#and travis et al

[earlyspringtranscendence]

taz balance is like. unparalleled. like ok im sure its not in the dnd podcast sphere but TO MEEEEEE it’s beyond words

[rabbit-exe]

I do love when critical role et al decide to put travis willingham through The Horrors. they say "travis, it's been long enough. we have to scare you again." and he keeps agreeing to it

[yikes-strikes-again]

enough arguing about which Fallout game is objectively better blah blah et. al. It's time for the real questions.

[queersatanic]

The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases (December 2023)

Changes from November include:

Confirmation both Travis County, Texas, lawsuits have not seen any new filings in more than one year.

Ninth Circuit granted TST partial victory in form of an additional opportunity to make defamation claims in federal district court against Johnson et al Defendants.

Full list on The.Satanic.Wiki

Full list on r/TheSatanicCirclejerk

Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in federal appellate court and now King County Superior Court.

TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, The Satanic Temple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the pinned post for more.

While it looks bad on its own, compare how things looked just one short year ago for The Satanic Temple and notice how so many of those "ongoing" cases turned out.

When it comes to The Satanic Temple, there's always more and it's always worse.

[midnightsslut]

I think Chloe et al was written before they got together. It’s literally just the fortnight of the anthology. People use that song to say it’s a decade of longing or whatever but like read the summation again and listen to that song. It’s about wondering what could be without acting on it. Fortunately or unfortunately for her, she acted on it and quickly got burned but at least she no longer has to wonder.

this is something I’ve wondered about as well, because the song definitely seems to be set in a pre-fortnight era, but that would mean the high school bully line has nothing to do with travis (and tbh it’s likely. calvin also happened right after matty 1.0).

[confetti-cupcake]

Re: the bucktommy endgame tags. I agree it could potentially be a Travis/Emmett type break up and get back together thing. Though hopefully not as toxic as they have been lol

Yeah! Tbh I don't watch nearly enough Station 19 to be able to comment much on the nuances of Travis and Emmett's relationship, but yeah, if BuckTommy were endgame I think it would probably happen a little like that. Idk, the vibe I get from Tim et. al is that he was bored of what was going on with Buck's romantic life and wanted to inject new life into it through this storyline. Buck being attracted to men opens up a brand new avenue for Tim to be creative, and I don't think he'd want to cut off all those future possibilities for Buck by sticking them together in Buck's only relationship for the rest of the series so fast.

But I do think in a world where Buck and Tommy's first go-around ended amicably (which is sort of what I'd foresee for them anyway) and the show didn't intend to go forward with making Eddie the endgame, Tommy could definitely come back around later to become the endgame relationship for a lot of the reasons you mentioned in your tags. I don't think it would be very narratively satisfying for Buck to end up with someone who's not a first responder and doesn't have firsthand experience with that life, and I think Tommy would be a really good option that would make Buck's endgame LI fit seamlessly into the world around them through his connections with the other mains instead of just something on the side to tide Buck over in his own singular storylines. Very interested to see where they go from here with them, and I do hope we at least get the rest of this season with BuckTommy, if not more!

[pokimoko]

Poki's Top 10s for 2024

Just like I did last year, here's a roundup of all the new pieces of media (as in, media I started and/or finished for the first time within this year) I enjoyed the most in 2024, if only to keep a record for my future self (and also, y'know, recommend some stuff in the process).

Top 10 TV Shows:

Ghosts (UK)

Around the World in 80 Days

Interview with the Vampire

Dungeon Meshi

A Gentleman in Moscow

This is Going to Hurt

Amphibia

Kaos

The Outlaws

Agatha All Along

(Honourable mentions of shows I didn't watch for the first time this year but enjoyed immensely in 2024 go to: 'Gravity Falls', 'Arcane' and 'Heartstopper')

Top 10 Movies:

Bottoms

Wonka

The Imaginary

Robot Dreams

The Shape of Water

The Wild Robot

My Old Ass

Wicked

A Knight's Tale

Flow

Top 10 Video Games

Baldur's Gate 3

In Stars and Time

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Hades

Dredge

Disco Elysium

South of the Circle

Slay the Princess

Neva

Life is Strange: Double Exposure

Top 10 Books/Graphic Novels

'Peter Darling' by Austin Chant

'The Greatest Thing' by Sarah Winifred Searle

'Legends & Lattes' by Travis Baldree

'Under the Whispering Door' by T.J. Klune

'Circe' by Madeline Miller

'The Book Eaters' by Sunyi Dean

'Convenience Store Woman' by Sayaka Murata

'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski

'Gravity Falls: Lost Legends' by Alex Hirsch et al.

