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Exclusive: Taylor Swift and Harry Styles Are ‘Making Plans to Meet Up’ Post-Split: ‘Timing Is Everything’

Jul 6, 2023 - Life & Style Staff (x)

She was hardly subtle. During Taylor Swift’s performance of “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” at the 2013 Grammys — which took place a month after she split from One Direction singer Harry Styles — the pop star seemingly took a jab at her ex in front of millions. 

“So, he calls me up and he’s like, ‘I still love you,’” she said in a British accent with a mocking tone in the middle of her set at the time. “And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, I’m busy opening up the Grammys!’ And we’re never getting back together, like, ever.” 

But a decade later, Life & Style has learned, Taylor, 33, may be having a change of heart. 

“Taylor and Harry dated more than 10 years ago. She was 22 and he was 18 — they were both very immature back then,” an insider explains, recalling the pair’s brief but high-profile 2012 relationship that saw them going on dates to NYC’s Central Park, having sleepovers at her Manhattan apartment and vacationing together in the Caribbean over the New Year’s holiday. 

“Yes, Harry broke her heart,” the insider adds, but unlike some of her other exes, after the early sting wore off, “she and Harry actually became friends again.” 

Now they’re getting a second chance at romance. 

“The rumors are true — Taylor’s talking to Harry again,” the insider says, “and friends are buzzing that this could end with them getting back together.”

A lot has changed since Taylor was photographed leaving the British Virgin Islands alone on a boat in early 2013 while Harry, 29, remained behind, signaling the end of their three-month romance. 

“One thing about Taylor is that she never gives up on love,” the source says. The singer “knows timing is everything.” 

Harry has been single since splitting from actress-director Olivia Wilde last November after two years of dating. Taylor’s six-year romance with British actor Joe Alwyn ended this spring. Though she enjoyed a month-long fling with another Brit, 1975 frontman Matty Healy in May, that ran its course too.

“She learned her lesson after being so public, so fast with Matty,” says the insider, noting the rock star was seen meeting her dad, mingling with her famous friends and cheering Taylor on at concerts. “Her love life will be more under wraps going forward.” 

Taylor and Matty went their separate ways in early June. 

“Once that was over, Harry just started popping into Taylor’s head,” the source says. They shared some memorable conversations, which were caught on camera, at the Grammys in recent years, and during the February ceremony, Taylor stood up in support of her ex when hecklers shouted that Beyoncé should have won Album of the Year as Harry took the stage to accept the award. 

“She’s watched Harry from afar and has been very impressed by his growth as an artist but especially by his relationship with Olivia — she thought he handled that like a true gentleman,” the insider adds. “Taylor can see how mature Harry’s become and she respects and admires that.”

[bedlund]

everyone who’s ever said anything bad about riverdale should die. go watch euphoria.

[lylahammar]

HOORAYYY I CAN FINALLY SAY THAT I WORKED ON THIS ✨ The lithograph piece on the right of the below image is my art, and I also contributed a bunch of illustrations to the book itself! 💃

[tangledstarlight]

thinking about how when the boys piss julie off she pulls out her laptop and starts googling how to get rid ghosts and spirits from a house. every time they annoy her a little more, she starts doing one of the suggestions while making direct eye contact.

[dontforgetukraine]

Kharkiv's Faktor-Druk printing house has resumed operation after being severely damaged by a Russian missile strike on May 23. The facility is only partially restored, and they have shifted focus to printing essential educational materials such as textbooks for the new school year.

According to Tatiana Hryniuk, the general director, damages from the Russian missile strike exceed €10 million, with losses still being calculated. The attack claimed seven lives and destroyed almost 100,000 books.

Source: Kharkiv’s Faktor-Druk printing house resumes operations after Russian missile strike

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

"The fumes make me dizzy, and I overshare. ...Please don't print that."

[theydjarin]

Alright well. welcome back 2006

[oacest]

(with enormous thanks to @noandneuron for their tremendous scholarly work taking pics of the library print version of this article, which seems to otherwise not exist online. original post with pics can be found here.)

LIAM WANTED ME TO MARRY HIM AND HAVE HIS BABY... BUT NOEL TORE US APART

SINGER FELL FOR WICKED SEX LIES ABOUT LOVER

by Phil Taylor, Chief Feature Writer (News of the World) (Sept 8, 1996)

Oasis idol Liam Gallagher's jilted fiancee opened her heart to the News of the World last night and told how her wedding plans were torn apart by his scheming brother Noel.

