Unguibus et rostro

the beauty of this album is that it really fully encapsulates what it’s like going from the devastating loss of a long term relationship, to the rebound you think is gonna fix it all, only to ultimately realize that you were using the latter to process your feelings about the former. the songs are so muddled, and the lyrics are relevant to both muses because her feelings were muddled and she had no idea where to put them or what to do with them. the rebound promised her everything she couldn’t get from the ex-love and she fell for it because she was so desperate to be really seen.

what really blows my mind here is that cardigan actually did become the story of this album because when she felt lost and forgotten he came along and said she was his favorite….. only to throw her back under the bed the second he couldn’t handle the heat it’s all so

and when she did the whole “this song is about you” thing to dedicate the song to him she was thinking he was the one who put her on and made her feel cozy and warm but two weeks later he was the one stuffing her under the bed

the prophecy is like evil invisible string

its like... at the time i thought that invisible string was ~the~ song that she had been waiting her entire career to be able to write. the answer to why have i spent my whole life trying to put it into words. that all the pain and heartbreak was worth it for that love that felt like it was fated for her. but two heartbreaks later and now she thinks that she's fated to not have that love. that its written by the gods that she will never have it.

and what i love so much about the prophecy is that even though she feels that way from time to time that she will never have that love she can't bring herself to ~actually~ believe it because she always has been and always will be a romantic at heart. a lesser woman would've lost hope, a greater woman wouldn't beg, but i looked to the sky and said please..... its just soooo swiftian

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT — Parallels with cardigan (Lyrical) & willow (Cinematic)

can someone explain the black dog to me for my pea sized brain

six weeks after, she’s barely holding it together, and she did the rebound pill and everything. meanwhile, she sees him go to a bar, and she’s hit with the realization that he might be able to do it. he might be able to move on. and that realization is terrifying, upsetting, and depressing. how could he find anyone else? and if he could, who was he with her? when he was telling her that he could be the one for her? how could they go from being so intimate that they shower with each other, to being so distant she wonders if making her fall so deeply in love was a hazing?

and the fuck of it all is she doesn’t want him to be able to move on. because that would legitimize the idea that there could be something better than them. but she knows that they both have to. and she’s finally hitting this realization after rebounding hard, and understanding that nothing can manufacture intimacy like that.

“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”

quote of the year

‘how much sad did you think i had, did you think i had in me?’

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

"tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy" // "you said you were gonna grow up then you were gonna come find me ... lost to the lost boys chapter of your life"

taylor ending every album for the last five years: i hate it here so much actually you’ll never seen me again im never doing this again im gonna die and dissolve into sea foam

taylor a year later: so y’all there’s this new album,

she was not fucking joking

wait wait wait. first listen favorite from the tortured poets anthology!!! go

the waitress from the lakes: