#beloved 1 speaks

[givtit]

feeling a lot like richie these days. no purpose

[blorbopolis]

starting to understand one another

[reds-writings]

there will be no ‘hear me out’!! either get on this crazy old man slut train or get lost, losers!!

[suffering-asthmatic-tifosi]

HAPPY NATIONAL CAT DAY 🩷🩷

Some of my fave cats for yall:

[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…

[omilkandhoneyteao]

Y’all I have been talking to my friend for so long about arcane and I sent them a couple Viktor edits recently and they were like “he has an accent??” And I was like “tf you mean he has an accent he’s always had that??”

Y’all

SHE WATCHED THE WHOLE THING IN JAPANESE?!

MIND YALL SHES AUSTRALIAN LIKE SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW JAPANESE LIKE THAT??? 😭

Australian person watching a American show animated by the French in Japanese Dub

(Translated for her ofc ❤���)

みんな、アーケインについて友達と長いこと話してたんだけど、最近ヴィクトルの編集版を何枚か送ったら、「あいつ訛りがあるの？」って言われた。私「訛りがあるってどういうこと？昔から訛りがあるってこと？」って思った。

みんな

彼女は全部日本語で観たの？！

彼女がオーストラリア人なのに、日本語が分からないなんて思わない？😭

フランス人がアニメ化したアメリカの番組を日本語吹き替えで観るオーストラリア人

[ineffablelarents]

Villain Arc

[aspirant1598]

[suzu-kun22]

I’m so here for Ranma’s magical T-boy energy

[givtit]

fuck everybody

[spacedlexi]

the way the ericson group were at the outbreak just a bunch of troubled kids who made various mistakes or committed crimes and were judged by a system that punished and abandoned them instead of giving them the support and love they needed, are then nearly a decade later put into a situation where now they must judge a troubled child for the mistakes and crimes hes committed against them. and 5 to 3 vote them out 😭

[basil-does-arttt]

GUESS WHO GOT SILENT HILL 2 ENHANCED EDITION TO WORK!!!!

[suffering-asthmatic-tifosi]

I MAKE A RUNNING OSCAT

who should I make next?

[shima-draws]

My brain hitting me with a baseball bat: TODODEKU

Me: Oh my god…Tododeku…

[utterlyazriel]

you guys my azriel playlist botched my spotify wrapped cos i just listened to it on repeat whenever i wrote for this blog

[crescentfool]

not indicative of anything, just something silly i thought about! feel free to fill in the variables with whatever you like.