#IM NOT EVEN A COUNTRY FAN

[quirkylilcumlord]

“i’ll listen to everything except country” WHAT ABOUT TRACY CHAPMAN HUH???? WHAT ABOUT STUD ICON TRACY CHAPMAN!!!

[sigsfigs]

wips, will delete when i feel like it

[wammypilled]

Mello and Misa on a one mofu open sleigh, the bimbo sleigh if you will

[blusical]

like, i know i complain about hockey fans being picky about wanting "personality" in the NHL, but also if the national fucking anthem is the only good music performance over the *actual* band/artist performances... then yeah you might have a problem when it comes to appealing with audiences.

[mellohiizz]

Hey so how you feeling about Reddoons being banned pookie

if you're talking about the recent lifesteal events, i tuned it to princezam's stream for like half an hour because i barely watch streams, but i want to know at least some lore, and zam's arc is the most interesting to me right now. honestly, idk if i really have thoughts on it. i started watching like 10 or 15 minutes before it happened and was like "oh damn people are dying typical lifesteal". i was more upset about leo, tbh. bro didn't deserve that.

[hey-heigo]

every shuro/toshiro hater who claims that toshiro loves falin for the same traits he hates in laios should venmo me 200 dollars immediately

[skitskatdacat63]

Its so crazy when you play a game in dub(or watch smth ig) and you listen to the other ones(in this case, the intended language) and its like HUHHHH!?!?! My boy does NOT sound like that !!!

[allylikethecat]

Omg, also a TS fan since debut and I massively took a step back from her personally prior to the reputation era because of her antics and victim complex. The music will always mean so so much to me, her lyrics mean so much to me, but her actions as a person and TS™️ as an entity is just weird and greedy. I think she accrued a lot of fans when she disappeared for a while who've completely constructed a narrative in their heads of who she is and they believe it and are eating up this current era, but those who've been here a long time know how PR and image driven it is. Exhausting.

I apologize in advance I have been having way too many feelings about this whole situation and how it relates to my identity as a 28 year old woman and you are about to get an oversharing novel in response lol

Also, I guess CW: this post is about Taylor Swift and if anyone sends me any kind of hate or whatnot related to my own personal opinions and feelings I will be deleting it because I am NOT playing that game.

My Aunt bought me the Debut album CD at a concert after seeing her open for Rascal Flatts. She was like "I thought that you would like her!" and she was RIGHT Taylor Swift became my entire personality. One of my FAVORITE core memories as a child was the day Fearless came out. For some reason we didn't have school, and my Mom and I watched Taylor on the Ellen show, and then we went to Target and bought the physical CD, we then drove around town so we could listen to it together. My mom hasn't been well and that is one of my favorite memories of us together. It's silly but when you're in middle school that kind of thing is important to you. Then in high school I actually got MADE FUN OF for wearing Taylor merch and being excited about Red. BUT I loved her music and felt like she actually stood for something, so I brushed it off and continued to be a HUGE Swiftie. I had the Taylor Swift dolls, I had the perfumes, I had the LOVE LOVE LOVE bracelet, I had the sundresses from WALMART. I saw her on the Fearless and 1989 tours, I had the fucking 1989 haircut. I was supposed to go to Loverfest.

I was still a HUGE Swiftie during the post 1989-pre Reputation eras, then the Reputation era. I'm a few years younger than her, but I felt like I could relate to the kind of manic panic that she was sharing with us (lol turns out I was just unmedicated and we're doing much better now). It felt (in my probably naive mind) like she was experiencing the same insecurities that I was and reacting accordingly. Was she playing the victim at times? Oh 100% BUT I also fully believe that she thought she was one. (Plus... Kim is my least favorite Kardashian lol)

I LOVED the Lover era even as it was shit on at the for the sunshine rainbow hyper colorful aesthetic. Like, I don't know if new fans realize but when Lover was released? It was NOT as beloved as it is now. Then Folklore and Evermore were absolute genius, it felt like Taylor had grown up, and she got all of these new fans, which was great! She was in an "adult" relationship and her music and publicity choices seemed to reflect that. It was so refreshing to see a celebrity keeping their personal life, personal, and sharing what they wanted to share through music. Midnights broke all kinds of records, again, amazing! Even if it wasn't as strong as say Folklore. I fought for my life and got Eras Tour tickets (opening weekend!!) I had the BEST TIME EVER.

