#THE MANUSCRIPT
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the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling
#maybe it was just a jawdrop to me idk#taylor swift#ttpd#the manuscript#text#i keep saying it in the gc but the way the album is just a russian nesting doll of muses#you think its matty but beneath him its joe and beneath him its jake#and in the middle of it all is taylor screaming#this album is a fucking masterpiece
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Now I'm sliding down the wall with my head in my hands saying, "How could I not see the signs?" Oh, you haven't written me or called but goodbye’s screaming in the silence, and the voices in my head are telling me why. Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings. I’ll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ring. And you will say you had the best of intentions. And maybe I will finally learn my lesson. Afterwards, she only atе kids' cereal and couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed. Then she dated boys who were her own age with dart boards on the backs of their doors. She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years, everything had been above board. She wasn't sure.
#taylor swift#foolish one#speak now#the manuscript#the tortured poets department#ttpd#gifs#taylorswiftedit#tswiftedit#tsedit#ts lyric weaving#useramys12#addys-beth#tuserella#userdanahscott#tsuserannie#userjake#userfarahz
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The manuscript is about writing all too well ten !!! And the second to last verse is directing the video !! I want to die!! I need my therapist NOW !
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I think we all moved on too quickly from how fucked up the Manuscript is
I mean “if the sex was half as good as the conversation is soon they’d be pushing strollers???”
And “how he said “ since she was so wise beyond her years everything had been above board. She wasn't sure.”
Who says shit like that
#taylor swift#taylorswift#ts#the manuscript#ttpd#the tortured poets department#tortured poets department
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thinking about taylor saying ‘there was something dark and too adult about what I had experienced. you should keep some element of childhood - that wonderment and ability to laugh’ when explaining the chorus of begin again in light of the manuscript
#I just found that quote and damn I guess she always knew this fucked her up#in insidious ways#begin again#red tv#the manuscript#ttpd
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the manuscript - taylor swift
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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
#taylor swift#taylor swift edit#the tortured poets department#ttpd#the manuscript#the bolter#the albatross#the black dog#tswiftedit#ts edit#tsusermeggie#usereris#userelena#userleah#userthelasttime#usercruelstyle
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i can picture john mayer one hour and fifty nine minutes into tortured poets. he’s about to let out a sigh of relief. he hears taylor singing about his french press.
#GET HIS ASS!#taylor swift#taylornation#the tortured poets department#TTPD#taylor swift ttpd#the manuscript
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TS TTPD official memorandum: Our Chairman’s manuscript will be released in just 13 days. Tortured poets, please make any necessary preparations and pre-order now.🤍📖
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the tortured poets department ♡
#taylor swift#the tortured poets department#the albatross#the black dog#the manuscript#the bolter#mine#candy swift#tsedit#tswiftedit#tsedits#tswiftart#tswiftcreatorsnet#tswiftedits#taylor swift lyrics#ttpd
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#wanted to make this for ages so! this was the perfect excuse#all too well 10 min version#the manuscript#taylor swift#ttpdminutes#tsuserjen#usercellphonehippie#tsusermels#userthelasttime#tsusermeggie#tw flashing#q.....
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now and then she rereads the manuscript.
#taylor swift#tswiftedit#tsedit#dailytayloredit#candy swift#tscreators#the tortured poets department#ttpd#edit#lyric graphic#the manuscript
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a tortilla chip stabbed me in the gums while making this audio
#taylor swift#the eras tour#red#the tortured poets department#ttpd#red taylor’s version#the manuscript#live audio
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religion is one of the most prominent recurring themes on the album, and it has been present in some capacity for quite a few records now. taylor previously compared love to religion: her saving grace, her belief system, and a fated divine intervention (false god, cornelia street, and cruel summer are the best examples of this). ‘sacred new beginnings that became my religion’ and ‘we’d still worship this love even if it’s a false god’ are two of the defining statements about her philosophy on the lover album.
taylor doesn’t want to leave all of that behind on ttpd, at least not at the beginning. the first supernatural force she mentions is the spaceship on down bad, which she compares to a skylight of freedom in the epilogue. *something* has finally come to save her from her life of suffering. she doesn’t care if it’s a force of good at first; if anything, she’s just fine being taken away by aliens. she views this man as her destiny. it isn’t until guilty as sin? that taylor starts to ponder the moral implications of what she’s doing. is she guilty as sin for wanting to leave her previous religion and relationship behind? she comes to the conclusion that, even if she rolls the stone away and gets resurrected/redeemed, she cannot avoid the fallout. she is okay with the thought of having to wait, as long as both lovers vow to be together forever, just as she once did with someone else in false god. ‘I choose you and me religiously’ finishes the bridge of the song in a direct callback to cornelia street.
the next mention of religion has murkier imagery. she claims that she does not need the Lord’s help to save this man. she sees the halo that he has, and she can fix him herself. now that she feels free of her prior cage, she isn’t looking for divine intervention anymore. she wants control. she is their route to salvation.
when the relationship falls apart, she retreats back into the position of a believer rather than a divine figure. she compares him to a Holy Ghost who promised to save her and take her to heaven. instead, she is in hell in every sense of the word: she’s down bad and feels guilty for digging up the grave. he was a jehovah’s witness who promised that she could break free of the cage imposed by love without changing her religion altogether; she would’ve just had to switch denominations. she could still have a marriage and kids! she could still have a blue tortured poet! the man was different, but not the dreams they had together. the story of the first part of the album ends here. her faith has been broken, and she has only found any semblance of sanity by refusing to mention these belief systems altogether.
side b/the anthology blends the christian imagery of side a with goddesses, sorcerers, and prophecies. she bargains with these powers to let her have the future she wants (the prophecy). she doesn’t sound like someone believing in salvation. if anything, she feels cursed. she decides that the concept of divinely ordained timing will never work in certain relationships (‘the goddess of timing once found us beguiling / she said she was trying / peter, was she lying?’). this disdain extends onto her perception of other people’s faith (‘bet they never spared a prayer for my soul’). she does position herself as a prophet in cassandra, but even then, she admits that the role has hurt her. perhaps the pain in thank you aimee was meant to be, or perhaps she was just strong enough to build a legacy in spite of it, boulder by boulder. is she a martyr? does she want to be? or did she save herself?
the only real love song on this half of the album makes no mention of fate or any divine forces. it wasn’t meant to be. it’s not a supernatural invisible string or lightning in a bottle. she is just in love.
the album ends with the manuscript, which revisits an old story of a defining, formative heartbreak. as she sings ‘at last, she knew what the agony had been for’ while describing the legacy of her writing, she seems to revert to thinking about the purpose of trauma. the only exception is that, in this case, she is the one who found meaning in her pain by turning it into a manuscript. writing is her belief system now, and she proselytizes by telling her stories and thus giving up the manuscript.
ultimately, her belief in destiny has chewed her up and spat her out. she so desperately clung to her existing belief systems that she was fooled by a conman, which left her feeling cursed. religion is supposed to be with someone even in their darkest moments, but the album explains that taylor often felt abandoned. the only constant in her life was, well, herself. she’ll be okay, but her pen will be her saving grace.
#idk why I wrote this essay but it needed to be said#this could be taken further by actually unpacking each mention of religion on midnights and lover but i ain’t doing all that#the manuscript#cassandra#Cornelia street#false god#cruel summer#lover#the prophecy#the smallest man who ever lived#but daddy I love him#I can fix him#guilty as sin#ttpd#thank you Aimee#peter
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the tortured poets department wallpapers
part 1 | part 2
#taylor swift#taylornation#tswiftlyrics#tswiftnation#tswiftedits#tswiftedit#tswiftdaily#tsusermeggie#tsuserella#tsuserbella#tsuserlaura#tsusermels#tsuserjen#tsuserclaire#tsuserannie#the tortured poets department#ttpd#i can fix him (no really i can)#loml#i can do it with a broken heart#the smallest man who ever lived#the alchemy#clara bow#the manuscript#the bolter#the albatross#the black dog#phone wallpaper#wallpapers#wallpaper
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