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The Albatross
Potential Themes:
-Guilt and Regret: The albatross is often associated with guilt and the weight of past mistakes. It could suggest a song exploring a past action that still haunts her, asking for permission to release the pent-up emotions.
-Feeling Trapped: The albatross, unable to land for years, could symbolize feeling trapped or burdened by a situation she can't escape. The album's title, "The Tortured Poets Department," further supports this idea of feeling confined and tormented.
-Betrayal and Heartbreak: The albatross' complex mating habits could represent betrayal or heartbreak within a relationship. The question "Am I allowed to cry?" might be asking for permission to express raw emotions after a painful experience.
-Breaking Free from Expectations: Albatrosses have a long period of solitary flight before returning to land. This could parallel a desire to break free from societal pressure and expectations, seeking emotional liberation.
are you guys ready to play the surprise song game for stockholm night 3??? all you have to do is drop your guesses in the tags or replies and i’ll give a shoutout to all our winners 🥰
i honestly feel like i have no concept of what she might do haha so i’m just going to throw out the way i loved you and foolish one because i still want to hear it on the piano
Guys has anyone layered all the back cover texts together yet
reblog and put your top 5 from ttpd+anthology in the tags
ok I have no idea what songs people like off of ttpd but the black dog and the albatross are my favs so far
there will probably be new ones in a week but this is where I’m at now
A Tortured Poets Department
Since I first saw the Fortnight music video (three months ago lol) I've had a idea of a story stuck in my head, which is practically based on the idea of a "Tortured Poets Department".
The Tortured Poets Department would be a company (?, located in no specific location but which could be in London or Florida (???, run by a tough woman of indefinite age named Cassandra Bolter. TTPD was created and is maintained based on the tragic and often premature deaths of frustrated poets whose souls are full of sorrow, the job of these poets is to write on typewriters in offices, ideas for great tragedies that may happen in the world. Cassandra keeps these souls in the apartment, making them forget all the details of their past lives with the exception of the feeling of sorrow, so they continue in the offices for eternity writing pain.
But, every few centuries, Cassandra makes the mistake of putting two souls who fell in love in their previous lives in the same office, and when this happens, they stop writing tragedy, and write secondary stories of love and happiness, something Cassandra does not. can allow, there is a reason it is The TORTURED Poets Department and not The Happy Poets Department.
The two souls that met this time were Clara Smith and Peter Robin (all the characters' names are references to songs on the album, yes), and Cassandra to prevent them from continuing to write happy things (she can't get rid of them, they are souls, are important) tries to erase both their minds that they ever met in the department and move them to another office, but they keep remembering and finding a way to see each other again.
I still don't know what the ending will be or if Clara and Peter end up together (probably not and it will make them both grow as poets and find new muses). Maybe I'll post it on ao3 (when I get an account) or maybe I'll never write it, but I liked the idea and had to get it out of my system somehow.
i did it. i wrote it and i posted it. because i am obsessed, this too has a taylor swift song title, but to be fair: THIS SONG GIVES ME THEIR VIBES OKAY. just. just listen to hate me by nico collins and the albatross by taylor swift but also kind of i can see you by taylor while reading okay? you'll get it.
she's the death you chose, you're in terrible danger
hypothetically, if i may have started yet another perpollo rhea and apollo au -- this time with arranged marriage and sort of one-sided enemies to lovers -- would anyone feel like reading it?
neil "the bolter" josten and andrew "the albatross" minyard
no u don't understand. andrew is the albatross because everyone told neil he was trouble. everyone told neil that andrew was dangerous, soulless, unstable, the bringer of bad news. she's the albatross, she is here to destroy you. and they were all wrong about him. at the end of the day he protected his friends, his family and neil and kept every promise he ever made. he IS the albatross.
So...if Maverick is "The Bolter," then Ethan is "The Albatross."