for years I’ve been joking that someone in my major US school district must be a taylor fan because we randomly got the day off for red tv, had a work day for midnights, and had summer school cancelled for speak now tv….. they just *randomly* moved our work day to 1989 tv. bffr.
This is horrifying. I was in choir for 15 years. She’s using the tactics they taught us to use if we ever felt like fainting.
Steps to keep yourself upright if you feel yourself tilting forward (which she does slightly):
1. Hands behind back
2. Pull shoulders back
3. Look up
Although we’re calling this out, I think we should talk about how dangerous this is.
By omitting necessary parts of her quote, they are REWRITING a queer person’s own admission of not just welcomed, but *expected* speculation.
And they’re doing it when it isn’t even about Taylor.
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@MileyCyrus
reacting to a throwback photo feat. her with Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato
— “I was bisexual from this damn picture (…) I literally think we were leaving the Grammys to go to the cheesecake factory”
The general public has been picking up on Taylor’s flagging as she’s been getting louder, so gaylor struggles & gaylor blocklist have been tightening their grip to the point where casual swifties are calling them out more than gaylors sometimes. What a time to be ALIVE.
Group of students: “Which guy or girl do you think this song is about?”
Me: “Wait you’re gaylors?”
Students: “Gaylors? We don’t know what that means. She’s definitely bi though.”
Me: *shocked*
Students: “WAIT do people NOT know she’s is fruity? Everyone we know knows that…”
I want to know the swifties’ hetsplanation for why 3 people would compliment my “lesbian flag shirt” at drag brunch if all I was doing was wearing the lavender haze mother top
“She’s flagging bi!”
“No, she’s flagging lesbian!”
And what if she’s flagging both because she has to?
Overtly bi because it would be more digestible for the general public/possibly appease her team.
Subtly lesbian because she wants to be *truly* seen by us.
I’ve said it before, & I’ll say it again.
She cant be the most intentional, artistically-gifted writer since Shakespeare while also “accidentally” using queer symbols, colors, & references as often as she does.
She’s either not as talented as we think, or she’s queer. Pick one.
HEY QUICK QUESTION.
taylor’s only been playing in democratic states since pride month, right?
so then how come she’s coming back to the US to perform in only republican states leading up to the 2024 presidential election on november 5th…
and what if I went the more metaphorical route and said it was because even though she dominates the industry, she’s still always on a leash with her labels and contracts
Just saw 2 swifties say they’re sure most of the (extremely young-looking) electric lady crowd was full of gaylors. Do they not realize that the majority of gaylors are in their 20s/30s?
I’m going to be so honest. Anti-gaylor rhetoric is almost exclusively on Twitter and/or with people over the age of 20. Young gen Z genuinely knows she’s queer. I haven’t had a single student who didn’t think that before/didn’t agree after hearing some evidence from their friends
HEY QUICK QUESTION.
taylor’s only been playing in democratic states since pride month, right?
so then how come she’s coming back to the US to perform in only republican states leading up to the 2024 presidential election on november 5th…
If she’s a cishet woman and said “gay pride makes me, me”, that’s not okay. Can you imagine if a white person described themselves by saying “Black pride makes me, me”?
That’s not allyship. That’s co-opting a marginalized group’s sense of celebration and pride.
I see a lot of gaylors say “I wouldnt care if she were straight” and I need to be clear that I totally would care. If she is not in the community, and is just a cishet woman claiming allyship and profiting off of us only to not defend us when we are attacked- she’s a bad person
Then in 2017 Taylor in mainly in London at the begining of the Year.
And here's a very interesting entry in her Lover Journal
"hiding out, trying to protect us from the nasty world that just wants to ruin things. We have been together and no one has found out for 3 months now."
no way did tree throw us to the wolves with this word choice. girl they have 2 whole brain cells that bounce between all of them. they will not know you’re throwing the whole “speculation” argument back at them jfc
FOX’s request to use Taylor Swift’s music during their broadcast of the Chiefs game on Sunday was denied by her label “in conjunction with speculations on or about her private/personal/dating life.”
The network caught wind that she was attending the game earlier in the day.
With the increasing interest in gaylorism lately, I have been reflecting on what this means for online, public discourse within our current world.
