#taylorcore

[dumpitos]

Taylor Swift ; like if save or use

[wish-i-was-milena]

girlhood is a spectrum 🎀

[delusions-of-glamour]

https://instagram.com/taylorhissed

[chaoticgoodmermaid]

eating leftover cheesecake factory cheesecake with my bare hands

[nick-close]

I wanna do a DTIYS but it’s just bunnygirl hero and we all draw her and that’s it that’s the idea

[burnpianoislandburn]

whenever i see swifties claim patti smith as a TaylorCore Artist i think NO! GET AWAY FROM HER DEMON!!!

[booksandchainmail]

Pale 10.3

Lucy hesitated, taking it in.  It wasn’t a grand betrayal.  Toadswallow had his goals and whatever the nuances were, he hadn’t wanted to share them.

the fact that this isn't having an immediate impact is making me nervous it's part of a longer plan from Crooked Rook

The danger is exactly that. Pressure, inexorable, annoying, sapping away enough of your focus

taylorcore

The arrow for War, the forking branch for Nature, the hourglass arrangement of two triangles with points touching for Time, the angular C-shape for Fate, and the gateway, like a keyhole without a floor, for Death. There was another, and it sometimes replaced nature, sometimes overlapped with Fate, for Fortune, but that was a newer thing.

most of these are intuitive, but I'm curious about Fate and Death. Fate is the Threads and the woven object iirc, Death is the Pale and the skull. I'm guessing Fortune would have some kind of circle as a symbol to represent the coin?

she reached into her pocket, found her phone and coiled up earphones, and selected the first song that felt thematic, close to the top of her playlist. Au Rii – Dance Into Dark. A sultry, purring guy’s voice almost straining to push through a backdrop of throbbing, dark instrumentals and a back-backdrop of synths that were just biting enough that they could be hard to listen to.

You would think having these kinds of cues would make putting together a playlist for Pale easier. You would think!

She missed Verona.  The humor, the cleverness, the idea that no matter how bad it got, her friend could pull out an idea and salvage things.  Or partially salvage things.  Verona pushed things and kept them from never falling into a rut. She missed Avery. Avery, who could normally find her way to Lucy’s side even if she was nowhere nearby. Who was decent enough as a person that it felt like Lucy was better off for it.

🥹

When she’d been afraid that this would all mount up, and that everything would fall down in a way that put all the responsibility on her shoulders.  That she’d be essentially alone against a hostile world.

as she has felt everywhere outside her home for most of her life

The music throbbed, helping to center her and make her feel attuned to Death.  Death as something seductive to the guys, because Guilherme flirted with it to add spice to life and John kept on sacrificing his frigging self and Lucy was worried it would one day stick.  Death as dark and uncomfortable and intense as an idea.

queering the attracted-to-Death binary etc etc

Edith looked down at the beginnings of the diagram.�� “Don’t.” “Any reason?” Lucy asked. “Because I said not to, Lucy."

don't pull the adult card on her

“An out of control ghoul getting at family members is something that could affect Matthew or me just as easily.  But you, as so many practitioners do, seem to treat binding diagrams and your ability to entrap us in a-” There were two more gunshots. “-cavalier way. It’s easy for you and life altering for us,” Edith finished.

maybe not the time!

“I have fire, she doesn’t like it.  Others have their own ideas.  I want you to trust us, Lucy.”

then stop planning on killing her!

She abandoned the rod, but kept the ring and hot lead ready.  She could spend a minute disarming this arrangement, but… instead she reached out to touch it, laying her hand flat against the side. The weapon ring transformed it into a weapon. A squat, rectangular shotgun. Ball bearings spilled out into the floor as she tipped it down to look at the handle.

clever way to disarm it

“You’re a clever girl, Lucy,” Guilherme said.  “You’ve learned many tricks when separated from your friends.  That’s a cleverness you need to embrace and capture.  You can do this.”

Fae teachers suck! Not the time!

