#Lily Haime

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Les choix nous font, les décisions nous forgent, les épreuves nous endurcissent, les bonheurs nous réalisent.

Clair Obscur, Lily Haime

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Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater attend the 76th Annual Tony Awards - 11th June 2023

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CRYING SOBBING SCREAMINF I FORGOT TO POST THESE ON THMBLR BUT AHHHHHHHU

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~Why Glitter Force is Problematic~

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In case you don’t know what Glitter Force is, it’s the English dub of the anime Smile Pretty Cure; the 9th season of the Pretty Cure franchise. It was produced by Saban, and released on Netflix in 2015.

Not long later, they made another dub. Only this time, with the season DokiDoki! Pretty Cure, which they changed to Glitter Force Doki Doki.

Instead of keeping everything the same, Glitter Force changed way more than necessary, making it racist and implied to be homophobic.

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First off, I just wanna point out that Saban was a problematic company. They were criticized for their questionable, race-related choices when it came to casting for Power Rangers(the whitewashed version on Super Sentai). They also harassed one of the actors David Yost, for his sexual orientation so much, that he left the show. Lastly, the president of the company, Haim Saban, supports Israel. So Saban is not a good company.

With that out of the way, let’s get into the changes.

~1. Name Changes~

Saban decided to remove all Japanese culture from Smile and DokiDoki! Pretty Cure; whitewashing it. They renamed almost everything, even things that didn’t need to be.

Smile Pretty Cure Name Changes:

Miyuki Hoshizora/Cure Happy - Emily/Glitter Lucky(Glitter Pink in some dubs)

Akane Hino/Cure Sunny - Kelsey/Glitter Sunny(Glitter Orange in some dubs)

Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace - Lily/Glitter Peace(Glitter Yellow in some dubs)

Nao Midorikawa/Cure March - April/Glitter Spring(Glitter Green in some dubs)

Reika Aoki/Cure Beauty - Chloe/Glitter Breeze(Glitter Blue in some dubs)

King Pierrot - Emperor Nogo

Joker - Rascal

Wolfrun - Ulric

Akaoni - Brute(was also changed from a demon to a troll)

Majorina - Brooha

Akanbe - Buffoon

Cure Decor - Glitter Charm

Smile Pact - Glitter Pact

Decor Décor - Charm Chest

Princess Candle - Princess Wand

Märchenland - Jubiland

Bad End Kingdom - Shadow Realm

Nanairogaoka Middle School - Rainbow Hills Middle School

Candy and Pop’s names were kept, I’m assuming because they were already English.

DokiDoki! Pretty Cure Changes:

Mana Aida/Cure Heart - Maya Aida/Glitter Heart

Rikka Hishikawa/Cure Diamond - Rachel/Glitter Diamond

Alice Yotsuba/Cure Rosetta - Clara Yotsuba/Glitter Clover(this one makes no sense to me)

Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword - Makenzie Mack/Glitter Spade

Aguri Madoka/Cure Ace - Natalie Miller/Glitter Ace

Joe Okada - Johnny

Princess Marie Ange - Princess Marie Angelica

Ai - Dina

Sharuru - Kippie

Raquel - Rory

Dabyi - Davi

Jikochuu - Distain

Leva - Riva

Gula - Gura

King Jikochuu - King Mercenare

Lovely Commune - Glitter Pad

Cure Lovead - Glitter Charm

Love Heart Arrow - Glitter Heart Arrow

Magical Lovely Pad - Glitter Crystal Pad

Oogai Town - Seashell Bay

Oogai Middle School - Seashell Bay Middle School

Trump Kingdom - Splendorious

These aren’t even all the changes. They changed all the names of the attacks as well.

~2. Cut Episodes~

(There are more that are included in different sections)

Again, Saban wanted no Japanese culture in the dub. So any episodes that contained too much Japanese culture were cut. Some were cut for other reasons. In total, Glitter Force cut 8 episodes. 13 full episodes were cut in Doki Doki, while some were stitched together in other episodes. In total, there are 19 less episodes in Glitter Force Doki Doki.

Here are the sources I used for guidance!:

Glitter Force, Glitter Force Doki Doki

Glitter Force:

• Episode 10: It centers around Akane’s family restaurant, which serves okonomiyaki, a Japanese food. This food appeared once or twice in Glitter Force, but they referred to it as “Japanese pizza”. This isn’t even what the food is. It’s more like a savory pancake.

• Episode 17: It contains a Japanese comedy show. It also contains real life Japanese comedians. So while Saban probably would’ve cut it regardless, they most likely didn’t have the rights to use it anyway.

• Episode 26: It’s focused around a Japanese summer festival. This obviously includes Japanese food, clothes(yukatas) and games.

• Episode 26: It takes place at Miyuki’s grandmother’s house in Japanese mountains. We see rice fields, which I guess is enough of a cultural difference. There are also yokai mentioned, which are Japanese monsters/ghosts.

• Episode 33: This episode takes place on the set of a Japanese edo-period drama. Obviously, this has tons of Japanese culture.

• Episode 34: It’s about the Cultural Festival at the characters’ school. Cultural Festivals are not a thing in America. It also includes characters from Japanese fairy tales.

• Episode 36: Akane is assigned the task of showing an English exchange student around the school. She teaches him Japanese, and shows him the culture.

There were episodes with Japanese culture that stayed in the Glitter Force. And some of those were episodes 13 and 14(episodes 12 and 13 in Glitter Force) where the girls go on a field trip to Kyoto and Osaka. Although, in Glitter Force, they call it the “Asia Pacific Expo”. Now Saban, I don’t know if you know this, but Asia is a continent with many countries. And each one has its own unique culture. So you should’ve just called it the “Japanese Expo”.

They also kept episode 21(episode 18 in Glitter Force), which is about Tanabata, a Japanese festival. Probably the only reason they kept this in was because it contained a very important plot point. Although, important plot points didn’t stop them from cutting episodes in Doki Doki.

The way they treated the holiday in Glitter Force was pretty normal. They did rename the festival from Tanabata to the Star Festival. But besides that, they pretty much portrayed what the holiday is about accurately. They even explained the story behind it correctly(I believe. I’m white, so please correct me if I’m wrong). As a kid, I wasn’t confused at all. Sure, it was a holiday I’d never heard of, but it was explained, so I was fine. So this proves even further that keeping the rest of the Japanese culture would’ve been perfectly fine. So cutting it really wasn’t necessary.

Lastly, I just want to point out how in episode 2 of Glitter Force(whether intentionally or not), they basically poked fun at the traditional Japanese greeting. In Smile Pretty Cure, Miyuki hows Candy how they greet people, which is by bowing. However, in Glitter Force, it’s Candy showing Emily how the pixies in Jubiland, the weird fantasy world, greet each other. While doing so, they say “Hello, my friend! I am happy to see you!” in silly voices. The way this is done and said implies that what they’re doing is funny and weird. So they turned a normal thing to do in Japan into that…

Glitter Force Doki Doki:

• Episodes 12 and 41 were cut for seemingly no reason. At least, not for any I could find.

• Episode 14: Includes Karuta, which is a Japanese card game.

• Episode 19: Not sure why this was cut, but a section of it was used in episode 14 of Glitter Force Doki Doki,“Royal Crystal Chaos”. Saban liked to combine episodes together.

• Episode 28: It’s about a Japanese summer festival. We’ve been over this previously.

• Episode 29: The characters are preparing for their school’s Cultural Festival. It also shows the fairies turning into humans. So more episodes had to be cut because of that.

• Episode 32: The actual Cultural Festival.

• Episode 33: The only reason I can think of why this was removed, was because it talks about Alice being a sickly child in the past. It’s a shame it was cut though, because it includes the story of how Alice became friends with Mana and Rikka.

• Episodes 34, 35, 37 and 38: Ai’s character arc. No idea why Saban wanted to cut it, but they did.

• Episode 36: Ai’s character arc, and it includes Raquel as a human, which was only previously featured in an episode that was cut. So it wouldn’t make sense to keep it.

• Episode 40: Includes a full singing performance by Makoto. Saban most likely cut it because they were lazy, and didn’t want to write a whole new song.

• Episode 42: Includes the fairies as humans. Again, with no context as to how they gained this ability, it would’ve been confusing.

~3. Toned Down/Removed Emotional Scenes/Episodes~

For some reason, Saban decided that children can’t handle anything too emotional. So any scene or episode that seemed “too much” to them was toned down or cut completely.

Examples:

• In episode 42(34 in Glitter Force) Cure March’s siblings are caught up in the middle of a battle. A big attack heads towards them, and March isn’t able to stop it in time. The attack hits, and a big cloud of dust envelops the children. Luckily, when the cloud clears, it’s revealed that the other Cures stopped the attack, saving the kids. In Smile Pretty Cure, there’s silence leading up to the reveal, making the viewers believe that the children are seriously injured, or worse. However, in Glitter Force, we hear the kids talking before the dust clears, saying “Hey, we’re okay!”. This ruins the suspense and emotion of the scene.

Shortly after, all March’s sibling run to her, hugging her. They’re all crying, and share a happy, emotional moment together. In Glitter Force, however, this moment is once again ruined by dialogue. The littlest brother asks why everyone is so sad, and a sister tells him that they’re not, and that they’re crying because they’re happy. That was completely unnecessary. And frankly, I think kids could tell that they were happy tears.

• There was episode about Yayoi that was cut, which was episode 19. In it, it reveals that her father had passed away when she was young, and that she desperately wants to remember him. Though being young when he passed, she can’t remember that much, making her upset. Her father’s death is never shown, and it’s never said how he died. Glitter Force cut this episode out, because heaven forbid death be mentioned. Even though characters die in basically every Disney movie, and it’s fine. I think this episode is important, because it could be relatable for children who’ve lost family members of their own. It could even give them a sense of comfort. So Saban cutting it out is just really stupid.

Added after @glittercakes mentioned it

(Thanks for letting me know about this!)

• In the final episode, Candy has to go back to her homeland, so she says goodbye to the girls. Candy is crying a lot, but the girls just smile, letting her know that it’s okay. When Candy’s gone, the girls break down, finally allowing themselves to cry. It’s a very sad moment, which makes the reunion even better. But in Glitter Force, the girls stay smiling the entire time, even after Candy leaves. Emily even goes as far as to call her dramatic.

All these changes paint the picture that kids are too sensitive, and should only watch things that are happy 100% of the time. This is just ridiculous to me. Having emotions other than happiness in children’s shows is important, because it teaches them that it’s okay to be upset or sad. Having everything happy all the time, even when it shouldn’t be, teaches unhealthy lessons to children, like “it’s not okay to cry”. That’s what toxic positivity is, and it is not a good thing.

• This last point isn’t specifically about cutting emotional scenes, but I thought it was important to add. Smile Pretty Cure includes many life lessons in their episodes. These are obviously meant to teach children how to be better and kinder in life. However, in Glitter Force, they often twist the lessons to make them into funny cartoon shenanigans. I don’t see the point in doing this at all. Including life lessons in children’s media is genuinely useful and important. Taking out the whole point of the episode leaves no value in it.

~4. Homophobia~

There are a few, minor details that were completely unnecessary for Saban to edit out, which gives the impression of being homophobic.

Examples:

• In episode 39(episode 31 in Gitter Force) where the girls get transported into the fairytale “Cinderella”, Reika gets casted as the Prince, since there are no boys. In Smile Pretty Cure, Miyuki, who’s casted as Cinderella, sees her as charming. However, in Glitter Force, all their interactions and dialogue are done in a joking matter, making sure the audience knows that they don’t like each other like that. That was unnecessary, as in the original, it’s never implied that they shared romantic interest. They were just following the story. In another scene, Reika catches Yayoi when she falls. We see Reika from Yayoi’s point of view, and there are the classic anime sparkles, insinuating that she sees her as incredibly handsome. She’s seen blushing a moment later. These tiny details were cut in Glitter Force. Because heaven forbid that a girl finds another girl handsome.

• In DokiDoki! Pretty Cure episode 10(episode 8 in Glitter Force), we really get to see Rikka and Mana’s friendship in greater detail. Rikka always makes sure that Mana is being responsible, and keeping her on top of things. Her fairy partner, Raquel, compares Rikka to being Mana’s wife. This wasn’t insinuating romantic interest. It was just comparing her traits to traits of a stereotypical wife. But of course, Glitter Force can’t have anything related to two girls being together. So they changed the comparison to Maya’s mother.

• Episode 44 of DokiDoki! Pretty Cure was cut, and there’s only one reason that I can think of as to why. Everyone is being super affectionate to Mana. Some people, including girls, even blush at her. That could imply them having a crush on Mana, I guess. And of course, to Saban, girls can’t love girls.

These changes may be minor, but that’s exactly what makes it homophobic. They were tiny scenes that weren’t made to be taken super seriously. But the idea of two girls liking each other bothered Saban so much, that they felt the need to edit them out. And the previously mentioned situation with David Yost proves that this was intentional homophobia.