“Liam was the love of my life and we planned to get married and have children,” seethed Cerice Blakeley. “But Noel wrecked our relationship because the most important thing in his life was Oasis and he felt that I was in the way. I will never, ever forgive him. Noel deviously told his brother the most hurtful allegation that he could about me—that I had betrayed him and had sex with the band's cocaine supplier. I never two-timed Liam. But he believed Noel and was absolutely devastated. To this day he doesn't know the truth. Now Liam's with Patsy Kensit. I wonder if Noel will do the same to her.”

Life had all looked so different when Cerice first met the brothers who were yet to take Britain by storm. It was in a marquee near Oldham in May 1992—and it was Cerice's 21st birthday.

“I was heavily into the Manchester music scene,” she said. “And I was friendly with a band called the Inspiral Carpets—at the time Noel worked for them as a roadie. When he came along with the band I wasn't attracted to him at all. I hated his haircut—it looked as though someone had used a bowl. But I took one look at Liam and it was love at first sight.

“He wore blue cords and a dark navy kagoule and looked adorably different. I got quite flirtatious with him and later we arranged a date. Liam couldn't drive and was living at his mum Peggy's council house in Manchester. So I picked him up in my Citroen and we went up on the moors. Liam gave me the most amazing kiss I've ever had. It seemed to go on for ages and my mind was in a whirl. I felt so turned on I wanted to have sex with him there and then. I know he felt the same.

“But we decided to do it properly, so we booked into a lovely country hotel. I've never felt so excited in my life as we finally curled up on the bed and smoked a joint of marijuana. We kissed and kissed and I was ready and willing for Liam to make love to me. But to my disappointment, he suddenly stopped and told me, 'I respect you too much.' I couldn't believe it. It was so unlike a Manchester bloke. But I was very touched and it made me love him and want him even more.”

Liam later invited Cerice home to meet his mum. Then, she said, after a cup of tea and a chat they went upstairs to Liam's bedroom... and made love for the first time.

Cerice sighed: “Liam was only 19, two years younger than me, and was very nervous in bed. I wanted to strip him off, but he was so self conscious. He wouldn't take off his cream woolly jumper because he felt his chest was too puny. So I tried to break the ice and joked: 'Don't worry about your chicken chest, you've got lovely footballer's legs.'

“It worked. He relaxed and we made love to Hey Jude, one of his favourite Beatles songs. I felt wonderful afterwards and spent the night in Liam's bed. Then, the next morning, he brought me up a cup of tea and we chatted for ages.

“Then he ran a bath and started putting handfuls of salt in it. I couldn't believe my eyes and asked him what he was doing. He told me, 'It helps strengthen my bones.'

“Afterwards he spent ages doing his hair... he was always using his mum's hairdryer. I told him, 'You're going to end up like Mick Jagger.' Then I asked him if he wanted to try my mascara—and he did. But he went one step further and squeezed into my size 8 velvet jacket too. Then he put on the Rolling Stones record Satisfaction, pouted his lips and started strutting around the bedroom like Jagger. I creased up laughing. I'm only 5ft 5ins and Liam is 5ft 11ins. The jacket was so tiny on him, the sleeves rolled up around his elbows. But he loved it and it turned him on. He fell on the bed and we had fantastic sex for 45 minutes. Afterwards, Liam told me, 'I'm not gay or bisexual. I'm just in touch with my feminine side.'”

Cerice saw Liam and Oasis rise from obscurity to stardom. “I went to the studio with them while they were recording their album Definitely Maybe and knew they were going to be massive,” she said. “It went to No. 1.”

Two years after they met, Cerice's life seemed complete. “We had just got back to Liam's mum's house from a gig in Sheffield,” she said. “Liam looked really nervous. He told me, 'I have got something very nice to ask you. Will you marry me? I want you to have my children.'

“I was thrilled. I gave him a big hug and said, 'Of course I will.' We celebrated with a glass of his favourite drink. Jack Daniel's and Coke. Then we went round to my home and he told my dad. Liam said to him, 'I love Cerice and I want her to feel secure, so I've asked her to get engaged.'

“Being a practical, logical man, Dad asked Liam how financially secure he felt he was going to be. At the time, Liam was only getting £100 a week from the band. And he told my dad he couldn't even afford to buy me an engagement ring. But he said he was saving up to get me one. Dad wasn't too impressed. But he gave us his blessing because he wanted me to be happy.”

Liam's brother Noel, she said, was less pleased. “Noel nicknamed me Yoko Ono,” she recalled bitterly. “He felt I'd pull Liam away from the band, just as Yoko did with John Lennon and the Beatles. Nothing could have been further from the truth.”

