long live the look on your face

I’m so grateful that I have tumblr as a place to talk about all of this stuff because if someone asks me in person I’ll just say ‘yeah I like Taylor Swift too’ but on the inside I’m like ‘the guitar riff between 2:33 and 2:49 in Starlight deserved a Grammy all by itself in this essay I will’

down bad is soooooo fucking good wdym there’s an ethereal but also earworm-y song about being so emotionally scrambled by how things went down in a relationship that you literally felt like you experienced an alien abduction and then got unceremoniously dumped back on earth. and now you’re down bad crying at the goddamn gym. one of The songs of ttpd

I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

the only correct way to experience a new taylor swift album is in private with a handful of tumblr mutuals who all have the same flavour of mental illness as you

I am once again asking Swifties to understand that Taylor Swift songs and albums are not "about" anyone other than Taylor Swift and how she is thinking or feeling or reacting to any particular stimuli in her life. And that is more true than ever with this album.

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing