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lovelygracechan · 6 days

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Something that stood out to me a lot from this album is the intentional de-personalization of extremely personal feelings and stories. She seems to have decided for this project that in order to be free to be completely honest in her art (which tbf she always has been but never as much as this album), she needs to visualize herself, and thus her stories, as a third party, an external entity on which she's conducting a post-mortem examination. Her 2016 self and the hate train she suffered after Snakegate is reimagined as Cassandra, a character from Greek mythology who had visions in her dreams but no one believed her and instead she was punished. Her anxiety of holding her lover's career back is instead described as The Albatross, this girl who everyone has been warned to stay away from bc she causes problems and is a liability. Her sweet, innocent childhood self is depicted as a robin, a feisty little bird full of life, dreams, and potential who has yet no clue of the cruelty of the world.

Consequently, the characters in her life are, too, bestowed upon fictional characters from stories that have been told before and/or are familiar in some way to the listener (aIMee the girl from this allegorical high school which is actually Kim Kardashian, Peter the boy who never grew up and stayed forever in Neverland who actually is her long-term ex partner, both her and her lover's separate romantic involvements imagined as Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, her real life therapist referred to as The Professor etc). By using the representation of well-known characters from widely popular stories and myths with names and all, she creates an even deeper line of emotional connection with the listener. Then, the 4th wall is delightfully broken in Clara Bow, where she refers to Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks as the inherent precedents to Taylor Swift. But what's even more brilliant about this is that in this way, she is making Taylor Swift into a character in and of itself. She is actually attempting to externalize Taylor Swift from Taylor the real-life woman. By narrating her stories through tangible entities presented as completely external to herself, she is inhibited by the safety of this fictional/allegorical lense through which she's allowing her stories to be consumed, and as a result, she has unlimited freedom to be more personal than she has ever been in her art before.

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lovelygracechan · 27 days

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haikyuu!! memes bc i’m living in the past

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lovelygracechan · 28 days

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My favorite part of barbie movies is the moment barbie is presented with a clear way out, an option that lets her avoid the plot with little negative impact on her own life and instead she chooses to stay and make whatever difference she can. The most obvious to me as a kid was in Mermaid Tale when she refuses her wish from the dreamfish and accepts responsibility as a princess. She could easily walk away and live her life as a human, but makes the choice to care about the merpeople. In Princess and the Pauper, Erika doesn’t have to help Julian and pretend to be the princess, in fact her life would be much easier if she didn’t. But she accepts that responsibility and risks her life because of the connection she feels to this girl she barely knows. It’s not exclusive to barbie’s roles either. Aidan in Magic of Pegasus has no real stake in Annika’s quest, especially not at the start. But he hears a person talking about how they need a second chance and he chooses not to walk away. And this happens over and over again, in 12 Dancing Princesses, Diamond Castle, Three Musketeers

Often in children’s movies I feel like the plot is their life, like there’s no other option here they must deal with whatever is going on. And as a kid who felt like her life was very quiet, it meant a lot to me to watch characters choose the harder path for the sake of helping others, make a decision to care about someone else’s problems, and live out their own magical adventure because of that act of compassion.

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lovelygracechan · 2 months

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OBSESSED with how each of them is ridiculing his opponent after defeating him and it's not even some regular "I'm stronger than you" remark; instead, they both go for "you are nothing compared to my man"

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lovelygracechan · 3 months

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When Jinshi is such a mood.

Sauce: The Apothecary Diaries

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lovelygracechan · 3 months

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been loving just doodling them existing together lately they deserve that tbh . they’re also shirtless bc i loved the sketch too much and i refuse to cover it up

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lovelygracechan · 4 months

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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Does anyone else have these beautiful happy moments of bliss? I have had these a lot recently. Mostly when I am cuddled up against her and everything feels just right for a moment. Like, I could be anywhere in the world right now, but I don't want to be anywhere but in her arms. Just want to be close to this one person that means so much to me.

I really hope everyone get to feel this way. It's amazing!

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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obsessed with the way time works in summer. it feels slow and boring and never ending and the cicadas are just droning on and on and time feels like molasses and then you blink and it’s suddenly september

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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✨❤️💋S.W.A.K.💋❤️✨

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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the concept of growing into love is so much more intriguing than falling in love. it's like, on all our good days and bad days, I will choose to love you, I will learn with you, I will live my life with you and we will grow into and with each other through the passage of time

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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Life’s so overwhelming these days. I feel like the best escape right now would be lying on a blanket on a hill and stargazing with a girl, while music plays softly in the background

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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blossom 🌼

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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maybe this is all that love is. the stray eyelash plucked so softly off their cheek, collars adjusted mid-sentence, the ladle passing back and forth as the sauce simmers (and how you blow it gently before they taste and still – ’it’s hot, careful’ – and then – ’more salt? more ginger? five more minutes? yes, five more minutes’) and voices humming in the next room, happily distracted, and no one there to hear it, to know about it, but you and you listen, stopped in the middle of whatever you were doing, to listen without saying anything, without walking in because it is a moment entirely theirs, not for anything but listening to, knowing that your place is to just be there, to hold that moment, because it is a gift beyond words that you’re lucky enough to be there to hear it, until the humming stops, and the world comes back and all you can do is go back to your task, aware suddenly of how delicate, how fragile all of it is.

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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Sweetness

Your sweetness is pulling me in,

It's covering all of my skin,

Some people might say it's a sin,

But I just see it as a win.

Your sweet laughter makes me smile,

Please stay with me for a while,

Making my heart leap time after time,

How can this love ever be a crime?

Your sweetness is holding me close,

I am quite content in this pose,

My lips softly touching your nose,

Please let me carry the thorns of your rose.

Your sweet scent is keeping me sane,

Wiping away all of my pain,

It makes me want to dance in the rain,

Tied to you by an unbreakable chain.

Your enchanting sweetness has me hoping,

That I'll never again find myself chocking,

On these words that hold so much meaning,

I truly just want to revel in this sweet feeling.

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lovelygracechan · 3 years

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Patience.

My beloved, I hope you have patience,

Because I know I don't always make sense,

But please just give me some time,

And I swear that some day,

I'll be yours and you'll be mine.

I, too, hope you can forgive me,

For sometimes being a fool,

For not always being able to speak and see,

It has me wishing I wasn't so cruel,

Ignoring all of this warm love,

you keep on sending towards me.

My beloved, all I'm asking for is,

Patience.

And I swear that some day,

I'll be yours and you'll be mine.

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