'The Quiet and the Loud' by Helena Fox

Top 10 Podcasts/Audio Dramas

Altheya: The Dragon Empire (High Rollers DnD)

The Magnus Protocol

Inn Between

Doctor Who: The 10th Doctor Adventures, Volume 1

Monstrous Agonies

Wooden Overcoats

Camp Here and There

Fawx and Stallion

Booty: High Seas, Low Expectations (Hat Films D&D)

Nights of Eveningstar (Dungeons & Dragons)

That's it for 2024. Here's to many more wonderful stories in 2025!

[lunastryinc]

better late than never but request signal going out to victoria asher, nate novarro, william beckett, travis mccoy, et al. let’s pretend it’s 2007

It's 2007. The iPhone was just released, Google just bought Youtube, and Rihanna just released Umbrella....

Hopefully people bring them in!!

[dearreader]

hello fellow members of the tortured poets department.

i shall now enter into evidence the alchemy and analyze it.

previous days:

fortnight; THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT; my boy only breaks his favorite toys; down bad; so long, london; but daddy i love him; fresh out the slammer+florida!!!; guilty as sin?; who’s afraid of little old me?; i can fix him (no really i can); loml+chloe et al. (part 0.5); i can do it with a broken heart; the smallest man who ever lived

this song despite popular belief is not about travis kelce but is actually about the ship royai- *gunshot*

okay, let’s get a bit serious.

this is a fun song about taylor coming back from being in a truly dark place to someone who is not only excited to be with her but also just as in love with her as she is to him. it is a fun silly song about falling in love and giving into the feelings because it feels so right.

there isn’t much else to add, but some highlights i do like are taylor saying “what if i told you im back? the hospital was a drag” as her saying she’s feeling like herself again. or “these blokes warm the benches/we’ve been in a winning streak/he jokes that it’s heroine but this time with an e” as her saying she’s done with those british losers and is back to america 😤.

and of course just the royaification of it. you either get it or you don’t.

that’s it. there’s not much to say here but i love this song cause it’s about riza hawkeye and roy mustang. i know this because taylor told me herself.

[zahri-melitor]

Newish Comics:

Batman #149: this tied off storytelling for a year very neatly. Things I'm optimistic about - it looks like Zdarsky is planning to get more into why Vandal Savage as Police Commissioner is a terrible idea after we get through Absolute Power.

I'm also actually interested in Pennyworth Manor (sorry to all the haters) in terms of several aspects: it's going to keep Bruce et al in a base in Gotham proper, rather than over in Bristol, which I do enjoy in terms of being 'part of the community'; and Bruce offering a home for EVERYONE to move in is actually new territory for main continuity. I think the previous record for Batfam actually living in the same home on panel is Dick, Tim and Damian (in the Penthouse during Reborn). Tim and Cass theoretically have an overlapping period in 2008-2009, Dick and Tim lived in the Manor together during Prodigal, but for most periods it's Bruce-and-one-kid at best.

Do I think it's WFAish? Yeah. But I think it creates opportunities for family storytelling and hopefully conflict in terms of ACTUALLY getting this family of only children having to interact regularly.

(also lol Jason didn't turn up)

Batman/Superman: World's Finest #28: I dunno. Maybe I've hit my fill on Silver Age silliness.

The Warlord #57: this week in Skartaris I am promised bondage. Thanks, Mike Grell!

A conspiracy has locked Travis up, and seduced Tara with her old boyfriend! They have someone impersonating Travis so that Tara doesn't realise anything's amiss (but replacement Travis doesn't understand how guns work).

I keep giggling at that spiked helmet. Oh no! The spikes!

Also Mr Definitely Not Fagin, I Said Darvin has his little band of streetkids guarding the prison that's holding Travis. Joshua disappears though off to go run around the streets, followed by one of the other kids, and we get this interaction.

Yeah. You totally aren't fraternising with royalty right at this very second, kid.

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[taylortruther]

I would be surprised if she wrote Chloe et al after the last Matty split. The lyrics sound more applicable to when she was thinking “what if” while with Joe. I think once she moved past the turmoil last summer she closed that chapter. People really think she was fantasizing about Matty when she got with Travis and wondering why he stood by and watched? I know she did this at the end of relationship with Joe, but it was a dying relationship and not a new one she seemingly was excited about.

i think it's about multiple situations? i could see it being about jake, about matty, about joe, about many other situations we have no idea about. like how many albums and songs does she have to write before the fandom realizes that the WHAT IF of all her past lives, past possibilities, haunt her lmao

[nefarious-virgo]

Remy’s Wrap-up; December

Reading…

Leigh Bardugo Six of Crows (novel)

Angie Wang (The New Yorker) Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot? (article)

Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes (novel)

Listening…

If Books Could Kill The Secret et al. (podcast)

Books Unbound E273 Reading Wrap Up And Stats!! et al. (podcast)

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (audiobook)

Daniel Howell You Will Get Through This Night (audiobook)

DanAndPhilBEATS Festive Phantasy - Christmas Beats for a Cozy Season (album)

Watching…

Inside Out 2 (film)

Ocean’s Eleven (film)

Nana (anime)

Arcane (animated series)

cara can read reading 10+ christmas romance books and becoming the grinch again (youtube)

JashiiCorrin 2025 Bullet Journal Setup Planning et al. (youtube)

Playing…

Undertale

Learning…

Gamifying life

House fae

Making matcha

[rainbowdaisy13]

to be completely fair, (and this is aimed to certain other blogs, not you) if after listening to LOML you are still LSK, that’s totally on you!!! And not on taylor. Accusing taylor of manipulating kaylors into believing she is still with karlie, when she released THAT song (and chloe et al), makes no sense. It just means y’all are stubborn and delulu.

