#and now i am vibing and working on my clara scarf ^_^

[glitteratti]

wonderful thrift purchases of the day:

green jacket (clara cosplay)

yellow shirt (clara cosplay)

red beanie (clara cosplay)

jorts because i don’t want to wear a jirt (jean skirt) (clara cosplay)

jeans with butterflies on them

black jorts. very cute

very cute green shirt

very cute blue ruffly crop top

funky glass for my fun bevvies

cute travel mug so i don’t have to use a million paper cups at work

copper bottom revere stovetop kettle (roommate collects copper bottom revere pots and pans)

fucking ESPRESSO MACHINE with a STEAMER WAND (NINE DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[night-lie]

Are you a ballet fan as well as a Swiftie? Any Taylor songs you associate with ballet or ballet characters?

Thank you for your ask!! I am a casual ballet fan.

This bit in Enchanted's coreography looks like 5th position, and the dress is just so Tchaikovsky's Barbie of Swan Lake. I would love to watch someone dance to Enchanted. For contrast, perhaps WAOLOM or WANEGBT 1989 tour version are Fokine's Dying Swan? It really depends on what vibes are used as a criteria. My criteria is "it's cool and I like it". Dying Swan isn't quite that angry though but more sad, so maybe ATW10? And if we bring up the scarf, I have to mention Løvenskiold's La Sylphide although luckily Taylor gets away unlike the poor fairy.

I'm half joking when I say the Rep album is Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring. It confused the audience, people hated it, the composer and coreographer's reputations were stained by it, but it made an impact. Watching it can make you very self conscious of being a part of the audience (and confused), which is what being a Taylor fan sometimes feels like.

Finnish National Ballet's The Little Mermaid is ocean themed so I'd use that for 1989 or TTPD, especially the Albatross or BDILH which is a song from Ariel's perspective and about nothing else or nobody else. Certainly not someone we mention on this blog. I love mermaids, I will not think critically when they're involved.

As for characters, it would be obvious to connect Clara from The Nutcracker and Clara Bow, but I don't think it works. I think Giselle is a good fit for Debut/Fearless/Speak Now era; The innocent search for romance and the unexpected pain (and death). Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet could be Lover, perhaps?

I haven't seen it myself, but Skorulsky's The Forest Song sounds like it would fit folkmore. Vera Zorina's performance from The Goldwyn Follies is very nymph-like to me, even though it's a movie.

The only album I haven't mentioned so far is Midnighs, so uh. Um. The White Cat from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Because Karma is a cat! Fool proof reasoning. That reminds me of Princess Florine, she saves her prince doesn't she? She was also trapped, so she's both a damsel and heroine. Very Taylor.