only here for the escapism

this.

this is so funny to me bc three years later i’m a hardcore rina stan and if that’s not character development i don’t know what is

can’t stop thinking about the power difference in would’ve could’ve should’ve, and the shame that comes with knowing you were more impacted than the other person. that they got under your skin and fucked with your head in a way you could never match because you didn’t have the experience they have. in the first verse, she bitterly calls herself a splatter of paint – she affected him and his reputation, she shows up on his skin, but she can be removed from it easily. she feels permanently corrupted – he has her faith, her innocence, her girlhood. but he can just wash his hands and dismiss what he did to her. she can’t even get him to fight her because she already lost, so she fantasizes about it in her sleep. even when she’s hitting him where it hurts, she’s the one living for the thrill of it – any hurt he might feel is more important to her than it is to him. she’s waiting for a sign, but he never gives it. and she’s left trying to claw him out of her, trying to become the person she was before him, becoming more and more desperate, but she can’t. she’s forsaken her beliefs and herself for him, she can’t take that back. and he still gets to pretend his hands are clean.

an unprecedented yet completely precedented side affect of being both a swiftie (whose favourite album is folklore) AND an english major is that i manage to associate EVERYTHING- every book, play, film, show or even real life scenario with a taylor swift song and it’s EXHAUSTING

folklore and evermore deserve to be studied by english literature students at all universities in the world

as an english major, i wholeheartedly agree

Nesta Archeron is for the girls who prefer anger over fear. the girls who prefer actions over words. the girls who are scared of their emotions. the girls who love smutty romance books. the girls who are secret hopeless romantics. the girls who fear getting close to people and then losing them. the girls who find it hard to make friends. the girls who grew up way too fast. the girls who are hard to impress. the girls who dont know how to be soft and are learning over time. the girls who are always cold. the girls who have confidence but no self esteem.

anthony bridgerton said “i am not a man of poetry” and then turned around and delivered “you are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires. night and day i dream of you” all men do is lie

People act like Nesta is like ten years older than F.eyre. She’s only three years older. Elain is only two. F.eyre, Nesta, and Elain were all children/teenagers during their years of poverty. Nesta is being blamed for being...a child. People act like she’s a psychopath and not a physically and mentally abused child during those years. Like she never forced F.eyre to do anything. F.eyre made those decisions herself. F.eyre chose to go in the forest, no one let her — she went. She has always had the choice to just not hunt. Like I feel like people blame Nesta and Elain for F.eyre’s decisions! They were all teenagers, they were all victims — Nesta even more so when the were in wealth.