Illuminating: Style And Its Obvious Clues

#dreams and wishes

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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So there was a glitch and now she’s bolting…backwards…did the glitch turn back time?

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

Her muse ☀️🥰

Buckle up, fam, because I have a theory, comprising a lot of different threads I’ve been piecing together for a while now

Yesterday, TaylorNation posted a bunch of lyrics from different albums on Instagram and Twitter.

I knew that something was up the second I saw this lyric from Speak Now, for two reasons.

1. This lyric is incorrect. It should be “I hope you remember.” This is a pretty big error to make .

2. This is the only lyric that uses multiple fonts. And I thought that font looked familiar…

Because it did. It’s the exact font as “swooping sloping cursive letters” from the Paris lyric video.

I think this is just one part of a lot of Easter eggs and threads pointing to TS 12 as a coming out album.

I’ve been a comingoutlor since the Lover era, and I’ve believed that TS12 will be a coming out album since 2022, when Taylor first told us to meet her at midnight.

Let’s unpack, shall we?

1. Taylor has been hinting at TS12 for a while now, since at least the Karma music video. At the end of the video, we see the clock tick to midnight IN BETWEEN 1989 and Reputation.

2. I remain a karma truther, and I think the Man wall is still relevant here - Karma is on the wall twice, once in black (Karma the song) and once in orange (for the lost album). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that orange Karma is at the 12 o’clock position on the wall.

I do think TS12 will be an orange/lesbian flag album. It might be called Karma, or it could just represent Karma to Taylor - all the years of cages and hiding and hurting, all leading to this moment. It’s been a long time coming, and it’s coming back around.

3. On October 18, 2024, Taylor posted a video on her Instagram of herself in a stadium. She walks 11 steps, stops in front of section A12, pauses, removes her sunglasses (I’ll come back to this) and then takes steps 12 and 13.

I think this video was signaling that there would be a pause after TS11 (which we are currently in) and then TS12 would follow.

Note that she is also holding Olivia, because Karma is a cat!

Now, everyone has been clowning for the AMAs for a while now, and I have been too! Taylor’s website literally spells out AMAs, and there are 12 items on sale for 26% off. (The AMAs are on the 26th this year). TaylorNation also seems to be pointing in that direction.

The AMAs just so happen to fall on the 2 year anniversary of the Karma music video.

This is especially suspicious given Ice Spice’s random video last year where she was not only reading a magazine from 2015 with Karlie Kloss on the cover, but she was also wearing bright orange slippers and had pink and orange vases behind her.

Here is where it gets a little crazy, stay with me.

Karlie has predicted every single album release over the last few years.

On March 16, 2025, Josh posted this:

My partners friend went missing if you all could signal boost this!

OK, I've been debating over this for ages...

Who of you guys is familiar with Stationhead?

I've been listening almost religiously for months now, and I've got questions.

For those who have never seen this name:

Stationhead is an app that can be linked to your Apple Music or Spotify account and allows streaming playlists, so you can share them with others in real time. It includes a chat function and some other little bits and bobs. Artists--including Taylor--occasionally use it for listening parties, where they stream a specific playlist, and fans go nuts in the chat. All good fun. Taylor Nation has an account they use for those listening parties, and they are usually announced beforehand via instagram, etc.

Whenever there is no active listening party, there's still a Swifties channel. There's a whole syndicate that shares the responsibility of keeping the music playing there. They can stream music simultaneously, but only one gets featured "on air" on the channel at any one time. I can't really determine whether those individual hosts are fans, or what, or how they got into the syndicate. But I did notice two things: 1) Just before a listening party, a certain host called "swiftiesss13" tends to take over the channel. Basically while everyone is gathering and waiting for the main event to start. 2) There also seems to be a default host that plays whenever no one else from the syndicate is active. That would be taylorswifties13 (LOVE the 1989 icon 😉).

Please note, that these are all just my observations. I know nothing about the behind the scenes that are going on. If anyone here knows more or thinks I'm spewing utter nonsense, PLEASE fill me in!

Now.

The thing I feel kinda weird about sharing, but which I really would appreciate thoughts on... So, on that default station, the host taylorswifties13 has been playing the same playlist for several months now. I BELIEVE the most recent changes to the playlist occurred around mid November. Specifically, Nov. 15th, IF I'm not mistaken. I'm going by text messages I sent to my friend back then, and my fuzzy memory/awareness of what came before then, because up until then, I'd been listening for months, but hadn't known what to look for. First of all, let me share the playlist that has been in place ever since then:

Note, that since I have no way of knowing for sure, my staring point of Begin Again is perfectly arbitrary. As for the colour coding, red indicates songs from the The Eras Tour setlist. That's 21 tracks out of 47, so close to half. In addition to that, we have tolerate it, which used to be on the setlist, and Florida!!!, which was part of the TTPD set for four shows (London and Miami). I wasn't sure whether to count the latter as a setlist song, or a surprise song, but I'll mostly count it as a surprise song. The tracks in green, are songs she played on her final leg in USA/Canada. Any tracks with an asterisk (*) were surprise songs during the European leg of the tour. Please don't be too confused by all of my annotating and colour coding; it’s all a bit silly on my part, but maybe it's helpful to someone else..? Dunno.

And here's the "juiciest" bit about it all

...assuming I haven't lost you by now.

If you would please direct your attention to tracks 35 and 36:

Gorgeous (track 34) ends, This Love starts playing, but STOPS just a few seconds into the actual verse. If you look at the progress bar, this is exactly how long the song is meant to play. I once tried following it up by adding this song to my Spotify favourites (which you can do via the Stationhead app), but it only gave me the proper version. Very odd. Anyway, I was so puzzled over this almost straight away, but it took me several more months (last week) to think of checking the runtime. Here it gets a bit so-so.... because it's 38 seconds. But not sharp. It's NOT 39 seconds, but it's also not exactly 38. Still. Very strange, kinda tantalising, not quite precise enough for my liking and YET so UNCANNY. On a stopwatch that doesn't show the milliseconds, it certainly WOULD be 38 seconds... 🤷‍♀️ If you are wondering about my reaction time: I also isolated the exact snippet of the track in video editor, and it was under 39 seconds. The whole thing is compounded by the fact that the original Fearless plays right after. The original. EVERYONE in the chat keeps complaining about the "stolen" version. Ok. I get it. But also, why does no one else find it weird?! They are raging, but no one is questioning. In a playlist with ONLY TVs, except the two reputation songs which have no TVs yet. In fact, there's ONLY two rep songs and NO Debut songs. The host is otherwise very mindful of their curation.

For me, the odd skip, followed by this odd OG version immediately brought ONE thing to mind:

This was from Karlie's snapchat stories. It entered the lore officially, when Taylor referenced it in her The Man music video, on the graffiti wall.

Why I think it's relevant and it all fits together?

* This Love (a 1989 song, contains lyrics like "this love came back to me" etc) plays for only a short time, which should raise eyebrows on it's own, but arguably, it also runs for 38 seconds. * OG Fearless (rather than TV) is another way to make you stop and think, but it ALSO is the version that actually was out when the mirror thing happened. There were no TVs yet.

ANOTHER ALSO. The "We Are Fearless" mirror thing happened November 16, 2016. Remember when I THINK the playlist changed to THIS?! Mid November 2024 (15th). At first I thought it was 16th, but I live in Australia, so my 16th isn't America's 16th yet early in the morning, which was when I discovered it. (Dang! 🤣) Anyway, close enough? I want to say "take this with the hugest grain of salt" because I didn't quite have my shit together back then. But in favour of this being odd: I knew about the mirror, I didn't know when exactly it happened. When I searched my text history to find the dates for when I became aware of all this, I STILL didn't know when the mirror thing happened. I found that date on my phone first, before googling the video of the mirror writing, which then conveniently came with an actual date. I was shocked. It just fit too well.

