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This is probably one of the most impossible albums to rank ever, but I gave it a shot. One of those rankings that could drastically change every. single. day.
Reputation Ranking 1. Ready For It...? 2. Call It What You Want 3. Dress 4. King of my Heart 5. Don't Blame Me 6. Delicate 7. Gorgeous 8. I Did Something Bad 9. Getaway Car 10. New Year's Day 11. Look What You Made Me Do 12. End Game 13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things 14. Dancing With Our Hands Tied 15. So It Goes...
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Here’s a summary of this week’s events & some sample times for different time zones:
This Week (8 Years of Reputation 2): • Drop In - Body Doubling (Tess' Version) - Monday 10th Nov: 7am PST, 10am EST, 3pm GMT, 11pm PHT 2 hours We'll listen to Reputation together "8 Years of Reputation 2," -Coffee House (Tess' Version): Monday 10th Nov: 9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm GMT/4th: 1am PHT 1-1.5 hours Body Doubling (Evelina's Version): Friday 14th - 7am PST, 10am EST, 3pm GMT, 11pm PHT 1.5 - 2 hours Fearless Monthly Group: Saturday 15th - 12pm PST, 3pm EST, 8pm GMT 2 hours To find out more about joining a Monthly Group,
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Am I the only one that immediately thought of the floral windows in the Bejeweled MV when I saw her floral tights?
Taylor’s legs with fishnet tights that have roses on them A screenshot of the Bejeweled music video showing the castle at the end - a close up of the stained glass windows with flower decals A screenshot of the Bejeweled music video showing the castle at the end - Taylor is in a yellow dress in the centre standing on a balcony, stained glass windows with flower decals on either side of her
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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She’s “sleeping with the fishes” at the end of Lavender Haze MV, after she destroys the facade. Death of a Showgirl/Supernova indeed.
A screenshot of the Lavender Haze music video. Taylor is pushing down a wall to reveal space A screenshot of the Lavender Haze music video. Taylor has pushed down the walls of her set to reveal space, galaxies, koi fish & a star/sun
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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“You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning” 🙃
A screenshot of the Lavender Haze music video. Taylor is sitting in a cloud in space with koi fish swimming around her. A screenshot of the Lavender Haze music video. A cloud in space with koi fish swimming around it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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One month after TLOAS & my ranking has moved around quite a bit! After the Zoom today I fiddled with it slightly (mostly realised that I think FF is the best written song on the album so it deserves no. 1)

Top six in today’s ranking I listen to often, below that I don’t listen much at all.
TLOAS first ranking: 1. Elizabeth Taylor 2. Actually Romantic 3. The Fate of Ophelia 4. Father Figure 5. Wood 6. Honey 7. Ruin the Friendship 8. Eldest Daughter 9. Cancelled! 10. The Life of a Showgirl 11. Opalite 12. Wi$h List One month: 1. Father Figure 2. The Fate of Ophelia 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Honey 5. Actually Romantic 6. Wood 7. Ruin the Friendship 8. Opalite 9. Cancelled! 10. The Life of a Showgirl 11. Wi$h Li$t 12. Eldest Daughter
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Oooooh continuing the OOTW/Saving Herself theme:

You dug me out of my grave & saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia
The image on the left is of Zombie Taylor from the Look What You Made Me Do music video in a light blue dress and the image on the right is of Taylor in a similar light blue dress walking through the snow with wolves from the Out of the Woods music video Top left corner - Taylor in a bath tub of jewellery and diamonds from the look what you made me do music video Top right - the album cover for the life of a showgirl depicting Taylor in a bathtub with a diamond corset on Bottom portion - Taylor in the same diamond corset in a teal bathtub for the end of the fate of Ophelia music video
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Sometimes I can’t fkn believe that this video exists. Are you kidding me???
Screenshot of Taylor singing a cover of Holy Ground at the BBC Live Lounge in 2019, looking straight into the camera with emotionssss
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Finally getting around to joining the soup festivities - of course I’m making Alison Roman’s PLS again. Dill for daysssss 🌱🌿🥬🍋‍🟩🍵🥔

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POV shot from above - my feet in green gum boots at the bottom of the image, a shopping basket in the centre of the image with green bunches of dill, leeks, spring onions, kale & some limes.
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Gaylor body doubling in 30 mins, as well as on Friday. Tickets are as low as £2 for these sessions, as well as other events this week summarised below! 💕

