Ahhh So Now We Know Why Mariska Specifically Looked For A Photo With Karlie In It To Post 🥰 Kk's Warmth!

Karlie 🥹❤️

I love Karlie so much. You guys know. In the trenches for her forever. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d get to this day like this. She deserves nothing but the best time tonight 🤍

Y’all I’m dying!!!

She really just said “I’m going to infuse my emotions into these characters. Pfft let’s be honest.” Before performing betty

I am loving every second of this tour lol

listen all that I’m saying is that I’m having heart palpitations over taylor saying let the games begin on october 21 2018 and releasing midnights on october 21 2022 because NONE OF IT was accidental. none of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I can't

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland

My house of stone, your ivy grows

And now I'm covered in you…

the exact cabin where kaylor stayed on their big sur trip and cabin from ivy lyric video

the great war | tampa night 2

✨exile ends✨//

Right!! And the way it started with 3 on the clock in bejewled—and she released Exile as a single on her birthday in 2020, 3 years ago! Then she starts the journey to her exile, ending on her birthday, leading us to 1989 TV announcement. Because yes! She can "reclaim the land"—which is her town, her best friend. Her only one. Her lover.

😭

Every is a battle, but they survived the Great War. I can't believe it's happening. I could've sworn we'd still be here in 2025 with nothing. Not a peep or single inkling of a reunion of any kind. Now Twitter is X—and Karlie showed up to the party! 😂

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✨exile ends✨

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And Taylor aka James was hinting at it for months in her betty speech about it happening sometime in the month of August, and Taylor making made a big deal out of it being August bright and early on 8/1/23. The week leading up to 8/9 was actually crazy.

It still is feeling a little too good to be true 🥲

I mean this last week of songs starting August 3 really paint a picture

Taylor performing Our Song as the surprise song on guitar 🎸 in LA on 8/4💚

She repeated this song even though she didn’t mess it up the first time she played it in Vegas night 1. She paired Our Song with Snow on the Beach that time.

She paired Our Song with YAIL this time around.

Vegas was also where Taylor first explained that she tries to choose the surprise songs based on how they connect thematically.

Yeehaw y’all 🤗🤠

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFpDRkJt/

Never seen this before. So cute 🥹 I hope we one day get to see them shine bright next to each other publicly again 🥲

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Submission:

🎃 is retelling the story of the failed coming out, the masters heist, the Kaylor break of 2019, the formulation of the new longer more gradual coming out plan, the folk/more era of exile, the Kaylor reunion, and presumably… what’s next.

Oh, and Toe dipping out before planned.

The HEEL of the 1st message is Taylor BEING the heel, another word for antihero. She is flying toward coming out with Me!, YNTCD, etc. But she as she speeds toward actually doing it, she becomes afraid of what life will look like on the other side. So she tries to walk it back, only to look like she’s queerbaiting.

The glass castle was in the Me! Video. The bicycles were also in that video. She changed her mind on coming out, got spooked, hesitated.

The museum heist is the masters heist. The mirror in the glass: he’s got my past frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me. Sounds like someone threatening to out her, perhaps around the same time/in connection to the masters heist. Maybe the someone she recognizes is Scooter or Scott B?

The kitchen is the war room; the new, longer coming out plan with Tree + co. Sounds like Toe dipped out earlier than intended and took some evidence with him. Or maybe someone else close to her betrayed her. The dandelion metaphor is about “private moments too close to the fence,” so it makes me feel the betrayal was someone in her circle. Since nothing penetrates her fence.

The yard message is about being too sloppy within her circle and private life. Someone got evidence that could hurt her/Karlie.

The jumping into the water feels like it’s from summer 2019, Taylor giving Karlie up to protect her (“the rubies that I gave up” — in the Bible, rubies symbolize a Good Wife)

This harkens back to spade’s message “without hesitation she bent down to pick up the pieces and cut herself…” I feel like we originally assumed Karlie was the one who cut herself so Taylor could be whole but what if it was the other way around??

Maybe Taylor gave Karlie up, agreed to an NYC exile, to protect her??

The being swept out to sea is the period where Taylor is shipwrecked.

And the woods is when she finds the cabin in the woods, sends the signal to Karlie and they reunite in secret a la Willow. This is the folklore/evermore era. This story is all laid out in Evermore.

It also sounds like Karlie didn’t want Taylor to go; she would rather have hurt her image than lose her. So Taylor giving her up was sort of a romantic, heroic gesture… which really is what Lover felt like. Like letting someone go that you don’t want to. But having to bite your tongue and publicly be the antihero.

ALSO, a story in 11 parts then leaves 1: midnights.

It’s 11pm on the clock.

Taylor's last moment on stage. Behind her the mysterious door that came from above during "Karma". This reddit user points out that the moment is similar to The Truman show ending!

Truman is begged not to leave his life in the "fishbowl" behind - he's brought people joy and hope, and he has millions of fans counting on him. But he says his catchphrase one last time, stretches out his arms, and takes a final bow.

Taylor stands in front of the door and stretches out her arms to take a final bow before disappearing into the stage.

Truman makes the choice to leave behind the only life he's ever known -a life of comfort and safety, but ultimately a life of inauthenticity. He leaves for the unknown, for the unpredictable, for the chance at a real life. IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, before finding the door, Truman finds stairs leading up into the clouds. Sound familiar?

(Many have already pointed out that the ascent into the clouds also mirrors the cover for the lesbian magazine The Ladder - but perhaps there's a bit of both?)

credits to the reddit user // The Truman show Ending