#taylor and the wolves

[dcvina-claires]

i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

[sihtryggr]

Cregan is coming back for the finale

edit: this is gonna be really awkward if he doesn’t actually come back HAHAH

edit: THANK GOD HE DIDNT

[abduloki]

In the book, they are called the "Winter Wolves".

They're not afraid of dying as they've seen much worse beyond the walls and they hate traitors the most because they value loyalty.

[grishaverse-chaos]

hmmm something about dominik haunting the narrative in king of scars. everything nikolai does is at least a little bit for him. he learns about the life of average ravkan people by meeting dominik's family. he starts gaining influence in politics just so he can improve dominik's life. and then he promises dominik that he won't let ravka break him.

that promise fucking haunts him. it follows him wherever he goes. it's the driving force behind everything he does, every step he takes to heal the centuries-old wounds in ravka. it's what drives him to do better, be better.

dominik is always there, in the back of his mind: this country gets you in the end. always pushing him to do more, because he couldn't save dominik and so he has to save ravka (for dominik) (because he promised) (because he loved him)

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Space Wolves Codex (2nd Ed) Cover Art by Geoff Taylor

[foxes-that-run]

Wolves

In the OOTW tour screens (recreated in the TV Lyric video) Taylor is a wolf, an apex predator (apex popstar) running with a peer partner through the woods. The tour screens came before the MV where Taylor was alone, hunted before solitarily leading the pack.

When the music video came out Taylor liked multiple posts confirming they represent the wolves media & GP (Below) pulling them apart. I think the change in her role indicates it’s more complex than media/GP, it’s also her own fame. She is not just prey, she is a wolf herself. In TTPD I think we have a deeper look at the things tearing at her yes fans & media but fame & industry also.

This meaning of wolves as dark side of fame is particular interesting with Daylight where the muse ran with the wolves and wouldn’t settle down, as in they chose to be pursue fame, similar to the lost boys in Peter:

Daylight: Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down

In GAS Taylor is dreaming of the wolf muse and contemplating what that would mean for her life:

Guilty as Sin?: I dream of cracking locks, throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks

In the Prophecy Taylor is a wolf again, but no longer part of the pack, wolves howl at the moon to communicate with other wolves. In that song she was separated from her wolf muse.

The Prophecy: A greater woman stays cool but I howl like a wolf at the moon

Harry

Harry has a custom painted Martin guitar with a wolf and moon he’s used since it was first seen 28 April 2018, it is painted by his friends artist twins Simon and Nikolai Haas (The Haas Brothers)

Harry has a similar Lyric to daylight but running with thieves in MMIH:

MMIH: I walked the streets all day, running with thieves

In St Louis (after he and Taylor were in Chicago) Harry changed thieves to "running with you" a similar meaning of outside force/self/sharing that with a like minded partner:

Taylor liked these posts saying the wolves represented the media and forces tearing them apart. (x, x, x, x, x, x)

[mariaofdoranelle]

[augustus816]

on the one hand, i really do want ferrari to get their shit together and finally give charles a championship contending car again

on the other hand… redbull reputation era.

[divinelydivided]

This book store worker did not need to do this to my feelings

[nicollekidman]

man who has been trying and failing to gain a foothold in hollywood for six years: babe i just cannot handle your fame 

[swiftie-as-a-coursing-river]

He LITERALLY let them bejeweled 😭

[sihtryggr]

one source: no more Cregan for the rest of the season!

another source: Cregan is going to make a re-appearance to lead the winter wolves to the twins!

me:

pretending not to care so I’m pleasantly surprised if he does show up again but not disappointed if he doesn’t (I will be disappointed if he doesn’t show up again)

[iwanthermidnightz]

After playing Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman To Have - But I Have It with Jack, a hologram of Lana and her dancers appeared while a recording played of words from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of the book Women Who Run with the Wolves. Full excerpt below:

“Wild woman archetype: there’s usually tremendous suffering involved in the human life, in the human woman who stands in front of this particular archetype. They’re trained to remain contained. To never really spread their wings, and especially never to find those who are like themselves. That was considered very very dangerous. The domestication of the wild continued so young females are taught to not like spit and moistness and sweat and other effluvia, and out of the many possibilities of what it means to be female, only two aspects were given weight. It is sweet mother who always takes care and shows concern for everything and everybody and the know-nothing maiden who’s always sweet, cute and innocent. Which leaves out the whole instinctual and animal nature of a woman. Yet by the time most women who are raised as captive creatures, by the time they were teenagers, they were exposed to art cinema. They were exposed to Latin poets. They were exposed to things and ideas and often lovers even who ask them to please be a full person. So the veils that were laid down to keep the girls separate from their animal nature - well sometimes they were torn and certainly wavered on young women of that time was slipping away because the sensuality of those women, which is not only sexual but also creative, was calling to them more and more strongly all the time. And the “thou shalt nots” were as much a part of the cage that they had experienced as their familial injunctions were. So many many women during that time, not just in America, but in Europe as well, threw over the old order, said “no, I won’t be caged anymore, I want to be free!” And they went out for the first time in their lives and into the world.”

[unnamednarrator]

Great day to remember Daylight by TS was written for Everlark. I don’t make the rules I just heard “I can see it in my mind, all of you all of me intertwined, I once believed love would be black and white but it’s golden” and connected the dots.

IT IS A GREAT DAY TO REMEMBER THAT!!! UR CORRECT!!!

[nikolailanstovswife]

I JUST SAW A KANEJ EDIT TO CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS AND WHEN IT GOT TO 'SHE COULD'VE BEEN SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE WHAT A SHAME SHES FUCKED IN THE HEAD' THE TEXT OVER THE EDIT WAS 'SHES COULD'VE BEEN HIS KNIFE WIFE WHAT A SHAME THEY ARE BOTH TRAUMATISED' SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

[booklover-s]

People know that gold rush by taylor swift is the most zoyalai song there is, right?