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She’s also pointing out that the girls he’s publicly sleeping with all look very much like her — she’s not shaming him for sleeping with people, she’s getting irritated because it feels like he’s trying to replace her when he could just come back to her and save himself the trouble. The point isn’t “you’re a bad person because you sleep with a lot of people,” it’s “you are sleeping with everybody remotely resembling me and rubbing my face in it and I’m frustrated”

YEAH!!!! and with the added layer of “and as you do all this, i am the one who is getting heat for it.” why shouldn’t she be allowed to say that? it’s her own experience! it’s her own relationship with intimacy and sexuality and love and coming of eye in the public age!

but the theory doesn’t insist on the song being about calvin or joe tho especially joe because it’s before they met? i think maybe she had some parts done in 2015 here but redid it later in 2016 and changed it obviously

Rep Timeline-ish?

Part Two Part One here

2016 cont..

August 29 - "This summer is the apocalypse" Nashville, TN [Lover Journals], Taylor attends jury duty in Nashville

August 31 - Taylor seen in NY

September 2 - Taylor begins writing Gorgeous in Cornelia St apartment

September 6 - Taylor papped leaving gym in NY, writing King Of My Heart

September 9 - Taylor papped leaving gym in NY

September 16 - Still writing Gorgeous - Now in Nashville

September 17 - Taylor attends Music City Wine and Food Festival in Nashville. Writing Gorgeous after festival (same outfit)

September 19 - Taylor flies to NY and attends Max Martin & Shellback studio. (The Swift Life video) Works on Gorgeous, I Did Something Bad, Delicate & King Of My Heart

September 20 - King Of My Heart bridge in LA

September 21 - Records King Of My Heart at Max Martin & Shellback studio.

September 27 - Taylor attends dinner in NYC at the Waverly Inn with Cara, Jack, Lorde, Suki Waterhouse and Sienna Miller

October - November - Harry recording HS1 in Jamaica

October 12 - Taylor & Joe attend Kings of Leon concert at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, afterparty at The Bowery Hotel. October 15 - Taylor attends Elliot Sumner's party. Delicate is written/recorded somewhere here - See Taylors neck tattoo in making of:

October 21 - "Someday" is released.

October 22 - Taylor performs at F1 in Austin

October 23 - Taylor attends Drakes birthday with golden tattoo

October 28 - Taylor flies to London, MIA

October 31 - Taylor returns to NYC, Deadpool halloween

November 12 - Taylor attends Joe's movie screening at Arclight Theatre: "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" November 23 - Taylor papped in NY

December 09 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever released.

December 28 - Unconfirmed haylor sighting.

2017

January 03 - "Living in London, hiding out. Joe and I have been together 3 months" [Lover Journals]

January 08 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever video filmed in London.

January 11 - Taylor papped leaving gym in LA, attends Conway Studios. (Don't Blame Me recorded at Conway) She's also wearing her "J" necklace in these vids

February 18 - Taylor spotted in London

April 04 - Taylor recording reputation in Nashville (The hair around this time seems to be matching that in the Jack tracks from rep. He's wearing the same T-shirt in Getaway Car & This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Call It What You Want is also around here

April 18 - Harry's Rolling Stone interview

April 29 - Harry celebrates the anniversary of April 29.

May 12 - Harry releases HS1

May 14 - Taylor papped in Nashville, leaves for London

Mid May - …Ready For It? recorded at MXM Studios in Sweden

May 18 - Harry on Carpool Karaoke, wears Haylor ring.

May 20 - Haylor anniversary. Harry emotional on stage, sings Landslide with Stevie Nicks.

June 01 - Taylor & Joe leave London for LA, then Nashville

June 03 - Joe & Taylor papped in Nashville

June 11 – Joe disembarks Taylor’s jet in London.

June 18 – Taylor in London for fathers day.

June 30 – Taylor & Joe disembark Taylor’s jet in Rhode Island

July - Harry & Camile

July 15 – End Game written. Ed Sheeran confirms that they started working on it when he was in Mohegan Sun, Connecticut for his Divide Tour and Taylor was staying in RI.

July 19 - Dunkirk released

July 24 – Joe & Taylor papped leaving gym in NYC

August 21 - Taylor films …Ready For It? music video

August 28 - Taylor deletes Instagram

September 03 - …Ready For It? released

Mid September - Taylor writes and records So It Goes. (Final track recorded with Martin & Shellback) Rep mag track listings don't match up indicating last minute adjustments

October 20 - Gorgeous released

October 26 - …Ready For It? MV released

November 02 - Call It What You Want released

November 10 - reputation released

i keep watching videos of people going to the eras tour, girls dressing up with their friends, trading friendship bracelets with strangers, crying to surprise songs, holding each other during their favorite set. singing, and dancing, and screaming, and crying and all of it just feels like pure happiness. there's something so special about the unapologetic way girls get to just purely be themselves at the eras tour and it makes my heart so warm inside.

