONT CLOSE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS IN MY MIND I REGRET YOU ALL THE TIME I CANT LET THIS GO I FIGHT WITH YOU IN MY SLEEP THE TOMB WONT CLOSE I KEEP ON WAITING FOR A SIGN I REGRET YOU ALL THE TIME IF CLARITY'S IN DEATH THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE YEARS OF TEARING DOWN OUR BANNERS YOU AND I LIVING FOR THE THRILL OF HITTING YOU WHERE IT HURTS GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD

IT

WAS

MINE

FIRST!!!!!

[clownycat]

in honor of the sab season 2 trailer, heres malina and darklina as a taylor swift song each

Malina

Message In A Bottle

/And I became hypnotized/By freckles and bright eyes/Tongue tied/

thats so alina to mal in the beginning when they're stationed at the fold <3

/But now/You're so far away and I'm down/Feelin' like a face in the crowd/I'm reachin' for you/terrified/

mal when alina gets taken to the little palace

/Message in a bottle is all I can do/ Standin' here/ hopin' it gets to you/

mal and alina writing letters to each other, just hoping the other will get them😭💔

/You could be the one that I keep, and I/

lil ol over protective mal 😒

/Could be the reason you can't sleep at night/

alina not being able to sleep bc shes thinking of mal </3

/These days I'm restless/Work days are endless/

could be alina, learning at the little palace, or mal, tracking the stag

/How is it in London? (London)/Where are you while I'm wonderin' (wonderin')/If I'll ever see you again?/

both of them to each other<33

Darklina

Would've, Could've, Should've

/If you tasted poison, you could've/Spit me out at the first chance/

if the darkling had known how much alina would fight back, would he have manipulated her from the start? i think not

/If I was some paint, did it splatter/On a promising grown man?/

the grisha that think alina got in the way of the darkling (ugh)🙄

/And if I was a child, did it matter/If you got to wash your hands?/

AND! HE! GOT! AWAY! WITH! IT!!!!!

/And I damn sure never would've danced with the devil,/At nineteen/

darkling = devil (also john mayor). also also, SHE WAS ONLY 17!!

/And the God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven/

and GODDAMIT SHE STILL FEELS LIKE HE FILLS A HOLE IN HER

/If I never blushed, then they could've/Never whispered about this/

the rumors at the little palace😒

/But, Lord, you made me feel important"

THIS!!! alina was an orphan, her entire life she felt unimportant, AND HE USED THAT.

/God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be/

look, i didnt want to be a halfblood grisha

/I regret you all the time/

do i really need to explain?

/The wound won't close/

the darkling just wont leave her alone man

/If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?/

same as above ^

/Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts/Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first/

GIVE ALINA BACK HER GIRLHOOD!!!!

*its also good to note all the religious themes throughout the song, and with people seeing alina as a saint

[standardlovers]

from "your hands are tough but theyre where mine belong" to "if clarity's in death then why wont this die"

[bpdmemequeen]

Okay but the way ms. Taylor Swift manages to completely embody the feeling of being an adult who was groomed as a child by saying: “God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be The tomb won't close” and “I can't let this go, I fight with you in my sleep The wound won't close” and “If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?” And tops it off with “Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first”

The way she repeats WONT CLOSE just describes to the core the feeling of thinking you’re healed from something you experienced so long ago, only until a nightmare comes back from no where, simply just the fear that forever lives in your body and shows up unexpectedly in waves of repressed memories because of something that happened at such a fundamental age …. 🙃 just saying she’s practically begging for the feeling to go away asking why won’t it dIE ALREADY and that’s something some of us know - all too well 🥲

Anyway Taylor Swift is a lyrical genius and the way she writes scratches an itch inside me no one else can ❤️

[nigft]

IF CLARITYS IN DEATH WHY WONT THIS DIE

[sunflowervolum-6]

Does anyone know why if clarity's in death then why wont this die?

[darkregionroad]

oh god, rest my soul

i miss who i use to be, the tomb wont close

stained glass windows in my mind, i regret you all the time.

i cant let this go, i fight with you in my sleep

the wound wont close, i keep on waiting for a sign,

i regret you all the time.

if clarity’s in death, then why wont this die?

years of tearing down our banners,

you and i.

living for the thrill of hitting YOU WHERE IT HURTS

GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD, IT WAS MINE FIRST.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

IF CLARITY IS DEATH (THEN WHY WONT THIS DIE?)

by collectiveworld101

In a world in which Tim Drake never became Robin and he instead went to college. he was alright for a while; his parents died, he started becoming more active in the media and he even willingly started attending galas.

everything changes when he gets kidnapped by the East End Dragons to pay for his father’s crimes.

or,

the au that no one asked for that’s heavily based off of iron man

Words: 2071, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M, Gen, M/M

Characters: Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd, east side dragons, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain

Relationships: Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Tim Drake-centric, Tim Drake Needs a Break, implied eating disorder, Tim Drake is Not Robin, Bernard Dowd Has ADHD, Stoner Tim Drake, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, For a Friend, Mentioned violence, Tim Drake Has a Bad Time, and a good time, Slow Burn, Found Family, playboy tim drake, (he gets better i swear it’s his arc), not tim drake slander, not on bernard, he does NOT cheat on bernard, Friends to Lovers

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46840945