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Julie Marie

@swiftielovelovelove13

Love Love Love Basically I love Taylor Swift more than anything in the world with some Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, Friends, and my cats thrown in. And also I'm hella gay. Wishin' I was at the beach usually ♡♡♡
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Anonymous asked:

this album genuinely shifted something in me like I know that sounds parasocial and unhinged but it truly did... and somehow for the better... like even though it is such a dark album I think just the fact that it illustrates that very bad things can just happen and they don't have to be defining characteristics of your life? you can just... quietly decide to keep living and see where that takes you... even if you're not 100% healed or 100% ok... there also doesn't need to be a huge celebration/salvation to make up for what you've lost... you can just be

i think there's so much quiet power in this. i posted this the first night and we never came back to it, but despite all the guilt and loathing and self-hatred, there's SO much self-respect all over this record. something can happen to you, and you can move forward. it doesn't have to be a big thing. you can just choose yourself and choose to be healthy and chase it.

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i understand the “icdiwabh makes eras tour feel weird” mentality but also it’s important to remember that the song isn’t really about us. she’s not miserable bc of us, she’s miserable WHILE performing for us. a sea of strangers giving her their energy for a few hours (singing along to songs about her never-ending love(s) that did, in fact, end) is not a replacement or a fix for everything she went through last spring - we didn’t have the ability to “heal” her, nor should it be surprising to hear that we didn’t “heal” her. our love is unrelated to the loves she lost.

but she’s proud of herself for still giving us the shows she thinks we deserve WHILE also brokenhearted. she was entirely shattered WHILE the crowd was chanting “more,” not because of it. we gave her something she felt she could do and still do well, even when she wanted to just give up entirely, and i think that’s best case scenario

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ttpd is like... this fucking sucked... it was my fault... fuck joe... this also fucking sucked... fuck matty... i thought i was gonna die... straight up commit me to an asylum... FUCK matty... fuck joe... no one knows me... fuck kim kardashian... i created every problem and every consequence i have to face... please see me as human... i am exposing my flaws so you see me as a real person... fuck jake gyllenhaal... if you're gonna be so up my business you better realize how fucked up my business is... also hi killatrav ily... there is nothing redeeming about this chapter of my life... hi mom ily... this ALSO fucking sucked... there may be good in the world... here is every sin i have ever committed... i was promised love and forever repeatedly and no one ever delivered... my reaction to trauma was awful... i made so many bad decisions... if you're gonna crucify me do it for good reasons... are you not entertained?

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btw upon reflection, the best part of taylor’s speech hands down was “this might be hard for you to hear: in your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong person, underreact, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat. and i’m not going to lie. these mistakes will cause you to lose things. but i’m trying to tell you losing things doesn’t just mean losing. a lot of the times, when we lose things, we gain things too.”

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Once again thinking about what an insane privilege it is to get added context and depth about our favorite pieces of art- and in turn added context and depth surrounding who Taylor was at that time, what she was grappling with, and strategically missing pieces of the stories that made her who she is today. It’s WILD ! With every rerecord I feel more grateful and more in awe. Like what other fans in history have ever experienced anything remotely like this!?

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1989 (Taylor's Version) Prologue

When I was 24, I sat in a backstage dressing room in London, buzzing with anticipation. My backup singers and bandmates gathered around me in a scattered circle. Scissors emerged and I watched in the mirror as my locks of long, curly hair fell in piles on the floor. There I was, in my plaid button down shirt, grinning sheepisgly as my tourmates and friends cheered on my haircut. This simple thing that everyone does, but I had a secret. For me, it was more than a change of hairstyle. At 24, I decided to completely reinvent myself.

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I think what really makes Taylor's music so amazingly important to me is that it's a scrapbook of so many things. I listen to one song and it holds the reality of who she wrote it about, memories of her performing it, the way I felt about it when I first heard it, the way I relate to it now, the way it relates to other songs on her discography, memories I associate with listening to it, discussions we've had about it as a fan base, etc.

this is how i feel about it too. like, the songs are about her! in my mind, they always will be (that's why i'm so interested in her, and what compelled me to make a blog). but like you said, they're also about me. and they're about memories i have at her shows, with my friends. it's just magic.

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