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My biggest irrational fear is that the show right before or right after me gets medicine and my show is skipped.

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You get medicine then chant for fine line. Absolutely not. Nope.

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and Liam was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, “strip that down outsold everyone else in the band”

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I think its great we all collectively agree that liam most likely deserved to be pushed up against a wall.

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Social experiment, who do you think threw liam against the wall?

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What you think about my life and what it is actually like is quite different.

Harry stating facts (via stylesnews)

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Harry Styles | The Zane Lowe Interview

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The only person I would trust 100% doing a one direction tell all is niall but niall is too good and an angel who would never.

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alright mustache harry stans we won.

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I get harry being like “medicine didn’t make the first album so why should it make another” but respectfully disagree.

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“and i’m a doctor now so i know how breathing works”

-Dr. Taylor Swift

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“with 9 original studio albums, two re-recorded studio albums, five extended plays, three live albums, and fourteen compilations, you have sold well over 100 million album units, earning awards and honors in every category”

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So as a rule, I try not to give anyone unsolicited advice unless they ask for it. I’ll go into this more later. I guess I have been officially solicited in this situation, to impart whatever wisdom I might have and tell you the things that helped me in my life so far. Please bear in mind that I, in no way, feel qualified to tell you what to do. You’ve worked and struggled and sacrificed and studied and dreamed your way here today and so, you know what you’re doing. You’ll do things differently than I did them and for different reasons.

So I won’t tell you what to do because no one likes that.

I will, however, give you some life hacks I wish I knew when I was starting out my dreams of a career, and navigating life, love, pressure, choices, shame, hope and friendship.

The first of which is… life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once. Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release. What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release. You can’t carry all things, all grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started. Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. Oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there’s more room for them. One toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys. You get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning.

Secondly, learn to live alongside cringe. No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. Even the term ‘cringe’ might someday be deemed ‘cringe’.

I promise you, you’re probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious. You can’t avoid it, so don’t try to. For example, I had a phase where, for the entirety of 2012, I dressed like a 1950s housewife. But you know what? I was having fun. Trends and phases are fun. Looking back and laughing is fun.

And while we’re talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn’t, I’d like to say that I’m a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things. It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of ‘unbothered ambivalence’. This outlook perpetuates the idea that it’s not cool to ‘want it’. That people who don’t try hard are fundamentally more chic than people who do. And I wouldn’t know because I have been a lot of things but I’ve never been an expert on ‘chic’.

But I’m the one who’s up here so you have to listen to me when I say this: Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school. The people who want it most are the people I now hire to work for my company.

Taylor Swift in her commencement address for NYU’s graduating Class of 2022 (May 18, 2022)

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I can’t believe harry owns MSG now.

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Where is my paper airplane necklace merch?!?

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when nature heals and taylor returns to tumblr for the full 1989 immersive experience

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Kiwi | Coachella Night 2