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The Sparkly Lavendar Purple Goo that keeps Taylor Swift alive, a hypothesis 🧐:

Alright we all picked up on the repeat visual of the sparkly purple goo that comes out of Taylor in Anti Hero as a visual representation of her queerness BUT I really watched again and I have some *thoughts* I’m gonna dump into the ether

First time we see the Goo is almost immediately, as Taylor cracks open an over easy Egg. She seems perplexed by it and a little bit disgusted—what are eggs? The beginning of all mammalian life. To me, this reads as Taylor acknowledging her queerness from birth and being confused and scared and maybe even grossed out by it at first, which given the time period she was a child is VERY on point

Next time we see it is when she’s sneaking into the party trying to be a normal human woman, and instead causes a scene that scares people to the point she gets shot with an arrow directly into her heart. She begins leaking the same purple goo that came out of the egg

She is surprised she was shot, she even takes the time to show everyone that she is bleeding out this purple sparkle goo and no one reacts to help, besides to be grossed out

Her solution isn’t to yell at or question the people who shot her, but rather to cover up her literal bleeding heart with a button

This whole scene reads to me as her becoming louder with her queerness as she aged, and it scaring the shit out of the adults/people around her. *Again, when she was young, it was not acceptable to be openly gay, it just wasn’t* They panic and maybe tell her it’s a phase, not to talk about it, and eventually over time, when it becomes apparent it’s not a phase, she is forced into closeting. Any hopes of living a life true to her gay ass purple heart is silenced by the need to win awards and make money for literally hundreds of other people (vote for me for everything so I can become famous and rich for many other people that are counting on me)

The final time we see the purple goo is after she’s been drinking more than she seems to want to, and after she’s drunk, she pukes purple goo all over the lap of Performance Taylor

She has tried her entire career to hide her true purple sparkle heart, but when her inhibitions are lowered when she drinks, it all comes pouring out of her into the lap of the sexy cool girl hetero character she’s been forced to play—ruining the mirage, the bait and switch, the performance with her super gay truth. It’s a lot, and it hurts my heart for her, what a life she’s lived

Bonus Purple Goo Point that I don’t know exactly what to do with: In The Man, her wall pee is the same sparkly purple 🧐 which was a choice and possibly ab Easter egg for Anti Hero visuals

Thanks for letting me think out loud here 💜

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being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all

This is so accurate

DID YALL NOT WATCH THE ANTI HERO SCREEN AT ERAS?? NM I know you didn’t 🤨

𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐯 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 🌕 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧

fuck these “i need to be fucked” posts. I need to be motherfucking kissed. throw me against a wall and kiss me like i’m the love of your goddamn life and you didn’t think you’d ever find me. 

Whether or not anyone from Taylor’s team actually spoke to CNN about the NYT article, let’s all be reminded that:

* Nobody speculated on Taylor’s sexuality. The author points out various ways in which Taylor flags queerness in her art and that suggests to queer people that she may be one of us. That’s not a speculation, that’s fact.

* The article is also largely about closeting in the entertainment industry. And that’s still very common (also fact) whether you like it or not.

* This beautifully written and heartfelt article makes a point for the kind of world that queer people deserve to live in. If you call that ‘inappropriate’ I think that says a lot…

And maybe most importantly: IF SHE WAS AN ALLY SHE WOULD NOT BE OFFENDED TO BE ASSUMED QUEER! Being gay is not offensive and if you think otherwise, that’s homophobia.

At no point does the author dig into her muses or speculate on who she might be dating. That’s a level of journalistic professionalism that a lot of lesser publications could learn from.

Anna Marks (if that is your name) you are a brilliant writer and journalist, and I hope you do not take any criticism from old white men on CNN!

gays who used to be catholic be like *heavy religious imagery centered around worshipping your partner that portrays love as both sin and salvation and intimacy as the closest interaction with god*