She’d had other scares too.  Her fingers touched her arm where the Nettlewisp had been. You like it too much. Some small, subconscious part of herself had liked being prickly.  She’d liked that aesthetic, the twining vines, the spikes, the barbs.

the aesthetic slapped!

and once again Lucy is back to choosing whether or not to pick up the knife, between being the abrasive principled leader or the diplomat

Alexander had taught them about coup and claim.  She claimed this for herself.  She found the other connections to the other bells in this building and held them firm. Shadowy hands gripped the wire above and below the bell and held it fiercely taut. The bell jostled as smoke reached toward it from one direction, tugging, ready to pull away and jangle, but a reaching out of smoke from the opposite direction made it move back to center instead.

I am mentally pairing this scene with the one from earlier this arc of setting off the bells all at once for visuals for the Lucy song on my playlist

There were answering flashes without noise.  John.  Lucy had never meant for him to keep the silence rune on the gun.  She wondered for a moment if he’d want something more permanent-

awww

“Montague!” Matthew called out.  “Secure the remaining traps!  See if you can’t get the network!  Lucy, signal him!” There was a moment, brief, where it sure seemed like the Witch Hunter had looked at Lucy.

did the Witch Hunter have her name before? Because he seems like the kind of guy who's not averse to using mundane methods to track her down

Lucy had the feeling they’d let him pursue the ghouls, surrounded him from a very wide distance he couldn’t necessarily track, where bells and his influence were thinner, and treated the ghouls as a sacrifice or necessary risk to get the man under control.

the ghouls who are allied with Crooked Rook, not with Edith

Three things happened in the same moment, and there was nothing Lucy could do about it.  Chloe was fast, and Guilherme had taught Lucy about being fast, fighting against fast.  He knew well enough what to do. But Edith was ready, too. Fire erupted between Chloe and everyone else.

I wonder if Edith didn't want Lucy putting up barriers because using fire to contain Chloe instead would give Edith a chance to weaken or kill Chloe with plausible deniability?

She turned her attention to Edith instead. Another burst of flame and the emergence of the Girl by Candlelight made her change her mind. Lucy’s eyes widened as she realized who the most apparent target was.

Or that! Keeping Chloe feral and attacking lets Edith weaken Others (with her own allies not in range?), gives her a chance to get at Lucy, and maybe even deliberately keeps the Witch Hunter in play to whittle down those Others not allied with her

Lucy found the catch that served as the trigger for the little trap, then changed her mind.  She aimed down, twisting her lower body away, and pressed the muzzle against Chloe’s thigh.

kudos to Lucy for trying for non-lethal damage in a situation this dangerous

Her eyes adjusted to the light of the moonlight outside, magnified by the mask she wore, and she saw the chalk. Marred. Smudged out. Chloe leaped past it, catching Lucy. How much of this was intentional?

fuckfuckfuckfuck.

At this point Edith's only barely maintaining plausible deniability, she doesn't care anymore that Lucy knows to not trust her

The fact that the people who had gotten hurt were not their prime suspects.  John, the goblin riff-raff, Guilherme…

people who weren't warned... I guess this is a good sign for trusting Guilherme?

Melissa stopped running, skin tearing away in folds that reached around.  She lifted up off the ground, slender, tall, dark-haired Maricica, looking down at the encircled Witch Hunter. Lucy looked away, hand cupped so she couldn’t see the man. It was clear what would happen.

welp, guess that's dealt with

The sound of it all was too much.  Lucy turned away, walking, without looking at the aftermath. No, there was more aftermath to be had. This wasn’t the sort of thing that settled this easily. The Witch Hunter had friends, he had an employer, and…

GUESS THAT'S DEALT WITH

[myoldiaries]

she looks soooooo taylorcore ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ in this picture, not everyone get it though

[lakesbian]

okay so now we know what song/s you don't like for Taylor, what song/s do you like? (i am personally partial to "pieces of me" and "secret identity" both by aviators)

see the thing about me is that my music taste is near entirely '80s and '90s dad rock, which means that i am not a fantastic source of wormsong recs. aerosmith does not unfortunately have any taylorcore hits!

will be real pieces of me is not serving anything particularly taylor to me but secret identity works well enough. "it's a ghost in the code of my being/and it's coming for you this time" very much giving queen administrator ♥

as for my own few choices:

hope in the air by laura marling. gold morning, To Me, and also wormcore in general, To Me.