Cerice and Liam rented a flat in the Didsbury area of Manchester for £75 a week and moved in together. “He put his favourite posters on the ceiling of our front room,” she said. “They were of John Lennon and the Stone Roses, one of his favourite bands.

“I would do the cooking—Liam's favourite meal was steak and Walker's crisps—but he'd always do the washing up and we would take turns with the hoovering. The only thing that annoyed me about him was that he always left his wet towels on the bathroom floor.”

It was in that flat, said Cerice, that the couple planned a family. She sighed, “I said I wanted a little girl and told Liam I hoped she'd have my hair, my brain, and his tenderness. He joked that he wanted a little boy who loved Manchester City, then said, 'I really don't mind what sex it is. I just want to have a baby with you.'”

And all the time, she confessed, their sex life became more and more intense—fuelled by drugs. “I must admit we took our share of cocaine through a £10 note,” she said. “It was extra special when we got in bed together because Liam was away on tour more and more as the band got bigger and bigger. I saw them play before 100,000 at Glastonbury and they were phenomenal.”

In the summer of 1994, Cerice and Liam drove to Scotland together for the massive Tea In The Park festival. “As the journey went on we were feeling friskier by the minute,” she said. “After four hours' driving we couldn't wait any longer. We were travelling on the M74 through Scotland when we saw a big wood. We looked at each other, smiled, and both had exactly the same idea.

“I pulled over, parked on the hard-shoulder and we ran off into the woods. Then we lay down on the soft moss and made wild, blissful love. It was the first time I had ever had sex outside and I think it was for Liam. We were there for nearly an hour writhing among the undergrowth before we finally got up and made our way back to the car. But as we walked back close to the motorway, holding hands and beaming smiles, passing motorists saw us and started beeping their horns. It was obvious what we had been up to and I was blushing bright red. So was Liam.”

They were never to be as happy again. After the concert, Cerice went backstage to congratulate Liam on his performance but could only find Noel. “I asked him where Liam was and he told me, 'He had to leave to catch a plane from Manchester for a concert in Germany tomorrow night. We're performing in Hamburg and he unexpectedly had to catch the flight tonight. I'll be flying over in the morning.'

“Bewildered, I went back to Noel's hotel where I met Simon, the band's cocaine supplier, and a record company executive. He told me he could get keys to Noel's room and I could sleep there. There were two single beds. I fell asleep in one and Simon and this fella slept on the floor, keeping the other one free for Noel.

“Then, at about 6am, Noel came into the room with a blonde and said, 'Oh, you're all in here.' Then he got into his bed with the girl and I went back to sleep. At 9am Noel got up and said, 'I'm going to Hamburg. I've told Liam you're OK and you'd phone him tonight.”

Later that day, Cerice phoned the Gallaghers' mum and she told her that Liam had phoned to pass on his apologies for missing her in the Scottish crowd. That night, Cerice managed to contact him herself.

“He was really angry and abrupt,” she said. “He told me, 'I need to talk to you face to face and not over the phone.' Then he slammed the phone down. I was distraught. He'd never spoken to me like that before and I couldn't understand why. Now I know. Noel told Liam I'd cheated on him and slept with Simon. A friend of mine told Liam it wasn't true. But he wouldn't believe her because it came from his own brother. He was shattered and went completely off the rails afterwards.

“We met just once when he returned to Manchester from Hamburg. I told him he shouldn't have treated me so badly. But we were both so angry and upset we couldn't even row. Instead he walked out of the door and out of my life. I haven't seen or heard from him since. He has never answered my calls. Noel must be delighted.”

After their split in August 1994, Cerice left Britain for Australia to get over the trauma. “It was while I was there that Oasis released Don't Look Back in Anger,” she said. “I tried to relate it to my own circumstances, but I can't look back in any other way. I have no anger towards Liam. But for Noel I have. I despise him. After we split up Liam was shattered and went completely off the rails. He simply hasn't been the same since.”

[apaganacademic]

I've never been big on heroic literature, personally, and Cú Chulainn is one of those figures that I didn't really have any strong feelings for, whether positive or negative or whether we're talking from the perspective of being a polytheist or literature nerd. Gimme cosmological myth and folklore instead, pls.

But right now I'm writing a term paper on the ways in which Cú Chulainn actually defies the traditional hypermasculine power fantasy dude hero and he's SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT???

