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cowboy like me being one of the most romantic songs of all time actually

I have been listening to ttpd all week and it just blows me away how vulnerable she was. Also, anyone still trying to sell that she and Marty were soulmate twin flames hasn’t listened to the words.

“but loneliness struck at that fateful hour, low hanging fruit on HIS wine stained lips.”. i’ve seen people misinterpret this line, but she is literally referring to herself as the low hanging fruit. she was lonely which made her vulnerable and he took advantage. it’s why anyone who sees any romance there is sick to me lmao, it was intentional manipulation.

today marks 3 years since taylor said the words below at kansas city n2 after messing up the lyrics of last kiss, not knowing her future husband was there in the crowd… the universe works in mysterious and beautiful ways

I think the aversion in our society to coming up w/ utilitarian answers to ethical questions (my favorite hobby) has caused us to cede way too much ground to the assholes of the world in the vein of "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb," as Dark Helmet put it. Like.

I also think many people (including fans sadly enough) resent that they can't shame Taylor out of her personality. That no matter how many times they call her cringe or a loser or tone deaf or tell her they hate something, she doesn't try to make herself smaller or quieter anymore. It makes me think again of how she said she/celebrities are a mirror for how people feel about themselves. And I think it makes people resentful when someone who is simultaneously the most famous (and criticized) woman in the world and someone they feel personally superior to (in taste or personality or cool factor or whatever else), does not care at all about clean girl/quiet luxury/etcetc tiktok trends. And that forces them to acknowledge that they care a lot about what the internet tells them to like or dislike and that's not very nonchalant above-it-all cool girl of them!

a really important thing all the medical professionals who helped me as i recovered from cancer emphasised is the idea that, regardless of guidelines, something is better than nothing. like, when i'd be depressed about how weak i was, they'd praise me for being able to walk to the bathroom unaided. and they were always so happy to see me eating, no matter what it was, because i struggled to eat anything for so long. while obviously specific exercises and diets are great if you can do it, there's such a mentality online that (intentionally or not) shames people who can't when really the focus should be on doing what you can and celebrating that, even if its the bare minimum, at least you're trying

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.