#Taylor Sees The World

[taylorfennersbookishworld]

Spring 2024 Travel Catch-Up

Hey Travel Bugs! Happy Midweek! Are you doing anything to celebrate the 4th if you’re here in the U.S.? A camping trip? A weekend away? Weather permitting I’m taking a day trip on Saturday that I’ll fill you in on with my weekly round up on Sunday. So far this year I’ve taken two trips – a longer trip down to Charleston, South Carolina (3rd time in 4 years) in April and a weekend getaway to Door…

[francesderwent]

Taylor Swift really wrote an album with the thesis “a man who tells you he loves you and lives together with you in a committed relationship for six years but never ever proposes is essentially the same as a man who tells you he loves you to get you into bed and then ghosts you a couple weeks later”

[firstprinced]

firstprince through hand holding (or henry letting himself have the love he deserves)

[f-arelos]

soulmates (derogatory)

wuthering heights - emily brontë / bones and all (2022) / from eden - hozier / daisy jones & the six - taylor jenkins reid / daisy jones & the six (2023) / @ruhlare / cowboy like me - taylor swift / the perfect pair - beabadoobee / one hundred love sonnets: XVII - pablo neruda (tr. mark eisner) / where's my love? - syml / 10 things i hate about you (1999) / people like me, people like you - bane's world / jackie and wilson - hozier / hiroshima mon amour (1959)

[szynkaaa]

Messy iPad doodles, will be busy for the rest of the week so I won't have much time to sit on my PC to make more self-indulging art 😭😭

But I've figured out some more lore stuff for Oz that I may or may not share once I have time to write things down properly 👀

[ourstolenlullabiess]

I Can See You Music Video outfits part 1

[vanweezer]

coreys in my sketchbook 1/∞

commissions

[elizabeth-mitchells]

no matter what happens in the rest of yellowjackets, it's important to remember that the ghosts of jackie and laura lee are sloppily making out in the background of every single scene, even if the living characters or the camera can't see them. even in the modern timeline.

no matter what happens in the rest of yellowjackets, it's important to remember that the ghosts of jackie and laura lee are sloppily making out in the background of every single scene, even if the living characters or the camera can't see them. even in the modern timeline.

[reputayswift]

AGAIN, THE POINT OF THE FIRST VERSE OF INVISIBLE STRING IS NOT THAT THEY’RE CONNECTED BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS GREEN AND HIS SHIRT WAS TEAL, IT’S THAT THEY WERE IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACES AT THE TIME AND HAD NO CLUE FATE WOULD BRING THEM TOGETHER. “TIME CURIOUS TIME, GAVE ME NO COMPASSES, GAVE ME NO SIGNS, WERE THERE CLUES I DIDN’T SEE?” THE CONNECTIONS START IN VERSE 2

[padfoot-lupin77]

So all the crows look intimidating and terrifying except Wylan but if you look at him for too long then he becomes crazy scary too. It’s something about his features. Idk what

[taylorfennersbookishworld]

Weekly Exploration Round-Up June 23-29

Hey Travel Bugs! How was your last full week of June? Did you get any day trips, staycations, or vacations in? Are you planning a trip right now? Travel Planning: This week I applied for my passport. 2025 is going to be the year of international travel. Right now I’m leaning toward Edinburgh, Scotland but I’ve also been obsessed with all things Tudor era this year and might choose England…

[stopper-my-heart]

Nothing like Heartstopper S2E8 removing some of Taylor Swift's "seven" lyrics just so that the singing can specifically come back in at "Or hide in the closet" while Isaac is processing difficult emotions related to the book he's reading (i.e., Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen).

Did I mention "Or hide in the closet" hits just as the camera focus finishes shifting away from Isaac?

This is fine

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

[afrogwhocantdraw]

Sbg coraline au

That's it. That's the post

[vanweezer]

ma'am your dog i mean husband needs a leash | x

[ourstolenlullabiess]

Speak Now ballgown (eras tour version)