Taylor has always been extremely calculated with her public image. She was over exposed during The 1989 era and the public turned on her, so I truly cannot figure out why she is doing it again 100x in this new era of whatever the fuck this is. I don't know her, maybe she is legitimately happy, or maybe this is a cry for help. But I have been so grossed out by her behavior lately, and how in your face everything is with Kelce. It's no secret that I hate Kelce (and people that know me IRL know that it's not a new Taylor related thing lol) and if she actually loves him, fine, that's great for her, BUT we don't need to see it! Yes she was public when she was dating Calvin but ALSO she was what 25-26? She's a 34 year old woman now with the biggest platform of any celebrity ever. She feels too old (and this is not me age shaming her because I would be grossed out if my friends were doing it, and I would be embarrassed if *I* were to ever do it) to be licking a man's face in public like this. This feels like sorority girl in her first college relationship (I was *in* a sorority for a hot second so this isn't hate on sorority girls either!) and not record breaking Grammy award winning artist. ALSO I feel like she used to come across as so articulate and well spoken? Controversial opinion but I thought she sounded like a fucking idiot in that Time Person of the Year piece.

I think that this whole thing is PR for something, but because it just feels too icky to be real, but I don't know what it's PR for, (trying to bury the Matty situation from May? Because if so that just makes me even more sad for him or trying to get back at Joe? Which if that's the case, I feel bad for him too and she's even more immature than I thought) and now, for the first time, AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS I'm embarrassed to be a fan of her, both because of her own actions and also the actions of her fanbase as a whole.

It feels really weird, and I know I'm being parasocial about it, but when the times got bad I always had her music to fall back on and now I just, I don't know it feels cheapened somehow because the current image that's being crafted doesn't match the one that we originally fell for. And you know what, people change, she's a celebrity, I don't know her, what she does DOES NOT affect me any way, and how I feel does not AFFECT HER in the slightest, and I know it's being parasocial but I feel like a big part of me is in mourning about it. Less because of her changing her image so drastically, and more so because I feel like I'm mourning the loss of childhood and joy that used to be associated with her music for me and I think that's what's making me the most sad.

I have Eras tour tickets for one of the London dates this summer. I'm probably going to still go, because I paid for them, and I also have tickets to see Noah Kahan that same week in London (... and also the Longines tour has ALSO decided that the London stop is that week...) But I don't consider myself a "big fan" anymore. Maybe I will be one day again, but this current image that she's putting out just isn't it for me.

Sorry for the longest Taylor related novel in existence, I have had a lot of bottled up feelings about this that feel ridiculous typing out and sharing out loud BUT I know I will feel better sending them into the interwebs and your ask was the perfect catalyst.

Thank you so much for sending this in and for your continued support! I hope you continue to enjoy my fics and my secret sports hot takes 😂

❤️Ally

[oathofkaslana]

im the first person to criticize the way mhy deals w queerness (ive made multiple posts on how i find the sexualizaton of the minors and the sexualization of lesbianism gross) but i neeeeeed white queers to understand that at the end of the day mhy is not homophobic like yeah no shit theyve done fucked up shit but acting like all of their wlw things have been queerbait is inaccurate. people who say this dont know shit abt hi3. you havent even played the fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bc if you did you would understand that the queer relationships in hi3's main game are written w so much respect and clearly valued by the writers. they're serious about it! like. parts from the game i dont see mentioned a lot:

they have an ongoing leitmotif related to happy moments and reunions and in kiana and mei's reunion in chapter 32, they composed a backtrack specifically for it w that leitmotif! its also the only official ost w that leitmotif that they released! and they titled it "i'm back, kiana"

kiana and mei have a moment in ch 32 where they both confess and reinforce that they are the most important and beautiful parts of the world to the other.