~Conclusion: Stop Supporting Glitter Force~

The amount of people who still support Glitter Force really pisses me off. Like, I get if you didn’t know about Smile Pretty Cure. But there are people who know that Glitter Force is problematic and still watch it like nothing’s wrong with it. They either deny that it’s problematic, ignore it, or simply don’t care.

“But they made it easier for English kids to understand!”

I’m sure kids would’ve understood just fine if they kept the Japanese culture. Kids aren’t so sensitive, that the moment something is slightly different, they shut down. I mean, look at Disney. They explore different cultures in their movies all the time, and are still the most successful movie company in the world. Mulan and Encanto are super popular, despite the fact that they take place in and contain culture from China and Colombia. So if Glitter Force kept the characters original names and the culture, I’m sure the kids couldn’t care less. Besides, it’s important to teach kids about different cultures, so they don’t grow up to be ignorant.

The only time anime was edited this heavily was in the 90s-early 2000s. And they did it because anime was so new and strange, so they thought no one would watch it if it wasn’t more American. But Glitter Force was released in 2015. At that point in time, anime was receiving a huge rise in popularity. So Japanese culture was much more normalized and understood in the west. So all those changes were even more unnecessary.

As an American, I can say that we don’t need everything to be tailored to be like us. The very idea is just ridiculous to me. And it’s the same for every other country. Just accept things for the culture they are.

“But it was my childhood!”

It was mine too. And I understand that it can be hard to let go of something you grew up with. But the thing is: you don’t have to! You can just watch the original! Even if you don’t have a VPN, or don’t have the bravery to pirate it(which isn’t nearly as dangerous as it sounds, if you know good websites), there’s really no reason to continue watching Glitter Force. There are plenty of fandubs out there that you can watch legally, and are way more accurate than Glitter Force! Smile Pretty Cure can still give you the same sense of nostalgia as well. It did for me, at least.

Choosing to ignore, excuse or not care about problematic behavior, simply because something was your childhood is a very immature thing to do. Especially in this case, where you can just watch the original. I promise you, Smile Pretty Cure is honestly so much better!

The very last thing I want to point out is that Smile Pretty Cure was made to aid the children who suffered from the 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan. The overall theme of the show is happiness, with each Cure being named after something that makes people happy. And the anime’s title, Smile Pretty Cure, is a reminder that smiles can help you through tough times. So the fact that Glitter Force takes that meaning away is just awful.

Thank you for reading all this. I didn’t even get to go through all the changes Saban did, but I went through the most important. Let me know if this informed you in any way!

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[popgirlshowdown]

the tumblr pop girl showdown and it's the same but there's 96 more artists so it's not

