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⌈ Secret Post #6325 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/lZ3bMlK.png

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the only person in the world who is completely ambivalent towards Swift.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a pretty committed T-Swift fan and I don't buy physical media at all (I can't afford a bigger apartment which means I can't afford clutter), so I've never really understood people's gripes about physical copies having different stuff on them. IDK, I guess I just don't understand diehard completism in the age of Spotify.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about her in the same way I didn't care about Justin Bieber when everyone had a hate boner for him. It'll be the same when there's another popular celebrity to hate.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/ai7kBsp.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Are the two really that comparable? My Immortal is legendary even outside of fandom. The other one is pretty obscure even in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think of 'My Immortal' as being anyone's 'first fanfiction'-- for some people maybe it's the only fanfiction they know of because it gained some infamy, but is it really a thing people find and then say 'yeah I'm going to get into this!'?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think My Immortal was how most people discovered fanfic.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/jSDORri.png

[(Anonymous)]

Seems like shows like this have always been around, not much of a new trend.

I like 'em, but I do wish there were more of the same type of psuedo historical dramaramas for other cultures and periods.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think this is a symptom, not a cause. Start with all the "spirit of the Blitz" people who couldn't take a minute of lockdown. Boris Johnson, looking at you.

[(Anonymous)]

You guys need exports, and you have fuck all else to sell on a global market besides this and money laundering services.

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Yeah, that's the issue. Not the many classist, racist, xenophobic knobheads in power.

Media can definitely feed into terrible mindsets, but if these shows disappeared or never were, do you really think anything would be even a tad better?

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Sex Pistols put it best: There's no future in England's dreaming.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/53ClF3E.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand this. The printed out tweet on screen doesn't contain either of those words?

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05. https://i.imgur.com/MAzm8WG.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

My feelings about TTPD are complicated. There are a lot of really good songs on it, IMO, but I also think it's quite flawed. There are parts of it that feel like some of the best material she's ever written, and parts that do feel like a bit of a regression—and sometimes those two extremely exist in the same song, which complicates things even more.

I don't think she puts Joe down for having depression, though, so much as she discusses the ramifications that deep, persistent depression can have on a relationship, from the perspective of the person who is not the primary depressed one. And I can absolutely respect that. I have major mental health struggles of my own, but I've been in relationships with people whose own mental health issues (including depression) reached a point where it felt like I was only there to give them support and listen to their struggles. They became very selfish because their pain was so consuming that it didn't allow them to look beyond their own suffering, and I was understanding and supportive for a long time, but eventually I began to feel neglected and resentful.

It seems to me like that's essentially the kind of dynamic she's alluding to at certain points in TTPD.

Also, she doesn't attack Kim Kardashian's kid. I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

She definitely accuses Kim Kardashian of being a liar and a bully, but I mean, yup, that's true, she is. I wish Taylor hadn't basically told her audience the song was about Kim; it cheapens the song and is unnecessary. But I don't think anything she says is particularly out of line. If someone had illegally recorded me, then doctored the recording and released it to millions of people to destroy my image, I'd have worse things to say about them than this song, that's for sure.

On the one hand, I can understand why some people want Taylor Swift to be this magnanimous, mature, wise figure in her music. She's achieved such immense success and power that I think people expect her to be the bigger person and shrug things off. What I think people forget is that her music has always been diaristic. Not everything she writes is personal, but she is writing her feelings a lot of the time. She didn't get where she is by writing songs that take an impartial and objective perspective, because that's not typically what diaristic writing is about.

If anything, I feel like Taylor Swift is quite magnanimous and mature in how she conducts herself out in the world. Her songs are the place where she expresses her feelings and her subjective experiences. That's pretty much always been how she works.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have always assumed the second part is always implied.

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08. https://i.imgur.com/SybS9vf.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

LOL why is this so accurate?!!?

I’ve always felt like Disco had more to prove than any other Trek, and some extra baggage didn’t help. If it hadn’t been exclusive to a startup streaming service with nothing much else to offer, I think the show would have done better. The pressure wouldn’t have been as intense and they could have found their feet. Instead, it’s like they were constantly reacting to the loudest criticism and making changes based on that regardless of what they’d set themselves up to do. I eventually gave up trying to watch it because they just never really found a stride.

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When do you watch your shows?

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I only watch at night on the weekends. I feel like I have too much to do during the week, plus I like to get to bed early for work. And I don't watch anything during the day. Idk why, tv (includes YouTube shows etc) has just always been an evening thing for me.

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