The First Completed Album!!!!!!

look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

Taylor came on at 8:09 bitches

Today I explained why I can't really travel to Florida right now to my dad & watching him get increasingly frustrated with the realization that Transphobia Exists was honestly something else.

him: "well if you're not allowed to use the men's bathroom, just go to the women's! that'll show them."

me: "yeah but I'm just as likely to have the cops called on me for 'using the wrong bathroom' in there. have you seen me lately?"

him: "but if one of the options is wrong and not allowed then the other one has to be the right option. what do they want you to do?"

my grandma, helpfully: "I think they want trans people to not go to Florida"

my dad: spluttering frustratedly

me: "I think the thing is that you are more logical and reasonable than Ron DeSantis."

the face of a semi-reformed(?) conservative when realizing with dawning horror that laws can be unfair on purpose is truly special tbh

Easter Eggs in Music Videos (obviously not nearly close to all of them, but you get the point)

ME! Music video

-Snake turned into butterflies: corresponds to the YNTCD back tattoo

-Snake slithering on the Stones: corresponds to the lyric “snakes and stones never broke my bones”

-Christmas Tree: “we can leave the Christmas lights up til January”

-In the dialogue Taylor says “I cant talk to you when you’re like this”: lyric in false god

-“You need to calm down”: Song title

-Dixie Chicks in ME! = collab

-Taylor walks through clouds, referring to the lyrics “clearing the air, i breathed in the smoke”

-13 clouds

-Cloud resembled a snake chasing after her

-Taylor in the yellow suit = “The man” tease

-7 briefcases

-The scene with everyone in pantsuits is taking place on a street that looks/resembles Cornelia street

- Brendon looks out of the window alluding to the lyrics “staring out the window like I’m not you’re favorite town”

-London sky view/Big Ben: references to London in Lover

-Lover sign: Album name and song title

-Benji: reference to her new cat

-Cupid scene, an angel rolls her eyes = cruel summer lyric

-Cupid scene alluded to “The Archer”

-Cornelia Roses

YNTCD video references

-Dice cameo: “Devils roll the dice” & “The whole school is rolling fake dice”

-“Mom, I’m a rich man” quote alluding to The man

-Benji watch has 13 on it/became new merch!

-Back tattoo takes us back to the ME! Video where the snake turned into a butterfly

-Lover phone case: new merch

-13 gems on her sunglasses

-Cornelia roses alongside the pool

-16th Ave corresponding with “skipping down 16th Avenue”

-“Love letters only” mailbox: unveiled how she’d be releasing new lover days before release

-Hayley using the bow and arrow to hit the 5 target = “The Archer” being track 5

-13 necklace on

-Cruel summer tattoo on Ellen: song title

-7 people laying down in lawn chairs

-Katy + Taylor symbolic reference to their friendship, also possible reference to “its nice to have a friend” as the song title

-Ryan Reynolds is painting the stonewall inn

Lover music video

-Snow globe: “you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round”

-Lyric video in the attic

-Each room represents old era/past album

-Taylor is wearing Stella x Taylor collab in beginning

-Christian hangs up a photo on Benji

-Yellow room is upside down bc fearless completely flipped her life upside down

-Fishbowl references her life in the spotlight

-“Devils roll the dice, Angels roll their eyes” board game = cruel summer

-Scrabble pieces spell out Afterglow

-“Breakable heaven” board game = cruel summer

-New year’s day party = “there’s glitter on the floor after the party”

-13 candles on the cake

And then there was one (1989 song left)

You ever just go through an author’s body of work, fic after fic and like want to cry because everything is just so good and you know that this author has got you and you trust them implicitly to take your heart on a wild ride of angst and pining and love and happy feels?

Yeah.

Seriously, bless fic writers. We owe them so much.

when youre writing but you forget a word that was in your head milliseconds ago so you just die for the next 93 years

when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now

if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?

i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

I've been obsessed with how the first ten Hunger Games were in an actual arena, like with seats and an event floor and turnstiles and everything. Something that was so clearly human-made, without so much as a weed growing inside of it.

Then Coriolanus goes off to Twelve and has his own private Hunger Games with Lucy Gray in the middle of the woods and comes to the conclusion that humanity is violent, and it must be contained by the Hunger Games. Some point after that, the arenas are still human-made, but mimic nature like Snow's own Hunger Games with Lucy Gray. Some are deserts or tundras or jungles, but all are made to appear like a natural environment. Only they're nature that's been constructed and manicured by humans, just like the Games are.

Fitting, then, that the first hit against this arena is made by a boy from District Twelve. Then a quarter century later, this arena is destroyed by a girl from District Twelve who learned to shoot arrows in the very trees that saw the future dictator of Panem emerge from it with his worldview now set against the natural world.