I Was Rewatching Solo: A Star Wars Story The Other Day (after Ages) And Almost Cried Seeing Erin And

I reminded myself tanthamore is canon, and I was euphoric. Then I remembered that Willow still hasn't been renewed for a second season, and I started overthinking everything in my life

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.

Kit: If I die put popcorn kernels in my body Airk: Why? Kit: Have my body cremated and leave the funeral home a fun yet tasty surprise :D Airk: No??? Why the hell-

Kit: Ow! My armkle! Elora: Your WHAT??? Jade: *sighs* her wrist.

not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.

My physical reaction to hearing this and a friend telling me was crazy. I screamed and then teared up immediately and my heart was beating super fast and I was hyperventilating and i STILL can't stop smiling. I have no words to explain how much I love her

The rumors are terrible and cruel. But, honey, most of them are true. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) drops October 27 (sound familiar?). Pre-order now! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

The way charlie just says "no" so calmly

Graydon: …Are you okay?

Jade, sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring into space while holding a knife: Yeah, I’m fine.

Graydon: …What do you think “fine” means?

Jade: It means I’m perfectly content but also wouldn’t mind if the sun exploded right now and killed us all!

Yord: can we please do things my way for ONCE? Jecki: Yord, we tried things your way.

Yord: What are you talking about? No we didn’t.

Jecki: I did it in my head and it didn’t work. So we’re still doing things my way.

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