I mean Taylor has manipulated every faction of her fandom into thinking every album or song is about the muse they think its about—The Joes, Karlie, Travis, MH, Diana, etc etc etc

None of us actually know anything—but she knows how songs will be perceived and she works with very specific visuals/call backs for that exact reason—if no individual fandom can be proven wrong 100%, every fandom gets to be right and everyone gets to keep giving her money & support

[milfygerard]

I've seen your take on ttpd with many swifites that started feeling alienated after that album came out because they read it in that way so i just wanna throw my interpretation out there: it's not the fans, not really. It's the industry/her team that are the main protagonist masked as love/breakup songs. And my whole thing stems from 15 million tears in it's time to go because it's such a specific number and it's how much her dad made when the label was sold. During what was supposed to be her sparkling summer and they all said nothing but they knew she was on to something.

Disclaimer: I am not trying to villainize anyone, just sharing my as short as possible interpretation track by track which is still long because it's a long album

Quiet treason aka blood's thick but nothing like a payroll, I love you it's ruining my life

I chose this cyclone with you (instead of someone else I love) but devils that you know raise worse hell than an angel

My boy only breaks his favorite toys is giving silent treatment in a toxic relationship followed by kept calm and carried the weight of the rift

Leaving me safe and stranded but in an abandoned ship she's going down in, while dreaming of lunar valleys

I just learned all these people only raise you to cage you and They slammed the door on my whole world the one thing I wanted - living authentically while being in the spotlight imho which is where Matty comes in - it's her saying there are worse things to be than not 100% straight and I'll show you. I'd rather burn my whole life down, I'll tell you something bout my good name, it's mine alone to disgrace I won't cater to you jackals any longer

Fresh out the slammer - rolling the stone away - is her ending the performance in the cage, promising to never do that again even if they call her despicable and crucify her

Now we're post Matty and something didn't work quite right- the scandal was contained and she has no teeth, all bark no bite because all the threats she got behind the scenes that if she stepped out of line it would damage her career were proven right when fans were in uproar over her choice too. She thought she could handle it but she can't "fix" Matty. Something counterfeit is dead, but it's not what the fans think. So now she has to do it with a broken heart. A performance within a performance. A story within a story. How did it end.

Travis is not on the track list except so high school (making it as obvious as possible) because "the sign on your heart said it's STILL reserved for me" so it's someone from her past that keeps coming back, in and out, she's swirled in all her poems and she started out writing epiphany to be about football according to her own words. But this is alchemy, she's trying to force the gold to happen in any way she can, still, after everything, even her latest failure. It feels like freedom each time, but isn't really.

Clara Bow is pretty straightforward Taylor even explained it herself. Even if I die screaming I hope you hear it aka And I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky.

Slight side note here "once you fix your face" is something someone that wears makeup does. It's her will they/won't they whose heart is reserved for her. The person in Chloe et al for at least a decade now. Thought I saw you at the bus stop, looking at people's windows in case you're at their table.

The poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy is The Man. Peter is Taylor. And it's not Kim, Taylor is the kid in the song coming home singing a song that only the right people will know it's about them. The one who beat her spirit but she can't say who because they threaten her career that she's worked hard to build. They threaten to constantly pull the rug under her feet and push her down the stairs. But she's made her legacy and is now begging the sky to change her life.

i am mildly if not extremely confused but i think we're swiftgron posting which if so fucking say that shit girl!!!! lets go!!!!

I do think the industry and the people around her including her family are a part of that story (especially on waolom) but i think pinning it entirely on them is allowing us/the construction of fandom and fan relationships too much off the hook. We are such a massive part of her life and are also the reason she has to do all this hiding and repression and apologizing and pr work and even if its not something we do directly or directly our fault, the audience is still culpable and a very real and valid target specifically within the live performance which is the closest she can get these days to communicating to us directly now that she's finally actually built some boundaries. I do like your reading of ttpd being a metaphor for the last 5ish years of her career as a sort of continuation of the fictionalization of folklore.

[midnightsslut]

It was very eye opening to see ed on stage with Taylor bc I saw her have more chemistry and show more affection to him than I have ever seen with Travis.

right she’s actually been pining for him for ten years. maybe that’s who chloe et al is about!