For the record, the reason we don't have a Lyme Disease Vaccine is because of antivaxxers(1, 2, 3), not because of ticks, so maybe try redirecting some of that hatred.
Though there is a new Lyme vaccine in human trials right now so maybe keep an eye out so they don't do it again
so far we can determine tumblr users are bad at following instructions
time turns flames to embers, you’ll have new septembers. btw.
I don’t regret it one bit cause he had it comin.
i’m kinda busy like …. i’m with taylor tonight!!!!!!!! that was so surreal eras wow thank u sm i’ll never recover from how special that was :’))))) #tstheerastour
Tshirt idea I had
this is the prettiest thing ever i'm so!!!! about these visuals and set <3
Ok but I’m still gagged by the choice of the white dress covered in her spilled ink for the TTPD set.
The way it’s almost certainly meant to reference a wedding gown just like the music video and how that ties into the narrative of TTPD in general.
The way so many of these songs are about how she’s been wronged and how she’s angry.
The striking image of her floating around on stage unleashing her anger in Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me, or her collapsed on the platform in Down Bad begging to be beamed back up to the space ship. Very much giving dying on the altar waiting for the proof (in both meanings). She’s the jilted lover and the runaway bride. She’s the old widow who goes to the stone everyday and she’s the girl heading towards a shotgun wedding if she keeps this up. She's the unhappily married woman whose life is turned upside down by a man beyond her reach, with the chasm between them widening the longer the set goes on. And then!!! she's taken away (held back?) by the nurses at the asylum -- the crazy wife being committed for hysteria!!! (Actually I don't know what order that comes in in the set -- I'm going to have to find better videos.)
She said that the TTPD set is Female Rage: The Musical, and a lot of that is "I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free." She sacrificed her youth to her demons and to people who never had her best interest at heart. She sacrificed her youth to bad actors who wanted to ruin her. She sacrificed her youth to men who traded promises of commitment for their own safety.
So to see that all symbolized in the white gown, saying "I love you, it's ruining my life," is so powerful. By the time we get to "The Smallest Man," she's covered up in the band (or army dress?) uniform, those dreams finally dead and buried, marching to her own memorial service. They all finally kill her, and her dreams of her future.
IT'S A LOT. A LOT A LOT A LOT.
Oddish going FERAL for some soft earth
Oddish is off his shits let’s goooooooo
thinking about the imagery of her laying down after tsmwel, fully intending to not get back up, but being forced to stand, strip down to her underwear, and do a whole song-and-dance performance (under the eras tour logo). how it feels kinda fake and over-the-top! but then she re-emerges for the surprise songs (now clothed and wearing a very pretty, very taylor dress) to have a moment that’s just her, us, and the guitar. and i really really like that story and progression. bc she did do it with a broken heart! it did fucking hurt and make her feel naked at times! but those moments with us helped and now she can do it with a healed heart!!!!
Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her The Eras Tour, in Nanterre, north-western France, on May 9, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)
TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour - Paris, France - May 9th, 2024. Photographed by Getty Images.
Taylor Swift for 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' at The Eras Tour!
I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART | The Eras Tour
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