Tiktok

eight years ago today, in her snapchat story, karlie kloss wrote “We are FEARLESS” on a mirror, causing the lettering to appear backwards taylor later referenced this on the infamous ‘the man’ wall november 16, 2016 #lgbetty #friendsofdorothea #swifttok #taylorswifttok #taylorswift #taylornation #taylorsversion #swiftie #taylorswifttheories #taylorswifttiktok #tswift #tswifttok #taylorswiftedits #taylorswiftedit #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #throwbacks #taylorthrowbacks #throwback #taylorswiftthrowbacks #karliekloss #kaylor #fearless #fearlesstv #theman #themanwall #eastereggs #easteregg

eight years ago today, in her snapchat story, karlie kloss wrote “We are FEARLESS” on a mirror, causing the lettering to appear backwards taylor later referenced this on the infamous ‘the man’ wall november 16, 2016 #lgbetty #friendsofdorothea #swifttok #taylorswifttok #taylorswift #taylornation #taylorsversion #swiftie #taylorswifttheories #taylorswifttiktok #tswift #tswifttok #taylorswiftedits #taylorswiftedit #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #throwbacks #taylorthrowbacks #throwback #taylorswiftthrowbacks #karliekloss #kaylor #fearless #fearlesstv #theman #themanwall #eastereggs #easteregg

Ok, so far so good.

But I'm still at a loss. As I mentioned before, everyone regularly complains about stolen Fearless. NO ONE ever asks why This Love is cut off. I question on the daily whether I'm just going nuts. Isn't it happening to ANYONE ELSE?! But it has to, as the playlist is streamed. It would mess up the entire timing from thereon, if it didn't happen to everyone at the same time. I'd think you don't have to be a Gaylor to find it strange?!

Oh, and a wee bit more Kaylor...

This really is a minor thing, but did you notice track 22? It just so happens to be the Kendrick Lamar version, as in NOT the exact version from the Eras Tour, but the one from that lovely music video, which features our girls boxing their hearts out 🥵 Not very demure, but feels VERY mindful, no?

I have one last thing to add:

I can't exactly send in evidence for this, as the playlist is super long, but y'all are free to waste some time and fact check me if you don't believe it... the entire playlist runs for 3h03 min (and once again a couple of extra seconds, so not perfectly on the dot, but for a whole playlist that's to be expected). What's that in MINUTES, you may immediately wonder? 183. Thank you very much 🙈

BUT WELL...

Let's think critically here for a moment... I'm either delusional, or this playlist does have "KAYLOR" written all over it. Cool. Fun. BUT HOW DO WE KNOW, that this playlist isn't just made up by one of us? Unfortunately, we don't. Or at least I don't. If any of you could elucidate, I'd be totally thrilled! Things that make me have a wee bit of faith:

It appears to be the default playlist on the Swifties channel

The tracks are very mindful of the TV situation, just like playlists that are coming from a more officially official source: NO Debut, as little reputation as possible, but then the odd one out Fearless OG

This is where the surprise songs come into play: the ratio of non-setlist tracks that were actually played during the America leg of the tour as surprise songs is a bit higher than what I'd expect to be chance alone. I've since tried to come up with random lists of songs and compared them to the actual surprise songs to kinda test this. I fell very short with some, came rather close with others, never quite reached the exact same number, let alone higher. I could be totally wrong, but this list of songs, that was first aired just a few shows into the American leg, contains a suspicious number of surprise songs. Almost like the curator knew that some of them would be played. Dunno. I'm aware that this isn't good evidence, but still something I noticed.

To sum it all up.

This has been driving me insane. I don't know if I see patterns where there are none, or if I see them alright, but the source is just another Kaylor having fun with it. Any thoughts, comments, insights would be MORE THAN WELCOME. What do you think? Is this something random, or is Miss Taylor having a jolly good time messing with us?

