I Am Going To Say Something That Might Piss People On This Site Off, And That Is That The Stabbing At

I am going to say something that might piss people on this site off, and that is that the stabbing at a Taylor Swift themed event in Southport does not exist in a vacuum.

It exists in a world where a joke about bringing a nail gun to the Eras tour to shoot fans gets 400k likes on TikTok, or where a reel about crashing a plane full of Swifties gets 200k likes on Instagram. It exists in a world where, on this very website, the one that promotes itself as rational and reasonable, someone says that "Taylor Swift and her fans should all die violent horrible deaths" and people applauded it. It exists in a world where, during TTPD release week men were in Swifties' comment sections declaring they would beat their daughters and girlfriends if they ever so much as listened to one of her albums. And it exists in a world where this week, fans of a TV show (which I will not name because that is not the point) sent death threats to a girl on Twitter for daring to be a fan of both their beloved show and Taylor Swift.

I don't give a fuck what your opinion of Taylor Swift is. I don't care if you think her music is grating, I don't care if you think she is the worst thing to happen to humanity since Eve ate the god damn apple. This is the dark side of stan culture that no-one talks about; where dislike of an artist becomes so obsessive that it becomes normal, even funny, to joke about killing their fans, because "it's just online, it's just a joke". It isn't. It is rarely ever "just online".

And yes I am going to be That Person and say that you can complain about Swift's brand of feminism and debate her position as a feminist icon all day long, at the end of the day, her name is still synonymous with girls. It doesn't take a genius to work out who this event was geared at.

I am not going to sit and claim that by simply not liking Taylor Swift you directly caused this. I would encourage you to step back, look at the bigger picture of stan culture, including obsessive dislike of an artist, and ask yourself how much this culture has enabled this. If making jokes on tiktok about killing someone over a pop star is normalised, how much of a leap is it to attacking kids with a knife at a fan event?

and of course there is the fact that the british media didn't even wait until those kids were buried before using this event to spread their racist, anti-immigrant agenda despite the race of the attacker not being known. all I can say to that is I am sickened and disappointed but not shocked.

When the first stone's thrown there's screaming

In the streets there's a raging riot

When it's 'burn the bitch', they're shrieking

When the truth comes out it's quiet

It's so quiet

- Taylor Swift

Now where are you judgmental creeps who kept yapping about Taylor now being a Trump supporter? Where you at? Yeah that's right go back to whatever disgusting hole you came from and choke on that brain void of common sense and critical thinking. Hope you all rot.

also, her endorsement timing was perfect (and clearly very planned!) because 1) it was right after the first debate 2) they had bracelets ready to sell 3) kamala using the man to exit the stage 4) right before the VMAs where she has opportunity to potentially talk about it when she wins (just like she did in 2019 with the equality act)

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 👏👏👏

“I don’t like that this summer was the summer of the girl and people were putting the word ‘girl’ before words like dinner and math and that Barbie and Taylor Swift got popular again bc it’s conforming to society expectations.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, just because you have diabeties doesn’t mean that other people can’t eat brownies. For me, personally, I don’t like Dungeons and Dragons and it’s now mainstream, but just because I personally don’t like it doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t.

let people enjoy things

WICCAN & HULKLING; illust. Nick Robles

Fan edit @scarlet–wiccan for @marvellfashion‘s Valentine’s Day Event: Favorite Couple. What better time for a love reading? :)