Sometimes Its Safer To Be A Bear

and i just find it so interesting how the song is a melding of lyrics that depict all these different ways of going to and being in different places. being together but someone being somewhere else, being in exile and summarily running home while at the same time daily disappearing to see someone, but also having all these nights together in some way.

HUMOR

INDIE

MURWA(A)LLS

FOLKLORE

TAY

ALICE (S)

ERAS (K)

swifties

Humor and Murwalls is who made the mural. Why the extra A in Murwalls though? just a mistake?

Why is folklore in Rep instead of on its own? it seems like there is space under 1989 for one more album, rep could’ve gone there surely?

The random s after Alice and K after eras. Again, just mistakes?

Now that we’re at it, Alice? Immediate thought is obviously Alice in Wonderland, right? But what does it mean? Is it just the name of the artist maybe? (i cba to research that). What if they just got her middle name wrong lmao

why is swifties lowercase when everything else is uppercase? Add that to the fact that swifties was hidden in those lyrics like? does not come of like a compliment lmao

Also, if the extra letters aren’t mistakes they spell ask, in order too. But i fear im definitely reading too far into it. its giving “there were 5 holes in the fence”

Also the left being all hopeful romantic lyrics, the right the opposite. I like how all the lyrics in order kind of tell a story almost?

Also, what does indie mean? Next Album will be called “Ask Alice” and it will be an indie genre. you heard it here first, folks!

Your hologram stumbled into my apartment

Hands in the hair of somebody in darkness named Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

And I just watched it happen

As the decade would play us for fools

And you saw my bones out with somebody new

Who seemed like he would've bullied you in school

And you just watched it happen

Real Taylor is watching Brand Taylor continue to beard or be shipped with random men and women and she did nothing to stop it. She’s dating Travis now who seems like he probably bullied gay kids in high school.

If you want to break my cold, cold heart

Just say, 'I loved you the way that you were'

If you want to tear my world apart

Just say you've always wondered

This is directed at the fandom. She’s wondering if they would have accepted her as her real self, and she hopes they’ve wondered about her queerness through all the hairpins dropped over the years.

You said some things that I can't unabsorb

You turned me into an idea of sorts

You needed me but you needed drugs more

And I couldn't watch it happen

I changed into goddesses, villains and fools

Changed plans and lovers and outfits and rules

All to outrun my desertion of you

And you just watched it

The drug line directly correlates to WAOLOM. She says she puts narcotics in all of her songs. The fandom wanted her (Taylor), but they needed the drugs aka songs/brand/hetero narrative more. She changed her aesthetic through her eras, different beards to keep them entertained as she deserted her true authentic self and true love. People view her as a brand (idea of sorts) instead of a person.

Too impaired by my youth To know what to do

So if I sell my apartment

And you have some kids with an internet starlet

Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon

like it never happened

She was too young when she made these decisions, and they’re still affecting her now. So if she leaves Taylor the Brand behind, maybe the fandom will find some new internet influencer to obsess over.

Say you'll always wonder

Cause I wonder

Will I always

Will I always wonder?

She ends with this heartbreaking thought, will you wonder, cause I will always wonder. What would have happened if she lived her truth instead of hiding. This song shatters me.

“If you want to break my heart/just say you loved me the way that you were” I think she’s imagining being rejected by her fans “I loved you the way that you were” is them saying they wished she had stayed in the closet.

On the flip side, she could be imagining her fans saying “we would have loved you the way you are”, and then she would be heartbroken by having kept herself closeted all these years for “no reason”

This is also one of the few “breakup” songs that isn’t fully shrouded in bearding red herrings.

“I changed into goddesses, villains, and fools/ changed plans and lovers/ and outfits, and rules/all to outrun my desertion of you”

One could argue that all of these ideas could pertain to a romantic break up, except for the mention of lovers. Why would she change lovers to please her (monogamous) partner?

“https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLmyRPRx/”

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

Umm I think the girlies are waking up. This is the follow up to the Sylvia Plath/ ttpd parallels.

Link

Last TikTok of the night then I’m going to bed, I promise. I think by now it’s clear Dr.Swift is doing a bit count down to something HUGE

https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/s/oZ5WfG6Qe3

The ‘Two’ poem - is that not word for word one of our riddles????

Anonymous asked:

spade this might be a coincidence but is this gift anon ??? it sounds so similar and the “for now, she slumbers”? and the dates match up… it could be a coincidence but it seems all a bit much? right? tell me i’m not going crazy lol

zofka214 asked:

Hi, what do you think about this book discussed here? https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/1bglrzp/mysterious_amazon_book/

It reminds me lots if riddles and clues from the anons 👀

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SR: These three asks refer to this post. I am going to need others to respond as I feel so far behind on my inbox. HELP?!?!

So apparently, this a mysterious book with a mysterious author. It was published on Feb. 26 this year - but only paperback and only via amazon. There were some samples posted on that reddit link, the most noticeable one is this poem called "Two" (✌️????) bc it's somehow almost directly Gift/Present 🎁 anon's message from Mar. 4/5.

(Screenshots are blurry, i apologize, i just got this from that reddit link as well)

The title of the book itself is "For now, she slumbers" which is also a line from Gift/Present 🎁 anon's message from Feb. 22 (4 days before this book was published)

Feb 22 message:

"But for now, she slumbers. The hint is in the words. Don't you love a good puzzle?" ... so like the hint to a unpublished book (at the time of 🎁 anon's message above) to be published???

Plus Annie R'lve Cocott = Reticent Volcano (anagram) (the bolded words in the Feb 22 message/poem) 😳

And $38??? Also the PUBLISH** thing from 🎁's first message as well?

As far as I know, they haven’t “proven” themselves like other mysterious anons. And they started sending in messages like a week before this book became available. So is gift anon secretly Taylor or a Gaylor/Kaylor fanfic writer who is using SR’s blog for a mini marketing campaign?

I will say 🎃 sent in some of the most beautiful words I’ve ever read…for free. When there is a $38 charge (expensive for a book), I side eye.

Speaking of 🎃, those poems felt so original. Like nothing else I’ve ever read. These poems feel derivative of messages sent to Spade’s blog over time. Backward instead of new.