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Well...now I have to add more...

Albatross

How Did It End?

So high school

I Hate It Here

The Prophecy

Cassandra

The Bolter

First listen favorites:

Fresh Out the Slammer

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

loml

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

#taylor swift

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She's like "Let's relive my Fearless days for a minute."

So High School is very cute. She said "yeah I'm dating the guy on the football team like we're back in You Belong With Me days"

#taylor swift

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I'm happy for once to have a dentist appointment so I have an excuse to take tomorrow off because I'm insane and staying up late to listen to this thing!

Once again grateful to be living in Pacific Standard Time

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Ooh, Albatross is my favorite so far!

#taylor swift

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The girl has to be practicing witchcraft because I don't see how she's doing it...

I was pretty certain we were getting another thing like the "Midnights 3Am edition" with some "vault" songs

BUT NOT FIFTEEN MORE WHAT THE HECK TAYLOR

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I'm not convinced she ever sleeps...

I was pretty certain we were getting another thing like the "Midnights 3Am edition" with some "vault" songs

BUT NOT FIFTEEN MORE WHAT THE HECK TAYLOR

#taylor swift #also so glad i had an appt as an excuse tk take off work tomorrow because I'm not sleeping either

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She did the same to Chris Stapleton on I Bet You Think About Me but all he got was backing vocals, not even a singular solo line like Post Malone did.

Which I thought was hilarious and was going to get her a lot of hate because Stapleton is one of the most beloved male country voices (deservedly so, in my opinion) and then she delegated him to backing vocals. People didn't seem to be as upset as I thought they'd be.

I do wonder if my best friend will be upset since Taylor and Post Malone are her favorites.

I will say I do think it's hilarious that post malone got the female feature treatment in fortnight. taylor heard complaints about how the women she features never get verses and her solution was misandry I love her

#taylor swift

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First listen favorites:

Fresh Out the Slammer

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me

loml

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #very much subject to change #probably in like 8 hours

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"i'm having his baby....no i'm not, but you should see your faces! oh my god, you should see your faces!"

Okay, but I really want to know what she thought she was doing with that line? She knows exactly what our faces all looked like but I want to know WHY?!?!?!?

#taylor swift

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"As she was leaving, it felt like breathing."

That line honestly feels like it might end up being the thesis of the entire album.

#taylor swift

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before ttpd comes out, what taylor album was a grower for you? one that you had to listen to a few times before you really loved it? mine was evermore

#red #1989

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of course the real solution to every book that's published being garbage is to stop reading anything that doesn't actually sound good

but apparently that is too much to ask

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

#3:49 pm #wanting a new job with similar pay and similar benefits because mine is sucking my life dry

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people who go really hard over like hating villains and hating their fanbases and being so disappointed in anyone who so much as shows the slightest appreciation for anything even slightly morally impure are like the obnoxious vegans of fandom

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#the vampire diaries #the originals #ouat #right now also greys anatomy

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A bit of publishing stuff (if you get my newsletter you've already seen this)

So by now you lovely people have all seen the announcement about what books I have coming up next. Ragpicker King is coming March 4, 2025, and The Last King of Faerie is coming early 2026.

I know a lot of you were hoping for LKOF to come earlier. It’s going to be a big gap between the last Shadowhunter book and the next — three years. Previously the longest gap between Shadowhunter books was two years, between Mortal Instruments and the Dark Artifices.

I announced last year that I was taking time off — six months. It was the first time I’d taken any real time off since 2005. The pandemic had just happened and I was wiped out physically and mentally. I also needed to take stock of where I was in my publishing journey and really think about what I wanted — it had been years since I’d had time to consider whether I was happy, because I always had another deadline and that was always more important.

  When I came to the end of The Last Hours, I was “out of contract” — meaning I didn’t have any further Shadowhunter books that were owned by or owed to a publisher.  it was the first time that had happened since, again, 2005. Being out of contract is your one chance to change anything you want to change about your career, and I knew I was going to leave my longtime US publisher of the Shadowhunter books and move to Random House, who published Sword Catcher.

This isn’t a small decision for any writer to make. It sometimes happens when a writer has been at a publisher for a very long time that the nature of the publisher changes. Maybe all the people you worked with when you first came to that publisher have gone elsewhere, so your team has inherited you rather than having chosen you. Maybe your publisher has been sold to another company whose vision for that publisher doesn’t fit with yours. Maybe your publisher isn’t interested in your genre anymore. 

I spent a lot of time agonizing over the decision—I certainly could have stayed where I was, but I knew that was no longer the best decision for the books. So those of you who pay attention to these kinds of details will note that where the other Shadowhunter books have all been published by McElderry Books, these next ones will be published by Knopf. (Who are an amazing imprint. They make great books.)

Normally a writer wouldn’t really address switching publishers — it happens a lot, and most readers don’t care who publishes a book. I’m talking about it now because I know there will be a lot of people who are angry and don’t understand why Ragpicker King is coming out before Last King of Faerie. The short answer is: Ragpicker King has been under contract since it was sold along with Sword Catcher, years ago now, and I’m obligated to get it done when I said I was going to. The books of The Wicked Powers are only just now securely under contract enough to be announced, as you just saw! So Ragpicker King is planned to be turned in in a couple of months, and after that I will be able to focus entirely on The Last King of Faerie (which I already began, but since it was only sold to Knopf last October, I was only able to get started after that).

And it takes a a year at least to write a book and another good year or so to publish it, and that gets us to the pub dates we’ve got. I would love if I could get it to you earlier, but multiple factors have brought us to this point, and in the end, not rushing through them is the best thing for the books, and will produce the best version of those books. I always want to get you my best work — that’s what is important to me above all things.

In terms of other publishers in other countries — I’m staying with all my longterm Shadowhunter publishers. Nothing’s going to change for y’all — Walker Books is still publishing Shadowhunters in the UK, even though a different publisher is going to publish In Fire Foretold there (due to spiciness.) ;) 

For those of you who backed the Kickstarter, that will mean you do get new Shadowhunter content between now and early 2026* — which was part of the reason I did it! I’m also talking to my new publisher about bringing Better in Black out — with at least a six month gap for the Kickstarter backers to have it to themselves — so fingers crossed. There’s also Black Volume of the Dead, the final Eldest Curses book, which is still planned and which I am still excited to write, but since it is set after Last King of Faerie, it hasn’t been scheduled yet. More news on that as it develops—for now, I wanted to talk directly about the schedule in the next couple of years, since I feel confident it is set and will reliably happen this way, something I can’t yet say about 2027 and beyond. The point is, I’m really excited to bring you Wicked Powers just as soon as it is ready, and I know enough about it to say  it’s going to be quite a ride!

And also an early look at In Fire Foretold.

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Seth Rollins: *appears with a chair in SHIELD gear*

Roman Reigns: *fight or flight senses activated*

#roman reigns #seth rollins #wwe