#reptourMiami

[guessilljusttumblonhometomycats]

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This video has all the feels!!!!!!!! All of em! 😫😫😫😫😫 @xoxocarrixoxo @taylorswift @taylornation #reputationstadiumtour #taylorswift #reptourmiami #imnotcryingyourecrying ! #memories #reptourmiami (at Hard Rock Stadium) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmw35QtFKg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[diegocordoba]

‪1729 days! Last time was on Aug 18, 2018 #repTourMiami Can’t wait for #PhillyTSTheErasTour (5/13) From Colombia 🇨🇴 to Philly @taylornation @taylorswift #CountdownToTSTheErasTour ‬

[so-it-goes141]

3 years ago, today🥺 i miss concerts and i miss singing along with Taylor and swifties, in one room.

Reputation stadium tour Miami🐍🖤

@taylorswift @taylornation

[kristinarain13]

hi t!! happy two years of rep tour!! this tour means so much to me. the best nights of my life happened on this tour. rep tour brought me so much happiness and joy, and so many amazing and unforgettable memories. i’m SO SO SO thankful that i got to attend three shows!! i’m also so so thankful for all of the opportunities i got and got to experience. whenever i’m feeling down, or upset or stressed, i always reflect back on this tour and remember how happy i was and how happy taylor was and how happy the stadium full of people were, and it makes me happy in that moment. anyways, @taylorswift, i just wanted to thank you for giving me SO much happiness. i love you forever & always.

@taylorswift @taylornation

[corneliastr13t]

Reputation Stadium Tour - Miami, FL (July 18, 2018)

@taylorswift @taylornation

📸: Alexander Tamargo | TAS18 | Getty Images

[delicatswifttie]

It’s been one year since one of the best days of my life. RepTourMiami. I remember this day so clearly. Ever since I woke up that day, I was in such a happy mood, knowing that I was gonna see Taylor perform LIVE. Once I arrived at the stadium I went to go meet up with some ppl in our Miami gc. Once I met up with them for a bit it was time to go to my gate. My dad said goodbye to me, hugged me, and said “have a good time. have fun. dance, sing. I’ll be here when you’re ready to leave”.

Once the gate had opened I got my wristbands and went to get food cause I was hungry and hadn’t eaten. After that I went straight to my assigned place, Snake Pit C. I looked around the stadium in awe of how it looked and how many people were starting to come in. I also remember Elena coming to visit me at the pit and being like “holy shit. this is awesome” 😂 uwu

Charli & Camila’s sets were great. Charli actually waved at me and after Camila played Consequences (which I cried so hard) and was transitioning into Into It, she saw me and made a few funny moves at me to cheer me up lol. I had fun. Then it was about time for Taylor to come. Everyone around me couldn’t handle it anymore. Then, the intro started playing. We were like “ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENING”. When she appeared we lost it. Everything after that was just magical. I loved every minute of it. The stadium glowed. The environment was so loving. I even got to meet @befearlessbeyou Thank you @taylorswift for coming to Miami and for putting on such a spectacular show. Thank you for the amazing memories💗

[maikojapaneseswiftie]

5 days until Lover and 1 year of rep Tour Miami!

A year ago we flew to Miami🏝 all the way from Japan🇯🇵 to see you, and it seems like still yesterday. We had so much fun there and absolutely it is one of the best summer memories ever! 🌞 Thank you so much for the glorious night Taylor! You were killing it!❤️ We’ll never ever forget that night we danced together! 🕺🕺🏻🕺🏼

( btw I went there with my ex, yea I know it’s sad but we broke up. 😞 but we’re still good friends👫. just between you and me🤫)

All of us are so excited for Lover to come out! 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

Oh and I’m having a freakin seriously important exam 5 days later, on the realease date of Lover, so wish ME! luck pleaaaseeeee so I can listen to Lover very happily!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

I love you😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

@taylorswift @taylornation

[1313taylor]

I promise that you’ll never find another like me 🦋 🌈

[likethebackofmyhand]

