308 days left in the year cracked me up too.
Whatever the word is for having numbers haunt you, we all have it. Even the non-numbers gaylors.
308 days left in the year cracked me up too.
Whatever the word is for having numbers haunt you, we all have it. Even the non-numbers gaylors.
Way ππ
And itβs *always* the 58th day because itβs before any possible leap year.
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Friday the 13th, the day before National π¦ Day (and Harry on SNL) and Sunday Ides of March.
Last year, π¦ Day was our first TNT sighting since the Super Bowl ghost via Backgrid but not posted until Ides of March. And then TNT wasnβt seen again for 1m 27d until the Stevie Nicks Night Daisy dress.
I know we didnβt see the dancing Opalite picture so itβs possible we wonβt get all the costumesβ¦ but I do think itβs interesting the Elizabeth Taylor outfit is in the Delicate dressing room specifically. And *that* I have to believe weβll see. It was too prevalent in the photoshoots.
Deconstruct everything.
And protect your community.
Black background white text of some of the Glendale N2 Betty speech: "So, there is a sort of recurring theme in my music. I love to sort of womansplain to men how to apologize. I love it. I love like, this is how you get the girl. Here are the steps you have to take if you have screwed things up and you would like them to get... be unscrewed up. Like it's, it's usually not that hard. Unless you really screwed up like, in which case you would have to show up at someone's party and really put yourself on the line. If your name was James and her name was Betty."
Iβm scrolling back through them and I forgot how open she was at the beginning before she got into her routine. Which then made some of them stand out even more, both at the beginning and at the end.
One day I think Iβm going to turn my Betty speech transcripts and all the data into a Power Bi dashboard.
Not bc it would help my portfolio but because it would be so fun and such a nerdy combination of my favorite things.
Screenshot from Reddit on r/actuallesbians which is a screenshot from tumblr The tumblr is a chat back and forth with an anon saying: Why are all your poems about girls. Are you trying to write from a boys point of view? I think that's really creative and l've never seen that in writing before! You're going to go far with your poetry :) And the poster (ipoetried) responding: IM A HUGE LESBIAN
βI love to write songs that womansplain to men how to apologize. (Does Chef's Kiss) I just love it. Itβs the thing that I love to do. Iβm always like, this is how you get the girl, you know? Like, this is how you fix it. This is how you say sorry to us.β - Betty speech Arlington N1
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I think Iβve added everything thatβs been in my notes for my video.
Please feel free to use communally to add your finds!
And then the Periodic Table which made me giggle.
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May 8 Holidays include:
No socks day, Victory in Europe Day, and World Donkey Day (Olive the donkey before Olivia the assistant?)
August 5 Holidays include: International Traffic Light Day
There were exactly 1285 days between the first time we saw her (carrying a keyboard and notebooks) in 2022 until TLOAS release.
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And lastly, I just want to throw out some fun stuff Iβve found in my search:
- 2016 π©·π§‘ was the 58th Grammys
- 58 days is typically 1m 27d
If weβre gonna talk lyrics, we have to talk Bad Blood and My Tears Ricochet being Album 5 Track 8 and Album 8 Track 5 and what all of those visuals have given us.
And then in 2025, we reach our 3rd lyrical reference with Ruin the Friendship and driving 85
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Exile ends ornament
Then in our 2024 Holiday Merch, the exile watch ornament is released with 85 ticks instead of the standard 60.
This same day, she debuts My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.
Completely reinforcing, to me, that the 58s and 85s are signaling two separate things. One, a beginning. The other, the undoing.
Then on May 10th at Show 85, she repeats the first mashup of the tour.
Not only the first repeated mashup, but the first mashup she gave us on tour.. Played at Travisβ show.
This is 13 shows after our 3x mashup with Getaway Car x August x TOSOTOD. Itβs also a fortnight after 4/26 π€·ββοΈ
Then on May 8, 2024, now 6 years since Reputation tour began, she releases But Daddy I Love Him acoustic.
β¦ like SLUT acoustic the day of Show 58? Cool.
TTPD releases early 2024 with our 9/13 8:50 pm Stevie Nicks poem, and The Black Dog, How Did It End?, and The Bolter are added to our timestamps of 3:58
(Mean TV, TOSOTD TV, Begin Again TV; Stay Beautiful, IDSB, mad woman, and the three above)
Missed 8/5/23
Nothing happened on 5/8/23 but 8/5/23 was in LA.
Weβd had a couple of repeated songs already but 8/5 for Show 50 is below (Show 100 Mastermind Glitch, 6/13, 127d before 10/18 Miami N1 etc)
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So it shouldβve gone:
N1: Lily @ Show 58
N2: Rep anniversary with BTR + Slut
N3: Travisβ first VIP show @ Show 60 with the only orange confetti, first kiss, first mashup w IION debut x OOTW, first End Game (only other at Show 127), all 127 days after Speak Now TV release
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The next night was Reputationβs 6 year anniv but it got rained out. Taylor, Travis, and Scott are seen out to dinner.
I am 99.9% sure Taylor would have played Better Than Revenge and SLUT!
She plays those for the makeup but on every other TV or actual anniversary, she played songs from that album
Then, Show 58 of the Eras Tour, the first night back after break + TNT began, Lily is in VIP on November 9th, 2190 days after Reputation was released
This same day, Taylor released SLUT! acoustic on 1989 Deluxe with pink over her eyes, & then debuts the Pink Lover bodysuit
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The next day, Travis is introduced to the storyline.
And then⦠the New Heights 58th podcast episode drops on National Coming Out Day⦠the same as The Eras Tour Movie.
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Timeless Spotify lyric share with a pink background Timeless (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault) Taylor Swift And the date on the back said 1958 Which brought me back to the first time I saw you @ Spotify
And Timelessβ 1958 callout
At this point weβve established a pattern and these two numbers and mirrors have been used deliberately. We just donβt know why.
Itβs 8:05 and I see two headlights
(Of a getaway car? 127 days after Reputationβs anniversary?)
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July 7, 2023 βindependent girliesssβ with an unidentified blonde in one picture, ICSY mv debut, and Speak Now TV release.
AND
our first 58s and 85s in lyrics with two (From the Vault) songs
I can see you mv screenshot with the white van and time stamp July 9 1:58 AM
Then, 3 years after The Man in 2020, we get another direct 58 in a music video when the I Can See You security camera shows July 9th at 1:58 am.
You might think the Betty tweet timestamp was a stretch. But they begin her escape from the Speak Now vault at 1:58?
Okβ¦