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thinking about the pipeline from “once upon a time, the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned” in mastermind to “tried wishing on comets / tried dimming the shine / tried to orbit his planet / some stars never align” in the ttpd prologue

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I Look Through People’s Windows is like “please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere” come true

#💀

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

gotta find a narnia blog

#no place like tumblr

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okay so where are my fellow guilty as sin? stans at

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going from loml to i can do it with a broken heart

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hey. if you've performed any task today

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Jess and Rory + The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology

#THEY #gilmore girls

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lock broken slur spoken wound open game token i didn’t know you were keeping count // ended with the slam of a door, then he’ll call her a whore, wish he wouldn’t be sore

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CAUSE FUCK IT, I WAS IN LOVE. AND FUCK YOU, IF I CANT HAVE US.

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Petition for taylor to put a new giggle in ts11 we haven't had one in a while

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ttpd really is the anti-reputation

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"you look like taylor swift" 🤝 "and then it was bought by me"

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I don’t have enough brain cells to understand who/what fortnight is about… the neighbor and husband references?

okay, so like taylor said, fortnight is sort of a prologue to the entire album. it references a lot of other songs (down bad, florida!!!, peter, guilty as sin?) there are a few different ways that it could be read, and i may not stick to this interpretation, but the below is where i landed.

fortnight sets the scene for the entire album and the events that are about to unfold by telling a story about an alternate reality about the future she was headed to in which she and joe ignore their problems, stay together, and build the life they're planning. she's in need of psychiatric help, she's drinking, she's depressed. but the other guy has re-entered her orbit. they're going to keep crossing paths. she feels insane. he's right there. she is insane. her husband cheats on her; she's enraged at him. the other guy is married to someone great; she's enraged at her too. she feels insane. she is insane, because she's fully consumed with the anger of following the bad path instead of taking the risk.

so at the end of the song, she decides she has to run for it. she has to move to america. she has to go to florida and start over. she has to buy the car and let him touch her instead of just daydreaming about it. because if she doesn't scratch the itch, if she doesn't see what happens, if she doesn't chase the guy that's been her "what else?" then well, how will she ever know? and the rest of the record is her realizing that maybe she wishes she hadn't.

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“I love you, it’s ruining my life”

#don't want no other shade of blue but q

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As for “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” Swift revealed that she wrote the tune “alone, sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture.” “There’s a lot about this particular concept on ‘The Tortured Poets Department,'” she added. “What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society we provoke that pain and we just watch what happens.”

Taylor on “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me” (Variety)

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Swift said the track is “a commentary on what I’ve seen in the industry that I’ve been in over time". "I used to sit in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid. And they’d say, ‘you know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her, ‘but you’re this, you’re so much better in this way or that way.’ And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you. I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been these architypes of greatness in the entertainment industry. Clara Bow was the first ‘it girl.’ Stevie Nicks is an icon and an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music."

Taylor on Clara Bow for Variety

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she’s gonna sit at that piano in wembley in her yellow dress and she’s gonna rawdog so long london and the next thing you know mid-song she’s gonna switch to london boy. stitches undone two graves one gun you’ll find me in the pubwe are watching rugby.