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pleasuregap @pleasuregap.bsky.social · 18h

Do gaylors generally know that Speak Now era started the same day Chely performed at Pride? And that the album was released on Chely’s bday? Chely, who famously said in her coming out interview, “it feels like my birthday.” And the secret code in the lyric book reads, “for you.” Y’ALL.

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somesmalltowngirl @somesmalltowngirl.bsky.social · 23h

She won 🏆

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 21h

Take your time, Professor 😁 I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 21h

You're so right, I agree. Maybe it should've been an inside thought.

My interpretation is that Swift has made a lot of references to manual sex (for example, the finger movements during The Man on the Eras Tour) so I figured it would be appropriate to point out that this could be another reference

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 21h

Alyssa has gone DEEP into the historical and symbolic meanings of the still life in TFOO MV. check it out!

I'm no better than a Hetlor, because my 1st thought was it's a sex joke 🍑🦪🥖

(Peaches are bred by pearls / semen)

While that would be a funny joke, I like Alyssa's take better!

alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 23h

another part of the vanitas tradition is that jewelry/ accoutrements of vanity are literally cast aside (the person shown is often codified as mary magdalene who forsook worldly vanity in order to devote herself fully to spirituality (in one view of the lore )

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 23h

another part of the vanitas tradition is that jewelry/ accoutrements of vanity are literally cast aside (the person shown is often codified as mary magdalene who forsook worldly vanity in order to devote herself fully to spirituality (in one view of the lore )

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 22h

Well-known medieval favors include brooches, scarves, miniatures, and basically any gold metal

Favors can also be symbolic of patronage, which in 2025 terms is like corporate sponsorship. The patron would buy the artist or athlete supplies needed to perform their craft or skill.

Taylor Swift gives the bride a scarf in the music video for "I Bet You Think About Me"

Travis Kelce at the Superbowl wearing a golden brooch

Ross Travis at the super bowl with a gold rose on his lap

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 22h

ROSS IS TRAVIS'S ONYX KNIGHT! Their love is a real gemstone, not a fake, manmade glass love like opalite.

The gold roses are like medieval favors knights would wear to show their loyalty and devotion to a noble person 🥀

Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's like a medieval favor Travis Kelce is wearing over his heart while he fights in the tournament 🌹 💛

stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · Feb 10

🎶 and historians will call them close friends, bеsties, roommates, colleagues 🎶

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Auds 𖹭 ๋࣭⭑ @hairpinraindrop.bsky.social · 22h

and then she plopped the entire thing front and center in the midst of famously conservative NFL fans. and got away with it. and is still more popular than ever. like??????? that's INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

Auds 𖹭 ๋࣭⭑ @hairpinraindrop.bsky.social · 22h

also I was thinking about how radical the uncensored version of Father Figure is. a feminine presenting woman is singing about taking back her power from patriarchal figures. and she's singing "my dick's bigger" both from their perspective and her own. and she wove queer protest into it too.

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

Swift has used "'em" pronouns for lovers before.

"'It's cool,' that's what I tell 'em"
-Cruel Summer, which was really heavily marketed the first fall TNT was really going strong (2023)

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

Pleeease 🙏 my dream is for Taylor Swift to bring out all her dolls on stage and proudly show us the little sequin outfits Swift paid for 🥹

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

Literally my only exposure to Hetlors is second hand reports from y'all and Pinterest 😂

I haven't heard anything from them about tonight.

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of Anti-Hero, do we learn Taylor is playing with dolls of her selves? Is the giant Taylor wearing the Karma shirt the "real human person Taylor" and the tiny Poet (left) and Showgirl (right) are her dolls?

Im not the 1st to say it,
but Swift's really been driving home the Barbie point

Left to right: tiny Poet, tiny Showgirl, Giant Taylor

Midnights mayhem with me episode where Taylor Swift announced the track Karma
The shirt has thick horizontal stripes of purple and heather blue (a kind of fabric that's both dark blue + a lighter color blue or grey)
Swift's jeans have doodles of mushrooms and flowers. The mushrooms could be a reference to Alice in wonderland, as could themes of growing and shrinking people in the Anti-Hero music video!!!

Taylor Swift in front of the Lover House on The Eras Tour

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💌 @allofmypoems.lesbian.cat · 1d

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

The placement of Swift's snake ring is everything to me (someone who believes the snake imagery of reputation was inspired by ancient Serpent Goddesses.

Her worshippers considered snakes symbolic of female and male genetalia)

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

Dying over Swift's totally bare ring finger on the left hand, but Swift is wearing rings on the two fingers needed for pleasuring a kitty* 😻

*Saying this as a euphemism for a sex organ

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

This is how "Blood on the street" begins and ends.

The sun being out could be related to the extended metaphor of Daylight being "when things come to light"/coming out

I also took note of how "Gone" samples "Freedom" be George Michael.

Lyrics say "bad times when you were mine what more could you want? You already took all my pride"

It's just that when you smoked your last cigarette
you know you won't do that again
and I stayed up all night with the pack
and now the sun's up, I'm out and that's that

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

I spy the pansexual flag in the music video for "All over me."

While not an exact color match, their dresses on the cover of "I quit" remind me of the Bi or Androgyne pride flags

Still from "All over me" music video. Danielle is wearing a black shirt sleeve polo shirt, a sheer black skirt, and black panties. Danielle is sitting on a floor covered in yellow, pink, and blue fabric

Danielle is wearing dark blue/purple, Alana is wearing light blue, and Este is wearing magenta on the cover of "I quit"

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 1d

You neeeed The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails on that playlist

The song reminds me of how performers often deconstruct the ideas of fame and Hollywood much like how people deconstruct Christianity. This is something Hayley Williams talked about recently

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 2d

I've wondered the same thing! I've been like, is this the movie? Is it a courtroom drama to expose the PR/tabloid/entertainment industry?

But that would be a truly crazy thing for everyone involved to do...

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 2d

What ??! What song? Just today I read how dry humor is very popular in New Zealand, with Flight of the Concords being the best known musical comedians from NZ

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Lee.wav @waverlee.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, correct. We are the gay educator character in this play. Lol

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somesmalltowngirl @somesmalltowngirl.bsky.social · 2d

The bread is the prophecy of betrayal 41:9… 4/19

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Jinxlor @tayloosecannon.swifties.social · 2d

Gaylor being in Clara Bows family tree that was hilarious.

stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 3d

if I had a nickel for every time lore tied to someone with last name Gaylor dropped with new TS album I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

violet 👾🖤 long live swemo @myeyesviolet.bsky.social · 3d

the first time "my funny valentine" charted was in 1945... with vocals provided by ruth gaylor

you can't make this shit up lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Funn...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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