i have my gripes w azure waters and the way it portrays sex and sa but the bronseele kiss was always portrayed as something innocent and serious. its not treated as a joke nor is it fetishized and it means infinitely more to the characters than to straight audiences (it literally being a part of their promise which motivates bronya and seele to survive throughout the time theyre apart.)

[supermysteriouscat]

I got hatecrimed at an event called ‘rhinestone rodeo hoedown’, which first of all that should be a gay event i mean look at that name, but second of all its been a few hours now and all i feel is indignant. Like, that is my space. I am the country fan. What are you doing making me feel unwelcome at an event called rhinestone rodeo hoedown??

[actual-corpse]

Im so tired of Nothingburger music!!!

[myfaveisfuckable]

you got me thinking of Mulan(the twink of a woman) insisting on carrying Mirko(buff fem, to me) bridle style whenever the opportunity arises. You did this to me.

They throw each other around like sacks of potatoes

I think Mirko picks up her girl boyfriend Mulan just bc she can and it's funny

Mulan does it bc she has a point to prove. Her girlfriend may be all dense muscle but her love is stronger than gravity! And she does pushups! Basically, she's stubborn. More stubborn than gravity!

[wnjunhui]

giving THE svt venues of 18-22k capacity for a US tour is insane and kinda insulting

[allofuswantgwinam]

i don’t really get the world. there’s a whole group of people getting murdered and I see more people mad about Beyoncé’s country album. make it make sense. is this really where we’re at? y’all mad at Beyoncé’s country music but not mad about a fucking genocide. right. go off ig

[swdgf]

certain qidian authors shld start a side hustle writing dnmei actually 🙂‍↕️

[vampylily]

it really is so curious bc there's like half a dozen korean fan accounts on twitter absolutely /furious/ about the official idkhow announcement, demanding answers and saying that dallon is letting people cyberbully ryan (which at least okay, what they're criticizing is the lack of clarification from official channels earlier when it all blew up. which, if it was all false allegations, then people would have been nasty towards ryan for nothing. but then, theres going to be legal issues so it makes sense why he didnt clarify anything sooner) and dallon & company being childish, etc.

i was idly searching bc it looks like those fanaccs has been fans of idkhow longer than I have so maybe I'm missing something; it's always interesting to see different fan perception and information varying on site (twt vs tumblr vs insta) and language/culture (larger english fandoms vs smaller groups in different countries), etc.

the main point of contention seems to be how people around dallon has responded online? like his wife/mother in law and all that, and arguing that dallon & company are the ones bullying/being unfair towards ryan, asking for specifics on why he's kicked out (confirm the money stealing rumour) and how it puts a sour taste in their mouths. and fair, in a better world where social media doesn't exist and information (whether real or not) doesn't spread this quickly, it would be nice to get succinct information from the band w/o unconfirmed rumors. the stuff about his mother in law, while a bit unprofessional, isn't really a grave sin and should be taken with a grain of salt anyways.

if they are simply ryan fans, at this point, there's nothing really to argue about. they're unlikely to believe anything dallon/idkhow announce and going to support ryan. they were like "well I don't want to see dallon's one man show" and if so, they aren't gonna tune in again. as fans, it makes sense people find it hard to believe it/want to believe the best as a fan.

(but then one of them was like "well r*nnie was all supportive towards ryan and gifted him a car, etc while dallon only said he supported ryan and did nothing" and the second I read that, all their credibility went out the window. r*nnie r*dke. are we being serious rn. also that mf is running his mouth rn so fuck that dude.)

it turned out to be more polarizing than i expected so 🙃