ROUND 1 LINEUP

billie eilish vs naomi elizabeth: NAOMI ELIZABETH taylor swift vs nicola roberts: NICOLA ROBERTS lady gaga vs hannah diamond: LADY GAGA rihanna vs namasenda: RIHANNA sabrina carpenter vs isabella lovestory: SABRINA CARPENTER ariana grande vs nicole dollanganger: NICOLE DOLLANGANGER dua lipa vs kilo kish: DUA LIPA sza vs pussy riot: SZA shakira vs rebecca black: SHAKIRA adele vs brooke candy: ADELE lana del rey vs natalia kills/cruel youth: LANA DEL REY katy perry vs cheetah girls/3lw : THE CHEETAH GIRLS beyoncé/ destiny's child / the carters vs kelela: BEYONCÉ miley cyrus/ hannah montana vs lindsey lohan: MILEY CYRUS doja cat vs hemlocke springs: HEMLOCKE SPRINGS olivia rodrigo vs bree runway: BREE RUNWAY chappell roan vs lauren jaureggi: CHAPPELL ROAN charli xcx vs arca: CHARLI XCX camila cabello vs slayyyter: SLAYYYTER ellie goulding vs sky ferreria: SKY FERREIRIA halsey vs allie x: HALSEY britney spears vs sophie: SOPHIE madonna vs loona: MADONNA tate mcrae vs chloe x halle: CHLOE X HALLE selena gomez vs monaleo: MONALEO kesha vs japanese breakfast/michelle zauner: KESHA rosalía vs muna: ROSALÍA megan thee stallion vs shygirl: MEGAN THEE STALLION ava max vs hilary duff: HILARY DUFF anitta vs paris hilton: TIE cardi b vs janelle monae: JANELLE MONAE becky g vs fka twigs: FKA TWIGS mitski vs hayley kiyoko: MITSKI natasha bedingfield vs caroline polachek: NATASHA BEDINGFIELD christina aguilera vs rina sawavama: RINA SAWAYAMA nelly furtado vs flo: NELLY FURTADO jennifer lopez vs björk: BJÖRK raye vs rico nasty: RICO NASTY mariah carey vs solange: MARIAH CAREY avril lavigne vs tommy genesis: AVRIL LAVIGNE zara larsson vs princess nokia: PRINCESS NOKIA tini vs girls generation: GIRLS GENERATION whitney houston vs poppy: WHITNEY HOUSTON maria becerra vs ethel cain: ETHEL CAIN tyla vs fiona apple: FIONA APPLE florence welch/florence & the machine vs baby tate: FLORENCE WELCH dolly parton vs azealia banks: DOLLY PARTON gracie abrams vs robyn: ROBYN young miko vs st. vincent: ST. VINCENT kim petras vs haim: KIM PETRAS haley williams/paramore vs nessa barrett: HALEY WILLIAMS kacey musgraves vs ashniko: ASHNIKO amy whinehouse vs tatu: AMY WHINEHOUSE lorde vs donna summer: DONNA SUMMER clairo vs ayesha erotica: AYESHA EROTICA latto vs janet jackson: JANET JACKSON julieta venegas vs renee rapp: JULIETA VENEGAS beabadoobee vs addison rae: BEABADOOBEE cyndi lauper vs grimes: CYNDI LAUPER céline dion vs victoria monét: CÉLINE DION pinkpantheress vs villano antillano: PINKPANTHERESS carly rae jepson vs red velvet: CARLY RAE JEPSON kehlani vs diana ross: DIANA ROSS emilia vs aaliyah: AALIYAH gwen stefani/ no doubt vs doechii: DOECHII blackpink vs maggie rogers: BLACKPINK tinashe vs lily allen kylie minougue vs thalía madison beer vs saweetie little mix vs selena ludmilla vs marina diamandis/ marina & the diamonds tove lo vs elyanna laufey vs rita ora melanie martinez vs bad gyal aurora vs phoebe bridgers/ boygenius spice girls vs tokischa fergie vs normani willow vs cher lizzo vs flo milli kate bush vs pussycat dolls

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assigning marauders characters folkmore songs

no body no crime (feat. HAIM) - barty crouch jr

the last great american dynasty - sirius black

this is me trying - marlene mckinnon

betty - james potter

gold rush - mary macdonald

ivy - lily evans

seven - petter pettigrew

illicit affairs - evan rosier

august - regulus black

mad woman - dorcas meadowes

epiphany - pandora rosier

hoax - remus lupin

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The fact that Abigail, Lily Aldridge, Lily Donaldson, Cara, Martha and HAIM all still follow Karlie yet none of them follow Travis and Travis doesn’t follow Taylor and Karlie still follows her too makes me laugh

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On 15 January 2015 Harry and Taylor attended a Kings of Leon Party and were captured waiting to go up in the lifts by TMZ. Lily Aldridge posted a photo of Taylor in a collage, tagging her, Harry's mermaid tattoo is clearly sitting opposite her. Harry can be seen talking and joking with Taylors security, Taylor is standing with Haim. Harry and Taylor were later seen and pictured by 2 different fans at 2am at Mel's Diner. Harry tweeted "Serendipity"

@tameimpala222 post with an ask with photos of them at Mels Diner together at 2am.

TMZ link, Lily IG Link, Harry Tweet Serendipity

Special mention also for the Twitter Haylor Timeline

[heystephen]

who were the ppl she was friends w in 1989 era?

hmm, well lots of ppl.. in her own words, she was trying to fill the empty lunch tables of her past. she was spending a lot of time with karlie kloss, lily aldridge, lily donaldson, todrick hall, the haim sisters, gigi hadid, selena gomez, uzo aduba, lorde, jaime king, cara delevingne, kendall jenner, martha hunt, camila cabello, surely more im forgetting.

some of them, she’s still close with. she sent uzo a cardigan or a baby blanket in 2020 (can’t remember which) and obviously is still close with selena and the haim sisters.. then there’s others like karlie and todrick who she no longer associates with.

