#not your fault taylor

[rapunzelforlorn]

An open letter to Taylor Swift

I tweeted but I know Taylor is on Tumblr and I really hope she sees this because I need her to.

Taylor I can't even imagine to feel what you must be feeling like right now, coming off the high that was Argentina, and the huge welcome you received in Brazil for all of this to then happen but please please know that none of what happened is your fault and you did absolutely everything you could in that situation. You are the greatest performer of our generation and you didn't even compromise that performance while you checked on fans and got them water while we could all see that you yourself were also not okay. We love you so much and the venue did you a horrible disservice. I'm so sorry that certain fans reacted poorly to the postponement of night 2. I know you know it was what needed to happen. I know you mourn for the loss of that young woman.

Your heart has never faltered in the 16 years I've been a fan of yours listening to beautiful eyes on my Walkman in my parents barn or hearing our song on the radio (of that same barn lol). You have made millions of lives better by existing in this world and it devastates me not only what happened via circumstances beyond your control but also that you might be holding yourself accountable for this. Celebrity accountability is becoming increasingly rare so you remain an anomaly and demonstrate in your day to day life what a good person you are but please honey, give yourself a break. You work so so so hard to bring us countless shows and albums and new music and we love that from you and I never want to live in a world where I don't have a new taylor swift song to look forward to playing on repeat but it is fair of you to put us second and put yourself and your family and your personal life first. Mental health is not talked about enough anymore I know miss Americana opened that curtain a little bit but alot of people don't realize mental health struggles don't just disappear because you're always seen smiling. The posts of upset fans in Rio make me so sad for you because that is not a true indication of this fandom and the billion fans that love you and im not even exaggerating when i say I think you do have a billion fans. Maybe 999 million 🫶🏼.

One stadium of sad, overheated, emotionally taxed people is such a small slice of the swifites that truly want you to be happy overall because of all the joy you've brought to us over the years. I sincerely believe the world is a better place with you and your music in it but even if there was no more music I still want you to be here and be happy and safe. I love you taylor and I really hope this message finds you.

-dee

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[anna-scribbles]

if i finish thirteen and then start talking about writing a prequel to my prequel from the perspective of young emilie i need you guys to shake me by the shoulders and tell me i’ve lost the plot

[gooboogy]

The blorbos meet (the crossover nobody asked for!)

(image ID: Jonathan Sims meets Taylor Hebert.

Jon: So you... Control worms?

Taylor: And other bugs.

Jon: You're not... In love with them, right?

Taylor: no?

Jon: Oh thank god.

Another image where Taylor shows off her homemade suit.

Jon: Your costume is made of spider silk? /End ID)

[garvalhaminho]

i have a visceral reaction everytime i think of max lightwood, so young, so lively, nine years old, and nine years old forever. and this is crucial information btw i want you all to know this

[dipplinduo]

Brain Chemistry = INFLUENCED Your Feelings = IN DANGER

When @kyokokusakabe is whispering ideas in your ear ft. @snobithesnorunt screaming "I LIKED THE WAR BETTER" in the background

[oncamelliastreet]

I am definitely not crying to you’re on your own, kid in the middle of my AP lang class…..that would be concerning

[cerealforkart]

Dungeons and Daddies the Manga Lesson 16: Needlejuice

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Bonus and transcription under the cut!

Unlike his dad, he does need his glasses, but his brother needed them more for their little switcheroo

Transcript reading guide / key [xxxx] =  identifier of text source

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Follow the Leader (Page 61) [Link]: Scary, if it’s okay with you, I think Normal should be the leader for this part. (Because it’s his dad.) [“Sparrow”] Why don’t I show you how the pizza is made back here? [Normal]: Sounds good! - [Scary]: Of course it’s okay with me! I never wanted to be the leader. I’m the rebeller! [Taylor]: (Spoken like a true leader!) - [Link]: Those least likely to lead who want to lead are the best leaders. [Taylor]: (Exactly, yes. We all know that.) - [“Sparrow”]: The fuck did you just say??? [Normal]: Can you guys shut the fuck up so we can save my dad!

Parent Trapped (Page 62) [Normal]: I’m- It’s just so screwed up! And Dad, this is all your fault! [“Sparrow”]: (Uh…) Yeah, sure. It’s all my fault. I’m stupid. I’m not as smart as my brother, and I’m kind of a hippie, and I didn’t prepare you properly. - [“Sparrow”]: I am being judged? If it wasn’t for what your Uncle Lark did, you would have grown up here. [Effect]: Scratch Scratch Scratch - [Normal]: So that makes it okay? I mean, like-! And you-! [Effect]: Scratch [Scary]: (Woah) Your dad has a tattoo of his own name? That’s cool. [Normal]: Wait, what? - [Normal]: UNCLE LARK?! [Lark]: (Sigh…)

Surprise!!! (Page 63) [Taylor]: All right chefs. I need joy, surprise, unrepentant murder, and uh, mushrooms? (Ugh) [Link]: SURPRISE! [Dice roll, Link]: Dexterity 17 - [Link]: (I’m sorry) [Ricky Click]: That’s not where the memories are stored. No. You have to use it here. [Effect]: Same brain activating [Text on box]: Syringes - [Dice Roll, Normal]: Dexterity 6 [Normal and Scary]: SURPRISE! [Dice Roll, Scary]: Dexterity 9 - [Taylor]: What are you guys doing? [Effect]: Catch! Catch!

Happy Birthday (Page 64) [Tilt]: I see in time and space, and I saw that today is the day I died. I wanted to make sure I met the next generation and helped you as much as I can. [Link]: How do you die? [Tilt]: A heart attack from the pizza. - [Normal]: Don’t eat the pizza then! [Effect]: Munch [Tilt]: I want the pizza though! [Link]: But then you’ll die! - [Scary, singing]: Happy happy birthday, Today’s the day you die! I hate to say this very quick goodbye! You’re gonna have a heart attack, On a pizza pie! Happy happy birthday, Today’s the day you die! [Tilt]: (Hurk!) [Link]: (Help!) - [Taylor]: WAIT! Those memories might still be fresh though, we can extract them. [Scary]: Yeah! [Scene]: No! Stop! She knows everything!

Transcript provided by @confusedfoam​

[kaseyskat]

hi it's nyx here once again to talk about lark vs henry and what that meant for sparrow because i swear every episode that shows even a Little bit of sparrow's actual personality is controversial.

"nyx what do you mean by this" well it's a very blatant fact that sparrow does not get much nuance in the fandom: this is especially prevalent when examining hero's conversation with normal where she explicitly calls out lark and rebecca alongside sparrow and yet sparrow is solely blamed. because of this, every time we do see sparrow be his genuine self in the show - from talking to scary and shielding her from violence to taking charge of grant and lark and wanting to help the teens to the most recent episode's case of him not believing in animal captivity - i've noticed people quickly jumping on him for being hypocritical but nobody asking why he would be hypocritical, or why he's made choices that clearly do not reflect his actual beliefs.

so let's talk about that, shall we?

i know i've talked about this before but it bears repeating: sparrow is complacent. he has consistently made decisions that go against his own beliefs, bottling up his actual thoughts on the matter in order to "keep the peace". we know this, this is a canon fact, he said as much about lark and rebecca's affair!

why does he do this? well to me, what makes the most logical sense is that this stems all the way to lark and henry's conflict. if the rogue card is only predicting anger and not enforcing it, that means there is more to lark's anger than just what happened with walter. part of that is his fear of being unable to protect the people he cares about, being helpless in situations where he could've done something, yes, but i do believe there's another root cause to his anger, one that would fuel him for decades: sparrow.

...well, more specifically, how henry changed sparrow.

we know that lark wasn't the happiest about the lovewolf split. after the lord of chaos arc, sparrow starts very slowly developing a separate personality, enough so that he and lark aren't necessarily the same kid, one unit, the same person twice. sparrow tried to teach lark his new philosophy, it was ultimately rejected. lark doesn't understand it! but he loves sparrow regardless. that disappointment, that resentment of how sparrow had changed... it goes back to henry, to henry giving sparrow that speech and reinforcing those beliefs!

we also know that originally, sparrow didn't want to pick a side. he wanted them both to get along! to reconcile! and we know that lark didn't tell him about what he saw on the throne, which has me believing that there were, perhaps, other things that lark didn't tell sparrow in crucial moments: such as his decision to release the doodler, since we really don't know if sparrow knew. sparrow would've been happy to reconcile the two, and it makes sense if this was something he didn't know but something that shakes his perspective: aka, what happens if lark doesn't confide in him. to get lark back on his side, he has to be on lark's side irrevocably, which means abandoning his peacekeeping and mediation to choose lark wholeheartedly.

so by the time the ep23 flashback happens... sparrow has lost that bit of personality he had started to form in s1. he's lark's other half again, helping him with plans, sharing his ideas. he has... you could say, lost his confidence in being a lovewolf, because despite his best efforts, it only brought more strife to his family and he doesn't want to lose lark. we know this! he doesn't want to lose lark!

and then, they find out the prophecy, that one of the twins will have a kid who will save the world. think about everything we know about lark, how stubbornly persistent he was on fixing things Himself since he puts the weight of the world on his shoulders alone. lark doesn't blame sparrow or henry, he only blames himself. would he jump at having a family to fix his mistakes? no.

but sparrow would.

