Dear đ ,
I was walking the beach tonight and almost tripped over an old wine bottle. I picked it up and examined it, noticing it had been worn down in the waves. âHow far had it traveled?â And then it caught my eye - a piece of parchment tucked inside. My heart started pounding with excitement at the discovery! I gingerly removed the cork youâd carefully encased in wax protecting your message. Slowly, patiently, I coaxed the parchment from the bottle. My hands shook as I read your letter. As I scanned each word you wrote, I could feel the empathy and grief filling me from within until it all burst from my eyes. The salt from my tears mixing with the salt of the ocean. I rushed home over the dune with the bottle and message in hand. My heartbeat pulsed in my ears as I tried to slow my thoughts. Clamoring toward my study, I heard my wife calling out from the kitchen, âIs everything ok, dear?!â I flung open my writing desk, pulling out a leaf of parchment. My pen flew across the page - flowing, sloping, swooping - Trying to expel the words I thought you needed. I trusted the pen. I hope it was true. I am returning this message to your bottle with my wax and seal. I hope this finds you in return, but I have a feeling that it will. Sometimes we women just know things...
(Enclosed Message)
Imagine This. A group of people have known your truth for as far back as you started sharing it. They have always been here, and they always will. They often quietly send good energy your way with intentions for peace and protection. For them, you arenât an anti-hero. Or a selfish assholeâŠ. Or any other negative internal self-talk track that might exist. Imagine you are just seen, supported, and ENOUGH. When you breathe in, imagine taking in all the love and support you need to move forward on whatever path you choose. As you exhale, imagine you breathe out all of the fears of faceless former fans in public outrage. Imagine believing that the universe always takes care of you, and when plans fall apart, it opens opportunities for your growth.
May you, Karlie, and your family find strength together as you prepare to turn the page on this chapter.
Warmly,
A lucky beachcomber
I was literally shocked to hear that some Gaylors hadn't seen these! Here are Taylor's gayest high school MySpace posts, mostly targeted at her friend Kelsey (dammmnnn) Morris, and a cheerleader 2 grades ahead of her at Hendersonville High School, Lacey J. (and Lacey's boyfriend from BHS, Taylor J.).
September 3, 2005
âI am obsessed with you.
If you look out your window and down the street about 200 yards, you may see a big white van parked on the street. I am inside the van with a telescope and computer. Just trying to catch a glimpse of kelsey dammmnnn morris.
haha. end of story.â
September 6, 2005
âLACEY LACEY LACEY
Iâm in love with you.
Thereâs just no other way around it.
heheâ
September 10, 2005
âPretty girl.
I could walk twenty feet and knock on your door and ask you how youâve beenâŠ
But I think Iâll just sit here and type it.
Tell me how youâve been, child.
taylorâ
September 11, 2005
I have the same name as your boyfriend.
Therefore I am better than everyone and you should like me more.
taylorâ
September 18, 2005
âKelseyâs awesome.
And got best smile.
And should have gotten best everything else.
Hahah
iloveyouâ
October 12, 2005
âEverybody watch Kelseyâs scrolling pictures of her friends until you get to the one of shelby.
Her boobs look AMAZING.
hahahahahahahaâ
November 6, 2005
âIf you were a guy Iâd probably date you.
Just a friendly reminder.
<3â
December 28, 2005
âWOW I LOVE YOUR PICTURES
(i havenât been on here in a while and technology alone fascinates me)
Hey I love you and now I know exactly where your house is, and also that Grant plays guitar? Yes, he does.
Why?
Because heâs Grant Motherfucking Wood. Thatâs why.
Weâre hanging out New Years and Iâm driving the Hummer and it will be amazing.
-T-
PS: Hi, Kelseyâs mom!â
(SHE DROVE A HUMMER?? GIRLIE...)
December 29, 2005
âLilâ Kels.
hahahahhaha
I looove love love your new pictures. You are pretty.
Youâre right.. you better watch out.
Because I do what I want.
-T-â
January 8, 2006
âMy name is Taylor, I am not clingy, I do not want a boyfriend.
I do not show signs of wanting a boyfriend.
I do not make hints leading on to the fact that I may want a boyfriend.
So how, tell me, on EARTH is it possible for someone to confuse this issue and IGNORE me because:
they donât want a girlfriend.
(%(*..)%((IOJENTI..OWI$...)WO
-T-â
April 23, 2006
[3 sophomore year prom pictures with Kelsey Morris]
â(this is you quite obviously staring at my boobs)â
April 24, 2006
âLyrics we live by:
And it hurts to want everythingÂ
and nothing at the same time
I want whatâs your and i
want whatâs mine
I want YOU, but Iâm not
giving in this time.
haha
i love you
youâre really pretty.
