#If you’re anything like me

[dearreader]

she just dropped this and never addressed it again…

#kelly babels #if you’re anything like me

[whyisntketchupasmoothie]

not to interrupt or anything but do you guys ever think about how no amount of friends at 25 will fill the empty seats at the lunch tables of your past? The teams that picked you last? But darling you keep trying?

#reputation magazine poems you will always be famous #rep #rep magazines #reputation magazines #if you’re anything like me

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

“Dear Reader” is “If You’re Anything Like Me” set to music.

#taylor swift #dear reader #if you’re anything like me #they’re very very similar #giving out advice to others based on your past and also reminding yourself #if you haven’t figured out what this week’s Swiftlit episode is here’s a hint!

[allamericanb-tch]

when taylor said “no amount of friends at 25 will fill the empty seats at the lunch tables of your past”

#taylor swift #if you’re anything like me #reputation

[jewelsigaveu]

oh taylor…

#when this hit me… made me want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes #the number of parallels between the reputation poems and ttpd is just insane #taylor swift #reputation #if you’re anything like me #i hate it here #the tortured poets department #ttpd #lyrical parallels

[midnightsslut]

If You’re Anything Like Me + evermore parallels

(and also hoax)

‘you promise people the world, because that’s what they want from you. you like giving them what they want… but darling, you have to stop.’ —> ‘I gave it my all. he gave me nothing at all, then wondered why I left.’

‘your superstitions were the lone survivors of the shipwreck.’ —> ‘when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you.’

‘Rest In Peace, to your naive bravado…’ —> ‘if the shoe fits, walk in it till your high heels break.’

‘you never wanted to lock your door, your secret garden gate or your diary drawer’ —> ‘but if someone comes at us, this time I’m ready’

‘didn’t want to face the you you don’t know anymore, for fear she was much better before… but darling, now you have to’ —> ‘she’s still 23 inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to be’ / ‘can’t remember what I used to fight for’ / ‘you know I left a part of me back in New York. you know the hero died, so what’s the movie for’

‘if you’re anything like me, there’s a justice system in your head’ —> ‘misery, like the war of words I shouted in my sleep’ / ‘my sleepless night, my winless fight, this has frozen my ground’

‘for names you’ll never speak again’ —> ‘the shape of your name still spells out pain’

‘and you make your ruthless rulings. each enemy turns to steel’ —> ‘your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing’

‘they become the bars that confine you in your own golden little prison cell’ —> ‘I knew you, living in a gold age, sneak into my birdcage’

‘but darling, that is where you meet yourself’ —> ‘and I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step / and I couldn’t be sure. I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for evermore.’

‘you couldn’t recognize the face of love until they stripped you of your shiny paint’ —> ‘and you passed right by / I was in the alley, surrounded on all sides’

‘threw your victory flag away, and you saw the ones who wanted you anyway’ —> ‘when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you’

‘darling, later on you will thank your stars for that frightful day’ —> ‘pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff / long story short, I survived’

‘if you’re anything like me, I’m sorry. but darling, it’s going to be okay’ —> ‘I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for evermore.’

#this is a rough list #90% of these are from long story short and evermore #there are way more #but still #parallels #reputation poems #if you’re anything like me #evermore #folklore #hoax

[anelimjolie]

Darling, later on you will thank your stars

for that frightful day.

If you’re anything like me,

I’m sorry.

But Darling, it’s going to be okay.

@erster-februar <3

#taylor swift #reputation #reputation magazine #taylor swift reputation #reputation era #If you’re anything like me #poems #polaroids #taylor swift polaroids

[king-of-the-mouseboys]

I am escaping blood hell and my insane horny bullshit has been kickstarted by a song so good it makes me want to slam my head through multiple walls

#111 Winchester by I the Mighty btw #it fucks so severly it’s driving me insane #and it’s making me think THOUGHTS #if you’re anything like me #and I know y’all are #listen to it you’ll understand #ftm nsft #mlm nsft #t4t nsft

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

#relistening to tma again #i think the last time i’ve drawn anything related to it was like may 2020 #god it’s been a while #have been listening to the magnus protocol and my god it’s so good #but heres good old jonathan as a treat #the interest has been in deep slumber for the past 4/5 years only periodically coming back to life #i’m very normal about this podcast actually #on other note i also started a taz balance relisten #what’s up with me and revisiting my middle school fixations lately #anyways #if you’re still reading these tags i’m impressed i could never with my abysmal attention span #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma jon #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #doodle