This may come as a surprise, but I wanted to share my recent thoughts and concerns in an effort to keep swifties* safe.
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Tomorrow’s pajama day at school & I cannot stop thinking about a kid from HS. He wore patterned pajama pants every single day for 4 years, including senior pictures. Kid never spoke. We all knew him as “PJ.”
Then. He silently showed up to our senior pajama day… in a full tuxedo.
@reputationisgay
Studied writing and linguistics in school and can say with 100% certainty that she did not use language this way during her original red era! Her writing habits are noticeably different
the fact that we’re still debating whether lacy is about drugs or a woman as if one of the most impressive things about this album isn’t the constant double entendres
okay so I’ve been working on this for 4 hours now and I’m still finding layers which I was not expecting. I genuinely don’t even know when this will be done but I will quote this whenever I am done
My mom asked how I knew I was bi since she “thought the same thing in college” but realized “our bodies enjoy being touched regardless of who’s doing it.”
I awkwardly said “So apparently straight people don’t agree with that…” She stared at me for 10 seconds and just said “Oh.”
y’all i’m being so serious can we please stop believing anything they say? they claimed to have a “direct source” in LA just a few weeks ago and said a bunch of shit was going to happen that never actually did. please stop trusting them when they say stuff like this
Do you ever think about how she teased …Ready For It? with the 2017 Bama vs. FSU game and do you ever think about how she announced Me! with the 2019 NFL Draft and do you ever think about how she’s going to Chiefs games lately when there are hints about surprise album drops and—
who’s going to tell them that the real reason her vocals have improved over the past few albums was because she finally accepted that she’s an alto (*maybe* mezzo soprano)
i’m gunna be honest…. sometimes I think it was lowkey fucked up that taylor wrote wonderland knowing how much it meant to dianna like girlie that was so toxic what was that
I’ve always thought it was directed at gaylors tbh. It dropped right when so many of us were distancing ourselves from her with the ratty situation. I think she knew we’d be upset and dropped it to signal that this was always part of the (mass coming out) plan.
we are but the earth before a storm; aware of the impending shift, but unable to calculate the magnitude of the chaos that will likely upend everything in its path
Still thinking about how the pink and blue are distinctly separate during “Wait till ya see half the things that haven’t happened…..” before a purple line cuts through both colors as she says “…..YET.”
I promise you, it will happen.
One of the things I love most about our community is our commitment to call out ableism. That said, I encourage us all to stop mocking & engaging with @/thathaylorstan. They have physical disabilities & almost certainly intellectual ones as well based on the info they’ve posted.
Y’all. Stop qrt’ing that AI photo. It should not have gone from a few hundred impressions 4 hours ago to 8,000+ in 30 mins.
Stop. Spreading. It.
This is how swifties see, screenshot, and spread the worst takes from our community. Just reply/message, report, and scroll.
you’re a despicable human being for invalidating a queer person’s personal flagging, and harry styles would be repulsed by you if he knew you said these things. hope this helps! ✌🏻🌈🧚♀️✨🫶🏻
@taylrpls
@benignlover
THIS. I teach high school. Students have asked what I think because theyre struggling to understand if it’s as bad as they think or if they’re being “dramatic” because “why else are people defending it so much?” One girl asked me in private if it’s okay to not like Taylor anymore
it’s also the opening song on midnights. this whole era. I just feel like that song is way more quintessential to the comingout narrative than we’re giving it credit for
Coming from a true idgaflor with late-staging… Why would Karlie have to not be Jewish & her kids not be Josh’s in order for her to be with Taylor? I think K’s Jewish, those kids are Josh’s, AND LSK is theoretically possible. It just isn’t a necessary component to the LSK theory.
“but i come back stronger than a 90s trend” as she breaks the 4th wall looking into the camera then breaks out of the glass closet through a rabbit hole portal
anyway who else is excited for 1989 taylor’s version and original handwritten wonderland lyrics??
1. It was from the Ministry of Health, not Hamas.
2. Get the fucking passive voice out of here.
3. Get the fucking air quotes around the word dead out of here.
4. You have blood on your hands you cowards.
Hamas released a list of almost 7,000 names of Gazans it said had been killed in Israeli strikes after the US president cast doubt on its toll figures.
