Can we just talk about how poetic it is that @taylorswift and crowds that are primarily women roar the lyrics FUCK THE PATRIARCHY while feeling completely at ease in stadiums around the world where, outside of concerts, the most predominant frequenters are men.
I spent my childhood and teens going to sporting events with tens of thousands of people, and where it wasn't uncommon to see rowdy generally drunk people getting into the back of police vehicles but entering, being in and exiting a stadium with a crowd of 96 thousand people, plus the fans sitting outside experiencing the atmosphere, I never thought about how it could be unsafe.
Taylor, with three and a half hours of your time, you gave people something they probably never thought was possible, the ability to be in such large crowds and still feel safe.
Thank you.
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Taylor Swift Wolfstar songs day 40
we officially have only 10 more days until TTD! And I don’t know about you, but I think Taylor Swift and the number 10 only one thing comes to mine. So please enjoy today’s song, All Too Well, Red, from the vault. POV Remus as he remembers his relationship while Sirius is in Azkaban.
And I know it's long gone and there was nothing else I could do
And I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to
Remus knows it’s gone, he knows it’s not his fault, but each time he manages to forget Sirius his traitorous heart forgets why they fell apart.
And there we are again when nobody had to know
You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath
Sacred prayer and we'd swear
To remember it all too well, yeah
And memories of them are everywhere, Remus can’t stop seeing them before it all broke down. He can’t stop seeing them when they were still a secret. And Sirius fought to keep that secret while Remus fought to keep him. They swore to stay together but it seems they were destined to go up in flames.
And maybe we got lost in translation
Maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up
Running scared, I was there
I remember it all too well
Sure, it could have been him, asking for more than Sirius was willing to give, misinterpreting what he said. But Remus knows it wasn’t. He knows that in the end it was Sirius who ripped them apart, betraying Remus as he ran scared from what they had.
Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it
I'd like to be my old self again
But I'm still trying to find it
After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own
Remus desperately tries to get over it, to go back to being himself again but he can’t. Because he’s never been himself, not really, without Sirius at his side. And he can’t find it now, not after he finally had Sirius and then lost him. Not when he knows Sirius took a piece of his heart.
They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell
Every time you double-cross my mind
Everyone tells Remus it will be okay again but every time he thinks of Sirius, of the betrayal, he's sent spiraling back into misery
'Cause there we are again when I loved you so
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
It was rare, I was there
I remember it all too well
And he can’t forget it. Everywhere he turns he sees Sirius. He sees Sirius and him in love before Sirius broke the best thing the both of them ever had. They were rare, a once in a lifetime kind of love.
I'm a soldier who's returning half her weight
And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
And though the war is over Remus feels like it stole a part of him, like Sirius took a part of Remus when he left. And Remus can’t help but wonder if Sirius is just as miserable as he is, if their love hurt him the same.
Just between us, do you remember it all too well?
Just between us, I remember it (Just between us) all too well
Remus wonders if even in Azkaban Sirius remembers being in love, remembers what they had. Because Remus knows that he remembers it all too well.
This song also works for Remus post prank, let me know what you think!
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being both a swiftie and a musical theatre kid means that if im bored in a lesson i am almost 100% guaranteed to know a song off by heart that is any length between approximately 45 seconds and 10 minutes
best of wives and best of women and all too well ten minute version taylors version from the vault im looking at you <3
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uh i saw a gifset for all too well and the line "just between us, did the love affair maim you too?" got me thinking about wilmon again so here goes.
when you think about it, neither wille nor simon have actually had the time to see just how badly they've each been hurt by the video's release. simon wasn't around when wille was screaming and having a panic attack in his room. he wasn't at the palace or in the car, listening to kristina basically order wille to deny the video. he didn't see wille crying after he walked away, or standing alone after finding out about august and kristina. what simon saw was a version of wille, the version that had been forced on by the crown, the version that betrayed their relationship and would rather keep him a secret, all while keeping a monarchy-approved blank expression.
on the other hand, wille isn't there when simon got stares from people in bjarstäd. he didn't see simon get harassed by reporters, and simon's never allowed himself to cry or break down in front of wille. he hasn't seen simon fight with his sister over the video, or curl up in his room with the curtains drawn. simon showed that he was clearly upset, but he built up walls around himself so wille didn't see the extent of what the leak did to him and his life, or exactly how badly he was hurting.
so both of them are walking around, thinking that maybe they're alone in their emotions, maybe the other person is doing so much better without them. that maybe their relationship hadn't mattered as much to the other person as it had to them.
interesting how atwtmvtvftv always drags out the angstiest possible analyses I have floating around my subconscious
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