[ididntwanttohavetohauntyou]

On the double standards of Taylor’s love life and Swifties’ role in Taylor’s reputation

{Fair warning: this is kind of long and I actually originally wrote it during the Ratty stuff but it’s relevant now and this post from @9w1ft (specifically the tweet) made me think that maybe this needed to be really laid out there. }

Disclaimer: I am in no way claiming to know what Taylor’s sexuality is definitively, nor am I suggesting that every relationship she’s had with a man was fake, or that she is a lesbian. I myself have experienced enough bi erasure and biphobia to know better, but I had to put this out there explicitly so hetlors don’t have that as a “gotcha”.

Swifties have the lowest possible standards for whom they consider to be a boyfriend of Taylor’s.

Their standards are a) the media has to stir something up b) they have to interact distantly in some public capacity before they c) walk around together (holding hands or not).

I can give you the names so many women with whom Taylor acted like that, often for longer periods of time and with more interaction than a couple dinners and pap walks or whatever she’s done with those men. And that’s without time to go do research which would doubtlessly turn up more names.

To name some examples:

Karlie Kloss, Diana Agron, Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively, Cara Delevingne, Martha Hunt, Sophie Turner, Lorde, all three Haim sisters, Zoe Kravitz, Emma Stone, Camila Cabello, Lily Aldridge, Lily Donaldson.

(To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Taylor dated all or most of those women.)

Now, I have no doubt that if most swifties looked up photos of Taylor with a lot of those women they’d go “they aren’t even doing anything in that picture” or “they’re just walking side by side” or whatever else.

THAT’S THE POINT

I’m 1000% sure that if you photoshopped a man into basically any of those pics people would assume they’re dating because they’re walking together.

Almost all of Taylor’s supposed boyfriends have had significantly less interaction with her than those women, but people don’t hesitate to say she’s dating the men. Her team can and will deny it, but swifties will add a name to their list anyway, and that creates a whole other problem.

The sl*t shaming:

In my opinion, the sl*t shaming that Taylor has experienced for about the last 15 years has been, at least in part, because of swifties who jump to conclusions about men she’s seen with. When her own fans believe she’s dated however many guys, it’s that much easier for the media to repeat that and twist it to be negative.

If you wouldn’t look at a random guy and girl standing within a few feet of each other or walking together and come to the conclusion that they must be dating, why do you assume that about Taylor? Or, for that matter, does every person of the opposite gender that you associate with have to be your SO?

[And yes that can easily be turned around on Gaylors, but the whole point is that we aren’t solely using proximity to link potential exes or lovers to Taylor. We actually do the analysis of the lyrics, we break down the connections, we do the research.]

My point is that swifties have contributed on a large scale to Taylor’s sl*t shaming in a way that should make them think twice about who they claim she’s dating. Unfortunately as we’ve seen with this M*tty situation {and now the football guy}, they don’t seem to have the self awareness to realize how they’ve aided such a disgusting campaign of hate.

One more thing: you can say that no one will say those things now anyway because Taylor is on top of the world and they wouldn’t dare sl*t shame the Queen of Pop or “The Music Industry”. You might even be right. But if you do this and feel no guilt or shame over how your actions may have played a part in the several intense periods of sl*t shaming that Taylor has gone through previously, you need to think about why that is.

Taylor said it best in her speech at the Grammy museum in September 2015. She was introducing Blank Space and talking about the situation that made her write the song.

“In the last couple of years the media have had a really wonderful fixation on kind of painting me as like the psycho serial dater girl… It got pretty out of control there for a couple of years because… every article would be like, Taylor Swift Standing Near Some Guy. Watch Out Guy!”

