🎃 Imagine This. It Is 3 Am And Halloween Is Over. Costumes Have Been Taken Off And Packed Away In

March 17 in Glendale, AZ — Mirrorball/Tim McGraw

March 18 in Glendale, AZ — State of Grace/This Is Me Trying

March 24 in Las Vegas, NV — Our Song/ Snow on the Beach

March 25 in Las Vegas, NV— Cowboy Like Me w/ Marcus Mumford/White Horse

March 31 in Arlington, TX — Sad Beautiful Tragic/ Ours

April 1 in Arlington, TX — Death by a Thousand Cuts/Clean

April 2 in Arlington, TX — Jump Then Fall/The Lucky One

April 13 in Tampa, FL — Speak Now/Treacherous

April 14 in Tampa, FL — The Great War w/ Aaron on guitar/You’re On Your Own Kid

April 15 in Tampa, FL — Mad Woman w/ Aaron on piano/Mean

April 21 in Houston, TX — Wonderland / You’re Not Sorry

April 22 in Houston, TX — A Place In This World / Today Was A Fairytale

April 23 in Houston, TX — Begin Again / Cold As You

April 28 in Atlanta, GA — The Other Side of the Door / Coney Island

April 29 in Atlanta, GA — High Infidelity / Gorgeous

April 30 in Atlanta, GA — I Bet You Think About Me / How You Get The Girl

May 5 in Nashville, TN— Sparks Fly/Teardrops On My Guitar

100% she is William Bowery

Can I (the fandom as a whole) ask you (Taylor) a question (what the fuck is going on)?

Taylor Swift releasing a book with Speak Now ?!

Speak Now was released 2010, which is the same year Chely Wright came out publicly. The ATW mv referenced a book release "13 years later"

She mentions July 9 in her Speak Now announcement

A small bookstore just posted this today claiming a book by an unknown author will be released on July 9th with a huge print run.

[source: reddit]

And at last the mystery is solved, she is singing about the football team's t-shirt

picture me fingers deep in your ex wife or whatever it was that taylor swift said

Thank you to that big-brained anon!!

The timeline for early Kaylor is clear but certain people don’t seem to understand it:

Nov 13, 2023: they become close. They have met and interacted before this and there was most likely a mutual crush. They may have been texting before this as well.

Somewhere around Nov 20: they “hang out”.

A few days later karlie says in an interview that they are soulmates. Karlie talks about Taylor in another interview a week or two later saying they hang out and they are just “normal,” indicating she’s had a bit of media training on how to talk about Taylor.

For most of December they may not have hung out at all, but maybe once or twice. They were very busy. The relationship remains undefined and this drives Taylor nuts. They probably both were seeing others during this time.

Jan 6: Taylor writes that dating is awful but she’s now once again considering moving to NYC.

Jan 9: Taylor is in NYC house hunting. The 10th is Andreas bday, and we have evidence Karlie was present for a celebration.

~Jan 21: Taylor writes IKP in the middle of the night, with some urgency. Likely inspired by discussions with Karlie about how they can make a relationship work. They decide to go for it.

End of Jan: offer on Taybeca. A bit of back and forth before…

Feb 4th: …offer accepted

Feb 13: Taylor posts about real love.

Around Feb 20, I forget the exact dates but they are out there, she records Style and Clean. They were probably mostly written a bit before this, but this is when she got into the studio to record them. Everyone thinks style has to be about an on-again, off-again relationship that lasted years because most think it’s about Harry and she needed to make it seem like it’s about Harry. But “a while since I even heard from you” could easily have meant a couple of weeks when she was clearly obsessed and playing mastermind and “we go around and around each time” could have been the handful of times they hooked up without committing (and around and around fits nicely with other kaylor imagery). And, it all fits perfectly with “cat or mouse for a month or two or three.” Yes it’s possible Style is not about her, but it fits just fine, and Taylor has clearly made about her since.

Finally they worked with newly hired Tree to figure out how to go public as besties, and we get the Big Sur photos March 5 and 6th.

so well delineated, anon 😌 it paints a picture

sometimes i think people on the fence should ask themselves, what’s stopping you from seeing how possible kaylor is? if the answer is that it would mean taylor won’t come out in the way you’d hoped or that she’s not dating the way that you’d like or the person that you’d like, or it conflicts with your internet friendships or Take consistency well i dunno about everybody else but i think that’s more of a you problem than a kaylor problem

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Hey y’all, this is my first time posting here but I think I have some stuff to say…?

So I was just watching old Gaylor videos from really early on in Taylor Swift’s 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:

“It’s going to keep going until someone who has something to loose stands up and just says I’m gay… we need a huge, huge star, at the top of their field, the very top, to stand up and say I’m gay.”

She goes on to say:

“Nate Berkus said it so beautifully on the Larry King show the other night when I was on with him. He said , ‘Where are our heroes?’

Now, this second quote reminds me of the thoughts of other gaylor creators that I’ve seen on tumblr and tiktok (thank you to those creators you’re amazing keep up the amazingness) talking about how with Anti-Hero, Taylor is telling us that she can’t be the queer icon that we need her to be.

I think that it’s possible that this theory ties into this interview with Chely Wright. I mean, Taylor and Chely have known connections, and it’s not a reach to imagine that Taylor has probably heard this interview, right.

So the idea is that Taylor is telling us that she isn’t this hero. She can’t be this person, this ‘huge star at the top of their field’ that will say she’s 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 ‘I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror’ are extremely telling of that. She’s saying that she’ll give us cryptically messages, queer flagging, go the long and painful road, but she isn’t going to face the reality of what’s in-front of her and just come out.

I also think that the line ‘All of my heroes die all alone’ from The Archer may be related to this interview. Again with the use of the word ‘hero’, 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 brother’s 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 she’s hopeless in her own journey of coming out because of how historically, all of her ‘heroes’ 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 doesn’t feel part of the community as she isn’t out, ‘die all alone’, she’s 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 (I’ll talk more on this topic in another post).

A very similar line to this (‘All of my heroes die all alone’) is found is ‘You knew the hero died so what’s the movie for’. 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 ‘I’m gay’, but then she didn’t so ‘the hero died.’

Now on the surface, ‘so what’s the movie for’ could be interpreted as how Miss Americana may have originally been Taylor’s 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 we’ll never know now.

I think a deeper analysis of this lyric concedes to how Taylor is still queer flagging. She’s 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 ‘why am I still doing this if no one is getting it and I can’t come out.’

Now there are a heap more mentions of ‘heroes’ throughout Taylor’s discography, for example:

Long Live ‘you held your head like a hero on a history book page’

My Tears Ricochet ‘And you were the hero flying around saving face’

Tolerate It ‘I greeted you with a battle hero’s welcome’

Now there are more than this but I think these are some of the more likely to be references to queer themes.

So yeah, that’s my thoughts. I’ve 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.