i have to admit something embarrassing

on my first few listens of seven i always thought she was saying "i hit my peak at seven feet" as one collective phrase. i fully thought this woman grew over a foot taller since the pandemic began and i did not question it even once.

stop fcking sleeping on mad woman please or I'll riot

Thinking about how seven parallels it’s nice to have a friend and how in seven the emphasis is on how she could once do things like scream ferociously and tell her friend she loved her without hesitation and make plans to run away together. And how in it’s nice to have a friend the feelings of seven could be present in all the experiences described in the first verse, but by the second verse it’s suddenly clear that she has learned civility and that it has deeply affected how she can interact with her friend. Once we reach the second verse of it’s nice to have a friend Taylor can only tell her truths when she and her friend are isolated and feel removed form the world up on a roof, and even then she needs the construct of a truth-telling game to excuse her openness. And while in seven she could memorize her friend’s braids and plan futures together without restraining herself, in it’s nice to have a friend it now takes nerve and bravery just to touch hands. I just love how seven so perfectly captures this feeling of loving freely and unapologetically, and I think it gains even more weight when considering how much of Taylor’s other work involves the idea of her apologizing for her love in some form or another.

frankly this demonstrates a lot of the dangers with performative activism. and im not saying a certain song or video or that was all performative activism because i personally think there was a lot of genuine concrete importance in that and as an lgbtq fan myself yntcd meant the whole world to me truly. but im saying that clearly a lot of fans were just being fucking performative, were just participating in yntcd activities to get noticed or because it was trendy. being lgbtq is not a trend. it is not all rainbows and bright colors. a lot of it is really fucking scary. look around at the world. look at how many countries where we could be killed or arrested for being who we are. look at how many countries who won’t let us get married, where we can be fired from where we work, where we can be openly discriminated against. these are conversations that must be had alongside any pride celebrations. and if you were bopping to yntcd a year ago and are sitting here doxxing and outing lgbtq fans - or if you’re just ignoring it - then you truly from the bottom of my heart deserve to rot in hell. 

Multimillionaire taylor swift will be okay if her songs get interpreted as gay but the person you outed might never be the same.

homophobes literally use “I’ll out you” (or actually outing you) the same way white people use “I’ll call the police” (or actually calling the police) on black people. they know they’re weaponising an incredibly painful history and context of being discriminated against unjustly and violently, and taking a vulnerable and sensitive thing and causing immense fear and trauma.

outing someone isn't just like 'oh no don't do that it's mean :( don't be a meanie :(' it's like........ literally dangerous.......... like literally .... dangerous ....... you DON'T know how it is going to affect someboy like they could literally be KILLED for it so like if u think ur being funny or clever for outing someone because you disagree with an opinion they posted on twitter or for LITERALLY ANY REASON EVER, literally choke! you are disgusting! also even if they aren't in a physically dangerous situation, screw you for taking away their opportunity to come out on their own terms and for scaring them.

I for one think trans anger is good and we should be more angry about the way we're treated. Maybe do a little rioting again. Cis people might be more inclined to listen to us if we have bricks in our hands idk

"Oh but we have to be ~respectable~" Fuck Off I'm sick of cis bullshit and licking their boots isn't the solution

Hey please signal boost this- I used to participate in selfie nights here but as some of you know, around eight months ago I was outed to my abusive, homophobic, transphobic parents, I had my phone taken away, my original account deleted, and I was living with almost no internet access. Please, I’m begging you, I can’t go through this again. If you ever think you’ve seen my face on a selfie night, I’m asking you to go back and delete it. Please please please signal boost. Thank you