It Exists In A World Where The Only Thing That Surprised Me About The News That An Event For Little Girls

It exists in a world where the only thing that surprised me about the news that an event for little girls ended in 3 dead and 8 in critical condition (at the time of me finding out) was the fact that it didn’t happen with a gun in America.

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.

The things we will never (and shouldn’t) know.

I'm angry enough about what I *do* know.

“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free

No idea what we’re talking about here, but I’m living for the energy behind these posts

okay reading through the tua tag is making my blood boil because holy fuck i know whatever i say everyone will think is wrong but like. you guys don't get it and i'm hating the immediate "we didn't get a happy ending and the characters's arcs were never finished blah blah blah therefore this season was garbage" because YES it sucked but like. i feel like we all knew it had to end like that? in my head from the very end of season 3 i was thinking, "where/whenever they go somewhere, they bring destruction and i don't see how it couldn't end with them being okay." like. maybe it was a shit season because it was like, supposed to be shit? i definitely think it could have ended the way it did with different, way better things changing (*COUGH* Five and Lila *COUGH*) and i would have liked to see more about characters like Reginald. i can't word it correctly right now but god. (note: i don't know what the production was like for this season, so if it's really more of a director/overall production issue then forget i said anything). at least they all went out together and we didn't have to deal with picking characters to survive.

Be so fr Bruce

Bruce: We are a Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss family NOT a Manwhore, Mansplain, Manslaughter family

Me rn, but with music: I’m chasing the vibe but I’m not hyperfocused on any songs

in the worst state right now. not interested in any previous fandoms and needing to create but not doing anything. i need to OBSESS over something ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!