[mumblesplash]

in honor of last season’s poem being called “”end poem”” (all quotes mandatory) this season i made one out of pieces of the actual end poem

#letting me just download the minecraft font? for free? a mistake #if you or a loved one have been suffering from RED TEXT you may be entitled to compensation #my art #god at this point i really do need a writing tag don’t i #<- will continue not addressing this #secret life #goodtimeswithscar #grian #secret life spoilers #sorry tumblr user livvi3love for not making one with all the deaths again #if you (or anyone) did want to illustrate this one as well you’re more than welcome to but i am not expecting anything #i can do an explainer thing again like i did last time but that is for tomorrow #right now i am just. very tired #but for now i will confirm yes the colors Matter #i literally made this on accident against my will #i was trying to DRAW

[kagoutiss]

study of my favorite scene from twilight princess

#tloz #twilight princess #zelda #link #ganondorf #study #maybe my favorite scene in anything ever actually like it undoes me completely #stuff you see when you’re 12 that stays with u forever. this is like. one of the main things

[dearreader]

“If you're anything like me,

I'm sorry.

But Darling, it's going to be okay.”

#kelly babels #if you’re anything like me

[favroitecrime]

Palestinian freedom fighters breaking out of Gaza and reclaiming their occupied territories. They’ve taken over israeli tanks and have chased out the settlers that were on that land. They’ve launched rockets everywhere and the iron dome has failed to intercept. This is about to mark a momentous event in history.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

#free palestine #it feels so surreal and so shocking #there’s so much hope but so much fear #you just know they’re about to retaliate with the genocide they’ve been planning for years now #i fear for my palestinian brothers and sisters but this is so fucking huge #they tore down part of the barbed wire fence!!!! the people of Gaza are breaking out!!!! #god there’s so much more on twitter but i beg if you look do NOT look at non-palestinian sources #they’re twisting the narrative as if this isn’t retaliation for 76 years of torture #as if the israeli forces and settlers didn’t kill 4 palestinians yesterday alone #as if they haven’t killed nearly 300 palestinians this year alone #do NOT let the media trick you into thinking anything after will be a retaliation to an attack Palestine started #PALESTINE is the one retaliating #also if you’re gonna come in here with both sides or whatever sincerely block me and lmk so i can blokc you #they’ve already out out statements to leave children and the elderly alone so any middle aged fuckers are free to kill :) #which is fine since they’ve likely killed hundreds if not thousands of their friends and family and neighbors anyway #tag: important #fuck israel #gaza #tag: october 7 2023

[animatedtext]

#I’m afraid that you secretly don’t like me but you’re too polite to say anything #gif #animatedtext

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

#ovids version made me cry #imagine you’re just a nymph watching your friend torn away from you by the literal king of the dead #and despite knowing how powerless you are against him you still choose to stand up to him #to stand up for your friend #imagine being so torn apart by the grief of losing her you weep yourself to death #imagine turning that story into a good girl/bad boy romance #weird #anyway #the story of persephone is personal to me #bc i wish my mother loved me like that #demeter was a good mother #you all suck for portraying her as anything less #idc if you disagree #‘oh myth is open to interpretation and reinterpretation’ #okay. well i don’t care. #there’s such thing as bad interpretations #making demeter the villain is a bad one #making hades a misunderstood protagonist is also a bad one

[midnightsslut]

the progression from ‘I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed’ and ‘devils roll their dice / angels roll their eyes / what doesn’t kill me makes me want you more’ to ‘he’s passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky’ and ‘in the cracks of light, I dreamed of you’ and ‘and you saw the ones that wanted you anyway / darling, you will thank your stars for that fateful day’ and ‘flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful / you wanting me tonight feels impossible’ to ‘and the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me / I laid the groundwork, and then, just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line’ and ‘karma is my boyfriend’ is one of the most beautiful sequences in taylor’s discography. the relationship went from a curse to a blessing, before she finally took full credit for how it happened.

#mastermind #ivy #evermore #cruel summer #lover #if you’re anything like me #snow on the beach #karma #long story short #she’s both proud and grateful my baby #lyrics #midnights