The Bad Thing About Writing Is That Sometimes You Just Want To Read Something Super Specific And When

Not every day has to count. Some days are for repairing, resting, mourning. You don't have to perform every day. Some days are for doing nothing. For sleeping all day or being on your phone. Relaxing is ok, allowed and encouraged. Do what you need to do.

Diet Mountain Dew by Lana Del Rey is my equivalent to oxygen

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

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

I love this and Irma

There’s a regular at the fabric superstore. She’s at least 80 years old, and she just got back into sewing after giving it up for 40 years. We’ll call her Irma.

I love Irma.

Irma is constantly surprised by the newfangled sewing gadgets our store sells. Today she bought some extra-fine glass-head pins and a magnetic pincushion. As I’m ringing her purchases up, she tells me very seriously, “did you know, if you’re careful, you can sew RIGHT OVER those pins? You don’t need to take them out!”

I told her that I liked that you can’t accidentally melt the head of the glass pins with your iron, and she nodded. “They used to all be like that, but times changed.”

I love old sewing machines and asked what kind of machine she has, and she goes, “Oh, it’s an old Singer Featherweight that my husband bought me when we were first married. It’s probably not worth anything anymore, but the thing sews fine. Have you seen the ones those girls over there–” indicating the sewing machine sub-store in my location “–have? Those things go in every direction and the needle always comes to the top when you stop sewing! Imagine how handy that is!”

I mention that I used to sew on my grandmother’s Featherweight but now there’s a intra-family war about who owns Grandma’s Featherweight and so no one gets to use it. It’s genuinely the best portable straight-stitch machine I’ve ever used.

I warn her to never let anyone tell her that Featherweight isn’t worth something. “I know, I miss my husband and it’s always going to have a place in my heart, just like your grandma’s.”

“I mean, Irma, there’s that, but they’re also worth a really notable amount of money. The Singer Featherweight is really financially valuable. I almost never see them for sale around here for less than about $400, and that’s in bad condition.”

“It’s a good thing my husband’s dead, honey, because if you told him that he managed to buy a sewing machine that’s worth more in 2021 than he bought it for in 1950, well, he’d be so smug that I just wouldn’t be able to tolerate driving home with him.”

i respect people who want to keep their menstruation to themselves but i have to make it everyone's problem. Literally if it was socially acceptable to lead every conversation with "I'm menstruating" i would.

What is or isn’t a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

“Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma” doesn’t contain a slur, but “What are you, some kind of fag?” does.

“Queer studies”, “the queer community” and “I’m queer”? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a “dirty queer”? Slur.

“Be gay, do crimes” and “He’s gay” ≠ slur, but “Ew, that’s so gay” = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking “q slur” bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren’t using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.

“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”

“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”

How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.

Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.

I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.