Register here: buytickets.at/friendsofdor...
Body Doubling (Evelina's Version): Tues 28th - 10:30am PDT, 1:30pm EDT, 5:30pm GMT 1.5-2 hours Monthly Group - Speak Now - Wednesday 17th: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm BST 1.5 hours To find out more about joining a Monthly Group, click HERE • Drop In - Body Doubling (Tess' Version) - Friday 31st: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 3pm GMT, 11pm PHT 2 hours *Free access to one of these sessions per month is included in every paid Patreon tier, use the code in THIS POST if you are a paid Patreon & haven't used it yet this month •Coffee House (Tess' Version): Friday 31st: 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 5pm GMT/Sat 1st: 1am PHT 1.5 hours Live Stream: Reading The Prologue Poems for 'The Life of a Showgirl' - Sunday 2nd: 8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm GMT, 12am PHT 1-1.5 hours
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy 19 years to Debut. The deliberate callback in the Fate of Ophelia MV to the album cover from the start of her career, before the current of fame pulled her under/into the underworld, is really hitting me fresh today.
One of the covers of Taylor’s debut album. Taylor in a white dress kneeling in bright blue water, with the words “Taylor Swift” across the front and some butterfly stamps throughout Taylor in a white dress for the Fate of Ophelia music video, sitting on her right hip and looking wistfully towards the right Taylor in a white dress for the Fate of Ophelia music video, lying down as if she’s part of a well-known painting of Ophelia, skirts draped out around her & flowers and other vegetation surround her Part of the cover art of Taylor’s debut album. Taylor in a white dress walking through a bright blue creek, holding her skirt out in both of her hands, looking down, there are trees in the background - one of which is leaning over the creek
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Here’s a screen recording of my “Drowning” theme
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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What do you mean today is the “13 Years Gone” anniversary for Red (aka the time period referred to at the end of the ATW MV) AND the same day she did her only 2016 performance at the Grand Prix debuting her version of “This Is What You Cane For” AND her Insta post last year for the Miami shows 👀
"13 years gone" in the ATW Short Film would refer to this date, 13 years after the original release - Wednesday 22 Oct Screenshot from the All Too Well MV, with text that says: “THIRTEEN YEARS GONE” Screenshot from the All Too Well MV, Taylor with red hair pinned back, as she’s reading from her published book in the final scene of the music video Performance: TaylorPerforms At The Formula 1 Grand Prix - her only performance that year & the first time she sang 'This Is What You Came For' live (2016) Wednesday 22 Oct A photo of Taylor in a short black sparkly romper with smoke around her performing at the Grand Prix in 2016 A screenshot of Taylor’s Instagram, with a photo of her in her Reputation costume, with gold snakes, and four of her dancers dressed in tight black & red costumes. The caption reads: taylorswift The Eras Tour is BACK and the 3 Miami crowds we just got to play for were on a new level. With only 5 cities left to play before it's over, I knew I was going to be savoring every moment up on that stage but the bewildering passion of those crowds really blew my mind. It rained (a lot) the 1st and 3rd nights, and so that kicked up the cinematic drama. I had really missed this on our break. The mass quantities of joyful people genuinely living in the moment and seeming truly carefree for 3.5 hours. My mystifyingly talented friend @florence came to Miami and each night we performed "Florida!!!" in Florida!!! I got some new outfits, and it's always nice when the crowd notices that. You guys are just the best. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who followed along online. 4 more cities left and the next one up is: New Orleans! I’ve highlighted the following line: I got some new outfits, and it's always nice when the crowd notices that.
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Like you were a trophy or a champion ring but there was one prize I’d cheat to win 💍😏
Travis Kelce & Patrick Mahomes posing with two Champions Rings Travis Kelce & Patrick Mahomes posing with three Champion Rings Taylor and Travis’s hands, Taylor’s large engagement ring on her ring finger Taylor on a radio programme showing her ring to the hosts
October 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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TikTok isn’t letting me upload this for copyright reasons, let’s see if Bluesky lets me…
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Omg just found these screenshots on Lesbian Ghosts in my camera roll from March 2024!!