One year ago we went from a loveresque sunset to the hottest, most humid, best experience of my life. Thank you thank you thank you to the woman from @taylornation who picked US to be upgraded to floor. There no need to fill up seats or add more people to the floor section and so I will be forever grateful to the person who trekked up to the 300s, went to the middle of our row, and picked us. This was my first Taylor Swift concert and watching her from the ground solidified what I already knew, reputation is that album and Taylor is that bitch. Having first listened to Taylor’s music since I was in the 10th grade on my bus ride home to 12 years after the fact, I’m so grateful that this was how I got to see her live for the first time.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

[minnieswift]

1 year since rep tour MIAMI and I’m in my feels. 😭

[gaaswiftie13]

@taylorswift @taylornation I was 11 years old (11 years ago) the first time I heard a Taylor Swift song and everything changed. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined seeing her live. Living in a third world country I didn't have much chance of ever going to a concert and I still can't believe I'll see her in a few days. I've stayed by your side since the Tim Mcgraw days and I'll stay forever. THANK YOU Taylor for showing me that if I keep on believing, anything can happen. You showed me that life can put you down, but I can always stand back up and if I want something enough I can get it. I saved up for the plane tickets from Bolivia to Miami and Rep Project Giveback gave me tickets for the concert. I hope someday I can hug you!!! I LOVE YOU TONS! See you in Miami, Babeeee!!!

@taylorswift @taylornation @latinswiftiesonreptour @tsofficialmerch

[cleansavedmylife]

COSTUME REVEAL + My Story! Losing 100 pounds and overcoming life’s obstacles.

Dedicated to the person who got me through the darkest times in my life, @taylorswift.

PART I. COSTUME REVEAL

Here’s the meaning behind my costume. My entire outfit is based around the lyric “the monsters turned out to be just trees”. This lyric truly means so much to me. It justifies to me that all the negative people in my life, all the hardships I’ve had to overcome, and all the self-doubt I’ve had to endure cannot do any harm to me because I am an evergreen tree whose leaves will stay on all year long. 

My sign goes from black leaves to green to golden. The black leaves are symbolic of the harsh times in my life while the golden leaves represent where I am now, in the golden age of my life! 

The roots on my pants are also golden which continues the reputation theme throughout!

I’m really proud of this costume and am so grateful that my close friends were willing to spend a week helping me get this finished product. My birthday’s on Sunday and it just feels great to know I have such supportive friends.

PART II. MY STORY

FYI this is pretty lengthy but for those struggling I hope it’s worth the read.

So here’s my story.

When I was fifteen, I was in the worst place of my entire life, yet I didn’t even realize it. was living with my single mother at the time in my hometown Miami, Florida. In the span of eight years (since my parents divorced when I was seven), we had moved about twelve times. We could never afford to keep up with the bills, but we just kept on moving around until we could find some sort of stability. We spent almost an entire month with our running water cut off and we had to carry buckets of water over from the next-door neighbor’s house so that we could shower. After my parent’s divorce, I made an immediate connection with my step-mother. She soon became my second mother, one who gave me all the emotional support a kid needed growing up. When my mom spent long nights working two jobs to pay the bills, my step-mom sat with me to listen to Taylor’s songs, she’d cook my favorite food (fettucine alfredo), and she’d just listen to me talk about just anything.

But then when I was fifteen, she was gone. My dad and her suddenly split up and I went from spending half my time with her, to loving her through a phone call. I had lost the only stability I had ever known. Soon thereafter, my mom and I were evicted from the house we were living in and I was sent off to live with my dad and his new girlfriend, one who was everything but friendly. Gone were my home-cooked meals, bonding sessions, and overall emotional support. During this time, I made it to the weight of 285 pounds. I had high blood pressure and fatty liver disease. I’d find myself sleeping through the mornings to wake up to a cheeseburger and shake waiting for me in the fridge. Every morning. I no longer had nobody to talk to and was left to sink into my own thoughts.

As an obese teenager, I was usually the outcast in a group of other kids. I couldn’t run as fast, had to catch my breath after going up a flight of stairs, and was just seen as abnormal. That, along with my love for Taylor Swift among other pop stars led to me being a social outcast. This meant I didn’t really have anybody to turn to for help, besides well, Taylor’s music.

But as the months continued, so did my loss of self. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic that I knew I had to turn my life around before it was too late. All the negative people in my life told me I could never change my ways and that well, I’d be unhealthy forever. But Taylor told me something different. Taylor told me, “Today is never too late to be brand new”. And damn right she was.

