Emilia

So I've been away from Tumblr lately, specially after all the "letter to your lover" challenge thing. I got so excited when I started reading it, I thought that finally for once I could feel somehow closer to this fandom.

But then I reached to the part that says that's only for America. What the actual fuck?

I'm from Argentina, so I'm an international swiftie. That makes things a little complicated for me. Let me list some of my struggles:

Taylor has never been in Argentina. Ever. All of her "world tours" have excluded shamelessly our continent (seriously, the fact that it's called "world" tour hurts a lot. Aren't we part of the world?). And you might say, "Hey, she was in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) once, in 2012". Well, let me tell you, that Latin America is not like Europe. I can't just get on a train and be in another country in one hour. Rio de Janeiro is approximately 2500 km away from where I live, and that's about 1 DAY AND 6 HOURS BY CAR. (Planes are not exactly cheap here neither).

Time difference. A lot of things happen in the fandom when we're asleep, and Americans always get them first because of that reason.

Shipping is around $30 when it comes to the merch. For the ones who don't know, there's an economical crisis going on in Argentina right now, and one American dollar costs $55,67 Argentine pesos. So only shipping for us would be around $1670 Argentine pesos, which is a lot of money, and there's a few people that are able to afford it.

Magazines like Vouge are IMPOSSIBLE to get here, unless you import them (again, the money thing). Also there's merch that's only available for the US.

Secret sessions are only made in the US, of course, and Europe (which is not even Europe, it's just the UK). And believe me, it's not that everyone can travel to London by clicking a button.

I don't live in Buenos Aires (Argentina's capital city), which only makes things worse. Lover hasn't arrived here yet, so I haven't been able to buy it. Also it's pretty obvious that the deluxe versions won't be available here at all.

And now you're telling me that I can't even participate on an online contest? Is this a joke? Everybody has an Instagram account. Why can't everybody participate?

I'm seriously so fucking tired of us being left behind. It's not only that US swifties have made me feel personally excluded (that's a chat for another day anyway), but I'm talking to you, guys. The people who organises all this things.

I know it's not @taylorswift 's fault at all, but I just would like to feel a little more taken into consideration.