#ttpd peter

[none-of-it-was-accidental]

regulus “you said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me” black

[notanodinarygirl]

Ladies and Gentlemen I present you all the Sabezra Edit (I've spent days working on) on the song Peter by Taylor Swift. Enjoy!!

(Please watch it full as there are no repeated clips and the edit is a little long 😅)

Some of my fellow sabezra shippers I would love to tag:

@grxceful-ly @alphaofdarkness @seleneisrising @ana-cantskywalker @kazoosandfannypacks @jedi-nurse and every other sabezra shippers out there!

[rayniscatstatue]

“You said you were gonna grow up, and you were gonna come find me”

Taylor took a jab at me with this one

The only boyfriend I have ever had has the same name as this song. We broke up because we both weren’t ready for a relationship. Like we needed to “grow up”

[eastons-creations]

OKAY MARAUDER SWIFTIES I UNDERSTAND NOW

[star-kovs]

the way taylor says “waited” in the bridge of “peter” scratches something in my head in just the right way

[cascadeoceanwave]

tale as old as honey, a moment everybody knows History of Man (Maisie Peters) x The Prophecy (Taylor Swift)

[marvelous-tunes]

[lyricsbyts]

peter — t.s

[stillgotscars]

peter - taylor swift

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Illustration from The Adventures of Peter Pan – Alice Bolingbroke Woodward // Wendy – Maisie Peters // cardigan – Taylor Swift // Peter – Taylor Swift

[piecesintoplaces]

forgive me, peter, my lost fearless leader.

[jjameslily]

taylor swift + peter pan

"you said you were gonna grow up... then you were gonna come find me."

[reputayswift]

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT + literary references (part 1)

(sources: cassandra, who's afraid of little old me, peter, the prophecy)

[hits-differently]

dancing with our hands tied + peter

[iwanderthroughthesenights]

Something that stood out to me a lot from this album is the intentional de-personalization of extremely personal feelings and stories. She seems to have decided for this project that in order to be free to be completely honest in her art (which tbf she always has been but never as much as this album), she needs to visualize herself, and thus her stories, as a third party, an external entity on which she's conducting a post-mortem examination. Her 2016 self and the hate train she suffered after Snakegate is reimagined as Cassandra, a character from Greek mythology who had visions in her dreams but no one believed her and instead she was punished. Her anxiety of holding her lover's career back is instead described as The Albatross, this girl who everyone has been warned to stay away from bc she causes problems and is a liability. Her sweet, innocent childhood self is depicted as a robin, a feisty little bird full of life, dreams, and potential who has yet no clue of the cruelty of the world.

Consequently, the characters in her life are, too, bestowed upon fictional characters from stories that have been told before and/or are familiar in some way to the listener (aIMee the girl from this allegorical high school which is actually Kim Kardashian, Peter the boy who never grew up and stayed forever in Neverland who actually is her long-term ex partner, both her and her lover's separate romantic involvements imagined as Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, her real life therapist referred to as The Professor etc). By using the representation of well-known characters from widely popular stories and myths with names and all, she creates an even deeper line of emotional connection with the listener. Then, the 4th wall is delightfully broken in Clara Bow, where she refers to Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks as the inherent precedents to Taylor Swift. But what's even more brilliant about this is that in this way, she is making Taylor Swift into a character in and of itself. She is actually attempting to externalize Taylor Swift from Taylor the real-life woman. By narrating her stories through tangible entities presented as completely external to herself, she is inhibited by the safety of this fictional/allegorical lense through which she's allowing her stories to be consumed, and as a result, she has unlimited freedom to be more personal than she has ever been in her art before.

[evermoredeluxe]

in peter, taylor spends the song talking about how she thought if she would just wait, the goddess of timing would fix things up and their time would come. he would grow up and come back to her, he would keep his promise of dealing with his shit and being there for her. in so much of her previous work, she talks about how he knew her so well, and now she is wondering if he can still read her. he was high above everything and could see the whole forest (her and her life) for what it was, but now he is so far high above that he can’t see it (her and their relationship) anymore while she’s still in the thick of it alone. they’re in the same difficult time, but their minds are working differently. same page, but on different lines.

she sings how she was fine with letting the lamp burn and waiting, she didn’t wanna come down, she kept her hope up, and she was okay with him being absent because she thought they’d gain perspective when he came back and it would’ve made their love better and it’d be worth it. but then she just realized that she doesn’t want that. she doesn’t wanna be betty, waiting 20 years of her life, thinking if he’ll ever be there. she wants more and she wants better. in their time together, he never grew up, so now she’s turning out the light and leaving.