#paid the price

[foxes-that-run]

Haylor ''They Paid the Price"

Harry & Taylor often refer to 'paying for' their relationship. It's has layered meanings, they pay emotionally, in their other relationships, but also their personal and professional lives are linked which complicates their relationship and how they are viewed by fans. The secret message of 1989's Track 5, All You Had to Do was Stay was "They paid the price" Below is a list of songs with this reference:

Harry:

Kiwi: "It's like I paid for it, I'm gonna pay for this (Oh!)"

Fine Line: "Put a price on emotion / I'm looking for something to buy / You've got my devotion / But man, I can hate you sometimes"

Grape Juice: "But I got over it and I said / "Give me somethin' old and red" I pay for it more than I did back then"

Music for a Sushi Restaurant "I don't want you to get lost / I don't want you to go broke / I want you" and "I'm not going to get lost / I'm not going to go broke / Staying cool / (Know I love you, babe)"

Taylor has also made this reference in:

All you had to do was stay (liner notes): "they paid the price"

Slut! “I'll pay the price, you wont / But if I'm all dressed up / they might as well be lookin' at us / And if they call me a slut / You know it might be worth it for once”

Suburban legends: " You were so magnetic, it was almost obnoxious / Flush with the currency of cool" and to me "When I ended up back at our class reunion / Walkin' in with you" is a power couple at an awards show, the opposite of losing fans by being together.

Cruel Summer "Bad, bad boy / Shiny toy with a price / You know that I bought it"

Maroon: “The rubies that I gave up / And I lost you”

Now that we don't talk "I cannot bе your friend, so I pay the price of what I lost / And what it cost, now that we don't talk"

Cowboy like me "We could be the way forward / And I know I'll pay for it"

The Prophecy - "Don't want money / Just someone who wants my company"

To me Sushi and Cowboy are a more mature look at this theme, while it started without agency in AYHTWS and Kiwi, but Cowboy and Sushi they see the cost and considering how to navigate it.

They also admire Mitchel/Nash and Burton/Taylor in this vein, who are her heros that end up alone.

[howifeltabouthim]

I have earned the right to call myself anything I like . . . No one but I have paid for that privilege.

Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

[emocanvas]

Emocanvas - Price I paid

I felt my heart was skewed. I'm going through a numbing phase. I can't blame someone who doesn't love me enough. After all, this year, I have adapted to let you be free. And this is my cost a year of pain.

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

Me: I'm curious what happens if you make the deal with Auntie Ethel, I'll watch/record it and then backload it'll be fine

Ædrian: <looks fine as HELL with one damaged eye>

Me: OH NO

[candycatfalls]

I think he is normal about physical affection and emotional intimacy also

[silverseasx]

MY BONES HURTTTTTT

Please send help- I stood up and heard 5-6 different cracks while feeling the world spin

[dmitryanya]

the way 'you're as beautiful as the day i lost you' applies to these two always hits me like a brick wall

[mousenoise]

Happy end of tour, boys

[elderwisp]

toysofdukeness deleted their cc/wiped their patreon and i just wanted to say, the impact that early access content has set for the sims (particularly sims 4) community has once again showed how much of a disappointment it is altogether. whether it's trackers in downloads, doxing people, broken/uninspired sets and now stealing other people's free content... to the point where we drive a member who has been here for a very long time... something's eventually got to give but it's exhausting seeing the lack of accountability of these creators time and time again. please don't give these people your money. it's unfortunate that we have to call them out on their bs. however it's incredibly clear that a lot of ea creators have no integrity and will truly do anything to make a quick buck

EDIT: the names of the accounts listed in toysofdukness’s patreon post are simsulani (hellosimsulani) and kd89 (kd89-3dstudios)

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Rhaegar Targaryen is easily one of GRRM’s best deconstructions of the genre and we don’t talk about it enough. He’s prince living in a world full of magic and wonder that has dwindled over time. His own family had a great monopoly on one of the most magical phenomena (dragons) to ever exist, but they lost this control over time and it was due to their own faults. But there’s an all encompassing hope that this magic, these dragons, will come back. They all live within the promise that it will all be back and with a huge bang. It’s all so romantic. Magical forces of ice and fire battling it out in a song.

Then there’s Rhaegar, a prince born for the sole purpose of being this song’s romantic hero. He already has his destiny mapped out and it will be a great one, greater than any other man who ever lived. It’s a song of ice and fire, and Rhaegar is its bard. You’d expect this to give him joy. Yet by all accounts, he was depressed as fuck. I think he’s unfairly earned the reputation of having an ego so big to think that he will be the hero….but that’s quite literally the point of his existence. He was born to be the hero. He paid the price at birth to be the hero. How can he revel and glory in this destiny when he has no say in it?

So it’s genuinely funny that when given the chance, Rhaegar immediately pivots to someone else taking on this burden. But how tragic for him that he cannot escape it too far. Because it will be none other than his own son who, under a “bleeding star”, is marked at conception for this great destiny without a say. More than his ego, Rhaegar is marked by the inability to escape this duty. His whole life is dedicated to fulfilling a duty he can never escape. He isn’t just a future king, prophecy dictates that the world’s survival is placed squarely on his shoulders. Even when he isn’t the hero, he’s now responsible for raising him…

…but then he makes one decision and it all comes crumbling like a pack of biscuits. He escapes this burden…but dies. And his successor dies too. And now the ones who will inherit his legacy are two people who never knew him. They never knew of his burdens, of this prophecy. But they too cannot escape its jaws. I think this does bring up some interesting questions about the nature of fate and destiny in the world of ice and fire. Can you really escape it? Rhaegar tried to, and paid the price for his defiance, but he never truly made it out because the burden instead jumped to the son (and sister) he never knew. Funny thing is that in a bizarre (and tragic, in its own way) twist of fate, this son was brought up entirely without the trappings of power that depressed Rhaegar. Rhaegar was a dazzling prince, Jon is a bastard. Rhaegar was marked by his great inheritance, Jon is marked by the lack thereof. Does fate say “well the first one got too depressed by having too much so let’s give the next one nothing?” Even Dany, who grows up a princess does not have the privileges that Rhaegar did. So how does upbringing craft a hero and the choices they make? Welll, GRRM had given us two versions of Rhaegar’s tragedy in Jon and Dany for us to see.

Rhaegar’s impact on the meta-narrative is honestly so massive. Like I’d put him right up there with Quentyn, Sansa, and Bran as one of the best genre deconstructions in the series and no one can tell me otherwise.

[hinamie]

you're lovely in ways that i just can't explain

testing out new brushes w some lmhs itfs nape kisses :> jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[taxinealkaloids]

kill your darling, it's just that easy!

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Greyjoy of Pyke

[maleksrami]

idk where to ask this but i have literally so many magazine issues with louis tomlinson and harry styles on the cover that i’m thinking about selling bc i really need the money and i never ever look at them, they’re just safely tucked in a drawer in good condition and i think they deserve new homes with people who will appreciate them more, especially if they’re hard to find. i probably have almost every louis cover and so many extra harry ones that i know are valuable. is there anyone here who’d be interested if i were to list them somewhere or on here

here is what i’m willing to let go of (so far):

some of these have minor damage to the binding because i received them that way (they’ve been very well stored otherwise), so keep that in mind if you are interested

[suntails]

🍎⚔️

[knucklesex]

ok i did this to myself.