As hard and as ruthless as a rose petal

my theory about why ts fans are like that is that ultimately ts is predominantly very very good at marketing. she makes marketable music that is very catchy and easy to enjoy and she is quite good at meeting the demands of certain markets to make music that still feels authentic while fitting the current audience she's selling to. and in her market evaluation, at some point artsy sadgirls and generic queer themes were the most marketable demographic so she pivoted into that. but the artsy queer sadgirl demographic wants to believe themselves fundamentally unmarketable to, so they have to invent a sort of fantasy in which this was not marketing, but some deep truth of ts that has been hidden beneath the marketing. and all other marketing moves that ts does as the most profitable demographic shifts are a farce, made to obscure deep, beautiful truth that they saw when ts was courting them as a profitable market.

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

starting the countdown until gaylors start saying that Adam Sandler officiating Taylor's wedding (sorry if this is how you found out) is actually proof that it's a sham because it's a reference to I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), in which Sandler and Kevin James play heterosexual men who enter a mutually beneficial fake gay marriage, a dynamic that Taylor is inverting as a queer woman pretending to be straight while cleverly flagging the obvious farce to those with the eyes to see

funniest reactions to this post are the people asking how Adam Sandler can officiate a wedding. literally anyone can do that, basically anyone can get ordained. I'm ordained.

Starting the countdown before someone tracks down Tumblr user batmanisagatewaydrug in real life and asks them to officiate their wedding.

The fact that tech companies are allowed to act the way they do is so baffling compared to literally any other business model ever. Like, imagine if you went to the grocery store but every time you reached for an item, an employee rushed out of nowhere and snapped a rat trap on your fingers. And when you got to the counter, they proudly informed you that for just $12.99 a month, you too could get the rat trap-free grocery store experience. Shouldn't I have that anyway? Or they just looked at you like you had three heads and told you to shop at another store if you didn't like the rat traps breaking your fingers. Am I crazy?

big fan of that trope where like. something really awful happens to Character or someone they love and they manage to catch the bastard who did it and get revenge. and it's righteous at first and everyones on their side but it slowly devolves into abject cruelty as everyone looks on in horror. dude that's enough he's stopped twitching etc etc

big fan of when media asks you to personally confront retributive violence. it's one thing to say bad guy deserves to die for his crimes and quite another to watch it happen in real time

you 🫵 yes you. if you wince and avert your eyes does that absolve you. do you feel better about yourself. do you feel less complicit.

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears