C0wboylik3m3 - You’re A Cowboy Like Me

not taking any chances

your own little golden prison cell // gold cage hostage to my feelings // my town was a wasteland, full of cages, full of fences … but for some it was paradise // in the darkest little paradise // I prefer hiding in plain sight // I know places we could hide // I know places we won’t be found // showed you all of my hiding spots // and I am hiding in the curtains // you two are dancing in a snow globe, 'round and 'round // picture of your face in an invisible locket // the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up // you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet // they got the cages, they got the boxes and guns // windows boarded up after the storm // so I peered through a window // I drew curtains closed // I look through the windows of this love // they told me all of my cages were mental so I got wasted like all my potential // all I need is on the other side of the door // we twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren't right this minute about to make some fateful life-altering mistake // are we out of the woods? are we in the clear yet? // it was the great escape, the prison break, the light of freedom on my face // you’ve come a long way, open the blinds let me see your face // windows flung wide open // step into the daylight and let it go

Well loved books.

I am in firm belief that books should be well loved. they should be written in, the spine should be cracked, the pages should be folded, things you find during the adventures you take squished between the pages. The more damage done to a book, the more memories and love are in it and there's something so beautiful about a well loved book. it tells a story. it's like a scrapbook of that time in your life whilst you've read it and when you pick it up again after a while of finishing it you can look back at the life you lived while the book traveled with you.

I've started packing my things to put into storage while i'm away at college and I picked up my very well loved copy of Red, White And Royal blue that I read last summer and was flipping through it. it had water damage from me accidently dropping it in my pool and writing in it and different keepsakes from things I did that summer. it has things that I wrote that i never spoke to another living soul, thoughts of love, insecurity that the ink on the pages written by the author reminded me of.

"I don't think I ever thought I would have proper true friends until gr. 12 and now with september almost here and half of my friends going to college it's definitely gone. I hope to feel this truly happy again soon" is messly written on page 201 in pink glitter pen. I wrote that at 18 about the loss of my huge friend group leaving while I stayed and went back to school for another year, needing a missing credit to get into college. I was already feeling like I failed having to go back for another year and losing my friends and reading about Henry, Alex, Nora, and June partying and Alex having that moment of realization of found family made me realise that I most likely won't have that comfort again. Looking back at it now being on the cusp of 20, that friend group was the farthest from friendship, I had just romaticided it. We had moments where it was friendship, in its purest form but overall it turned into something toxic and by the end most of us hated each other and we split into two groups, but the girl who left the scribbled note in the pool water damaged book didn't know that yet. She didn't know what came from that friend group. The friendships that truly blossomed from it, the trips and adventures she'd have with the few friends that made it out of that friend group. She got so, so much closer to her favorite people. She has never been happier then she has now starting the new chapter of her life in a big city, and having the best friends she could ever ask for.

The seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the well loved book i've brought on my most recent adventures. Lies sand in the crevices of a few pages where I had been reading it on the beach with my friends this summer, the ones that made it out of my Red, White and royal blue adventures.

damaged books are well loved books,

well loved books keep memories,

and well loved books are scrapbooks.

dan and phil you have the opportunity to do the funniest hard launch of all time

it’s funny how SOME (not all) hetlors/haylors think this is 100% fine and normal behavior yet if i say wonderland is gay af and about probs about dianna suddenly i’m speculating about her sexuality/need to touch grass/being invasive/etc. which completely disregards:

1. queercoding and it’s history and why some people cannot overtly come out—yes, even a rich and influential white women!

2. taylor has said many many times she never explicitly says who her songs are about and thus doesn’t mind people speculating who. imo, the 1989 tv prologue is more about the fishbowl lense her dating life falls in and the disrespectful articles about her and dianna and her and harry/other bfs (or girl space friends/boy space friends).

do some gaylors take it too far? absolutely!! i disagree with a lot of them on this platform and others but it is not a gaylor specific issue and i’m sick of the double standard! the rampant homophobia in this fandom is so real and most of yall don’t even realize the subtle homophobia you possess?? not everybody has to think she’s gay/bi/queer or whatever but being nasty to anyone who is open to the idea is just plain wrong.

analyzing work through a queer lense is not bad. saying “hmm x lyric seems like it correlates to x person” isn’t always as crazy as some think it is!! ultimately, taylor swift is a brand and she knows how certain things will be perceived and if she really didn’t want to have people thinking she’s some form of queer, she would do a lot more than a half baked sentence in the prologue of an album.

people saying that the scarf in atw was a metaphor for her VIRGINITY. people leaving flowers on cornelia street after tay and joe broke up. the absolute chaos that was jake gyllenhaal’s insta after red tv. the accounts that are making AI edits of what travis and tay’s BABY would look like. i could go on and on about the instances that the “mainstream” fandom has done that is clearly disrespectful to taylor and her art.

i love taylor and ultimately dgaf on what her sexuality is. i just wish the general fandom wasn’t so quick to pull out the pitchforks on every gaylor or someone who is gaylor-adjacent without understanding what our community really is.

i need to know whos cats these are asap

catty healy is out of the naughty corner

life is so boring without a crush. where is my ranch metaphor?

fresh out the slammer - taylor swift

me in 8th grade pretending i'm straight

There goes the StRAiGhTesT woman this town has ever seen 😍🌈❌

need a compilation of everytime phil has talked about another man and then dan pops his personal space bubble and stares at him with death in his eyes