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@starrybloodmoon
yes to all of this but I also love how the members of boygenius reacted. no one likes to feel like they’re too much, and lucy especially responded with such grace and patience. definitely been both of them at some point
I really think it’s because Taylor & Karlie were pushed as the ideal “friendship.” For me, I saw them as an example of what I wanted in a friend before realizing I was bi. For many, admitting Kaylor was queer is admitting you might have wanted more of a girlfriend than a friend.
gotta say, liz has been getting popular with some of the tiktok swifties. even non-gaylor accounts have started posting theories based on the tayliz masterpost or admitting icsy could be about her in comment sections... she's the people's princess, so true
As an English teacher, nothing frustrates me more than when people:
a.) Draw false conclusions without reading a text
b.) Allow pre-existing opinions on a subject to influence their understanding of a text
c.) Willfully disregard a text’s true purpose to deepen their own biases
This is what I mean when I say that so many more people are open to her queerness in real life than what we see on Twitter. I have genuinely only met one person in real life that doesn’t believe she could be queer after hearing all the evidence.
I have friends who are trans men who identify as lesbian, and I have friends who are trans men who don’t. In both scenarios, I have no opinion because honestly? I shouldn’t have one. It is not my place to agree or disagree with the nuance of where and how their labels intersect.
NEW TASK ALERT: I’ve seen people start linking the VIP posters to various artists. Who wants to create a task force for uncovering the rest of the poster references?
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@barbarelleh
for the Dusty Springfield notice; can’t find who found the Beatles one :(
we should also be talking about the fact that josh is a horrible person in his own right in addition to his wealth and family history. karlie actively benefits from her husband being a slumlord who *humiliates* tenants with late payments.
This is truly such fucking LOSER BEHAVIOR. Cut the billionaire bipartisan bullshit and fucking stand for something. Call for a ceasefire and show us that your political documentary was more than another little era for you.
@taylorswift13
@taylornation13
@treepaine
@jackantonoff
I discovered something much bigger. It’s so big & I’m so positive that I’m right that I’m considering getting it published. If anyone knows how this process works or has recommendations, please send them my way!
@howtodreamlor
besides her vocabulary, it’s how she portrays human the condition. her writing is always so specific with so many personal details, yet it also resonates with millions of people so deeply. being able to write autobiographically & also make it that relatable is very impressive
okay but assuming taylor’s bi, who are some men you would *actually* believe she’d be with as a bi woman?
because I literally sat here for an hour and the only two with bi wife energy that I could actually see her dating are will poutler and hozier
The same thing needs to be said about how some members of the gaylor community have been talking about Joe Alwyn recently. Chances are neither of them will see any of this. But you know who will? Other human beings who are insecure about some of the things y’all are critiquing.
look I know travis kelce is not gonna be hurt by a bunch of fan accounts saying they don’t think he’s good looking but given the man hasn’t actually really done anything wrong it’s just a bit nasty to go around calling him ugly imo like where is the need
Our friend, Dorothy, told us that in this part of the story, “exile ends” & then “the next chapter begins.”
She’s “coming back around” because
“it’s time” to be done with “the 1950s shit.”
We’ve done the “reading.” It’s time for her to do the “telling” & us to do “the listening.”
*taps mic* coming from someone who’s read it 40+ times and taught it every year for the past 4 years, reputation is almost a line-by-line retelling of the great gatsby
To every anti-intellectual, self-proclaimed, pick-me writer on Twitter arguing that /they/ don’t have any inherent meaning behind the curtains being blue and just throw it in there for “imagery”:
Don’t worry. We can tell. That’s why we aren’t using your work in our class.
hi friends! I think I’m adopting 1-2 cats in april once I finish moving! I’ve never been a pet/cat-owner myself, so please drop any recommendations for care!! anything from best practices to collars to just general tips would be appreciated :)🫶🩷
Adding to this: Assuming that someone has been apathetic in regard to one of the most complex international conflicts up until this moment, rather than recognizing the influence of propaganda, misinformation, and gaps in education due to systemic inequity, is ignorant at best.
I genuinely haven’t been this hooked or blown away by a song on a first listen in a very long time like y’all I have no idea what olivia put in this song but it’s insane