WHO FUCKING GOT THIS VIDEO WHO WAS SITTING BORED IN QUARANTINE AND WAS LIKE YA KNOW WHAT FUCK KANYE WEST

“If it’s meant to be then it will be, and I forgive it all as it comes back to me” rip Wilkie Collins you would of loved ethel cain

Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

ACOTAR Coloring Book Giveaway

For all my followers who are also fans of the ACOTAR series, due to a series of random and kind of hilarious mixups, I ended up ordering an extra copy of the ACOTAR coloring book. I can’t get my money back and rather than try to sell it, I decided it’d be easier to give it away. :) 

So if you’re interested, here’s what you need to do:

1) Reblog this post between now (April 30) through May 7th, 2017, 10:00 pm PT. 

2) Have your ask box open or IM on so I can contact you if you win. (I will announce the winner here on my blog on the 9th after my last final, but I will also be contacting you directly)

A/N:

-I will be using a random generator to select the winner. 

-I will ship internationally but please keep in mind that I will need an address to send it to you. (I promise I will be very respectful of your privacy and will only use it to send you the coloring book)

Please only enter if you’re actually a fan of the series and truly want to enjoy this coloring book (in other words, please don’t plan on selling it on eBay or something like that).

And that’s all I have I think. (I know, finally!) 

Please let me know if you have any questions and good luck! :)

acomaf vs acowar

people who keep saying acowar was trash compared to acomaf…. let me tell ya something… acowar and acomaf are two different books with two different purposes. acowar was a character driven book. the whole purpose of it was for character arcs and development. it was supposed to be a bridge for something to come. rhysand and feyre’s relationship drove the book, which made it so enjoyable. acowar was a plot driven book. its whole focus was on the war with hybern. the entire point of the book was to find a solution. the WAR drives the book. and for a book focused on war, it was pretty darn good. of course acomaf was better than acowar in the character sense, but the characters were already developed in acowar. acowar needed to be plot driven if anything was gonna get done in this world.

Ok but as I’ve been rereading acomaf I’ve come to a conclusion

I know this might be a little late but

- Feyre didn’t smile or laugh. The first time she met with the inner circle, she simply asked questions and tried to judge the circle based on the short time.

- under the mountain, Feyre welcomed drinking so that she could forget herself

- Feyre often denied her feelings for Rhysand and wrote off her feelings as lust and said that maybe they could use each other for just sex, at least at first

- she was so skinny at some point, and was always sleeping

- Rhysand tried to make her mad, to flirt and get any emotion out of her in acomaf

Yet there were/are some people who were annoyed with Nesta in acofas? Honestly, did you not read how long it took for Feyre to smile at Rhysand? He took her in, saved her and offered her a life, and yet it still took her a long time to smile at him! I don’t even want to see someone say Feyre went through more.

- Nesta was pulled from her life, violently after her mother died and then her father’s knee was messed up

- Nesta was so depressed and so angry, she blamed it all on her father, cause he did nothing

- he watched as they began starving, and Nesta wanted to see how he’d let it go before he actually did something

- Feyre comes in and saves the day, hunting and giving them food, and Nesta begins to resent her a little because Nesta was convinced at some point their father would help

- Nesta clung onto her manners through out, because that’s what kept her tied to her old life and to her mother

- Nesta started actually liking someone, getting hope for herself and Feyre turned it down, refused, her little sister told her no, which probably hurt Nesta’s pride

- then, Feyre gets kidnapped, and her father and Elain assume she’s going off to some foreign aunt

- they get money, and yet again Feyre is the one to save them all, and Nesta decides to perhaps do some saving

- SHE WENT TO TRY TO GO SAVE FEYRE, NOT THEIR FATHER, NOT ELAIN, NESTA.

- then Feyre comes back, looking healthy, and not at all what Nesta assumed she’d look like but Feyre explains that she fell in love with the high lord, a. high. lord.

- Nesta tells her to go get him, despite knowing that Feyre very well may not come back ever

- Feyre spent three months under the mountain, three months! She didn’t even contact Elain or Nesta until like 6 months later! 6 months of worrying about Feyre and assuming the worst and mourning her but not being able to tell Elain

- yet also worrying for Elain because of what happened to Claire Beddor

- Feyre comes in with an entirely different high lord, and as high fae, a strong and beautiful high fae

- think about the power Feyre earned so quickly, and Nesta I believe wanted to be like that, strong when she couldn’t be and selfless when everyone else was selfish

- Nesta sees these gorgeous males, and one finally puts her in her spot about not being like Feyre, not going out into the terrifying woods to hunt to save their family, she’s insulted, not only because it’s true but because it means Feyre talked about them and she had no idea what Feyre might have said

- Because Nesta wants to protect Elain, she goes with their idea despite how reckless it is

- and then Nesta and Elain are taken, because Nesta allowed them to use their house and Nesta’s life is uprooted AGAIN

- then Feyre wants Nesta to bare herself in front of the very people Nesta used to resent (fae)

- and Nesta starts to find herself falling for Cassian, and when they’re both on the brink of death is only when they both admit it

- the war is over, Elain and Feyre are safe, but Nesta has to cope with losing her life, her father and the sisters she once knew

- Elain and Feyre both join this new family, but Nesta wants no part in it because it’s the family Feyre earned, the family Feyre stayed with when she abandoned Elain and Nesta, and they make her feel like an outsider

- so ya she found bad ways to cope and deal with her newfound immortality for a while but honestly that’s being realistic, so I applaud Sarah J Maas for this complicated character

Btw not only was this inspired by my rereading of the acotar series, but I’ve really grown as a writer and developing my characters and I understand the complexity that comes with it

… so ya that’s my two months late rant on that subject

It's the way there's a Taylor Swift song for literally every ship out there.

“Because I am from Terrasen and believed my queen dead. And now she is alive, and fighting, so I will fight with her. So that no other girls will be taken from their homes and brought to Morath and forgotten.” - Elide Lochan, Empire of Storms, @therealsjmaas

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Don’t ask why Elide is barefoot in a forest. She just is 💁‍♀️. Worked on this while I prolonged the last few chapters of Kingdom of Ash. Just finished listening to it on my way home from work 😭

Vanellope (Wreck it Ralph), Boo (Monster Inc) and Lilo (Lilo and Stitch) all grown up

I’m just gonna leave this here