If you're curious, I highly recommend checking out at least the following:

Sarah Erni, "Inside Out...And Upside Down: Cú Chulainn and his riastrad" (JStor)

Jeremy Lowe, "Kicking Over the Traces: The Instability of Cú Chulainn" (JStor)

KimMcCone, "Aided cheltchair maic uthechair: Hounds, Heroes and Hospitallers in Early Irish Myth and Story" (JStor)

@finnlongman's thesis, "What Manner of Man Is This Hound? Gender, Humanity and the Transgressive Figure of Cú Chulainn" (available for free on his personal site, go check it out, my own little trans heart went 😍!!!)

The first three can be found on JStor with a free account, which gives you 100 articles/month.

[meta-marphosis]

bug pants 🐛 🐞 🪲 size 30, block printed with laurv

[foxes-that-run]

Heat Magazine: Taylor & Harry: the first photos!

At the Radio 1 Teen Awards at London’s Wembley Arena on 7 October.

Feast your eyes on these - the first, world-exclusive photos of Harry Styles and Taylor Swift... together! The pair were spotted hanging out together backstage at the Radio 1 Teen Awards at London's Wembley Arena on 7 October, and seemed more interested in each other than the performance happening on stage. This could mean their relationship has legs. In theory...

Friends tell heat that the pair have been trying to keep in touch as much as possible, despite their hectic schedules. "They’re trying to see each other whenever they can, but they’re also realistic about their schedules. They text each other and Skype," a friend tells us. "Taylor can be quite intense and has been contacting Harry a lot, but at the moment he’s enjoying it. Taylor is very smart and sassy, and Harry likes that. There was a plan to meet up in New York this week when she goes to see the boys perform at their sell-out gig at Madison Square Garden."

Taylor: “How do you get your hair so silky?”

As heat reported last week, Harry, 18, and Taylor, 22, have not long split up with their respective exes - Cara Delevingne, 20, and Conor Kennedy, 18 - and they don’t mind at all that their romance is causing such a stir. But now it looks like things are more serious than even they expected.

Rumors of Harry and Taylor’s romance started after Harry admitted he thought the singer was "nice" after they met during 1D's tour in America. But there were also reports that Taylor was heartbroken when she saw photos of Harry out with model Emma Ostilly, 18, in New Zealand in April.

Taylor admitted this year that she would love to “tame” a bad boy, saying, “I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time when he wants to not be bad anymore.” [Parade November 2012 x]

According to a friend, there’s concern that Taylor might be getting too attached to the hard-to-pin-down star. “Harry’s reputation hasn’t stopped Taylor from wanting to fall head-over-heels for him,” they reveal. “Harry doesn’t enjoy it when girls become too clingy, and she’s already showing a few signs of that behavior.”

Taylor was spotted introducing Harry to her mum Andrea Swift backstage at The X Factor USA on 14 November, so she obviously thinks very highly of him.

“Harry is off on tour now and will spend the start of January playing shows in the UK, so Taylor can’t expect to see much of Harry then. But she’s hoping to make a few of the dates at least,” the friend adds.

If all else fails, Taylor, this all sounds like perfect material for a new song.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Jacket (kassekijntje)

1775-1800

The Netherlands

Peabody Essex Museum (Object Number: 2012.22.13)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalSlothDay 🦥:

The Strange Nature of the First Printed Illustration of a Sloth via Smithsonian Magazine

[dragonboots10]

Does anyone else my age feel like they’re living in a sci-fi movie or am I the only person that grew up in the 2010s who thinks we’re way too cool with the fact that 3D printers & VR headsets & AI tech are a thing now

[oacest]

ONCE they were notorious for their furious feuding. Barely a week went by without another angry spat between the brothers grim Noel and Liam Gallagher. But now 3am is happy to announce the sibling rivalry which almost tore Oasis apart has dissolved into - dare we say it - brotherly love. And Noel has cemented this outbreak of chumminess with a magnificent gift for Liam's three-week-old son Gene. Not-so-wicked uncle Noel has put pounds 250,000 into a trust fund for the infant. The gift means that, thanks to investment and interest, by the time he comes of age Gene will be a "trustafarian" millionaire. And it spells a new spirit of accord between Noel, 34, and his kid bro Liam, 28, who was touched to the point of tears. A perfectly placed source told us: "When Noel set up Gene's fund Liam was almost lost for words. It was as if the past rows had never happened. Liam just looked at Noel and said, 'F*** me, man… thanks'. "It was a sweet and tender moment between two guys who are supposed to hate each other's guts." It's a peaceful outcome for a family that was always at war.

The Mirror, July 2001

[thenameofthismanisjerryharrison]

Jerry Harrison with The Tom Tom Club at the Marcus Ampitheater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1, 1990.