#the tortured gaylors department

[doingitbrokenhearted]

oh my gosh I actually might cry looking at the ttpd “in summation” because

The handwriting is cute, right? But wait…

Lovers spend years denying.

In swooping, sloping, cursive letters.

🥹

[laurelchell]

She isn't even being subtle anymore

I find it funny how in So High School, a song where it's really hard to ignore the Travis Kelce of it all, Taylor's subconsciously begging people to end her misery.

[badgalazzie]

we are so back, gaylors.

SAPPHO SPOTTED AT TTPD!

​"bust of young woman with loose hair and lyre” is the sculpture name. by @/tsalchemy on twitter

[ioncewaspoisonivy-13]

lord have mercy who is their spy

NOW THEY’RE CLAIMING THE TRUMAN SHOW AS ONE OF THEIR THEORIES

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I hate it here.

[citystreetsblind]

Im still wishing I’ll get to see TTPD set live

[agreyrose]

So hang on, hang on, lemme make sure I’m getting this right. So she’s in a psych ward. In a wedding gown. And she takes the “miracle move on drug” the “forget him” pill of which the effects are temporary. Right, right. And then she’s set free, and immediately walks into a sterile office in a VICTORIAN MOURNING gown! And sits down to start working away on her typewriter. She’s writing, and she loves her muse, and it’s ruining her life. Okay. And then she and the muse are laying on the papers, in love. The pages of her work, her diary, her songs, THE FILES!! And they’re together, and the pages are flying around them, blocking them from the camera, okay? You still with me? She reaches for the muse and then she’s getting electric shock therapy?? With curly hair?? Okay. Okay. And again, loving the muse is ruining her life. And all the doctors, the people closest to her, run away scared when the electricity short circuits or whatever, and the muse is the only one who notices and stops it from killing her!!! The muse is in a (glass) phone booth, and Taylor is sitting right on top, but out of view from the muse. And they are in the middle of NOWHERE. The rust that grew between telephones??? And then we’re back in the office, and she’s pulling all the files out of the drawers!! In the mourning gown again!!! And she’s letting them out, ruining the sterility, and she’s freaking out, sobbing. And then she’s facing the camera, stone cold, letting the files swirl around her, now out in the open ON FIRE I MIGHT ADD. And back in the psych ward in the wedding dress, she breaks the glass to escape, to bolt?? And then, once the files are free, once the glass is broken, once the muse steps out of the glass!! Then she can touch the muse. Then she can touch the muse. Somebody give me an oxygen mask, holy shit

[genzmilf]

you know why a lot of poets were tortured??? bc they were ga-

[badgalazzie]

karlie and taylor sharing the same personal trainer puts a new light at Down Bad

i am out of the kaylor business but this make laugh so hard I need to share it. Please read the last paragraph 🤪

https://x.com/theswiftsociety/status/1781831493704167845?s=46&t=2ev06Wd6H_nV8CotiJFNXg

i love how this all coy for the last paragraph and then the post script smacks you across the head 🤣

[ladyamanda123]

Taylor to the fans….

"When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song, as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test," Swift continues.

The fans…

[mamataylovesrubbi]

Daisies, the Secret Language between me (A gaylor) and @taylorswift

This is what will happen to you if you bring this daisy lesbian flag and a daisy phone case to the eras tour.(p1)

basically Taylor will be staring and smirking at you for a THOUSAND MILLION TIMES!!!

Ever since 2015, when my mom brought me to the 1989 tour in Shanghai, I have seen the signs of ‘KK ❤️ TS,’ , then 2020 I noticed the songs with queer lyrics, and now, I am standing beside the stage, and she is staring at me almost the whole time while singing "Lover." When it comes to the line “little kid with glasses” in "All Too Well," she looks at me and smirks. (My friend beside me also wears glasses, and an Irish guy next to me does too, but I am certain she was looking at me because we were literally looking at each other. And surprisingly, I am a little kid with glasses, so😉.) The smirks when she sings "August," and the millions of moments of looking at each other, it all feels so unreal. When others don't understand my daisy flag, Taylor, she will stare at it, look at me, and point at me. In the eyes of others, I am just a little girl lucky enough to be noticed by a superstar, but only we know the meaning.(YOU SHOW ME SECRET LANGUANGE I CANT SPEAK WITH ANYONE ELSE!!!)

In the vast sea of people, I held up the 🌼 lesbian flag and basically telling her I Can See You, and she is trying her best to respond.🥹

[howllikeawolff]

so when taylor swift says ‘twin from your dreams’ everyone collectively agrees its about karlie kloss, but when she says ‘like i lost my twin’ it’s suddenly not about karlie kloss???

[doingitbrokenhearted]

Whoever said The Alchemy was from Karlie’s perspective…

Didn’t she give birth right before coming to the Eras tour???

[the-cards-she-wont-show]

And so I enter into evidence

File #31 - Flagging

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Eras Tour Outfit - 1989

First night in Stockholm

Swifties: It’s the Swedish Flag colours! 🙌

Second night in Stockholm

Swifties: What do those colours mean??? 🤔

Gaylors: It’s the Lesbian Flag colours! (again!) 😍

Taylor: “Lookin’ backwards might be the only way to move forward”. “None of it was accidental”. 😏

Swifties… are you ready for it? Taylor WANTS us to know that she is dressed in the colours of the Swedish flag! It is an Easter egg for us to read into what the following night’s outfits may mean. By doing this, we are looking into the past, to assist in deciphering the now. And only then, can we see the bigger picture.

Queer flagging has been around for decades as a way of signalling our sexuality to other queer people without fear of judgement and to keep us safe. There are many ways in which this can be done and this is just one Taylor’s most obvious examples.

If you take a close look at her visuals, you will notice that the shades of the lesbian flag ❤️🧡🤍💗💜 are used together quite frequently, especially during the Eras Tour!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[badgalazzie]

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week from Taylor Swift 🧡🤍🩷

[kayloronmain]

the implications… baby let the games begin

[12triceratops]

Where the rubber meets the road.

These two didn't just have a relationship, they had a (soul)utionship. "The Prophecy" Hand on the throttle Thought I caught lightning in a bottle...

What these two had was magical. There is no debate that Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift were electric: (I am using past tense for the moment, I will refer to them in present tense a bit later in the post)

Fast forward a decade later to Fortnight. This record did not hit me immediately the way "Folklore" and "Evermore" did, It has almost been a week since its release and I hadn't been fully onboard with TTPD. I was expecting something different, something not familiar and I had quite literally thought maybe Jack Antinoff and Taylor Swift had reached their limit together as collaborators. The music produced by Aaron Dressner had flavors and connections to "Folklore" and "Evermore," while parts of the album was reminiscent of "1989." My next thought that maybe the three of them had done all they could do.

And then the Matty Healy conversation exploded across the net (le sigh), and I just about gave up on the record.

I damn near had a sanguinary struggle within myself over The Tortured Poets Department (I know, that is very dramatic lol), and then I finally got it. The brilliance of this woman is unmatched.

The last song "The Manuscript." Now and then she rereads the manuscript Of the entire torrid affair

"The entire torrid affair" meaning the last decade (probably longer, but I am sticking with 2014-2024). The title isn't lost on me and many others - The Man-U-Script.

The last segment of the song

The only thing that's left is the manuscript One last souvenir from my trip to your shores Now and then I reread the manuscript But the story isn't mine anymore

She is closing the chapter on all of it. It's over, the countless theories, the stories we all have created about her. They're our stories now, we built them into a formidable, monstrous entity that took on a life of its own. "The last souvenir" are her words to us on this album. From the Swifities, to the Gaylors/Kaylors, to the haters, critics, industry, fans, media. She won't play this game anymore. Taylor gave enough clues on this album to make EVERYONE'S theory plausible (Karlie, Joe, Matty, Travis, Harry, Kim etc). She connected threads to come full circle, which brings us back to "1989," that 1980s syth-pop (hello! "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart"). This is why she and Jack Antonoff brought us back to where it all began, Karlie Kloss and #Kissgate (Dianna Agron, too, who can forget "Wonderland). Aaron Dressner summons moments within this records of the two albums that fractured my soul, F & E. That folky-pop melody that gets into your skin to change the DNA. No joke, I sobbed listening to "Folklore" and "Evermore."

With TTPD, Taylor comes in like a thrashing, tumultuous storm; at times seething and others admonishing. She is singing to herself, for herself and without need of approval from the mainstream radio (or anyone else). TTPD is messy, too much, not enough, vulnerable, real, relatable and she is tired of our collective shit.

Back to "The Manuscript" This Era has come to an end and she is leaving us with the ruins, the aftermath of what she went through: being forced to hide who she really is, having to placate the rabid fans who believe the stories of every boy she has ever dated. She has had zero privacy and the only safe place Taylor has ever had was her music, she is the ONLY one who knows to whom she sings. Does she love her fans, of course, but Mother is tired and done. She is ready to come clean and live the life she has crafted to keep in secret in order to protect the innocent.

The beards, NDAs, slight of hand, she is smashing all that we know. It's not her reflection she seeks to shatter, it's the illusions. In "Fortnight" the nurse, a woman (cannot convince me that it's not Karlie. A doorframe is 6'8" and that nurse is about 5" shorter that frame, which would make that person 6'3" :), comes to save her, gives her the key to set her free. The men in the video are the ones who are torturing her. Like the last 10 years, The poet has been tortured by the department of men: Joe, John, Conner, Jake, Harry, Calvin, Tom, Joe, Matty, Travis, Scooter, Scott, and the list goes on.

It's "Robin" that has got a choke-hold on me.

Buried down deep And out of your reach The secret we all vowed To keep it from you in sweetness

She is singing to a child, a kid, and I am going to say a little boy. Is this song about Levi? I am going to say yes. Hands down the gem of the album, and our cue to realize she is telling us what is next, her family, the loves of her life: Karlie and the kids. That is what she wants and that will be her next chapter. We struggle to interpret the Taylor that is always ten steps ahead of us. Her Eras Tour, this will be the last one for a while. Once it has wrapped, I wouldn't be surprised if she disappeared for a spell. Will she produce more work, sure. Perform, probably, but this last decade has taken a toll, and this tour has been a herculean effort. Hence, its wild success. Could she retire (FLORIDA)? It's possible, but she would never tell us, we would have to figure that out for ourselves.

I have more to say, but it's late and I am sleepy. As I get lost in the piano of "The Manuscript" I am reminded of the book "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"

Not sure if anyone is going to see or read this, but I needed a place to write my thoughts about this extraordinary album that I almost let slip through my fingers. Good night and sleep well everyone <3