-T-â
April 30, 2006
âKelsey.
I love you and Iâm sorry about all the âdistanceâ.
Distance = stupid and unnecessary.
Dude. The truth is, i miss you. Starbucks tomorrow?â
Bonus:
âI read your complaining comment about how your not on abigails top 8. well, how could you be? IâM THERE. TAKING YOUR SPOT HAHAHAHAHA. (evil laugh, you know the drill). Well, anyway, listen my queer fellow. I thinketh we shall hangeth out sometime soon, eh? yes, i do believe i am growing fond of this idea. drive over in your sex van and come pick me up. farewell knave."
Click here for all non-Gaylor MySpace posts from that era
sometimes i think people on the fence should ask themselves, whatâs stopping you from seeing how possible kaylor is? if the answer is that it would mean taylor wonât come out in the way youâd hoped or that sheâs not dating the way that youâd like or the person that youâd like, or it conflicts with your internet friendships or Take consistency well i dunno about everybody else but i think thatâs more of a you problem than a kaylor problem
đ Imagine this. You are sitting on a beach, cold and windswept. The sea is dark and angry before you. The sun sets in muted colors. You finish scrawling on the parchment. Your pen dries up as you reach the end of a story in 11 parts. None of it makes sense anyway. You're sick of having to dilute everything so far beyond recognition. But a story told through metaphor is still a story told. Even the great poet Sappho is survived by stilted fragments and mistranslated lyrics. Maybe that is the beautiful curse people like us must all share. Perhaps loving someone the world doesn't approve of forces you to be clever. You scan your writing once over, brow furrowed. All you can do is hope that it is enough. Of course itâs not. It never could be. You know this. And yet you keep trying, trying, trying. Your image is ten times bigger than you are. You have spent your life living in your own shadow. Stealing your own thunder. Trying and failing, relentlessly, to fill your own shoes. You roll the parchment, slipping it into an empty wine bottle. You may have told the story inside out and backwards, and it may well sink to the bottom of the sea or fall on deaf ears. It may wash up on a sunny beach in Florida, or a rocky shore in the northwest. Either way, someone somewhere will know about that recipe card. And the warm safety you cherish within your fence. And the heist that stole more from you than you ever planned on stealing from the museum. And most importantly, they will know about the human heart. The flawed, scarred, angry, grateful, nonsensical heart. The one that hides deep inside glittering ballgowns. The one that questions everything, but mostly it questions if the world it has grimaced through so many smiles for would love it for what it truly is. You drop the message in a bottle into the riptide. You fight every urge to fish it out before it drifts too far. You watch it until the waves have swept it far, far away. And now it is just a matter of time. The dripping of candle wax. The ticking of a clock. đ
đ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye for now. đ
It is exhausting rooting for the anti hero.
100% she is William Bowery
đ Imagine this. You are on the balcony of an ice castle. Pushing and pushing against the railing, slowly trudging toward a horizon that never seems to get any closer. Smashing against the frozen structure that is so solid it feels like glass, so solid it feels like it will never break. The time draws near, springtime sunshine causing small drips and fractures. You strike a match and blow the smoke toward the structure that shelters and protects you. Suddenly, you hear a crack, a crunch, a whoosh. There is a sudden give beneath you, and you tumble through the broken, melting hole in your palace. You have FINALLY smashed through the ice castle! It was so slow, and then suddenly so all of a sudden! You'd thought it would take much longer to arrive in this moment! However, in this suddenness you find yourself still somehow underprepared, kicking yourself for the time you squandered by wallowing in the seeming endlessness of your predicament. All this time spent inching toward a finish line. No time at all spent readying for an end. Shit. In midair, you scramble for a parachute. You will reach the ground either way, whether you float like a feather or freefall like a meteor. But after all this time, you decide you'd like to land softly, rather than crash in a tangle of broken limbs and fiery shock. Dear reader, I'm sure this tale has raised a question...? Why would someone you believe to have wings need a parachute? đ
Here is đ earlier message today.
Hey yâall, this is my first time posting here but I think I have some stuff to sayâŠ?
So I was just watching old Gaylor videos from really early on in Taylor Swiftâs career when I stumbled across a video of pictures of Tay with a voiceover of Chely Wright talking about being queer and in the public eye. The link is here:
Overall, her words really drove home, at least for me, the very real reality that people in the spotlight are struggling with in terms of their sexuality, and hiding relationships, and not being able to come out because they have so much to loose.
There are a few things that Chely says that really caught my attention. One of these was:
âItâs going to keep going until someone who has something to loose stands up and just says Iâm gay⊠we need a huge, huge star, at the top of their field, the very top, to stand up and say Iâm gay.â
She goes on to say:
âNate Berkus said it so beautifully on the Larry King show the other night when I was on with him. He said , âWhere are our heroes?â
Now, this second quote reminds me of the thoughts of other gaylor creators that Iâve seen on tumblr and tiktok (thank you to those creators youâre amazing keep up the amazingness) talking about how with Anti-Hero, Taylor is telling us that she canât be the queer icon that we need her to be.
I think that itâs possible that this theory ties into this interview with Chely Wright. I mean, Taylor and Chely have known connections, and itâs not a reach to imagine that Taylor has probably heard this interview, right.
So the idea is that Taylor is telling us that she isnât this hero. She canât be this person, this âhuge star at the top of their fieldâ that will say sheâs gay and be our hero. How she will keep baiting us, keep queer flagging and leading us on but never come out. This message really ties in well to the message of Anti-Hero, and I think the lyrics âIâll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirrorâ are extremely telling of that. Sheâs saying that sheâll give us cryptically messages, queer flagging, go the long and painful road, but she isnât going to face the reality of whatâs in-front of her and just come out.
I also think that the line âAll of my heroes die all aloneâ from The Archer may be related to this interview. Again with the use of the word âheroâ, I think Taylor might be referring to how many queer women from history have been closeted until their death. Take Emily Dickinson for example (We know that Taylor draws inspiration from her in her songwriting). Emily Dickinson was secretly in a relationship with her brotherâs wife. She was a sapphic woman and no one was aware until her death when all of her poems and letters were found. I think maybe Taylor is saying that sheâs hopeless in her own journey of coming out because of how historically, all of her âheroesâ never came out and were only discovered to be queer after their deaths.
In my opinion, this lyric also nicely describes how Taylor feels as a closeted queer woman. How she is queer but doesnât feel part of the community as she isnât out, âdie all aloneâ, sheâs worried that she will never have the opportunity to be a part of the queer community because she might not ever have the chance to come out (Iâll talk more on this topic in another post).
A very similar line to this (âAll of my heroes die all aloneâ) is found is âYou knew the hero died so whatâs the movie forâ. Now, I subscribe to the common Gaylor belief that Taylor was originally going to come out during Lover era but her plan was ruined by the Masters Heist, and this line, in my opinion, has failed coming out writen all over it. I believe this lyric reflects how Taylor was going to be the hero, she was going to be the big star that says âIâm gayâ, but then she didnât so âthe hero died.â
Now on the surface, âso whatâs the movie forâ could be interpreted as how Miss Americana may have originally been Taylorâs coming out, or contained scenes and things where Taylor was openly queer but then obviously they had to cut that stuff out. We know that there were things saying that Karlie Kloss was originally listed as part of the cast⊠but weâll never know now.
I think a deeper analysis of this lyric concedes to how Taylor is still queer flagging. Sheâs still giving us these signs. The lyric could also be in reference to how most of her fan base completely ignores and dismissed her queer flagging. She could be asking âwhy am I still doing this if no one is getting it and I canât come out.â
Now there are a heap more mentions of âheroesâ throughout Taylorâs discography, for example:
Long Live âyou held your head like a hero on a history book pageâ
My Tears Ricochet âAnd you were the hero flying around saving faceâ
Tolerate It âI greeted you with a battle heroâs welcomeâ
Now there are more than this but I think these are some of the more likely to be references to queer themes.
So yeah, thatâs my thoughts. Iâve been stewing on this for a long time and I heard Chely Wright say all that and everything just kind of fell into place in my mind. Thank you for coming to my TED talk tonight.
This Anon was sent to @spade-riddles and it is either trying to mimic something Taylor would send or is an inside source. I am supremely annoyed either way, but I just wanna point a few things out because I canât stop myselfâwhich was probably the intention because we are all fucking FBI detectives with this shit
1) đâJACK o lantern /pumpkinâJack A? Halloween? October?
2) HEELâMatt Healy đ€ź
3) sparks flyâSpeak Now
4) to be readyâfor it?
5) đâwhy again? Beginning and ending ?
This could all be word salad bullshit and a distraction from the dumpster đ„
Just Queer Analysis of Taylor Swiftâs music and simping for Karlie Kloss
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