👼 VSFS Angel Wing Ring Masterpost 👼

ah yes 😌 the ring brought before us unto heaven. so much can be and has been said about it, that i thought it my duty to compile it in one place. here we go…

origins

taylor started wearing the angel wing ring in 2017, though it was likely gifted in november 2016. we say november 2016 because that’s the time when various victoria’s secret Angels posted to instagram about receiving them (only contracted Angels received them, not just any models working for vsfs). its worth noting that from a swiftie canon perspective, taylor was gifted this ring from victoria’s secret management for her appearance in multiple shows.

nine wing one for taylor 📯

nine wing one for taylor 📯

yup! here are two examples. here’s taylor wearing it before and more recently where she wore it at a party and everyone thought it was a rin

why it’s a Kaylor symbol

well there are a variety of ways to explain things away if you want to, i’m sure, but if you’ve been around these parts since rep era you will know that this ring has been a definitive kaylor bat signal—something talked about a ton! and taylor surely knows that. but this aside, we mainly associate it with kaylor because of how iconic taylor’s two vsfs appearances were, both of which were with karlie. to be clear, the association does not hinge on an assumption that karlie herself gave the ring, rather that it represents taylor’s time with the show, that was spent with karlie.

separate from this, and arguably the biggest point, is that she wears the ring in the clip where she is strumming Call It What You Want to a certain unseen somebody (who we have speculated and offered reason as to why it is karlie) holding the camera. that aside, that song is so clearly a play on sounds and words that sound like karlie. (karlie what you want, call it what you want, karlie).

nine wing one for taylor 📯

nine wing one for taylor 📯

yes

another more visual reason why one might associate this jewelry with karlie in particular is that she was the face of Victoria’s Secret Heavenly fragrance, a bottle that came with similar adornments and accessories.

nine wing one for taylor 📯

nothing new just a reminder

nothing new just a reminder

but now to the meat and potatoes of the matter..

here are all the times taylor has been seen wearing the vsfs angel wing ring:

👼 call it what you want home video clip (late 2016-early 2017)

👼 recording sessions with jack for Getaway Car and TIWWCHNT, and recording session with max martin for …Ready For It? (late 2016-early 2017)

👼 reputation promo UPS ad where she’s writing in the diary (released August 25th, 2017)

👼 delicate vertical video (March 30th, 2018)

👼 CATS wrap up party (March 30th, 2019)

👼 stella mccartney lover collab promo photos (August 20th, 2019)

👼 stella mccartney lover collab promo interview (August 20th, 2019)

👼 getting papped walking out of stella mccartney’s studio with the folklore jacket (December 4th, 2019 (kissgate anniversary)

👼 NMPA songwriter icon award speech (June 9th, 2021)

👼 her 32nd birthday party in tribeca (December 13th, 2021)

why is this established timeline significant?

so for me, to see that this ring has been quite consistently worn since rep era, so far all the way up to the very end of 2021, *and*, often on special occasions at that, gives me a certain peace of mind. if one is to believe that a ring from an event where taylor was both introduced to karlie and one where she walked down a runway hand in hand on stage on prime-time tv together with her, is something associable with karlie, then the following would seem puzzling:

how could taylor be wearing this ring on days or during times where the memory of karlie might be upsetting to her. footage of the recording of rep era songs, footage for rep era promo, an official music video right before tour, to an event she went with with her beau after rep era ended, footage at the start of lover era played during a livestream even where she had to give a talk—footage taped not too far after her masters were bought by scooter, during an award acceptance speech in mid 2021, to her own birthday party just this past year, etc etc… why wear a ring that is obviously symbolic of a time with someone that would now be triggering, to places and occasions where you need to keep your shit together?

times being as they are, i will limit conveying the scope of what i feel, but i find it worth saying that for me? all these crafted narratives and stories over the years asserting that karlie has been an upsetting presence in taylor’s life? the whole cornucopia of them? well they can all take a hike!

🌈🌈🌈

No because people don’t seem to understand. The scrambled letters, the Easter eggs, the hidden letters and messages, these are all tradition for us. No it’s not just promo, she’s doing this for us, we’ve been doing this from the beginning of her career.

We started by figuring out hidden messages in songs from her booklets to connecting barcodes all across the globe. I’m so excited, I’m so happy.