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You GUYS Taylor posting a Ted Hughes poem for Florence + the Machine’s book club really left a bad taste in my mouth. Taylor 🤝 Ted Hughes: putting their partners down for their depression. Someone please talk me down about this!

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Apr 26Liked by BDM

I hope you feel better soon! A cold after a new Taylor release is just brutal, I’m sorry. I LOVE The Fall. It recommended by Sherri DuPree of Eisley (now that’s a subject I’m too sad to speak about). I own it on dvd and just rewatched it with my parents. We all cried at the end. I’m always quoting that little girl after the scary claymation scene. “I didn’t give you up, even after they tortured me with needles!” Great movie. When I watched Lady Gaga’s music video for “911” I was like, this kinda reminds me of The Fall and lo and behold, Tarsem directed it! To shift gears: Haters and stan wars are tough. The toxic lifeblood of the internet and streaming. Then there’s Club Chalamet. It’s funny to laugh about her antics but also it scares me! When does a 60 something person running a stan account for a 20 something year old actor become creepy, pathetic, or both? At least Taylor is two years older than I am. At least there’s that.

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Apr 26Liked by BDM

There was a period a little over ten years ago when all my liberal friends kept posting videos on Facebook of the absolute worst conservative “pundits” just so they could make a fiery diatribe about how horrible they were. I was the Cassandra screaming “STOP IT! YOU’RE MAKING THESE PEOPLE FAMOUS!” But nobody listened and now *gestures at the current state of the world.*

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I immediately agreed. I watched The Fall because an author I like mentioned it as visually stunning. And I too was wanting to see more of Lee Pace's career post-Pushing Daisies.

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Re: footnote 3, I'm not saying she intentionally based Tortured Poets on the White Album white album, but you know what else has 30-ish tracks of varying quality...

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she did the nancy mitford one just for you and the alien abduction one just for me.....(not all insane parasocial theories need to be about men actually please check your biases and toxic assumptions)

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