#cultural department

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

people trying to dissect Taylor's entire love life and apply the lyrics to her real life, meanwhile I'm over here figuring out the perfect way to project all the songs onto my blorbos and fictional ships

[taylornation]

Down bad crying on the street because Amazon Music’s most-streamed album in its first day on is up high on billboards around the world. 🥹🤍 Stream THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT on the Pop Culture playlist now.

[cubbihue]

Peri's no good terrible bad day just seems to get worse and worse!

Timmy's hoping his baby brother didn't hear the whole conversation. But with that expression on his face, Timmy suspects it may be a bit too late for him. Timmy's companion scurried away as soon as he noticed Poof. A Pixie can sense drama and conflict from miles away.

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[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

[no-more-lies12]

do you ever just wanna ... Stop?

[yeoldenews]

A mother's word for word transcription of the imaginary phone call her four-year-old made to Santa Claus in 1911.

(source: The Harbor Beach Times, December 22, 1911.)

Through some outrageous case of serendipity I found a recording of another phone call this same child made 60 years later. Though I have to say his choice of conversational partner is a definite downgrade from the first call.

[swift13s]

So trueb

[sunbeamedskies]

I love Taylor Swift, but you all have got to stop falling for the media pitting women against each other.

Billie was most likely not shading Taylor- she was talking about how she personally does not want to do a 3 hour show, and she believes her fans don’t want her to do one either. She also emphasized releasing multiple versions of physical albums that aren’t eco friendly is a systemic industry issue.

I’m a huge Taylor fan, but not every comment another artist makes is specifically about Taylor.

The amount of people here who see anything that could vaguely be criticism of Taylor as a personal attack is not healthy. If you are prone to jumping to conclusions, you need to take a step back from the internet and chill. The media LOVES framing quotes from someone like Billie as being 100% about someone like Taylor because it gets them clicks.

Taylor is also not flawless. She is one of MANY musicians who release multiple versions of albums as part of cash grabs. She doesn’t need to do it- she’s the hugest musician on Earth- but there’s such a pressure to do so that she does. There’s nothing wrong with wanting her and all the other musicians who do it to do better

[hungerpunch]

the way that the oscar-winning 2017 film, call me by your name, launched timothay chalamay from relative obscurity to a leading man & household name and would have propelled the chronically-mediocre armie hammer to new heights had he not been exposed as a cannibal

versus

how no such thing happened for the leads of the oscar-winning 2016 film, moonlight (ashton sanders, trevante rhodes, jharrel jerome, andré holland), who have all toiled for small parts or infrequent leads in the years since their accolades.

i truly hate society.

[jedi-starbird]

I firmly believe we could solve all the galaxy's problems and ruin sidious's grand plan if we simply gave the jedi space tumblr

[rayyzcosmos]

in I hate it here, taylor says, 'like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy' and guess who was working in an insurance company but wanted to be a writer and spent all his life writing and considered one of the greatest of all time... Franz Kafka and he hated his life. Most of his works are fusion of reality with fantasy. his choice of words, his literary style, his main characters, all contain a sense of romanticism and then taylor says, 'i'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and i'll get lost on purpose' his major stories depicts how he wanted to move to another place, where he is seen, and taylor says, 'i hate it here so i will go to lunar valleys in my mind'

[waterb0ttlebitch]

Its fine to do embarrassing stuff. Life is about growing with mistakes.

Most of the time self inflicted embarrassment is from a first time mistake or experience.

Like that one quote I read on Pinterest.

If you are not willing to be an foolish beginner you will be a graceful master.

[yearningforunity]

Young people dance in the streets in Quibdó, Colombia.

Photo: Nadege Mazars/Hans Lucas

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

The fact that Swifties fabricated and circulated cheating rumours about Joe Alwyn (and then to use this as justification for harassing his female co-stars) only to be proven wrong once TTPD dropped is a clear example of how toxic our fandom can be.

This level of blind hate is extremely disturbing and I genuinely hope we learn something from this.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

I’ve been thinking of like what would happen if the CN and JG ppl somehow met each other, like

Childe would probably die of embarrassment from realising that Ajax and Morax were like lovers in CN while Hu Tao would laugh the shit at him while Zhongli just stood there confused

Then Hu Tao would coo at how cute little Xiao looked (and he DOES look cute who could blame her)

Zhongli would try to play it cool like “Haha wow who could’ve guess this alternate version of me was a god haha” while Xiao gives him the most stinkiest side eye ever.

genuinely zhongli would be more intrigued by all the timeline shenanigans and not really confused at the ship situation. he'd probably just go: actually? yeah i can see that, sure

the real kicker would be hua guizhong and ping yan and their possible angst at the fact their counterparts aren't dating nor even remotely as close (remember cyanide was before the crackship was revealed so neither guizhong nor madame ping are characterized there as having anything going on between them)

honestly? fanan and the fox siblings would be such a wild difference that when folks like xiao stare at zhongli like "what do you mean you're a god there?" zhongli would be able to just shrug it off and say "if fanan is from a completely different country why wouldn't i, an already acomplished thaumaturge, be an Immortal? it IS an alterlate reality after all" and xiao would be inwardly still kinda sus but have no basis on which to really argue LMAO