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[swiftie-sherlockian]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cardiff Surprise Songs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🩷I Forgot That You Existed x This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things🖤

🤍I Hate It Here x the lakes🩶

So naturally I’m going to say something about the second mashup as it’s my favorite TTPD song with my favorite folklore song. They’re my favorites because I heavily relate to them. I joked to some friends a few days ago about a mashup of these two and the fact that she’s done it blows my mind. I’m a young introverted AuDHD woman who is very self-conscious and constantly daydreaming and creating music and worlds and stories in my mind and I’ve been like that for as long as I can remember. I used to be extroverted but I think years of grade school bullies and more recently the rise of the pandemic has turned all that on its head. I don’t exhibit the symptoms of maladaptive daydreaming, but I do frequently find myself more at home in my daydreams than I do in my real life in college and my pretty much otherwise nonexistent social life. Aside from the lovely woman I live with, who we’ll call “Libby” and her fiancé we’ll be calling “Clint”, Tumblr is how I talk to most people. I do have other friends in college, but we don’t really hang out and text often. Tumblr and my writing is my great escape, and admittedly, it’s not just Taylor’s music, especially in folklore and evermore and quite a few of the Anthology tracks on TTPD that makes me feel seen, as Taylor wrote folklore and evermore during lockdown;

It’s Sherlock. Mates, there are several reasons why this sideblog serves as both my place for Sherlock RP/posts and Taylor posts, and only part of it is how imhaimh (my Johnlock fic I’m writing on AO3 you can read here) is slightly inspired by Taylor’s music, especially the third chapter roughly based on The Albatross, and the fact that several of her songs remind me of Sherlock and John in general.

It’s the fact that Taylor Swift and Sherlock Holmes make me feel the same sort of feelings, even here when talking about things like this. I am an anglophile. I dream of moving to London. I have the same passion for the city Taylor does even though I’ve never dated a London Boy. It’s been years since I’ve last been, and I bloody miss it for all it is. The lights, the double-decker busses, Harrods, the Underground, being on top of the Shard, riding the London Eye, sightseeing in general (I’ve been to all the big sights; well, most of them)

And then my dearest Tumblr mutual and imhaimh beta reader @gingaaaaa (Hi Ginger! It’s Coral! You rock, mate!) told me to watch BBC Sherlock, and I did. And I adored it.

And it kills me how much I relate to Sherlock. 😂

Oh, believe me, I am nowhere near his level of intelligence, but still… you may remember from my old run of the roleplay back when Shezza was involved as Sherlock that I had taken Myers-Briggs for the first time in several years to find that I was INTP despite having been ESFJ when I was younger. I had completely FLIPPED, which I did not expect. Our brains work similarly despite me lacking a Mind Palace (as far as I know; probably looks more like a Mind Flat to me 👀) and…

I am starting to suspect that I am a high-functioning sociopath.

And I know Sherlock really isn’t, but I’ve looked at the symptoms and I am manipulative 😂 I am so deceitful and in such an unhealthy way. But seriously, it’s the antisocial tendencies I get the most. I am an “I work alone” type person most of the time, and from on here, it may not seem like it, but I am. If I could find my John someday, I would be eternally grateful, but for now, I am my own blogger.

This post is so derailed. It’s 21:11/9:11 PM and I am delaying brushing my teeth to write this post. Haha

But yeah. I’m only 20. I’m still growing as a person. Fuck, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted in life when I was 14 and I was wrong! Here I am changing my major because college helped me decide that my “dream career” would have actually been a bloody nightmare! LMAO

Thanks for sticking around, by the way. I’m a fucking dork, but to my mutuals, whether I met you on my main @adumpofdumbstuff or on this sideblog, I am your fucking dork. Take care.

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Your ask box is full of mentally ill individuals so quick to pounce on someone as long as they have a difference in opinion. Your anons need to stop accusing people of being Armie hammer fans / antisemetic / other immoral things just because they disagree with *an opinion!!*…

I’m the 18 year old anon who compared BD to Taylor swift and i’m british too, so maybe that’s why i’m not impressed with Bob Dylan because he’s never been that culturally relevant here. My mum knows who he is, but it’s not as if he’s John Lennon. Do you know what I am getting at? His art and life legacy isn’t shit but he’s also not relevant. He’s not Taylor Swift!! I stand by what I said. Bob dylan isn’t international. It’s literally folk music. I’m not going to argue with people about Serge Gainsbourg or Tracey Emin, why are ppl so defensive over bob dylan?

“I bet that "older Brit" expounding on the banality of Bob Dylan's place in music history is one of those fans who thinks Armie Hammer was great actor. “ - Nowhere in that text did she allude to armie hammer at all. Stop mentioning that rat’s name, you’re only making him more relevant.

“ Did that last anon just basically say they're right because they're brittish..... oh petal no that's not how it works tho. “ - No. Nowhere in that person’s text did she allude to that. It’s relevant because bob dylan isn’t relevant culturally in the UK. The older Brit doesn’t think she’s right just because she’s british, and I don’t either.

“I do have to wonder if “fans” are unimpressed with a Bob Dylan biopic are harboring some antisemitism. Dylan is Jewish and the others named are not. I want fans to remember that their fav is also half Jewish. “ - No, I’m not antisemitic . I can’t believe i have to say this. How is me saying I don’t care for bob dylans music or art antisemitic at all?. If I’m on a timothee chalamet blog taking time out of my life to submit an ask that is soaked in admiration for someone - who’s Jewish, how could any sane person jump to the conclusion that i’m antisemitic? I’m not a fan of bob dylan not because he’s jewish, but because he’s irrelevant and literally makes folk songs. sorry but it’s true... He’s 80, how would any young person think that an 80 year old who makes folk music is cool. This film might be an amazing performance or whatever but ultimately it’s not going to be anything but a blip in the vast deep sea that is the film industry and pop culture. He needs something to solidify himself in the industry forever. Like patrick bateman in american psycho, tom cruise in top gun, Leonardo dicaprio in titanic, benedict cumberbatch as sherlock, martin freeman in the hobbit, tom holland as spider-man, tom hardy in mad max etc. i could go on. Hopefully he achieves this in dune. We’ll have to see 😌

TLDR Stop making assumptions just because you disagree with someone, brain dead anons. Also, I loved the attention replies and reblogs my ask got though lol you have a lot to thank me for making your blog pop off like that haha

If anyone wants to respond...

[kevin-day-is-bi]

idk this might be a ☆controversial opinion☆ or something, but just because something is popular or controlled by a megacorp doesnt mean it’s “bad”. this goes for media and pretty much anything else. basically don’t shame people for liking things, specifically media. there are 3 mindsets i see pretty often, all of which are fairly toxic to varying degrees. 

(Note: all of these are my own beliefs and thoughts. i dont want to speak for everyone; this is my moral stance. also this got long)

(Note #2. i am fully guilty of doing all of these at some point in time)

the first is cancel culture. i am of the pretty firm mindset that you’re the only one who should control what you consume. if you know that, lets say a musician is advocating for something homophobic, but you absolutely adore their music, listening to it doesnt make you a bad person. buying their albums doesn’t make you a bad person. being touched by their music doesnt make you a bad person. just because they are doing something against your morals/beliefs/identity, doesnt mean you should instantly cut off all contact with their media. why? first off, people make mistakes. that person might have a change of heart, or be educated on why what they did was wrong, or something else. if everyone immediately stops consuming their media, a teaching moments might never happen. #2, the more obvious reason. it’s your media experience. by listening to their music, you are not saying you support every single thing they’re saying. all it means is that theyre good at their job. ie producing music

the second mindset: cringe culture. ohh boy i dislike cringe culture. lets roll with the earlier example. let’s say you really like a musician. their music helped you through a rough time, or you really connect to it, or it just bops. this musician is really mainstream, like everyone has heard of them (think Taylor Swift kind of big). lets say you go to your friend, vibrating with excitement, and tell them you’re excited about the musician’s new album. they scoff, and call you basic for liking them, and say you jumped on the bandwagon. why was that bad? 1, my point earlier, its your media experience. you like the music. there is literally nothing wrong with that. 2, which is the point that always awes me. if the musician is really popular, and you like them, it doesnt mean youre basic or that you jumped on the bandwagon. it means one thing and one thing alone. they’re good at their job, which is producing music multiple people like. 

(supernatural, sherlock, doctor who, hunger games, etc are not bad because theyre liked by a lot of people. it’s the job of the creators to make them be popular)

which brings me to my third mindset. this one is a lot less toxic, but if you push it on people as a necessity or hold yourself above others cause you do it, it’s toxic. Consuming media critically. it’s good to consume media with an eye out for negative messages, but it’s not always necessary. I’m going to use a new example. if you read a book that has a fairly non-diverse cast (ie mostly white, men, able-bodied, straight, cis, etc) and you like it, and use it as an escape or just a fun read, you are not required to go read or write a dissertation on how not-diverse it is. you are not required to know the full motivation of the writer. as a not cis, not straight, disabled girl, i do not see myself reflected in media often. i can still consume media that doesn’t feature characters like me, and i can do it without having to defend it as Reading With A Critical Eye. If you like doing that, props to you! it’s sometimes interesting to read your dissertations and think of things i hadn’t before. but if you say everyone should do it, or that they’re a bad reader if they don’t, that’s toxic. why? because 1, for some, consuming media is an escape from a world where they must constantly view things critically. 2, if a piece of media is very near and dear to someone’s heart, informing them all the ways it could be problematic is hurtful. 

tldr, a person controls their own media consumption, and is not required to demonstrate they regret it’s popular, may have problematic content, or that the creators may be reprehensible

And y’all, have fun! enjoy your shows and movies and books, let yourself be lost, and try not to let the negative parts of fandoms get you down! There’s good bits in everything, and don’t be afraid to block people who give you a negative experience. 

(ps, i know there are exceptions to every rule. i go through life and try not to involve myself too heavily in these mindsets, but sometimes there is media where you have to consume it critically, or where you have to state the fact that the author very firmly sucks)

(pps, I’m sorry for inconsistent grammer or spelling, i cut my thumb and typed this mostly one handed)