the lucky one glinda edit …

Look I’ve been gardening and love when I go down a random Taylor analysis rabbit hole that feels creative & fulfilling but I always hope tomorrow-Tess feels the same fiendish joy at my discoveries as gardening-Tess does each time. This is all tomorrow-Tess has to go off:

Billie Eilish calls out Elon Musk for not using his wealth to aid humanity and resolve global issues: “f***ing pathetic p***y b**** coward”

This has been a long ass four years

White Horse was the first song of Taylor’s that I had on my iPod & hoped no one would know that I liked one of her songs. Now, everyone in my life knows I like her music & sometimes it feels like perspectives on her have changed but sometimes I feel like a teenager in high school hiding songs.

This is probably one of the most impossible albums to rank ever, but I gave it a shot. One of those rankings that could drastically change every. single. day.

and you can want who you want!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Celebrating 8 Years of Reputation today! 🐍📰🪦💥 In 2 hours there’s a body doubling session where we’ll listen to the album together whilst getting stuff done. £2 to join or free for paid tiers. In 4 hours there’s a Coffee House where we’ll be talking about each track & comparing track rankings.

“Life is a song it ends when it ends” is so PR-coded to me because.. what do you mean Taylor? YOU write songs & YOU choose when it ends. Like the song doesn’t just end willy nilly. It’s completely up to her how/when a song ends. For this lyric to be in a song about manufactured happiness 💀💀💀

Am I the only one that immediately thought of the floral windows in the Bejeweled MV when I saw her floral tights?

“You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning” 🙃

One month after TLOAS & my ranking has moved around quite a bit! After the Zoom today I fiddled with it slightly (mostly realised that I think FF is the best written song on the album so it deserves no. 1) Top six in today’s ranking I listen to often, below that I don’t listen much at all.

Gaylor Zoom in 25 mins (some reduced tix available) - we’ll be comparing TLOAS rankings now that it’s been a month since the release & chatting about the album in general - buytickets.at/friendsofdor...

Oooooh continuing the OOTW/Saving Herself theme: You dug me out of my grave & saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia

NOW YOU HANG FROM MY LIPS LIKE THE GARDENS OF BABYLON?!?!?!!!? I’M SORRY WHAT?!?!

Sometimes I can’t fkn believe that this video exists. Are you kidding me???

TN reposting the GAY WOOD POST we love to see it

Finally getting around to joining the soup festivities - of course I’m making Alison Roman’s PLS again. Dill for daysssss 🌱🌿🥬🍋‍🟩🍵🥔 www.alisoneroman.com/newsletters/...

We’re so close to the goal! An extra incentive to any Gaylors who might need it - I’d love to offer anyone who donated to this free access to a Friends of Dorothea event in November. Just email your receipt or a screenshot to [email protected] & tell me what event you want to go to!

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

Disco ball makes everything look cheap is such a interesting line when you think about the mirrorball of it all

🍜🥫🍲 UPDATE! 🍜🥫🍲 here is ALL of the info you need for #SouplorDay2025 link to share: bit.ly/SouplorDay2025 we’re going to direct people to support @thereswiftance.bsky.social’s Feeding America fundraiser.

Gaylor body doubling in 30 mins, as well as on Friday. Tickets are as low as £2 for these sessions, as well as other events this week summarised below! 💕 Register here: buytickets.at/friendsofdor...

This post from the regular reddit is very interesting. Whilst I still don’t like a lot of the connotations of Wi$h Li$t, and still wi$h that it never existed, this idea of the song capturing a sense of contrasting desires (having cake & eating it) is interesting www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwif...

Omg I just remembered I had a dream last night that I was teaching & Father Figure was playing in the background of the lesson & I realised it was about to get to the “my d*ck’s bigger” bit & I ran across the classroom & skipped the song before it got there & they all laughed because they knew 😂

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Do you ever feel nostalgic for the way you used to experience/feel about a song?

Forgot to say that we’ll be listening to a lot of Debut together, even if it wasn’t Debut Day our host, SJ, has continued to add Debut songs to our playlists over the years and is one of the biggest Debut ride-or-dies I know 🦋🌼⛲️🛻

In 30 mins we’ve got a Gaylor body doubling session - this one is chat-only & low cost. We make a collaborative playlist together & get things done, celebrating achievements that others might think are small! All Gaylors welcome 💕 buytickets.at/friendsofdor...

Happy 19 years to Debut. The deliberate callback in the Fate of Ophelia MV to the album cover from the start of her career, before the current of fame pulled her under/into the underworld, is really hitting me fresh today.

What do you mean today is the “13 Years Gone” anniversary for Red (aka the time period referred to at the end of the ATW MV) AND the same day she did her only 2016 performance at the Grand Prix debuting her version of “This Is What You Cane For” AND her Insta post last year for the Miami shows 👀

Uhhh…. “Because you DESERVE what YOU want” 👀

Like you were a trophy or a champion ring but there was one prize I’d cheat to win 💍😏

TikTok isn’t letting me upload this for copyright reasons, let’s see if Bluesky lets me…

Happy anniversary to the best song Taylor has ever written, ‘Maroon’ ❤️🍷🌆💋

Omg just found these screenshots on Lesbian Ghosts in my camera roll from March 2024!! Connections with ghosts & sirens feels resonant with the TLOAS imagery recently 🧜🏻‍♀️👻

Gaylor Body Doubling in 30 minutes - get sh*t done with other Gaylors whilst listening to a playlist we create together 🧹🧼🧺🎧🎶💃🏼🕺 buytickets.at/friendsofdor...

this makes me like ruin the friendship more ngl. she’s an unreliable narrator

Thank you Carolyn & to all the Gaylors who came along yesterday. It was lovely to be reminded that nuance & different opinions & people’s emotional responses can be held in such a different way in a live space, even if it is still online. A markedly different response in my nervous system ✨

This is happening in an hour! Lower cost tix currently available. We’re going to meditate together, soothe our nervous systems with some movement & speak together as a community. Anyone who’s a Friend of Dorothea is welcome to join ❤️

Time away from my phone has been deeply nourishing - I’ve done somatic work & it feels like I’ve rinsed out so much cortisol. If you’re doing anti-racism work & want a guide that centres how much is stored in the nervous system, I couldn’t recommend Resmaa Menakem’s “My Grandmother’s Hands” enough

I don’t think this was planned but far out this feels like a timely date parallel to me 😬

mark your calendar for 10/29— we’re only a FORTNIGHT away from celebrating this amazing community through our love (and sometimes distaste) for soup! we have a new album’s worth of puns to simmer, tons of amazing recipes to share, and plenty of new community members to welcome into the lore! 🍜🥫🍲🥣

Look I’m reaaaally uncomfortable with the discourse I’m seeing from both sides of the lightning bolt jewellery debate. I’m seeing a lot people quick to dismiss and a lot of people quick to assume the worst.

I’ve actually been wondering whether Taylor knew this would happen, especially with Father Figure. Fan Edit culture is so huge recently & for me, that was especially apparent with the “part 4 u” edits on TikTok. It speaks to a certain universality when your songs can fit so many fictional worlds.

I'm still here

Her vigilante shit performance has literally been all I’ve thought about when hearing this lyric from Wood. Especially with the eras tour stage being shaped like a key..

TAYLOR IS REFERENCING “BREAD & CIRCUSES” THAT IS WHY THERE IS ALL THE BREAD IT IS PANEM ET CIRCENSES!!! IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn3QpM6/

Another date I’m watching: 16th of October. Marie Antoinette died on that day, the crowd was her king… but not in a way that went down well for her. In the 2006 film ‘Marie Antoinette’, Antoinette is depicted as saying the infamous “let them eat cake” line in the bathtub.

Ooh a lot of posts about Joe Alwyn, what have I missed??