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Fun fact: I had heard all the lyrics to Down Bad individually but hadn't processed them together as a narrative. So i saw people mention the alien abduction in it and thought 'oh weird, I must have missed that line.' Til yesterday when I finally actually processed it and realized, oh no. It's not a line. It's the entire song.

Baffling. Insane. Showstopping. Incredible. I'm bewildered and obsessed and in love.

#im also an idiot #cant believe how long it took me to like. actually listen to the song. #im going to plead '31 songs'

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Look you don't have to like it but I need the "ate seven bars of chocolate and said Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist are cheesy stupid lyrics" crowd to realize that's like. Probably on purpose because it's very mundane silly bits of real life being paralleled with the idea of 'the tortured poets department." It's the extension of the idea that "we're modern idiots." Hate it easily but it's done on purpose.

#taylor swift #ttpd #this kind of contrast pops up multiple times throughout the album #i might even venture to say its a central concept #the 'tortured poet' idea is embraced critiqued and lampooned in turns (and all at once)

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“[On where Tim was coming from] I think Bradford probably perceives it as the most loving action he can take in that moment because he's also self-flagellating and thinking that he is a not very desirable human being — given his history that has resurfaced that he was trying to bury, but is irrepressible and has reappeared and put so much at risk, including the person that he loves.” — source

+bonus:

@kat-rose-griffith:

#tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #the rookie

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Music fans reblog this with an album you consider “your” album… one that is part of your personality, one that means a lot to you, or just one you really like… Mine is The Perfect Shade of Green by Skittish :>

#the anatomy of tongue in cheek #is embedded deep down in my heart

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#yeah it suits her

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Fringe - An Enemy of Fate by J. H. Wyman.

#peter bishop #walter bishop #fringe

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does whatever a spider can!

#spiderman

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We actually worked together on this little thing a long time ago. 

#michael scott #jim halpert #john krasinski #steve carell

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RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

#bring them back! #i want to watch dvds on my laptop!

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"What I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. [...] What I need is the dandelion in the spring."

#katniss everdeen #everlark #taylor swift lyrics

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That's not an exaggeration. In my thirty minute drive I got the exact same movie ad three times. Does that marketing strategy increase anyone's likelihood of seeing a movie? "Well I wasn't interested the first dozen times I heard the ad, BUT this time. This time you won me over."

There needs to be a button I can push to let the relevant people know, "I was never planning on watching this, but then Spotify decided I should have to listen to an add for it every. ten. minutes. And now I'm actively rooting for it to fail by every conceivable measure."

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There needs to be a button I can push to let the relevant people know, "I was never planning on watching this, but then Spotify decided I should have to listen to an add for it every. ten. minutes. And now I'm actively rooting for it to fail by every conceivable measure."

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i think this album is a lot more abstract than we're used to with taylor, who is usually pretty direct, but people are still interpreting some of these lyrics extremely literally to infer factual real life events. sometimes lyrics just rhyme. sometimes imagery is used to invoke a feeling rather than make a legally binding statement. its ok to not know everything that happened to her for these songs to be, its more important to know whats happening with YOU as you listen to them.

#taylor swift #ttpd

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LDS, JWs, WMSCG, etc are categorically not Christian groups and shouldn't be called such. They either neglect essential Christian beliefs or warp them to the point that they functionally preach a different Jesus.

That doesn't mean God can't save individuals in those groups despite the confusion and false teachings they perpetuate, but I honestly think it is less loving to let people believe they are secure in those groups as if the doctrines they're being taught aren't dangerous.

We're called to spread the gospel and righteously judge for a reason. That should be done in love, with wise timing, and with care for the truth rather than simply proving ourselves right, but judging righteously is in fact a good thing, and it is what we are called to do in these cases.

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#who's afraid of little old me? #ttpd

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first of all why isn't jake gyllenhaal an organ donor

gotta find a narnia blog

#he can't be one because taylot already eviscerated him and ate his heart in the marketplace

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reblog and tag the 3 ttpd songs you relate to most <3

#the prophecy #ttpd