"Pick up your rope, Lord, sling it to me If we are to battle, I must not be weak And give us your strength, world, and your food, and your water Oh, I am your savior, your last serving daughter There's hope in the air There's hope in the water But sadly not me Your last serving daughter"

khepri. you agree.

obligatory obvious spiral of ants by lemon demon. obligatory kiss me son of god. etc.

SPRORGANISM by superorganism. also khepri. get it because she's. she's a superorganism.

"Put your mind in my brain and you'll see Everything is better when you're everything"

"A superorganism is a creature Made up of many different individuals Thanks to technological systems You are me, and I am you We are tied together into a single processing system Together we are an amazing superor— When I grow up, I need to be A superorganism, come on give it to me Are you aware? Are you alone with the taste Of architectures forming from my acid waste? It wasn't right for you to refuse It's okay, now you're part of the only thing alive Everybody needs to be a superorganism"

Khepri! You Agree!

more bad times by the presents of the united states of america is Thee undersiders/taylor song to me. like:

"You twisted your ankle I carried you You got a divorce So I married you You fell off a cliff So I buried you I wish there were more bad times to see you through"

"I'd rather gather your bones Than mop up this mess If I scrub us all spotless I'll wreck our success I was holding your hand When it fell on the floor When you left you broke the knob on the door I wish there was more"

they've all been fucked over by the system or by the adults that were supposed to care for them. they form lifechanging bonds in their brief time together. but they still never really got to connect outside of crisis scenarios, and hell, they probably wouldn't have connected if they weren't constantly in crisis scenarios together. despite that, when the chips were down, they were always in each others corners. no matter what else she's doing, when shit hits the fan, taylor is a de facto undersider. and the time they have together is still so tragically short, and entirely comprised of Bad Times! they'd rather keep committing to the batshit track of their lives (rather gather each others bones) than back out (mop up the mess)! when taylor leaves she breaks the knob off the door, and they all wish there had been just a few more Bad Times together. like they are each others Most fucking important and formative relationships as teenagers and they still can't go "ah good times" and reminisce. they've gotta go "wish there were more bad times to see you through." it's so fucking sad. it rocks.

ok this is getting a bit long so that's all for now. i'd say "hope these offerings r winners" but the important part is just that they cannot humanly be worse choices than boys will be bugs

[cookies-over-yonder]

me, putting hello kitty bandaids on my cuts and blisters: this is so taylorcore

[maxkowski]

Taylorcore

hmu on bug grindr

[nts-session-1]

i accidentally dislocated someone's elbow. is that taylorcore enough. am i finally literally her. is this a normal reaction to have to such an event

[tryna-find-a-place-in-this-world]

I saw this eyeshadow palette at sports girl (I'm not sure if that's a thing internationally but its a pretty popular teen/tween store in Australia) but it felt very taylorcore

[iwatcheditbegin]

I’ll never understand some peoples need to hate on anything popular. You’re not special or unique for that, it’s popular for a reason.

[escapingpurgatory]

taylorcore

type your name + "aesthetic" into Pinterest and see what it shows you, reblog and tag your five moots!

I am shocked over how accurate this is

I'll go first (no pressure tags under the pics)

no pressure tags:

@jaybirdbluejay @my-castles-crumbling @whydousernamesevenexist @outromoony @sweetnnaivete

[yourstrulysolci]

𓇬𓈒 Taylor Swift 1989 polaroids.

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