Connections with ghosts & sirens feels resonant with the TLOAS imagery recently 🧜🏻‍♀️👻
Terry Castle THE APPARITIONAL LESBIAN (BOOKS) The Apparitional Lesbian Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture Columbia University Press, 1993 Order from the publisher, Columbia University Press, or go to Terry Castle's Page on Amazon.com. TERRY CASTLE (SEE REVIEWERS' COMMENTS) (FROM THE DUSTJACKET) "Lesbianism-what Terry Castle calls the 'ghost' of sexual love between women-has haunted Western literature and culture since the eighteenth century. Despite the frequency with which female-female sexuality has been denied or obscured, Castle sees lesbianism as a central motif in the Western imagination. In a series of wide-ranging essays-on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians-Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries. Castle also includes two personal essays: 'First Ed,' a lyrical tribute to a long-forgotten lesbian 'ghost,' and 'In Praise of Brigitte Fassbaender,' on coming out as a lesbian opera fan. "In The Apparitional Lesbian, a book for anyone interested in lesbianism and its role in the imaginative life and literature of the West, the lesbian is brought back into focus—in all her worldliness, comedy, and complexity." HOME ABOUT WRITING ARTWORK (SEE REVIEWERS' Desiring Identifications with the Past Some days I have little interest in the abstract "Lesbian." I want mine with skin (...] -Meese （1992: 130） At a forum on her book Getting Medieval (1999), Dinshaw relayed a comment by one of her students who noted that many people experience their first 'queer' encounter textually rather than sexually: As is true for many queers [...] my queer sexuality was first articulated not through a relationship with another body but rather through texts [...] I consumed such texts urgently ... I was looking for a way to be queer, for a way to fashion my own identity [...] Queer history is my queer present. (Richard Kim cited in Dinshaw 2001: 202-203) Similarly, we observe Sara T.'s urgent consumption of written accounts of Vivien's life as well as her work: '¿On cercar-te, si no en els mots, els teus, els dels altres, els meus mateixos, llançats, com una canilla mal ensinistrada, a la caça i captura d'un fantasma?' (91). Texts are one way that readers and writers can connect with their 'spectral' predecessors in order to shape and understand their own existence in the present. In The Apparitional Lesbian (1993), published a year before La passió, Castle considers the 'ghosting' of lesbians in history. She views her essays as 'a kind of invocation: an attempt to call up, precisely by confronting the different kinds of denial and disembodiment with which she is usually associated, the much-ghosted yet nonetheless vital lesbian subject (8). However, the language used by the reader-writer figure, Sara T., highlights the ambivalence in her reaction to the 'fantasma' of the writer from the past. The simile in which Sara T. likens her words and those of others to an untamed pack of dogs — 'com una canilla mal ensinistrada' - reveals the lack of control she has over them. She thus hints at the posibility of writers also being h(a)unted against their will, or possessed by something or someone beyond their conscious control. Sara T.'s 'ghost-hunti… kaleidoscope - but the precise composition of the fragments is beyond her full control, both within her own work, and within the imaginaries of her readers. In 'Sappho Enchants the Sirens' (1904) Vivien describes the sensation of feeling entangled in the seductive past. She refers to a sense of captivation beyond deliberative desire; the 'silvery nets' (Vivien cited in Reynolds 2000: 300) of the past are appealing and the writer may seek them, but they can also entrap her: "The Past, more alive than the Present, and more resonant, will catch you in its silvery nets. You will be held captive by dreams and by long-vanquished harmonies' (ibid.). The "living" past hints at an 'affective connection — a touch across time' (Dinshaw 2001: 203) and 'the intentional collapse of conventional historical time' (ibid.) that are vital to Dinshaw's vision of queer history and community. Dinshaw sees the affective connection as 'an enabling concept with which readers could work in order to respond to their own situations —their places in space and time— and their needs and desires for a past' (ibid.). In the general plan for the novel that Marçal sent to the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes to request funding, she writes that the objective of the novel is not la recreació d'un ambient, que malgrat tot hi ha d'ésser com a teló de fons, una evocació del Some critics see Vivien as having been compelled to write by spirits, such as that of Violet Shilitto, Vivien's childhood friend who died in her twenties. Vivien did not go to visit her when she was on her death-bed as she was reportedly absorbed in her relationship with Barney. Her guilt at abandoning her childhood friend in her last hour seems to have tormented her throughout her life, leading her to scatter violets, as tokens of Shilitto, throughout her poetry. In the foreword to Teresa Campi's Sul ritmo saffico: La vita e le opere di Renée Vivien (1983), which introduced Vivien to Italian readers, Jean Paul-Goujon, a biographer of Vivien, described her as 'una autrice, la cui opera è un caleidoscopo dei suoi fantasmi personali' (12). Again, the reference to ghosts "conjures up" the image of a sort of presence through absence that may be unwanted. However, it is also these 'ghosts' or visions that inspire Vivien's 'kaleidoscopic' work, an adjective which gives the impression of shifting, mesmerising rearrangements of beautiful fragments, including those of Sappho. Kaleidoscopic also emphasises the importance of visual images for Vivien. Vivien may trigger the creation of the 'beautiful forms' through her act of writing - akin to a twisting, a queering of the kaleidoscope - but the precise composition of the fragments is beyond her full control, both within
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Time away from my phone has been deeply nourishing - I’ve done somatic work & it feels like I’ve rinsed out so much cortisol.