and it's not a gender thing, but the way teenage girls have constantly seen their interests diminished and overlooked makes this sense of community so much more special.

for so long i felt like there was something wrong with being stereotypically girly. god forbid pink is your favorite color, or you listen to pop music, or you have a stan account and posters of a boyband on your bedroom wall. god forbid you're still strong, and smart, and interesting.

and maybe it's because i'm in my twenties now, and i'm finally figuring out who i am, because fuck, being a teenager sucks, but i can look at the girls crying from their nosebleeds seats at the eras tour, or the girls dancing in line for a harry styles concert, or the group of friends that yelled "hi barbie" to me from their pink dresses on the other side of the street, and feel like there is a part of current pop culture, of mainstream media, that is finally, finally, allowing girls to experience girlhood without shame.

we love taylor. we love each other. look at us and the cute bracelets we trade with strangers. look at our pink outfits to go watch barbie at the theatre and our feathery boas at harry concerts and our kindles full of romance books. look. it's all so pretty.

i spent all my money on concert tickets, i'm going to the eras tour next year. i already warned everyone i'll cry during long live.

i'm making bracelets. i have a pinterest board for my outfit. i'm sharing ideas, because everyone else is doing the same. i made a playlist of my favorite songs and named it after taylor swift. i found an old one direction poster and put it back up on my wall. i learned how to crochet, and the first thing i made was a flower. the yard is pink. it's my favorite color.

i did my makeup. i read my favorite sally rooney novel on the train, with my headphones in. i'm twenty and i'm thirteen, and i'm nine, when pink was still my favorite color. i'm all of those girls, and all of them are me.

it really is the girlhood no one can't take away. it was ours first. we're taking it back.

The way “I heard that you’ve been out and about with some other girl, you said what you heard is true but I can’t stop thinking about you, I said I’ve been there too a few times” makes the situation sound so sexy and fun and lighthearted and Is it Over Now is like “actually, I wanted to jump off a building!”

i need 1989 vault tracks to give them the push to finally DO SOMETHING

IIRC didn't some tarot readings say that Haylor would get back in September? It's the middle of September already and they seem to have no contact at all and they are hanging out with other people. Is there a new Tarot prediction for when they will reconnect?

Also, the iamnearlyhome and eroda lighthouse accounts have stopped tweeting for some time now. Do you think this is because HS and TR are serious now and HS has taken a break from daydreaming about reuniting with TS?

They said Virgo season which is aug 23-sept 22. Right before this is when HS disappeared for 12 days. We don’t know if they’re in contact or not. I choose to believe they are. I don’t think things are serious with TR.

Do we think it’s somewhat rude Harry wasn’t there for the release in LA? Or no? Not rude.. but maybe just solidifies they aren’t in communication. I thought he would at least show up for her as a friend

I cannot stress enough: I think his absence and commitment elsewhere was a STRATEGIC DECISION.

Blondie has 3 exes who are not awful and with whom we have proof she interacts. All of whom have one (or more) songs on particular albums/behaviour in particular eras for which they are know: Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, and Harry Styles.

NONE were involved in release announcements. But when they albums came out?!?

In the depth of the pandemic, Sophie and Joe got in on the action supporting Blondie’s Fearless TV release:

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Twitter, naturally, is liiiiiving for it.

And we just saw Taylor Lautner’s triumphant moments in July for SN:

And her interactions with Harry? Stratospheric interest. No one talks about anything else.

This?

And this?

Controlled the news cycle for 2 days only 6 months ago, more than his AOTY won and RedTV finally getting a Grammy. Tree had to put out a press release about their long-standing, peaceful friendship (maybe bc a certain YB threw a tantrum?)

And not supportive or not in contact? Disagree. Here is what he wore in Frankfurt in his concert hours before SN dropped:

The entire lighting scheme, the band accessories - all purple. He wore purple tones the concerts before and after too.

Last night was a TRIUMPH for Blondie. Final night of an unprecedentedly successful US tour celebrating her entire career, featuring stolen music she is reclaiming. Continued dominance on the charts and in international and domestic concert ticket sales.

And now - she gets to reclaim her first iconic album, the one that changed everything for her. The one that contains almost exclusively and still routinely charts…songs we all know are about Harry Styles. Style is *currently* her 4th or 5th highest charting single NINE YEARS after the album came out.

After the year she’s had, do you think she wanted to risk last night being overshadowed by a man?

And Harry Styles has ALWAYS stood back to let her shine, praising her and supporting her in big and small ways. He has NEVER said anything even remotely bad about her publicly, while she has *never publicly said his name aloud*.

The is exactly ZERO chance that Harry does not get pulled into this dialogue in the coming months.

Let’s sit back and watch it play out. Being a Haylor involved a lot of patience; let’s flex that muscle now.

Do you know where Taylor said she was giving up on relationships for a while? I feel like I remember that but can't find it

it was in her rolling stone cover story! (a lot of the press she did at that time is tinged with things that are saddening to revisit, but also clear on what her perspective was. the vogue 73 questions is another one):

"In fact, she suggests, she hasn’t dated at all since breaking up with One Direction singer Harry Styles more than a year and a half ago. “Like, have not gone on a date,” she says. “People are going to feel sorry for me when you write that. But it’s true.” Swift says dating is hard for her. For one thing, there’s the logistics. “Seventy percent of the time, when a guy asks me out, it’ll just be a random e-mail,” she says. Some movie star will get her address from his publicist and e-mail her cold. Usually she politely rebuffs them – but even if someone did penetrate that line of defense, building a relationship is hard. “I feel like watching my dating life has become a bit of a national pastime,” Swift says. “And I’m just not comfortable providing that kind of entertainment anymore. I don’t like seeing slide shows of guys I’ve apparently dated. I don’t like giving comedians the opportunity to make jokes about me at awards shows. I don’t like it when headlines read ‘Careful, Bro, She’ll Write a Song About You,’ because it trivializes my work. And most of all, I don’t like how all these factors add up to build the pressure so high in a new relationship that it gets snuffed out before it even has a chance to start. And so,” she says, “I just don’t date.” (That goes for hooking up as well. “I just think it’s pointless if you’re not in love,” Swift says. “And I don’t have the energy to be in love right now. So, no.”) Truth be told, Swift sounds a tiny bit jaded – which, for a “self-professed hopeless romantic,” maybe isn’t the worst thing to be. “It’s not like I’ve sworn off love,” she says. “My life is just not conducive to bringing other people into it right now. I’m very childlike and romantic about lots of things, but I’m realistic about this.” [....] it’s not bad that I’m not hopelessly in love with someone. It’s not a tragedy, and it’s not me giving up and being a spinster. Although I did get another cat.” She laughs. “I asked around: I was like, ‘Does two cats count as cats?’ But then I thought, what imaginary guy’s perspective am I thinking about this from? Someone is going to think I’m undateable for a lot of reasons before they think I’m undateable because I have two cats.”"

eta: the above still applies, but i was actually remembering her glamour magazine interview with this -

"Yeah, I do feel jaded about relationships, to be honest. I think the media has sent me a really unfair message over the past couple of years, which is that I’m not allowed to date for excitement, or fun, or new experiences or learning lessons. I’m only allowed to date if it’s for a lasting, multiple-year relationship. Otherwise I’m a, quote, ‘serial dater’. Or, quote, ‘boy crazy’. The narrative has been so wrong, every time it was the same. It’s 'Taylor spotted talking to this guy, she’s chasing him.’ They create a beginning to the story that didn’t happen most of the time, so then they have to create an ending. So they always go to the same fabricated ending that every other tabloid has used in my story, which is, 'She got too clingy’, or 'Taylor has too many emotions, she scared him away’. Which has honestly never been the reason for any of my break-ups. You know what has been the reason? The media. You take something very fragile, like trying to get to know someone, and it feels like walking out into the middle of a gladiator arena with someone you’ve just met. And all of a sudden the public and the media are allowed to say thumbs up or thumbs down. So I just don’t try it anymore."

Rebecca Fergusonas Chrissy Eriksson in Episode 09 of ‘Ocean Ave’ (2002)

I feel like fine line vault will have the most experimental songs. He was gravitating towards pop with adore you and WS while staying near his comfort zone that was rock. Sunflower was probably a turning point in deciding hsh sound.

sonical things aside I want to listen to his bitter songs about camille's nepo boyfriend and his art gallery lmao

there's a lot of fusion across sounds and genres that happens on fine line and i am in love with it forever. the initial high and glitter and infatuation and freedom and revelation of the first four tracks, the groovy guitar and the gospel choir, swooping down into the sweetbitter sting of cherry and its delicate acoustics and its tinged pink atmosphere (pathetic was his word, regretful is mine), and then the full scale piano soaring vocals drowning heartbreak ballad of falling (that plea: what am i now? i cannot), and then the cheeky/resentful self-deprecating ukulele match strike of to be so lonely, and then the more hs1 old-fashioned rock epic in she, and then sunflower comes in and goes, "hi, so we've been moping for a while, it's time to get psychedelic with it."

sunflower is the light switching back on (lights up and you know who you are, do you know who you are?), some recovery, some happy memories, still the yearning, but it's giving way to something else. the genius of "does he take you walkin' 'round his parents' gallery?" transforming into "i've got your face hung up high in the gallery." HELLO? nepo boyfriend can take you to SEE the art, but to harry...you ARE the art. he's still self-criticizing and reflecting, but in a less harsh way (not the wandering hands or arrogant son of a bitch, just trying hard not to act a fool). kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor! keep it sweet in your memory! we're finding our way through! the silly bizarre nonsense mushroom noises because his humor is sparkling back into view. and then! suddenly! bursting onto the scene in screaming bright color, guitars and dulcimer and whistling and sunshine, is canyon moon, and we're going home!!! an old lover's hippie music! you do not understand (actually you probably do), i love the storytelling that happens there SO much. i LOVE the way sunflower was a turning point in the writing and sits as a turning point on the album itself, where it's like, we've grieved, we've paced, we've been lost and questioned everything, we've felt it all, and now it's time to find the sun again. (take me back to the light...i've been thinking back to a time under the canyon moon. golden is answered in sunflower and canyon moon.) i'm going home and looking to treat people with kindness, in spite of everything. go home and take a deep breath and reflect on everything that's happened, and feel that hurt and that mysterious pull, and remember the love that was there, in six minutes and eighteen seconds of catharsis, and it's all just such a fine line. crisp trepidation (the vocal layering and harmonies there. then the horns at the end!), because the fear is crystalline, but we keep going anyway. that's what we always are, constantly walking along it. we'll be a fine line, over and over, in different ways. maybe that's okay. maybe we'll be alright.

perfect album i am so serious.

ALL that said, because it is such a perfect album and told in such a specific way and follows a story, anything extraneous or that didn't directly enrich it, or was TOO cutting or too sorrowful, he took out, which objectively i understand for the sake of the art, but subjectively and selfishly, i want to know what it was. I NEED. i'll take the even more experimental ones, the bitter and angry songs, or sad ones, or earlier adoring ones, please give them all to me immediately. the fact that this will probably never happen??? i can't think about it!

*jenny slate meme* i had to stop thinking about fine line because it made me too crazy! harry would just be like, "loving you's the antidote -> you've got my devotion, but man, i can hate you sometimes." or "i know that you're scared because i'm so open -> spreading you open is the only way of knowing you..." and i was like, "SCREAMS!!!"

I came across HS/TS synastry chart and found some interesting. Note that this is assuming TS' ascendant is really Scropio for the ones that include ascendant.

Venus conj mars: romantic and sexual attraction between you is almost irresistible.  The intensity of your feelings for one another is unlikely to fade over time, and you find much fulfillment in your love for each other. Even if you go your separate ways, it is likely that both of you will always remember each other for the passion you once enjoyed.

Asc square merc: This aspect creates confusion and misunderstandings. They may find it difficult to understand each other and cooperate.

Pluto square venus: Intense, and sometimes uncomfortable, attraction between these two can go either way fast. The expression “a fine line between love and hate” applies here. This connection is almost primal in nature. Sexual attraction is intense. These two will definitely need to deal with issues of possessiveness, jealousy, and volatile emotions. They arouse in one another some of their deepest insecurities, as there can be an intense fear of losing one another.

Mars conj pluto: The Mars conjunct Pluto synastry aspect can indicate burning down, destruction, and regeneration. The relationship is a very important influence in your life (for better or worse). The Plutonian obsession is very well present. It is impossible not to think of the other person, especially for the Mars person to exclude the Pluto person of their mind. 

Neptune square moon: There is a tendency to misunderstand or misread each other’s signals, so you will have to spend more time processing hurt feelings or perceived slights

Uranus square moon: This aspect can lead to a relationship that begins abruptly and is filled with exhilarating highs and unsettling lows. The intense attraction you feel towards each other may be fueled by the excitement and novelty your partner brings into your life. However, these moments of exhilaration can quickly turn into feelings of insecurity and uncertainty, as you struggle to find a balance between your need for emotional stability and the wild energy that Uranus represents.

Mars square mercury: Different points of view can turn into full-fledged arguments all too easily with this combination. Words may be sharp and destructive

Jupiter square moon:This aspect often leads to exaggerated emotions and intuitions, which stem from both individuals' own fears and insecurities.

Jupiter trine jupiter:You get on well with each other and encourage each other to improve yourself and your life

Moon trine saturn: Any Moon-Saturn aspect sign can be used for good, but it takes work. If both people are emotionally immature, then even the Moon trine Saturn synastry aspect will feel difficult and painful. If both partners are emotionally mature, then even the square aspect can feel easy. 

Pluto square sun:you have a deep and transformative effect on each other. Just like the opposition, it can be a bit of a love-hate relationship.

Pluto conjunct jupiter: This relationship challenges you to grow, transform, improve, and develop. It doesn't accept a standstill! This aspect may bring out the risk-taker or ambitious nature in one or both of you

Venus sextile pluto: tendency to be consumed by one another and by the relationship is here

Wow. I feel this explains their tf dynamic