#and philly always brings the most unhinged energy

[notdefendingtaylor]

hello! i used to consider myself a swiftie and still enjoy taylor's music but wow, are the fans annoying. yesterday especially. no wonder football fans are irritated by them infiltrating the sport's online space- it's so mind-dulling to scroll through post after post of people playing dumb and ignorant about it. i honestly do not care about bandwagoning, change teams if you'd really like to follow winners, but the way they go about it is just so tiring. like, no, the willow manifesting videos stopped being funny two years ago, you guys ran tayvoodoo into the ground, and cram everything in everybody's face all the time and gloat about things she has nothing to do with. no wonder she doesn't interact with anybody either! and the booing... obviously it's not going to feel good, and it'd be a little scary to be surrounded by people who seem angry at you, but... why did it have to spur on everybody treating her like a baby? hashtag we love you taylor? i doubt she really cared, it was just awkward and slightly intimidating. i don't know, i'm just irritated by the sore losing and sudden holier-than-thou careless attitude they're trying to pull on while still whining and having tantrums over... eagles fans having a travis kelce pinata? lol.

oh i haven't seen most of these fandom rituals/memes but it sounds like it runs its course far sooner than they are willing to let it go. that's the thing, everything gets babygirlified and friendship braceleted to death. and yes, let people (especially woman-identifying people) enjoy things. but there are boundaries of good taste and when they said taylor was a 'natural' about understanding football and was drafting these amazing plays for the team... maybe? but does everything have to be about/belong to the god-empress? it's like the liberal-adjacent answer to trump telling people he is a natural at science while touring the vaccine lab - and don't come for me for saying their values are the same (I'm not), but their mythic statures/PR have some similar overtones. i think a lot of people dislike how nothing is not owned by taylor: identities are picked up, commodified, cannibalized, and discarded. identities like lgbt+ are used for a music video, mental illness is a music video and concert concept, british men are an accessory, football culture is hers now, etc. it's just the overconsumption of it all.

[faithinlouisfuture]

Louies' 2023 Wrapped Tag Game

(Rules: Answer the questions below and tag at least 3 people!)

Thank you bestie @berlinini for tagging me 🤍 sorry i’m so late on this, work’s been kicking my ass, here we go though!

favorite walls song: this year; don’t let it break your heart

favorite fitf song: impossible to pick just one but right now; holding on to heartache (which is funny considering my fav off of Walls this year)

most played song on Spotify by Louis: Written All Over Your Face (ok whore)

favorite louis lyrics: that’s actually an impossible task because there’s WAY too many! but “there’s endless versions of the thing that keeps me drifting back to darkness” hits home in a way that i can’t explain in words

louis life lesson: it always remains the same; picking yourself back up after facing hardships, seeing the possibilities and positives in a difficult situation; basically strength & resilience

favorite louis outfit: oh that’s unfair, my little fashionista kills it 99% of the time so i have a list of favorite 50 outfits from 2023 but for the purpose of this game we’ll narrow it down to three (and it’s not even top three just three that i loved)

favorite tour show: there were so many good ones this year (Phoenix, Austin, Houston, LA, Philly, New York, Bologna, Paris, Antwerp, Vienna, Łódź, Sheffield, Cardiff, London) but the way that I felt physically ill after fitfwt: Columbus might need to be studied for science; the whiplash from the stark difference of him during the show and him post show was entirely TOO MUCH

favorite public appearance: has to be the RS Awards; the slutty custom-made fit, the main character energy throughout, the confidence, the glow, the ever present eloquence with which he spoke about his work and his successful af year, just him him him <3

favorite AOTV scene: once again there’s so many; that scene where louis’ recording Saturdays and we get some insight into his thinking and his process, the montage of louis with band and crew having an absolute blast while All This Time plays in the background, that one scene where JD is helping him put his hoodie on after he broke his elbow 👀 the last few minutes of the movie where we hear him say the words “i do feel like i deserve this” 🫶🏽🥹 and so so many more actually

favorite band or crew member: favorite three :p are Krystle, Steve & Joshua! special shout out to Joshua for going above and beyond this year honestly! that man carried lthq on his back!

favorite picture: another unfair question but i won’t cheat and post one of my absolute most favorites from this year because it’s like the energy of his shows captured in one moment (i found out on twitter that the hand in his hair belongs to a desi louie which was like the cherry on top)

something that you are looking forward to in 2024: the fitfwt latam shows!!! there is nothing else like the energy the latam crowds bring, which in turn brings out the absolute best (and most unhinged) in louis and his band too, so definitely looking forward to that! and the festivals!!! can’t wait to see him shine in front of the world <3 hope against hope to be a part of it if things work out 🤞🏽🕯️

one wish for Louis (or Louies) for 2024: 🍑🐧🎧 sighting! kidding (not really)! honestly though, growth

growth in this fandom’s level of maturity (with the addition of lots more people who are here for louis’ art and not his personal life), growth in the markets he’s able to capture, growth in the places he’s able and willing to tour *cough*ASIA*cough*, growth in the ability of his teams especially his social media and PR teams, growth from Louis himself in regards to him being open to trying new things

i don’t know who all has done this! but i’ll tag some people just in case (no pressure) @noraincsl @timidlouie @poekitty2020 @stormyhale @louveyous