That sounds insane, and it was definitely worse then than it is now, but the fact that it’s happening right now at all is ridiculous. Swifties need to stop helping the media tie Taylor’s name to men as if that makes her relevant. She’s a highly awarded singer, songwriter, and performer who has set and broken records (and then broken the ones she’s set) countless times. Swifties need to stop pretending that dating someone is what makes her interesting or we’re no better than the people who think she only writes breakup songs.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Haim Ashraf | Haim Benaim | Haim Livne | Haim Perry | Haim Zohar | Haled AlFahrin | Hana Ben Artzi | Hana Siton | Hanan Yablonka | Hanani Glazer | Hanani Nidgalski | Hanania Hanan Amar | Hanna Ifergan | Hatib Zaruk | Hava Ben Ami | Havik Segal | Hen Ben Avi | Hen Even | Hersh Goldberg-Polin | Hila Klein | Hili Solomon | Hillel Zalmanovitch | Hodaya David | Idan Dor | Idan Edri | Idan Haramati | Idan Herman | Ido Ben Zino | Ido Even | Ido Peretz | Igal Vax | Igor Korcher | Igor Lusov | Ilan Avraham | Ilan Lipovsky | Ilan Moshe Ya’akov | Ilan Weiss | Ilay Bar Am | Ilkin Nazarov | Inbar Buyum | Inbar Haiman | Inbar Shem Tov | Irit Konderov | Isabella Gandin | Ishay Gertner | Israel Chana | Itai Berdichevsky | Itai Huston Hadar | Itai Za’afrani | Itai Zak | Itay Banjo | Itay Svirsky | Itzhak (Itzik) Balato | Itzhak Gelernter | Itzhak Levi | Ivan Illarramendi Saizar | Izhar Peled | Jake Marlo | Jakfung Jantassana | Jana Roderman | Jaroon Chatdumdee | Jenny Nisenboim Carmeli | John Esselnov | Jonathan Meir Ken-Dror | Joshua Loitu Mollel | Judy Weinstein-Haggai | Juwas Ibrahim AlKaran | Kadman Srithat Kawao | Karin Journo | Karin Vernikov | Karin Zourno | Karina Davidov | Karina Pritika | Karla Stelzer | Karla Stelzer Mendes | Katarina Tabegan | Keshet Kasruti-Kalfa | Keshet Zohar | Kim Damti | Kineret Gat | Kobi Paryante | Kraysorn Tomiyoma | Laura Ludmilla Furman | Leonid Luzovski | Liam Bor Galon | Liam Shrem | Lian Sharabi | Liav Asayag | Libi Cohen Maguri | Lidor Levi | Lidor Levy | Liel Gerfi | Liel Hezroni | Liel Itah | Lilach Kipnis | Lili Itamari | Lilia Giller | Lily Keizman | Limor Vaknin Permutter | Lin Dafni | Linor Keinan | Lior Abramoz | Lior Asulin | Lior Atun | Lior Hadad Atias | Lior Maimon | Lior Rudaeff | Lior Tekach | Lior Tereshanski | Lior Tkach | Lior Weizmann

These are the names of just a few of the victims of October 7, those murdered by the horde of Nazi savages from Gaza, or those kidnapped and imprisoned within that moral sewer.

On October 6, all of these people were alive and minding their own business. They were living their own lives. Islamic terrorists from Gaza took that all away from them, leaving a permanent scar on their communities and the entire nation of Israel.

More names will be coming up soon.

[magxit]

** SENDING AGAIN BECAUSE I ALREADY HAD TO UPDATE IT 😂*

I’ll start the list 😅

(I know I’ll forget someone - sorry! And these are in no particular order! Also I left off people we know she’s friendly with like Camila and Beyoncé and tried to stick to close friends)

Current:

Abigail

Blake & Ryan

Channing & Zoey

Martha

Claire

Ashley

Selena

Jack & Margaret

Miles & Keleigh

Lena

Haim Sisters

Gigi

Lily

Aaron

Hayley

Cara

Emma (including because she made Times)

Former:

Karlie Kloss

Hailee Steinfield

Jaime King

Zendaya (were they really ever close?)

Unknown:

Diana

Ed

Ruby Rose

Newish Friends:

Brit & Pat

Sophie

Sabrina

Phoebe

.

[famousautomatondreamsrockstar]

