Was just listening to the song “Labour” by Paris Paloma and these 4 lines attached onto the part of my brain where “Fate of Ophelia” is stored. The mv for Labour also reminds me of how “tolerate it” was performed on eras tour.

Gn 🥲

Have we ever considered that a lot of the more superficial Taylor connections to other pieces or people of current pop culture isn’t a New Romantics string of clues telling a story… but.. product placement ads. Or just Taylor’s generally monumental influence on pop culture.

No, just a regular human bartender.

All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February… “Monday Morning Mood Hoops”

I didn’t get to make any soup today (did eat some for lunch!), so please enjoy this thread of all my soup’s past. Also, please join The ReSwiftance and donate to Feeding America! teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/...

Thinking about all the soup we're having for dinner tonight in this great cosmic soup teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

Make a couple posts got the whole feed looking like SOOOOUP WE tell THE world TO leave us the fuck alone and they DO woah 😐 Got me dreaming ‘bout a big bowl with spaghetti HOOPS Temp up, simmer down, got a wish (wishhh) list (lissst) I just want soup

A poem for my grief

I’m watching the Zane Lowe interview with Bono from June this year about his documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender (which I haven’t watched yet, lol, but have read the book), and it opens with his song “The Showman” He turned his book into a stage play.. and that’s what the documentary is about.

Would anyone be up for helping me be more accountable for prioritizing my school work? I need someone I don’t know well/haven’t met irl to check in on Saturdays and Sundays to ask if I’ve done my readings/homework for grad school. Happy to check-in on something for you as well!

Walked into the grocery store and Fearless is playing. Ok universe, I hear you. Thank you. Somehow Gaylors, I truly believe you did this.

Quick, quick Tell me something awful Like you are a teacher Trapped inside the body of a programmed bot Tell me all your secrets All you’ll ever be is My internal creative thoughts I hate it here, so I will go to secret classrooms in my mind Learners will be welcome into But no scripted lines

I’m just so fucking exhausted all the time and my students are struggling because the curriculum doesn’t meet their needs and I’m not allowed to do anything differently to help them. I don’t feel like I get to be a human at school, and I know my students often feel this way too. I’m so sad.

I had a really shitty work day. Literally cried in my portable for at least 20 mins at the end of it. I’m so fucking tired of the surveillance culture in urban public schools. Can’t trust any admin. The reason kids aren’t learning critical reading skills is because of mandated, scripted curricula.

Sometimes when I get really… anxious/obsessive thought-driven, or am feeling disconnected/dissociated, I name parts of my body. “This is a hand. It’s on my body. It’s *my* hand. Hi hand.” I used to be so dissociated that I had to learn to generate neutral thoughts to prove my own existence.

Ooooh, I think you all will enjoy this video as much as I did! It’s about how education needs to move towards helping students develop critical literacy skills. We’re currently studying sociocultural literacies in my literacy development class! youtu.be/UCFp0Ug8sw8?...

I know some of y’all are also Samia fans. This song is so sad and healing. The grief of losing a dog, before they are even dead, is so real. My baby dog is 14 and has early stages of dementia and I’ve been grieving the loss of him for at least a year, (and he’s very much alive)..

Was Sabrina’s shirt in Manchild last night giving anyone else, “no it’s Becky” vibes?

Sabrina hosting last night made me remember when Jane did this last year… and then there’s *this* line: “I leave a trail of breadcrumbs, then I leave a trail of LOAVES OF BREAD.” youtu.be/ryWROo9IiKA?...

It’s honestly just nice to be surrounded by, “you’re seeing what I’m seeing, right?”

Another shatter the glass ceiling!?

I love watching tv with all of you!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (And this gif just cracked me up)

ME-E-EE!!

Ok Sabrina giving baby spice in this Girl boss skit.

That dress Sabrina is wearing in the monologue is so cute though. I want it… or a more casual version of it, lol

Does infodumping make anyone else SUPER hyper!? Cuz how am I supposed to read my articles for classes when I just want to dance around the room!!!?? (But also cannot/shouldn’t dance cuz I am sick :/ though maybe I can dance my sickness away 😂)

Anyone else still just reveling in the fact that Kitty is pretty and witty and…

So… Florence’s album, yes comes out on Halloween, but also on Isabella Summers (aka the machine)’s birthday. Literally just googled their names together and clicked images and these are some of the first ones… so… come down the rabbit hole with me, please.

Wild theory - thanK you aIMee is “kill AI me” This AI/showgirl/femmbot version of her is killing her authenticity.. she “reframed” the pictures on the wall.. I haven’t fully connected the dots.. hoping this sparks something for someone else. If not… I’m calling it Taylor’s real stance on AI 😂

oooh love this!

Anybody ever listening to TTPD and feel jolted by the transition from So Long, London to But Daddy I Love Him? Cuz I’m over here crying, in my feels and then… I’m sorry, what?

Was just thinking about how Opalite could be about how Taylor doesn’t need muses to write good music. She is “self-made” and therefore the sole controller of her fate/karma. Good showgirls make you believe they are telling whatever story you want to hear, even if it’s entirely made up! (Folklore)

Visited Dollywood today. Someday I hope Taylor has a super gay theme park with an area called Woodvale. And she can sell her sourdough like Dolly sells cinnamon bread (no idea if it’s Dolly’s recipe, lol, didn’t read the lore). This is only half serious.

I’m sure someone already noted this, but I haven’t seen it.. so the opening of Elizabeth Taylor (so glamorous Cabaret version) is the piano opening of “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor.

That story was really funny though.. I wonder who he thought he was dancing with. (Context: Seth Meyers interview story of Travis and Greta)

Just had a *weird* Apple Music GLITCH. The last like 5 seconds of Wi$h Li$t on TLOAS (DELUXE Dressing Room Rehearsal Version) started overlapping with the opening of “So High School” the lines, “I feel so high school” played, then both songs ended and it went to “Wood”

The Fate of Ophelia: The Story of Us. The Poet & The Showgirl. The Fate of Ophelia is a story told from The Poet’s perspective, or, Showgirl’s perception of Poet’s perspective. It’s a romanticised tale, told thru the Midnights & Fortnight MV’s where Showgirl rescues & reunites with Tortured Poet.

Timey Wimey Gaylors, we are sooooo back!!!! *cue Doctor Who theme song*

If you live like that, you live with ghosts 🤝🏼 and the memories were lost long ago, but at least you have beautiful ghosts 🤝🏼 Well, me and my ghosts we had a hell of a time 🤝🏼 I used to live with ghosts and all the perfect couples (I know that 2nd line starts a new phrase, but makes my point better)

Agreed Taylor. I’ve also had a crush on Keri Russell (and have wanted to copy her hair) since August Rush came out…

THE EXIT SIGN!

So we’re to believe Ed doesn’t have a phone, but is just scrolling through Instagram? (Yes, I realize someone else could have seen it and shown it to him, lol)

I was going through my June Bates books again, and found these two poems that connect to TLOAS (titles we know) in the book that was released around Midnights!!

Just gonna leave these right here…

Omg 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Apologies if you've already noticed but Jess Dennison's TikTok showed this window set up from the Chicago orange door and!!!! This blue green (Blurple/green?) drawing is from Keith Haring who made the coming out picture HOLY SHIRT BALLS!!!!!

Guys…this is my friend who is a cinematographer and used to work with HBO and now experiments a lot with AI generated things… what.

Have we talked about the ties BREAD and ROSES have to the women’s suffrage movement?? 🥖 🌹 "bread for all, and roses too" - Helen Todd, a women’s suffrage activist, said it in a speech and it became a slogan. It’s also in a poem by JAMES Oppenheim (pictured)

I do not understand this line in Eldest Daughter, “you know the last time I laughed this hard was…” cuz when was she laughing before?