If you’re doing anti-racism work & want a guide that centres how much is stored in the nervous system, I couldn’t recommend Resmaa Menakem’s “My Grandmother’s Hands” enough
My Grandmother's Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies RESMAA MENAKEM
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Also looking at the lyrics for Castles Crumbling again has me seeing the “foes & friends” connection with Opalite, interesting!
THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Opalite Line 11 [Pre-Chorus] And, "When you don't, you don't" And all of the foes, and all of the friends (Ha, ha) They've seen it before, they'll see it again (Ha, ha) THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Opalite Line 35 [Pre-Chorus] You're starving til you're not And all of the foes and all of the friends (Ha, ha) Have messed up before, they'll mess up again (Ha, ha) SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] Line 22 [Bridge: Taylor Swift] You don't wanna know me now My foes and friends watch my reign end I don't know how it could've ended this way
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I don’t think this was planned but far out this feels like a timely date parallel to me 😬
Lyrics for castles crumbling on a purple background: Now they're screaming at the palace front gates, used to chant my name Now they're screaming that they hate me Never wanted you to hate me My castle's crumbling down The castle in the Bejeweled music video, dragons breathing fire and causing some of her castle to crumble
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I elaborate more in the TikTok I’ve linked but JUST after her bread makes a cameo in the MV she has a fire breather, aka a common circus act. Bread THEN circus act.
Shot of bread from the Fate of Ophelia MV Shot of Taylor in front of fire breather in the Fate of Ophelia MV
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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 Article Talk 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
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Another date I’m watching: 16th of October. Marie Antoinette died on that day, the crowd was her king… but not in a way that went down well for her.

In the 2006 film ‘Marie Antoinette’, Antoinette is depicted as saying the infamous “let them eat cake” line in the bathtub.
Taylor in a Marie Antoinette inspired costume with Jack Antonoff in a crown kneeling before her proposing. There’s confetti, a flower arch and a pink background A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Marie Antoinette with the following info: Born 2 Nov 1755 Hofburg, Vienna,... Died 16 Oct 1793 Place de la Concorde... Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. She was the wife of King Louis XVI. Born an archduchess of Austria, she was the ... Wikipedia Screenshot of Kirsten Dunst in the Marie Antoinette film, in a bath tub saying “Let them eat cake” Below, an image of Taylor on her cover for The Life of a Showgirl in a bathtub
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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National Coming Out Day this Saturday the 11th -

8 years since “The Swift Life” app was announced
2 years since ‘The Eras Tour’ movie premiered
1 year since Taylor & Travis both dressed with horse-themed items in their outfits

What’ll it be this year, Taylor? 😇
A screenshot of Google calendar with these three events listed: LGBTQ+ Event: National Coming Out Day (1988) Film Release: 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' Premiere App Announcement: The Swift Life app (2017) Taylor & Travis photographed on a date - Taylor carrying a Dior horse-saddle shaped bag & Travis with a shirt that has various figures on it, including a horse
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Woah the fact that this mug has commands you’d give to a dog “stay” “play dead” “shake” feels very Showgirl or Director Taylor. This persona loves to be in control of the different parts of Taylor, loves giving directions. Also does this with her boyfriend. Also Sabrina Carpenter’s recent album
Taylor in the Anti-Hero music video, in her showgirl persona, pointing at a blackboard that says “Everyone will betray you” Taylor in the recent Target ad for The Life of a Showgirl, with a sparkly pink megaphone directing Showgirl Taylor Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover for “Man’s Best Friend”, she’s on the ground on her knees and a figure in a suit off camera has a handful of her hair Travis carrying Taylor at the Eras Tour
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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My first long-form YouTube livestream will be happening in 9 hours ft my Dad!! We went to the Release Party together & will chat about that, before he’ll head off & I’ll continue with my first thoughts/analysis on release week so far 👀
Live Stream: First Thoughts on The Life of a Showgirl ft my Dad: Sunday 5th: 4:30pm PDT, 7:30pm EDT/Mon 6th: 12:30am BST, 7:30am PHT, 10:30am AEDT 1-1.5 hours • Drop In - Body Doubling (SJ's Version) - Tuesday 7th: 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 6pm BST/ Weds 8th: 1am PHT 2 hours Coffee House (Evelina's Version) - Thursday 9th: 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST/Fri 10th: 12am PHT 1-1.5 hours, depending on registrations Hope to see you soon, Tess
October 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM