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I just started thinking about Vigilante Shit from a gender non-conforming lens and

draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man

-> performing femininity by applying make up etc and being perceived as female and “killing” the male side for conformity

This is the correct take! I’ve seen a lot of ppl suggest the message is “don’t try too hard and just have fun🤪.” That’s not the point and def not how you become an Olympian. The point is to embrace and own your struggle and channel it towards something YOU love. And don’t let people control YOUR art

been thinking a lot about the choice to reference mad woman. it’s so intentional and so loud to have arguably her most scathing song mentioned in a “happy” music video. to have the rock she claims to have a “toxic” relationship with react to her that way. it’s a shame she went mad

has anyone considered the possibility that this was them performing in a “hetero realness” category at a drag ball and that’s why they failed miserably?

she’s really challenging both sides to go back to TTPD… delivering an album she knew might not have staying power with the str8 fans who love her lyricism and for our side knew we would find the callback clues she’s putting down

this visual reminds me of og Red except it's not shade/shadow covering half her face, it's opalite ;;
idk if it's intended to really mean that but with the whole "shade never made anybody less gay" and the interpretation of opalite as another kind of "cover" it tickles my brain

What are Opalite and Nopealite marketed as? A cleaning product.. how did she get to the stage every night? A cleaning cart..

And now what did you find?? OPALITE ON A CLEANING CART!!!

looking camp right in the eye

Taylor swing sharing a swing with a rock in the Opalite music video

Here. At the park where we used to sit on children’s swings
Wearing imaginary rings
But it’s gonna be alright, I did my time.

This is haunting me.

MV = nopalite is the no 2 bestseller

BTS = nopalite is the no 1 bestseller

Image of Taylor from the anti-hero explainer, making the motion of crying while wearing a yellow pink and white zig zag shirt

been thinking a lot about objectification and object-ifying self/identity and how taylor told us during midnights that sometimes she doesn’t feel like a person, which implies that she feels like an object, concept, idea

🤔🤔🤔

taylor spraying herself with opalite

taylor holding out her wrist for a nopalite sample at the mall, domhnall is about to push her out of the way so she doesn’t disappear

just because you’re clean, don’t mean you don’t miss it

I took the miracle move on drug the effects were temporary

“A revolutionary fix for your problems”

taylor spraying herself is sad because women often feel they have to change themselves/their appearance in order to be desirable, but i also cant ignore the public image angle: she cleaned up her image and now she has the perfect public relationship

Is anyone else disgusted by how comfortable & happy people are with AI? This trend of an AI caricature is ridiculous for so many reasons. If we go beyond the waste of resources it takes to crank out that bs, people are like “omg it even added my bangs & a coffee cup” …

giselle on substack something that's been weighing on me since last night's GRAMMYs is what lady gaga said in her speech. i love gaga, she's literally my mother, but when she said "for women in music, sometimes when you're in the studio with a bunch of guys, it can be hard" ...I GOT MAD! female artists have autonomy, they're not cursed for eternity to make their music in a room full of men. that may be the industry standard, but to tell women they should "fight to be heard" in a room full of men instead of encouraging working with....idk just a wild thought... FEMALE PRODUCERS AND SONGWRITERS AND ENGINEERS? they exist, believe it or not! addison rae doesn't get enough credit for working with only female producers for her debut album. addison is a body of work that de-centers men in such a refreshing way, from the lyrics to the artists behind the music, its feminine energy is what makes it great. let's stop telling women to hold their own in a room full of men and start encouraging them to fill the room with women/nonbinary/ queer people instead! the only reason more female producers/mixers/engineers don't exist is because we act like they don't. EMPLOY THEM! take a chance on them!

saw this critique of Gaga’s speech and while I think always looking for something to be mad about when a woman speaks is v exhausting, I DO agree that the best way to use your platform is to pay and WORK WITH WOMEN! I get kind of agitated with how few pop girlies work with female producers.

TW: SA mention

Like y’all I came back bc I wanted to try to enjoy Grammys posting but I cannot bc of this. I know everyone wants justice, very much including me, but did we collectively forget we have real life CSA survivors on this app? 👋🏻

how to add a Content Warning to a photo or video on bluesky:

- add the photo or video to your post draft

- AFTER you've added that, the "Labels" drop-down menu will appear

- click/tap "Labels"

- select one of the content warning checkboxes

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please do not direct your anger at the wrong people. we have built this community to be a soft place to land for all. we each engage in different ways.

not everyone performs activism online. some of us cannot. this doesn't mean we don't care or are ignoring it. and we do not need to justify it.

PSA reading “Hey there neighbor! We all want to feel safe, but your Ring camera is sharing everything with ICE, including every person that walks by.” Cartoon smiley faces saying “Ack!”, “Oh no!”, “That’s terrible!” A cartoon shouting “What to do?!” Text: “Turn it off! Or, cover the camera and use audio only.” A drawing showing “You” cutting the stream of information from Ring to Amazon to ICE. Text: “We keep each other safe” surrounded by drawings of hearts.

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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

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this is how you do it

if yall haven't diabled autoplay on videos yet you will want to now. ICE shot and killed a woman who was part of the resistance in Minnesota this morning and the video of it is making its way around

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

taylor made $80 mil on her deal with disney, yeah this love sure is pure profit all right

Absolutely not Taylor-related, but I've been struggling A LOT with maintaining friendships, keeping in touch with people, and chit-chatting in general too. If you have advice, tips, or resources, I'd love to hear them because I'm trying to improve my social skills and could use some help 🧡

Oh and start using those stickers you've been hoarding for years and think they are too pretty and special to use. You are pretty and special and deserve some whimsy 🤸‍♀️

i still need a father figure mv btw

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