Now who's ready to Showgirl?!?!?! 🥹🥹🥹🥹

needed your thoughts on wood bc I'm also like ????? about this one (why was my first thought a euphemism lmao 😭) but also ophelia fell from a willow tree after a branch broke, so I wonder if that imagery of the willow tree that once was a positive now turned onto her downfall, will play onto that

❤️‍🔥 (please stay with us on the Good Place!)

HOORAY!!

listening to the podcast back again (🫣) it stuck out to me that taylor mentions "romantic" wrt music: making music more of an event/romantic, romanticising our first look at the eras tour given the showgirl theme, i wonder if it could be about how she approaches/views romanticising her art form?

I’m never going to have to go to therapy again 🙂‍↕️

oh I am so fucking invested

This title as a track five to me as the oldest most responsible daughter that had to solve all the shit already has me crying

OH HELL YES.

BLUESKY. I'M BACK. AN ANALYSIS OF THE SONG TITLES OF TS12 AND HOW THEY RELATE TO THE THEME OF "A LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL" AS USUAL. AN EXTREMELY UNHINGED 🧵:

Broke: I've had a traumatic experience Woke: I've unlocked an intimate, personal connection to a new Taylor Swift song

I need everyone to appreciate the simple, sincere joy of Everything Has Changed today.

Real courage is waking up every day and choosing vulnerability, connection, and emotional honesty--knowing that you are opening yourself up to pain, but also that you are finally opening up to yourself. So many of us were taught that this was weakness. But really, it's strength.

A new friend told me she had written a book, and I only just found out that it was almost entirely written by ChatGPT. She sees nothing wrong with this, because she "wouldn't have been able to get the words out otherwise." We are in hell.

One of the most damaging consequences of being emotionally starved in a relationship--any kind, whether romantic or familial--is that it teaches you to be desperate for the smallest scraps of love and validation. And worse still, to think that you don't deserve anything more.

One of the things I love most about Taylor is that she recognizes that it is sometimes even harder to admit that you are happy than that you are angry or sad. Hope is the most vulnerable emotion.

I usually interpret I Look In People's Windows through the lens of a break-up, but I also love listening from the perspective of a relationship that just never happened. Of potential you wish you could forget. Does it feel all right to not know me? I'm addicted to the if only.

My friend gifted me this book months ago and I hadn't read it yet, neither of us knew I was quoted in it 😭😭😭

okay this book is truly amazing and shout out to @tweetsricochet.bsky.social for being quoted!

In honor of TTPD's anniversary tomorrow: Which song took forever to click, but once it did, became ingrained in your psyche? I'll go first: The Bolter.

Can never get over the fact that literally all of Question...? can essentially be boiled down to "am I bad, or mad, or wise?"

People are often so shocked to find out how long ago You're Losing Me was written, but I think that anyone who has ever suffered through the painstaking end of a years-long relationship knows exactly how many layers of grief you need to process before you're ready to leave.

There is something so resigned, so plaintive, about the lyrics in Chloe or Sam. Gone is the agency of albums past. It's all about "what if." She and her lover aren't "cardsharks playing games;" instead, "the decade [played] us for fools." She is totally ruled by her own fate.

Inside of you are two wolves. The Archer and The Bolter

TTPD title track is for the girls who cried to Renegade. If you know, I am sorry that you know.

Extremely underrated line in a criminally underrated song

I think this very specific, very painful experience is far more common than any of us are willing to admit, because so much of it is steeped in misogyny and shame. As young women, we are prized for our innocence, and then shamed for our inexperience.

Whenever I listen to TTPD, I remember that twin-flame relationships are often said to be marked with painful conflict, because the people who remind us most of ourselves also reflect our worst qualities, amplifying and exacerbating every challenge we've ever had in relationships.

Fearing "forever" isn't just about the fear of commitment. It's about fearing the surrender--the intense vulnerability that forever can bring. There is safety in the finite. Forever can finish you.

The four horsemen of the avoidant attachment apocalypse

The four horsemen of the avoidant attachment apocalypse

Describe Taylor Swift in one lyric. I'll go first: "And at last, she knew what the agony had been for."

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

Healing is when you stop asking yourself if you could ever walk Cornelia Street again and start wondering if you ever should have walked it in the first place

This is an incredibly hard watch. If you needed any more evidence that these kind of people--that this kind of administration--poses a global risk to the vulnerable, you have it right here. Billionaires empowered at home, and dictators overseas.

I can never thank Taylor enough for giving me the words that encapsulate PTSD better than any song I have ever heard

The devil couldn't reach me so he made me relate to the bridge of Cardigan

She doesn't just bolt because she is afraid to be hurt. She is afraid to be known.

for some reason it reminds me a lot of “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing”

The genius of Chloe et al is that it simultaneously asks the questions "what if I was enough, after all" and "what if I never will be again?"

Marjorie really hits different when the one you're missing hasn't died, but the person they once were to you is gone forever.

Let's not let the Superbowl distract us from the fact that this administration is trying to set the precedent to defy court orders. We can't accept this, nor can we just shake our heads and obey in advance.

It's our first February with TTPD and I don't think even Taylor could have predicted how much this lyric would resonate with the times

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

This is why we never let up. It's so hard to live in a state of perpetual outrage and injustice, but they want us to feel overwhelmed by it. And we just can't let it happen. We have to keep standing up for each other.

Just checking in to see how everyone is holding up ♥️

Everyone needs to talk about this, right now. This is cancer research. This is food assistance and school lunches. This is homeless shelters. This is domestic violence protection. This is disaster relief. Most important of all. This is a flagrant abuse of power.

I have never understood people who can just *forget* conversations and acquaintances and relationships. My childhood friends are frozen in time. I still wonder about the first dates that never got a second. My mind is haunted by the inside jokes that can never again see the sun.

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