CAPILLARIES

Blood travels in vessels. From the heart, ascending aorta, aortic arch and its branches, descending aorta, more branches going everywhere, arteries and more arteries, terminal arteries, to capillaries and eventually back. The intricate network of blood vessels is something we learn about in basic human anatomy. We are taught it, it makes sense, and we accept it as the reality of the situation. Blood travels in vessels.

When you slice your finger while flipping a page a little to eagerly, you see a crimson liquid ooze out of the practically invisible cut. (Crimson because its more poetic than red, but also because it implies arterial blood). So, the oozing liquid pours out of your finger and drips onto the pages of your book and -

You’re basically a bag of tissues and blood and goop, basically a bag with more steps. Not that much unlike a bag of sausages, and uncooked fillets of chicken breast and partly crumbled ham, all still pink and juicy.

We tend not to think about all the pathways that get sniped when we have a laceration. “It’s just a small cut, is it not?”

It’s not! It’s so much more than that, its not just blood flowing out of the bag that is the human body, its actually millions and millions of tiny capillaries, that are cut and all the billions and billions of blood cells that don’t go where they are supposed to, instead they pour out of you - the slightly more complicated bag of meat.

How small, and unimaginable capillaries are. How simple and yet so complex the human body is.

imagine taylor singing stay beautiful in a stadium with just a guitar

I’m loving this countdown numerically speaking

cinnamon roll vs. sinnamon roll

Lorde is well deservedly nominated for Album of the Year with Melodrama and that is what matters. 

pit tickets are not available this time around without a VIP package

*sees the reputation tour ticket prices* 

Me:

Halsey’s opinion on reputation!

I miss you bud 💓 @taylorswift thank you for the best night of my life :,)

i wanna be your end game

i wanna be your first string

i wanna be your a team

introducing me

my name is ashleigh. I am 20 years old and from New Jersey. I am currently studying marine biology at the University of Maine. I first saw Taylor 5 years ago during red release week in new york city. She was performing on good morning america and me and my friend Sophia skipped school that day to camp out in the freezing cold and hurt our calf muscles by spending the whole performances and soundchecks on our tippy toes trying to see because were so short.

For the red tour, me and Sophia went to Red tour Newark night three and Red tour Philly. My mom sewed the lucky one-type leg slip for us and we wore red shorts underneath and the long red gloves. (we even had giraffe stuff because not long before Taylor was obsessed with the giraffes at disney world WHO REMEMBERS) (im on the left)

At the beginning of the 1989 era, we filmed a video of us dancing to shake it off and submitted it to GMA for a chance to meet Taylor when she performed during 1989 release week, although we didnt win we did get a nice shout out on tv :)))

next was release week of 1989: me and soph got to new york city with her parents even earlier this time around, around 3ish i believe. We got a spot on the barricade and were able to somehow see behind all the VIPs that time

After bawling our eyes out because Taylor waved to us on the street from her van leaving GMA and STOPPED TRAFFIC TO GET OUT AND HUG A FAN ON THE SIDE OF A MAIN ROAD IN MANHATTEN, we somehow survived. shes an angel. (im on the right)

once the 1989 tour dates were announced, we immediately started planning our tour outfit. It was alot harder this time around because we wanted it to be PERFECT. also around this time miss Taylor started attacking the fandom on social media. I documented all the steps of making our signs and how my mom SEWED OUR DRESSES AND CREATED THEM ALL BY HERSELF (on top of me asking her to custom make me my prom dress…)

our first date of the tour was Philly night one!!!! we each got noticed by @taylornation and got a call the week before about a confidential message. of course we were bawling after realizing we both got the message!!! we ended up getting chosen to be interviewed for xfinity on us being fans of Taylor. The people from taylornation were so so sweet and directed us to head to the taylor nation tent after our interview before the show. Kevin was there waiting and he immediately knew who we were. HE HAD PHOTOS OF US ON HIS PHONE. HE HAD A PHOTO OF ME AND MY CAT ON HIS PHONE. I WAS LIKE WHAT HOW WHAAAAT. he asked where our seats were that night ( i mentioned how that night they were pretty high uP) then he asked how front row sounded and…..I IMMEDIATELY RAN BACK TO MY DAD WHO INSISTED ON STILL WAITING IN LINE AT THE BOOTH AND HE THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING AND THEN HE CAME UP WITH ME AND SOPH TO THE FRONT AND EVERYONE WAS CRYING AND THEN HE MENTIONED WE HAD TO STAY CALM. he escorted us down to FRONT ROW! my dad even was freaking out because hes obsesseddd with taylor.

we immediately made my dad take a million photos of us in every position possible and he was really confused but he was a trooper.

we got hungry and decided to grab pizza, all our twitter mutuals were freaking out with us and we met a bunch of mutuals inside as well! but then all of a sudden….

we were ATTACKED and sobbing. somehow we survived that night.

we went to [hilly night two and metlife night one as well :) somehow our photos got around tumblr and people were recoognizing us before the shows AND A LITTLE BOY CAME UP TO ME SAYING HE SAW ME ONLINE AND

Miss Taylor, i thought in order to be friends, it wouldnt be fair if i didnt share a bit of my story. We both adore you endlessly. Thank you for being with us both.

@taylorswift

This is awesome 😍😊

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November 2014 — Taylor Swift for Harper’s Bazaar Germany Magazine.

Taylor Swift’s 2018 GRAMMY nominations!