…and y'all, I almost cried. Just look at these. LOOK AT THEM.

So many skin tones!

PLUS SIZED BODY TYPES!

NATURAL HAIR STYLES!!! MULTIPLE SHADES OF DARK SKIN!!!

LOOK AT THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY!

SO MANY SKIN TONES AND BODY TYPES AND LOOK AT THAT MERMAN!!!

FRECKLES!!!

Y'all, I’m just…so so happy.

I’m 35 years old and I’ve never seen a Barbie that looked like me, and then there I am as a Barbie in a purple sweater with thick thighs and evenly proportioned boobs and pink hair and a cat.

I can only imagine how other girls must feel.

Guys… Even being confident there would be even MORE added to the barbie range of dolls…. I was not prepared.

I am about to image spam you so forgive but there’s just SO MUCH

holy shit. I’m like… not even a doll person and so many of these I want!

There’s LITERALLY too many to add

(who is she?)

Plus sized Barbie with DIMPLES

They actually have a barbie with albinism and bothered to give her a proper face-sculpt!

This one looks like she could kill me instantly if she made direct eye-contact

This one’s smile is just KILLING me

Nubian girl because we’re not messing around

Also… this doll does not have any name on the product listing nor on the packaging so this might just be me but…. help me out here guys… is this.. ….is this a non-binary barbie? Am I presuming too much or is that what I’m looking at here??

Also final note. Just to REALLY drill this all home, Barbie has some photos of kids playing with the dolls and

Ironically, Barbie did not come to play around.

Also I’m obsessed with this Sally Ride doll

i babysat the sweetest little girl who was in a hot pink wheelchair. it was almost brand new, and she was just so excited to finally have a good wheelchair!! the day i walked into the house after she’d gotten it, she wheeled over to me with the biggest smile and said “it doesn’t hurt my back anymore!!”

for her birthday, i got her a barbie doll who looked a lot like her (it was the one with vitiligo) and a little barbie wheelchair and a few other accessories because who doesn’t like accessories?

apparently she’d had a white doll for a while and of course loved her doll but when she saw not only the one with vitiligo but also the wheelchair? and she put that little doll into the wheelchair and pushed her around a bit on the table? she looked up at me and burst into tears, grinning from ear to ear, and murmured to me “she’s like me. i didn’t know there were ones like me” and lemme tell you i nearly broke down right then and there and i gave her the warmest smile and hug i could muster up and her parents called me a few months later (i’d stopped babysitting because they didn’t have money to pay and wouldn’t allow me to babysit for little/free like i offered because i knew they both were searching for jobs and couldn’t be around their kid much bc interviews) and they just thanked me, their daughter was “so happy to have a doll like her that she carried the barbie around with her all the time”. they hadn’t been able to afford the doll and were actually saving up for a wheelchair at least.

this isn’t overkill.

So, it starts off when Taylor gets a little inspiration and is writing music alone

The she suddenly stops singing while her voice continues in the background; she’s gotten pulled into the story and her imagination.

She follows it into the piano, literally leaving our world and escaping inside of her music.

I also think the gold represents her real love and relationship; it’s constantly there in the music inspiring things, just like there are lines about Joe thrown into the love triangle songs.

So now she’s in this beautiful imaginary world, lost in the fantasy.

The piano turns into a waterfall because she’s so inspired the music is flowing freely and abundantly.

She goes even deeper into the story and climbs into the piano bench.

Side note, this could symbolize someone in a love triangle going to far or letting themselves get in too deep.

Then her fantasy world turns dark, just as her real world was turning dark in late May/early June. I imagine Taylor was feeling like most of us have been, and that’s represented by her being stranded in the ocean.

She finds the music again (represented by the piano) and hangs on tight. The music saves her (just like folklore is now saving many of us mentally).

Then Taylor sings along with the song, while struggling in the water, for ONE LINE ONLY. She says “when you are young they assume you know nothing.”

I think this is a nod to what’s happening in the United States and how the younger generation is getting pushback while trying to revolutionize things for the better. This moment in the video made me feel seen and I teared up.

Then the gold appears again, showing Taylor the way out. She climbs inside the piano.

Music was the way out, but her golden love was what really brought her back to reality.

Once she’s out, we see Taylor getting reoriented and she notices the cardigan—the outcome of all her daydreaming and creating. And the memory of where she went.

And then she sees someone. This is very much like the ending of the Delicate video and I assume she’s seeing Joe.

She has a look of relief and recognition on her face, but she still looks shaken and scared. Because the real world she’s just come back to is still scary and dark. But she’s there with her lover and her music.

In the preface she mentions an “embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession”… taylor was scott’s prized musical possession, but now he’s bitter because of their falling out and everything masters related. she embarrassed him and he clearly tormented her. he’s also probably bitter about all the success taylor is now having and how she’s not afraid to tell him to fuck himself

“We gather here, we line up, weepin’ in a sunlit room” = funeral for her masters?

“If I’m on fire, you'll be made of ashes, too” = if he’s gonna burn her you better believe she’s fighting back

“Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe / All the hell you gave me?” = pretty self explanatory….taylor was always good to scott, what did she do to deserve this?

“Didn’t have it in myself to go with grace” = she couldn’t stay quiet and be the good, complicit girl he always tried to force her to be, she had to fight back

“You’re the hero flying around, saving face” = scott running around trying to save his image and make her the bad guy

“If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?” = if he’s so mad at taylor why can’t he keep her name out of his mouth and leave her alone?

“Cursing my name, wishing I stayed” = he’s mad at taylor and he knows he messed up and lost what made his label special

“We gather stones … some to throw, some to make a diamond ring” = I could be wrong about this but I’m guessing the stones are her songs? reference to sticks and stones break bones & possibly also how her songs put big machine on the map and made scott money hence the diamond ring?

“You wear the same jewels that I gave you / as you bury me” = taylor made scott and big machine big and now he’s turning around and betraying her by taking the very thing that made him. also jewels because taylor’s music is very precious and valuable to her

“I can go anywhere I want … just not home” = she started with big machine and it was her home, but now after what scott has done she has to leave

“When you can’t sleep at night (You hear my stolen lullabies)” = the stolen lullabies are her stolen masters. wow