#becoming a swiftie

[confusionmeisss]

one day like 2 years ago, my brain just was like, “hey, do u remember taylor swift?????” and i was like, “yeah.” and my brain was like, “we should listen to her entire discography!” and i was like, “okay. we'll do that when we wake up & make a whole day of it.” and then i did.

like nothing prompted me to start listening to her. it wasn't social media or anyone i knew, it was just my brain randomly remembering she existed & had more songs than the ones i listened to & that were in random playlists i’d find/listen to on spotify & before becoming a full out swiftie.

soooo, yah. there's my swiftie origin story, tho no one asked for it.

like, i didn't even know she was re-recording her first six albums, i was just like “oh cool i got here when she's releasing something new. how fun!” i didn't even know what ‘tv’ meant for a while, i just sat there confused being like, “yea, red tv is coming out soon, im so hyped!” i even painted my nails red for the release. (by this point i did know she was re-recording, but i still had no idea what ‘tv’ meant but i was using it 😭).

and then i unfortunaly found stan twitter. a tragedy really.

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

K, I think I might officially be a Swiftie now!

I've always enjoyed Taylor Swift, always enjoyed her music, and her lyricism, and appreciated how genuine she seems, and how kind she is to her fans.

But I don't think I'd count myself a Swiftie before (and maybe I still can't because there are a LOT of her songs I still don't know) but after seeing the Eras Tour movie tonight with my 15 yr old daughter, I will definitely be increasing my Tay-Tay intake. 😁 (I also don't think I'm allowed to call her Tay-Tay yet! 😄)

The concert was INCREDIBLE, and I fully understand the reason tickets to the actual shows were SO impossible to get and sold out so impossibly fast! It would be absolutely incredible to see her live.

But even just the concert movie was exhilarating and SO much fun. Everyone in my theater stood up and danced to most of the fast songs, and sang along to all of the songs. (Which you're encouraged to do.) And let me just say, listening to a packed theatre full of people dance and sing together and just emote together was precious and uplifting. 🥹🥹

There were a few dudes there, but mostly women - sisters, best friends, moms & daughters, aunties & nieces - sharing Taylor's impactful music and the universal language of beautiful, badass, and genuine music.

I'm so, so happy my daughter and I shared this together. A simply fabulous memory made. Another thing I can thank Taylor for. 😊😍

Off to download ALL the albums. 😁

[the-tortured-poets-dpt]

[buckysteve]

can’t stop watching this artpatrick tiktok edit <|3

[comingupforblair]

Yoko: Do anything fun last night?

Wednesday: Enid and I spent the evening listening to songs about spite, vengeance and the sweet catharsis of exposing your enemies’ weakness for all to see and standing victorious over their defeated body, letting everyone see how you have humiliated them.

Yoko: What is she talking about?

Enid: We spent the night listening to my Taylor Swift records.

[shitswiftiessay]

swifties are becoming sexual assault apologists for taylor 💀

let me repeat that again because it sounds unbelievable that even swifties would sink that low. but it needs repeating.

swifties are becoming sexual assault apologists for taylor.

“aggressive kiss” she was grabbed by the throat 3 times as he stuck his tongue down her throat without consent. it doesn’t need to be said that if somebody did that to TAYLOR they would DEFINITELY be calling that assault and they would be petitioning for him to get the fucking death penalty. but swifties proce time and time again they DON’T GIVE A FUCK about any women or sexual assault victims unless it’s Taylor. MOST DISGUSTING MISOGYNISTIC FANDOM EVER.

[hushmirrorball13]

i just know taylor's giggling thinking about the chaos she has plotted for speak now taylor's version release day

[anghraine]

Today's unhinged "good God I hate how much extreme generosity I'm expected to extend to the Peter Jackson films by people who make wildly bad faith arguments about things I like" rant:

I am very deeply tired of people insisting with zero evidence that of course the LOTR films are imperfect, but the difficulties of adapting LOTR are such that it wasn't possible for them to be better than they were—in, apparently, any respect. They just couldn't be done better, at all, because it was so hard to make something watchable at all.

This is always just like ... really? Really?? Just what prevented them from making better decisions about anything? What exactly made casting every actor of color as barely differentiated villainous hordes in the twenty-first century so necessary and unavoidable? The glamorization and vast expansions of battle scenes and insertion of "heroic" war crimes was the highest film as a medium could aspire to in the early 2000s because of what insuperable force?

What made it impossible to give Arwen a coherent character arc? The films could not have been made without the underlying assumption that most of the cast are NPCs who will only do the right thing, when they will, if prodded or manipulated or influenced by main characters? In what way is this an inevitability of adaptation or film that simply couldn't have been conceptualized differently, much less better?

There is zero explanation or justification for why any of this stuff (or the myriad other flaws) had to be that way and couldn't have been done better in any way at any point. It's just stated that the films that exist must be the best films that could have existed because they're the ones that do exist and are popular. QED.

That doesn't make any sense, though, and it doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already agree. The idea that they could not have been better in any way (including their worst quality, which again, is the extremely racist casting), that some force was preventing not only the actual filmmakers but any filmmakers that could possibly exist from doing anything better just seems patently absurd.

You can like them and respect what they did achieve without demanding that everyone buy into a baseless and irrational argument that their pop culture success means nothing about them could possibly have been done any better. Look, I was in my mid to late teens at the time. I remember the early 2000s quite well. It wasn't now, but we are not talking about an age so divorced from our own that any of these things were somehow fundamental to the media landscape.

There are ways in which the LOTR films were very good that were essential to their popularity then and now. This does not require anyone to accept that it was literally impossible for them to be better than they are or that some defense is required against every criticism of them ever.

I am not, incidentally, talking about removing Bombadil, an entirely understandable and defensible decision that the film defenders in my notes somehow always feel the need to bring up. I know that changes had to be made, that adaptation is not a word for word transcription, that it would always be a difficult text to adapt, that structurally minor elements had to go, that they are cinematically beautiful films that a lot of work and love went into. I know this. EVERYONE knows this, because for the last 20 years it's been impossible to criticize anything about them without being reminded. Their accomplishments, and their existence, do not mean that any choice made by the filmmakers must definitionally have been the right call and could not possibly have been better in any way.

[deansass]

low key embarrassed by the white feminists rising from the graves to defend Taylor Swift for whatever reaction she had at the GG while being dead silent about the literal murder of WOC around the world or the women who don’t have access to hygienic products or the ones being killed by airstrikes while pregnant or

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

like on the one hand language matters and i too sometimes find slang trends annoying and/or concerning and on the other hand sometimes women do actually make jokes and talk shit on the internet with their friends and it is not actually that deep and commentary on phenomena gets to a weird point where i’m like i don’t know how “these idiot losers on the internet using a two to four word phrase they will have moved on from in a year are basically the primary cause of patriarchal oppression” is the feminist take. like sometimes i start to think the plot has been lost.

[confusionmeisss]

here’s the day i decided to binge taylor’s entire discography, and proceeded to convert to swiftism here on after

[hussyknee]

cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression

[lily-blue-blue-lily]

also rb and say if you agree with me on any of these!

(i am so sorry if any of your favourite songs are on here, this is just my opinion!)

(i might make another of these polls with my favourite songs so i dont seem too negative lol)

[vanilllagirlss]

[adharastarlight]

my best friend: you have such 1989 handwriting

me: *squeals and jumps and spins excessively*

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

ngl the "girl's girl" stuff always just reminds me of mean girl bullshit for some reason? Like the popular bullys at my HS probably all think they're girl's girls 😭😭😭

its this + swifties using “the girls who get it, GET IT; the girls who don’t, DON’T!” + their superiority complex over understanding taylor’s deep lyricism = swiftie white radfem terfy feminism. like their politics for the social clout and aesthetic and 0 and i mean ZERO fucking praxis happening