Marjorie - Taylor Swift

marjorie - taylor swift

TAYLOR SWIFT

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

i think something so fascinating is that applying Byler's rules to any other friend pairing in this show would be so confusing.

imagine all those scenes with him and Will: "crazy together"; the hand hold; "i think it'd be better if we're a team"; "we're friends. WE'RE FRIENDS."; the tripple take; the entire fucking van scene.

imagine all of that with Mike and Lucas.

you cant! it's off. that dynamic seems so normal for them because it's only for them. you don't realize how suspicious it is until you apply those rules to another "just friends" pairing.

same with applying this to a girl-boy pairing and seeing the obvious romantic undertone.

was listening to taylor's grad speech today... 🥺💕

some quotes:

"we are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us, those who have believed in our futures, those who showed us empathy and kindness or told us the truth even when it wasn’t easy to hear. those who told us we could do it when there was absolutely no proof of that. someone read stories to you and taught you to dream and offered up some moral code of right and wrong for you to try and live by. someone tried their best to explain every concept in this insanely complex world to the child that was you, as you asked a bazillion questions like ‘how does the moon work’ and ‘why can we eat salad but not grass.’ and maybe they didn’t do it perfectly. no one ever can."

"sometimes a string of words just ensnares me and i can’t focus on anything until it’s been recorded or written down."

"…life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once. part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release. what I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release. you can’t carry all things, all grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started. decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there’s more room for them. one toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys. you get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning."

"learn to live alongside cringe. no matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. even the term ‘cringe’ might someday be deemed ‘cringe.’

i promise you, you’re probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious. you can’t avoid it, so don’t try to."

"being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute, ever fluctuating social relevance and likability."

"i know i sound like a consummate optimist, but i’m really not. i lose perspective all the time. sometimes everything just feels completely pointless. i know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism. and i know that i'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU. and so this may be hard for you to hear: in your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat. and i’m not gonna lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.

i’m trying to tell you that losing things doesn’t just mean losing. a lot of the time, when we lose things, we gain things too."

"as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out. and I’m a doctor now, so I know how breathing works."

..taylor i don’t know how to express it properly but just thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart.. i think this was just what i needed to hear at this stage in my life. ilysm. thank you for being. here. in general. 💕💕.

(- also quick interlude to mention: your sense of humour is the best thing i have ever witnessed EVER and i would/will gladly listen to you list 50 breeds of cats in one minute—> in fact.. time starts now!! if u want!! or even ever see this ever! :>)

& not to gush and be fangirl y or whatever but youre just so human and yet so well-put in describing the typical human experience(s) and coinciding feelings of & during messes/etc that we all, including you, especially you, as the artist of the describing work, feel, that you also have grown into being such a prolific person for pretty much everyone i would talk to on a regular basis. i feel like some people loose sight of this, but I think for me, um, that at least partially why you are such a looked up to and revered person is for the reason that you are, on base level, an awesome, amazing human being who works hard & tries her best & is then perceived from there on out by others. (others meaning like me right now.) you have shared your art with people and people have connected with it, fallen in love with it and fallen in love with you, maybe not as a personal friend but as someone who can feel like a supporter or constant in their life/a friend or guiding light/loving figure.. so thank you for bearing the pressure of being that person for us.. ILY. SM. !!)

you also will probably never see this but tagging you anyways and just telling you that i love you to absolute pieces.. thank you for being you<333333

@taylorswift @taylornation 💗💗

One of the great things about Stranger Things is the writers found the perfect balance between plot and character. Sure, some characters are occasionally neglected, but that isn't because the focus on the plot is too strong, it's because the cast of characters is too large, and they keep introducing more (which is frustrating at times). Anyway, my point of this is when people say "Will isn't plot significant." Or "there won't be time for Byler in season 5." I get so frustrated, because: first of all, Will's character is the catalyst for so many things happening in the show happening, and I would argue him and El are the MOST plot significant characters. And second of all, character relationships are part of the plot, and part of a character's arc. They had time to have Lumax break up, and then strengthen their relationship in season 4. They had time for Jopper to finally get together. They had time to build tension between Mike and El. All of that was happening simultaneously with the plot, and was, in fact, relevant to the plot. There is time for Byler, and Byler is happening, whether you like it or not. Will is an important character. I am sick of people's poorly thought out excuses when they don't like a character or a ship.

🌈💙💛🌈 (& iykyk)