#to clarify i’ve NEVER been a hater of ‘new swifties’ the way some people are

[titsthedamnseason]

now listen this might be wrong to say as a fan but i need taylor swift to get less popular before the next era. we need to find a way to weed out these trend followers

[bethgreeneishopeunseen]

Have You Seen Her?

Nonbelievers and haters like to argue that TPTB couldn’t keep a secret like Beth’s survival. They say that Emily would have been seen on set eventually if she was being snuck in. I can understand the naysayers’ perspective. While there were sightings of her throughout season 5 filming, and one briefly at the beginning of season 6, there has been nothing concrete ever since (X). But as I’ve said for years, where there is a will, there is a way. Recently, it came out that one of the biggest musicians in the world hid in plain sight, and no one knew. 

For those who don’t know me well, I am a Swiftie. I have been a fan of Taylor for almost eight years, following her career since I was in middle school. Like clockwork, she would release an album on a two-year cycle, but after 1989 she took a break. The fall of 2016 rolled around without new music, and I stopped keeping up with Taylor regularly, because of school and lack of news. Then, a few months ago I came across a group of fans who believed that she was still secretly in a relationship with Tom Hiddleston. I shipped Hiddleswift last summer, and still do, so I looked into a backlog of their posts. It was like a shipping version of Team Delusional. Posts referenced to Taylor’s disappearance after Thanksgiving, and I checked her Instagram, and they were right. She didn’t post anything after Thanksgiving for months, except to support her friends’ music or around the time she performed two small concerts, when her location was known. She loves her two cats and would regularly post about them, so it was strange that she hadn’t in so long. Then I noticed that she never posted anything for her birthday, and that was when my “conspiracy” radar went off. She always posts about her birthday, as she’s always been about letting her fans into her personal world. Certain fans had contacts in the airport industry, and knew her private jet took her to London, where she stayed for weeks at a time this winter. (Disclaimer: I disapprove jet-tracking, as I believe that it’s a huge invasion of privacy, but I’m mentioning to clarify how Taylor’s whereabouts were known to a niche of fans on Tumblr.) Then, at a concert Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town casually mentioned that Taylor Swift couldn't be there to sing with them as she was in London. (Taylor wrote their big hit, Better Man.) It was thought she was with Tom, as their schedules were very similar, and he lives primarily in London. 

Only a few candids came out early this year, when she was briefly in L.A. and in Nashville (X) (X). Her absence reached a point that milk carton and other, similar memes started popping up in the Swiftie fandom, and gossip and news sites were discussing what she could be up to (X) (X) (X). It divided the fandom, as some thought she was just working on her album in secret while others thought she was working on music and her personal life, giving the media nothing to talk about. It reached a point that in the spring everyone was looking for her. The paparazzi finally found her by playing dirty. They camped in front of her mother’s house in Nashville back in mid-May for Mother’s Day, knowing of her and Taylor’s close relationship. Afterwards they followed her to the airport, and knowing which jet was hers, tracked it to London.

Source (X).

Knowing it was only a matter of time before she was discovered, Taylor’s publicist gave the story to the papers in order to control the scenario. Since the fall, she’s been in a relationship with a lesser known British actor named Joe Alwyn. She went underground with him as she didn’t want the media ruining another relationship. When I read the article that broke the news, it hit my Team Delusional side:

“Remarkably, she has been spending days at a time in London disguising herself wearing a wig in a bid to keep the romance under wraps. [...] The US songwriter, 27, has been renting a house in North London while she has been seeing Joe in the UK. And Taylor has gone to great lengths to ensure her visits have remained unnoticed. The source added: “Taylor has flown in via private jets and her security has made it a military-like mission to prevent her from being seen. “She’s been walking around with Joe in London using disguises, like scarves and hats, to keep her identity under wraps. 

 “Nobody has a clue they’ve been walking past a music superstar – not even her new neighbours.”” - Source (X).

TPTB went to great lengths to hide Emily during season 5, including having her picked up at her trailer and using a limo to distract people watching filming. I think that Emily also used hats to help hide her scars, such as this one:

Source (X).

Furthermore, back in February, some of the fans who believed that she was in London, hiding, found a series of tweets from a girl who thought she saw Taylor. While the Hiddleswift shippers were wrong about who she was dating, they were spot on about Taylor hiding and using disguises. One of the prominent speculative blogs even mentioned wigs as a possibility. This makes me think of people who might see/have seen Emily in Georgia. TPTB then obscure sightings further by having so many blonde actresses that resemble Emily as secondary, tertiary, and background characters (Jessie, Denise, Tina, and girls at Alexandria, walkers), as well as using a body double (Sabrina Gennarino, i.e. Tamiel) for certain scenes.  

Source (X) (X).

Taylor Swift disappeared from social media and the world at large, and she was relatively successful. If Taylor Swift can hide in a major city in plain sight, then TPTB can smuggle Emily into a studio and to remote filming locations. Seriously guys, this wouldn’t be that hard to do. No one is even looking for Emily except us.