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M.C.Pants on TikTok. I take weirdly powerful naps. Gaylor Dad. Queer & Trans Pop Culture. Probably yelling about death/rebirth. Here for a weird time. ✨🏳️‍🌈. They/Them

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MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · Feb 3

I fucking love queer joy ❤️

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Kai❤️‍🔥✨ @plantmutual.bsky.social · 4h

Man it really does feel like we've reached Gaylor theory critical mass. Just reaffirming everyone's findings over and over again. Like we solved the rubix cube guys. I feel like that "breaking of the parallax" mention was her giving the public the thesis of what she's doing.

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 20h

Bonus points if her pinky is up while photographed with it

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 20h

Correct!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 21h

!!!!!!!!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 21h

It’s unavailable now

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not super close to them, they think they are closer to me than I reciprocate. But now I have to figure out how to break that news 😂😩

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 21h

And the video is now unavailable 🙃

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 21h

I just realized that in the chaos of my life with a stressful and busy time at work, new album overwhelm, and looking for, securing, and planning my move that happens next week….i forgot to tell my mom and sister I’m moving 😆

Oopsie

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 22h

6 hours later and still under 15k

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 22h

Oh!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 23h

Taylor please don’t give me another video mystery to obsess over

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 23h

The description

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 23h

This video sneaky posted like 4 hours ago and only has 9000 views

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 23h

Something wicked this way comes

violet 👾🖤 long live swemo @myeyesviolet.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2d... uploaded to taylor's youtube 3 hours ago oh my godddd??????/ i don't even know what to say

YouTube video by Taylor Swift - Topic

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MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 23h

Control your tricks!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t be the showgirl!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

The original eldest daughter lyrics being "I'll tell you something, I would come running. Never gonna let you drown. Never gonna let you drown."

WELL OKAY THEN

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

this is why I said you have tiny angry girl energy 😆

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

this is both incredible and horrifying

Anwen🧚🏻🏰 @freefromfairytales.bsky.social · 1d

When you line up the videos, the dress is the bathtub color & the way they look at the camera at the same time is so haunting.

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

oh!

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

The way I neeeeeeeeeed a rock album even if it is just a album of revamped production on old songs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l78U...

Taylor Swift - "The Fate of Ophelia" ROCK VERSION

YouTube video by Matt’s Rock Versions

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MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

My interest is piqued (you aren’t gonna get me this time ya silly dictionary)

youtu.be/1QbfJzTPY4w?...

The Woman in Cabin 10 | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

DEMETRIA!!! 💃💃💃

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

yep yep yep yep

She is inherently the circus when she is pr-ing (hello Who's Afraid) So she just needed to bring in the bread!

Tess @invisiblethemes.bsky.social · 1d

TAYLOR IS REFERENCING “BREAD & CIRCUSES” THAT IS WHY THERE IS ALL THE BREAD IT IS PANEM ET CIRCENSES!!! IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW

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Bread and circuses
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This article is about a concept in political satire. For other uses, see Bread and Circuses (disambiguation).
"Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, 111 by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of

Different screenshots of Taylor making bread puns or handing out bread to people

Taylor behind the scenes of The Fate of Ophelia MV and there’s a fire breather with a plume of fire behind her

MC😴 @mcpants.bsky.social · 1d

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