I moved back in with my mom and I was determined to change. I completely changed my eating habits… in its entirety. I went from drinking two liter bottles of Coke-Cola and a bottle in Nutella in a sitting to eating grilled chicken and vegetables instead. I started walking every day until I found myself walking six miles every day. I joined a CrossFit gym and began to walk six miles and attend a CrossFit class every day. Before I knew it, I had lost ten pounds. Then twenty. Then forty. Until I found myself weighing 190 pounds, a weight I hadn’t been at since the sixth grade. I began shedding the skin that made me feel ashamed of who I was. The skin that caused me to feel like I wasn’t worth believing in.

My determination in school also helped me extremely and I was able to skip the eleventh grade and graduate high school a year early, becoming one of the top twenty students in my graduating class. I put all my drive and ambitions into becoming a healthier person and a smarter person. I was not going to let the person I was change the person I had the potential to be. Taylor always told me otherwise. Taylor’s music was like the best friend that understood everything without an explanation… she just always understood me. She gave me the pep-talks I wouldn’t have had otherwise. She was, in a way, the closest thing I had to someone who believed in me.

By the April of 2017, I was notified that I would be getting a full ride to an honors program at a local college to get my associates degree before transferring to the university of my dreams. I was entering college, a new person inside and out because of the changes I made in my life, which would have not been possible without Taylor.

Then in college I was given the opportunity to create a project for diabetes awareness and prevention in Miami, one that I never thought would go anywhere. I submitted my project to the Clinton Global Initiative for World Change and I was notified that this year, I would be getting an all-expense paid trip to travel to Illinois this fall to attend this world conference, and possibly be able to shake hands with Bill & Chelsea Clinton. I was wonderstruck. I still am wonderstruck. I can safely say that I am finally clean of all the demons that once lurked in my life.

And now, I can proudly say I rid myself of high blood pressure, fatty liver disease, and pre-diabetes. I just finished my first year at college and have a 4.0 GPA and am pursuing a degree in the chemical engineering field. And I will hopefully be transferring to the university of my dreams, Georgia Tech next year. I am the happiest I’ve ever been and I just want you all to know that no matter how dark the times feel, how hopeless you feel, you can overcome it. And you will come out stronger than ever. You’ll come out clean.

I will be attending the reputation tour in Miami, Florida on 8.18.2018 and will be sitting in section 149, row 17, seat 17. I hope I can thank you Taylor in person for everything you’ve done for me. @taylornation

Thank you, Taylor for being the only person who told me you believed in me. Thank you for showing me that I am worthwhile and that I am not damaged goods. Thank you for making me clean.

[manxita]

Just realized I never shared my photos from Rep Tour Miami with you all, so here are a couple, hope you like them! More coming soon :)

[so-it-goes141]

8.18.18 reputation stadium tour Miami

Two years ago today I got to see @taylorswift for the first time after being a swiftie for many years! reputation will always hold a special place in my heart because it came at a time when I needed it most. Walking through the stadium and seeing everyone in their costumes still gives me goosebumps to this day. It was a place that I felt safe and I can’t wait to be back! FYI it was beyond humid and even Taylor was feeling it; but ofc she went on with the show flawlessly! Even wiped her sweat with her hair before long live😂

Fun story: after the concert, my friend and I were trying to get an uber (never again) and got trapped in one of those freak Florida storms..to the girls that hid under a tree with me and helped us..i love you and thank you!💕

Being an international fan is not easy, but hopefully i’ll get to experience this again soon...once it is safe again.

..Taylor, I love you.. thank you and your team for that special night💕 @taylornation

PS..say hi to Karyn for me..I miss her xo

🐍

[cruelsummervol6]

one year and one day ago today my friends and i rolled up to the reputation tour in miami with the getaway car we made dressed like all the old taylors!!!

missing rep tour and parading around the stadium like this this 🥺

[taylortreasures]

IT'S FINALLY DONE!!! I've put well over 60 hours into this jacket, I made the whole thing (+ the bodysuit) from scratch and spent hours sewing patches and glueing sequins on! I'm really proud of how it turned out though and I can't wait to wear it to a show, fingers crossed I'll be able to show Taylor at the barricade when she walks through!