All these girls call me daddy — they love it — they love my huge cock — Jenna Lynn Meowri and Jenna Dreams and Mikayla Demaiter and Corinna Kopf and Billie Eilish and Katy Perry and Taylor Swift and Kate Middleton and Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus and Zara Larsson and kaceyxbaby and Vera Blue and lildrummergirl Abbie and Hailey Bieber and Kim Kardashian and Princess Diana and lisard dom_kalf and Queen Elizabeth II and Freelee The Banana Girl Leanne Ratcliffe and Fully Raw Kristina and Joe Biden's granddaughter and Rishi Sunak's wife and Jill Biden and her daughter and Lilyisthatyou and Margot Robbie and Juliet Joslin and Natalie Levin and Amina J Mohammed and Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid and Camille Rowe and Queen Camilla and Princess Charlotte and Jessica Nigri and Grimes Claire Boucher and qtcinderella and Danielle Haim and Este Haim and Alana Haim and Camila Cabello and Madison Beer and Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston and Shiloh Jolie Pitt and Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Ivanka Trump and Melania Trump and Charli XCX and Michelle Bachelet and Ursula von der Leyen and Roberta Metsola and Amber Heard and Samantha Hoekstra and Alexandria Cook and Cate Blanchett and Dakota Fanning and Courtney Cox and Kamala Harris and Justine Musk and Megan Fox and Rachel Jade and Anne Hathaway and Laura Lux and Jayden Jynx and Amelia Wilde and Natalee 007 and Chloe Amen and Tana Amen and Kylie Jenner and Linda McCartney and Francesca Hanks and Ghada Fathi Waly and Zoe Manville and her daughter and Ava Max and Lisa Kudrow and Chloe Mia Brown and Lana Del Rey and Lili Reinhart and Baker Grace and Scarlett Johansson and Skyler Simpson are crying because I have more than one wife — I'm sorry I made you cry, sugar poo — you're still my everything.

Miley Cyrus is threatening her suicide because I cheated on her.

Who's gonna be the one to catch my wedding ring?

Which one of these girls do I like the most?

[9w1ft]

August 2021-Dec 2021: Cara and Lily A send Karlie effusive birthday love, ending a period of intense chill amongst their mutual friends. Also her and Gigi’s friendship is openly rekindled during fashion weeks, and we see Cara hanging out with Taylor twice for the first time in years. Kalrie hung out with Haim at an event. During this time Taylor reportedly recorded the bulk of Midnights, at least the standard edition with Jack.

August 2021: Taylor films IBYTAM video with Blake, using a dress mimicking Karlie’s yet to be revealed Met gala dress (revealed in Sept)

Nov 2021: enty’s first in a series of blinds hinting at a defrosting of the kaylor “friendship”, including in Jan 2022, 15 minutes of texting ‘baby steps.’

Jan 2022: Martha likes a post about Karlie going brunette, after a year earlier liking a potential Karlie diss post. In March she liked another Karlie adjacent post.

Aug 2022: Ryan R likes a Karlie happy birthday post.

Aug-Oct 2022: Karlie posts a whole bunch of posts hinting at Midnights, starting before we even knew it existed, with my personal favorite being her wearing a replica of Princess Di’s revenge dress, complete with pearl choker, and tagging Blake using a gossip girl sound. Then deleted it. Then 2 weeks later we hear the lyrics to Vigilante Shit “now she’s dressing for revenge.” Also a heavy gossip theme to the album.

Oct 21, 2022: we hear The Great War. It takes a couple of weeks but people start putting 2 and 2 together that this feels like a kaylor reconciliation song and Late Stage Kaylor End Game becomes popular in Gaylor circles for the first time in 2 years.

Today: we see a snippet and hear descriptions of another song that sounds like a kaylor reconciliation song that is done with the same people as Coney Island, a song arguably about meeting with your muse to discuss your regrets about where it all went wrong and included the line “sorry for not making you my centerfold.”

I see a path through the memory garden 🌼🌻🌹

[everythingbutresolved]

Bonus!

4 of Haim, Lily and Finn's favourite movies + immediate regret 😅

[saintlaurentproblems]

Basically Taylor went to see The 1975 concert in LA with Selena back in 2014. After that there were rumours she and Matty had started talking, she was seen with a The 1975 shirt and he performed a few shows with a "1989" album shirt. A month after Taylor went again to a concert of theirs in NY and this time she brought Karlie, Lili, Martha and the Haim sisters. In this show Matty spend a big part of it singing it to her in a few parts, specially the song "Falling for You", he sang that entire songs just looking at her and she was swooning in the stands.

Flashfoward to the after party of that show, the whole band was there besides Matty, when someone asked where Matty was, the answer was he was "back at the hotel f**king Taylor Swift".

After that Matty started getting questions about Taylor in interviews and he would say they were just friends until one day when he said something along the lines of "I would never date Taylor Swift. It would be ‘emasculating’. Which then after the controversy that that caused, he wrote an open letter apologizing and said he got scared because he was at the start of his career and people only talked about Taylor. That was pretty much the end for that time... They would see each other from time to time in public and it was all friendly until all that happened in 2023...

!!!!