Showmanship, concerning artistic performing such as in Theatre, is the skill of performing in such a manner that will appeal to an audience or aid in conveying the performance's essential theme or message.
It drives me fucking nuts that Swiffers are trying to pretend that Robin is about Taylor and all of her friends deciding to a simple little white lie to one random little kid she knows when Taylor is literally saying in the song with the line about showmanship that this little boy that she loves so so so much is the only reason that she hasn't turned around and mauled the crap out of her abusive handlers at the metaphorical circus that is her life yet because she's reluctant to put her beloved little guy through the chaotic fallout that her doing that will have when he's still so little that he doesn't even realize that the world can sometimes be such a mean and cruel place yet
remember how some of us were talking about THIS hand a few weeks ago from karlie's instagram?
well...guess who's sporting french manicure nails on their new album cover?
yeah...you could say i'm feeling unmoored...
I've always been fascinated by Taylor's lyrics that imply friends to lovers and childhood/teenage sweethearts trajectory and creating a story that spans decades and eras..
And while many of her earlier songs may be written for some other paramours, I still have so many lingering questions/thoughts
Taylor’s first time attending a runway show was Tommy Hilfiger’s Spring/Summer 2010 in September 2009—and funny enough, it was also one of Karlie’s shows. They both wore the same shade of red too. After that, a lot of the fashion shows Taylor showed up to either had Karlie walking in them or had her at the same parties. Some of these appearances even happened in the middle of Taylor’s tours, during those rare one-week breaks—she’d spend them in NYC, Paris, or sometimes London (I think?).
In one interview, Taylor mentioned spending a lot of holidays in St. Louis because some of her relatives still live there—side note: her grandma Marjorie actually grew up in STL.
Karlie showed up at the 2013 Grammys before she and Taylor were publicly seen together in November that year. It was right in the middle of New York Fashion Week—she flew to LA for the Grammys after walking some shows, then flew straight back to keep walking more. I know she was there for MTV’s House of Style, but I still wonder why that was such a priority. Also, Taylor performed “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” that night.
“Wildest Dreams” was written in October 2013 (so... who exactly was tall and handsome as hell back then?). “How You Get the Girl” came in January 2013. And “You Are in Love” was written and recorded in January 2014, before Big Sur. So yeah, the 1989 timeline is kinda sketchy.
And when Karlie went to the Eras Tour, she wore a bracelet with an “Enchanted” charm. Like… if you supposedly have songs linked to you from five or six different albums, why choose that bracelet?
For her first Vogue US feature Taylor was documented saying "I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her" unprompted by the interviewer. Others would consider this a soft-launch.
Also—how does she even calculate all those 8s and 3s? There’s no way those are just random coincidences.
Why hide as early as that? And why were the other girls not as hidden and didn't really require an elaborate soft-launch
Sunflower emoji for this is actually crazy work when she is clearly holding a flower that is most similar to a Rose (it's a Lisianthus) any of these ⚘🌹🌷 would have sufficed to pair with it instead but no!
According to lore and Taylor's own words, Taylor is the Daisy, and Karlie is the Sunflower/Sun. So then the implication here is that the secret garden Taylor metaphorically escapes to is imagined as a.... garden full of Sunflowers? Described as the only place where she can be free and let down her true self.
Are we forgetting this gem from Lover??
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.
This also fits with the 🎃 anon note about how she has written “a story in 11 parts.” 🎃 sent that in May of 2023, and a year later Taylor closed out TS11 with the words “the story isn’t mine anymore.”
TS12 will be the start of a new story. A Brand New story.
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: (I ran out of images for mobile, continued in my reblog)
epiphany
They told us about Karlie's beard period the whole time. 😪
January 2019:
As stated in the tweet, Taylor purchased this ticket sometime in December 2018.
September 2019:
Here again Taylor seems to have hinted once again at the end of Kaylor's exile.
October 2022:
Taking into account that the clock only has the largest hand (which marks the minutes), suggesting that it is not the hours that this specific clock is marking... and so you change the marking of this clock to an equivalent and larger perspective of counting time... another count that also uses 12 periods (like on the clock), are the months. 12 months = 1 year.
Therefore, this clock in Taylor's hands marks the years!
Now if you do this countdown, which starts at 3, and use the date this music video was released, October 25, 2022...
2022 + 3 years = October 2025... 👀
Koincidentally, that's almost exactly the numbers on Tay's lottery ticket and the 7th anniversary of Karlie's fake wedding.
That's it!! 🤯😮💨
Taylor seems to have hinted once again that the end of Kaylor's exile is October 2025.
(Link to Patreon for comic/manga drafts - for now)
Let me begin this by saying it took me a long time to put this out because I wanted to respect various muse timelines, etc. But I also realized I wanted to at least know the almost/maybe truth (since only Taylor knows).
These are based on interviews, Taylor's journal entries, music video/s, and also compared notes to other fandoms like Gleeks and took a look at Liz's lyrics and social media posts.
Eras Tour mashup Chart
Style
Enchanted
State of Grace
Begin Again
Holy Ground
Message in a Bottle
Everything Has Changed
When Emma Falls in Love
This Love
Back to December (w/ Enchanted and Dear John)
*Disclaimer - these analyses are based on what Taylor said during Bevan's interview that her and Karlie met in 2008
for excel sheet of timeline and my unecessary musings pls see below
My musings/realizations
Many of the songs in Red cannot be about Dianna since a lot of them were written before they met, it's possible they met earlier but we also have to take into consideration Lea/Dianna timeline since they seem like they were serious with Dianna moved in with Lea
I feel like Julianne Hough had a bigger role in Taylor's early life, some lyrics seem to describe her particularly I Bet You Think About Me
Liz going to Eras on 8/3 was sus - side: she reposted @taylorklosscomeout138's post (with all the gaylor and kaylor tags)
It's good to look at Liz's discography too, she seems to be talking about Taylor and according to her lyrics that she fell for the other person esp Nothing Personal and H8u and the other person wasn't as serious as they expected
This link gets updated each time we find something relevant
I seriously want to ask some fans how they can say “Oh, it’s about one of Aaron’s sons, duh!” about Robin and not question why the hell she’s singing about everyone keeping secrets and all of the showmanship to keep him safe and loved… when he has multiple children?
Or how singing about dragonflies above their bed and roaring at dinosaurs is about her father?
I feel like I’m in an alternate universe. 😂
But I’ll just leave this here again because HELLO it’s right there
OMfG!😮 wow🔥☄️
Gaylors or anyone really who thinks that Taylor and KK are just “feeding into it” and that’s the only reason there are so many parallels and coincidences and connections or whatever…. Ask yourself why they would be doing that. Ask yourself why would 2 grown ass adults, 2 very successful adults who have their own careers and lives, who are either supposedly not friends or currently hate each other be constantly flagging to each other and their respective fandoms through their art and social medias literally all the time? Do you think it’s a normal thing for Taylor to be singing Robin x Never Grow Up the day before KK’s second child’s first bday, even if “just to stir the pot” or to “feed into it” or “to be petty”??? Why would she do that. “She’s such a troll!!” DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF??? Please think critically. She’s 34 years old and at the absolute top of her game. Do you really, truly believe they’re doing all of this to be petty? Or maybe… just maybe.. they’re trying to tell you something you won’t listen to.