so sparrow takes that burden from him. sparrow has hero when he is twenty, and lark gets to be the cool uncle who helps around the house and hero blames both twins equally so we know they did this together. sparrow doesn't want to lose lark again, he doesn't want to be himself, he adapts to rebecca's views because it's easier than admitting that maybe he shares some of the same- definitely makes him marrying a vegan centrist make sense, right? he can use rebecca as a scapegoat and it Works. his own personality gets shafted in favor of being the same man twice with lark, he bottles everything up, he disapproves but never says as much.

and he fucked up with hero. clearly, he knows that. hero has a regular life now at a private school with a job and an internship and she's a massive dweeb and i don't think any one of you could look me in the eye and say that lark approved that. it was sparrow's decision! and we know what lark thinks about sparrow's parenting: i need every one of yall who truly believes that lark would be a better father to normal to go and relisten to normal's introduction scene in ep1 and then to the end of ep24 again where lark explicitly tells normal that being the mascot is a waste of his time when he could be learning "actually useful" skills (like hunting and survival- and yall still think sparrow was the one having hero kill deer?) and that he's too soft-hearted and naive and that is sparrow's fault for being too nice. normal would not be the same kid if lark was raising him and that is NOT a good thing lmao

all of this to say. i am so tired of people understanding lark's nuance and understanding grant's nuance and understanding the s1 dads and their nuance and how their trauma fucked up their relationships with their kids and yet sparrow is the one yall bash every other week repeatedly without ever wondering like. huh. maybe it is strange that his actions now don't hold up against his actions in the past. maybe there's something else going on that is consistent with literally every other aspect of his character. it is so tiring to go into his tag and see the same things over and over and over again repeated on loop every time we see sparrow's actual personality slip out beyond him perpetuating the "same man twice" persona. he's nuanced! they're all nuanced! and that's a good thing!

sparrow's biggest issues are his complacency, the way he upholds decisions that might not really be the best decisions because it's easier. his love for lark and his desire to fix things clouds his judgement and yeah, that means he goes against his own morals frequently; or at least, he did. so far in the season though, with how he's treated normal being in the line of fire and getting into his mess, he's definitely already realized this and is putting in the work to ensure that normal doesn't go through what hero did- something that lark is not doing. sparrow's also been the best towards the other teens consistently, the most willing to listen and change his perspective (as demonstrated again in ep24- really i just think people need to relisten to ep24!) and he's definitely not the best dad but that can be said not just about all the kiddads but also about literally every dad in this podcast, because that's what this podcast is about. thank you for reading and i hope i don't have to make this post again in a few weeks <3

[bluishfrog]

Wednesday evening:

Friday morning:

😐😐😐

Can someone write a sickfic for @honelle56 before I am being forced to become a specialized sick fic writer? Please.

[whiskeyswifty]

In The Great War, when she emphasizes with a long sigh that one line “maybe it was her.” Like… what’s the reason like what’s that about like why would you do that with no context or further elaboration like ma’am.

[penelopwgarcia]

*sigh* OK folks time to hit the bottom again: being latino is not something that can pass through generations. I see some "you're latino enough" speech from US born and I'm sorry guys I know you must have struggles through heritage but being latino isn't about being the grandchild of a latino neither being born from latino parents its about the social economical and political socialization in being born IN latam. You'll see the "you're latino enough" to US born but you'll never see this kinda of shit with ana de armas or oscar isaac or even anya taylor joy because there isn't a need for validation when they are in fact latino. What honestly pisses me off is that US born think being latino is an aesthetic rather than a whole goddamn package and the fact you were born and raised in USA makes you more privileged than the ones who were raised in Latam and it isn't something to be ashamed about but rather something to TALK about. You wanna show you're proud of your heritage? Start admitting that your family went to the US probably for problems caused by the US.

[thisvisionofmyspirit]

I hate the current music industry. I hate it so much. I hate that artists have to release half of their album as singles before it officially comes out. I hate that they have to spend literal years touring around the world. I hate that they rely so heavily on merch. You get the vinyls in two colors. Three colors. Five colors. Eight colors. Every few months, they put out a new color. You've got exclusive bundles with a poster. One with a poster and a pin. One with a poster and a pin and an alternative cover. You've got figurines. You've got 459 t-shirts. 274 hoodies. 156 tank tops. Bikinis. Bath towels. Water bottles. Tons of plastic. Worldwide shipping. When do we stop.

[residentrookie]

hey guys‼️ boarding a transatlantic flight in t-minus 3 days‼️if anyone has any song recs that i should put on the mega playlist i’m compiling‼️i will take them gladly‼️

[swiftiethatyouhate]

Rio night 2.

The day that she originally planned to do the concert was sunday. when she cancelled, people booed her. so many people booed her. she could hear from her dressing room. then the very same people are cheering for her on monday, when the show was rescheduled.

that’s not being a true fan. you don’t boo someone because they care about your safety. have any of them even watched miss americana? they should know how she feels about people booing her. that sucks. sure they cheered for her later, but i’m sure that taylor didn’t believe it in her heart.