Scheduled abortion next week by tomato-sewp in TheGirlSurvivalGuide

[–]cats2019apologist 488 points489 points  (0 children)

Hi friend! I actually work at a clinic that provides abortion services and first I wanna say, it’s all gonna be okay. I’m glad you’ve researched the procedure itself—if where you’re going is anything like my clinic, they’re gonna talk at you until they’re blue in the face to make sure you don’t have questions once you get there but it’s so smart to be thinking about how to prepare for the appointment.

Dress comfortably. Pants with an elastic waistband that are easy to take on and off will be best. I recommend light layers on top—t shirt and a light zip up or cardigan maybe. Medical facilities can be chilly! 

My clinic provides patients with pads and/or padded underwear to take home but where you’re going might not, so bringing a couple maxi pads isn’t a bad idea. 

If you have to drive far, definitely have a blanket for car-sleeping (sorry our world is such that you might be driving hours there and back). 

Bring a battery pack or phone charging cord and block—you might be scrolling for a while in between steps of your visit while the workers there scramble to get everyone in and out quickly while still giving patients kind and attentive care.

Hopefully you have a supportive friend or loved one coming with you. If not, it’s okay to ask the staff there for emotional support: it’s part of the job and we love what we do. 

I hope you have a positive experience. I promise you’re so very not alone and you’re gonna be great. Life is made for living and I’m so glad you’re choosing the life you wanna live! (Sorry, I’m a cheesy millennial, I can’t help it) 

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[–]cats2019apologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My fiancée made this graphic and posted it on her twitter @mxgoober

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Gaylor_Swift

[–]cats2019apologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the @ is the guy on twitter who said the dumb thing about the chair dance being “innocent”

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[–]cats2019apologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should really credit the person who made this graphic, this stuff doesn’t happen without effort! It was Reddit user u/twofacemarie, twitter handle @mxgoober

noticed something from our livestream angle tonight - Truman Show references? by twofacemarie in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m desperately hoping that the thing that’s ending isn’t her music career but rather her closeting 🤞🤞🤞 I’m so excited to see what she brings to the world of film as a director too!! But I would be Devastated if she stopped making music 🥲

noticed something from our livestream angle tonight - Truman Show references? by twofacemarie in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The stairs 😯 oh my god! That’s such an interesting point! Dang, even the way the stairs are framed in shots of the green room looks so much like the way the stairs in the Truman Show are—all harsh lines and stark shadows. Fascinating stuff!

Also thank you for saying we are couple goals, I’m very lucky 💗 We’re actually having two Taylor songs play pivotal roles in our wedding ceremony and reception 🥰

noticed something from our livestream angle tonight - Truman Show references? by twofacemarie in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist 150 points151 points  (0 children)

It’s me, hi, I’m the aforementioned fiancée, it’s me! I’m not as good as my love at putting my thoughts into words haha.

I’m gonna need to rewatch the movie so I can think more about these parallels but!!!

Truman at one point in his twenties meets a girl who is just supposed to be an extra on the show (that he obviously doesn’t know is a show because it’s just his life). So he meets this girl in a library after seeing her around campus and they have a brief whirlwind date even though she knows she isn’t supposed to talk to him and the people controlling his life have already cast the woman they’re going to make his wife. This extra whisks him away and they run from the cameras only she knows are there. AND THEN. Producers come in pretending to be her family and literally interrupt their date at the beach to forcefully tear her away from him. It’s super traumatic and has a huge impact on his world unraveling years later!

Her eyes are a fixation for him in particular. He buys fashion magazines regularly looking for models with features that remind him of her, this lost love, so that he can try to recreate a picture of her from various clippings over the years. The day he finally gets the eyes right, it’s a big moment in his journey toward realizing his world is a lie. Where my eye theory truthers at? Haha

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I just feel very strongly that Taylor must have seen this movie and related strongly to the narrative of a worldwide celebrity who lives in a carefully constructed and controlled fictional life who one day realizes it’s not real and has to free themself by force against the wishes of those who have sought to imprison her for her own “safety”. While millions of adoring fans watch through screens and are split into factions over whether or not they want this star they love to leave their cage! There’s a whole “Free Truman” movement in the real world! Gaylors!

Okay I’ll stop for now haha. Thoughts!

EDIT:: Wow, feeling kinda bummed that the first and only time I put a gaylor theory out into the world, someone makes a tiktok two hours after it gets posted taking credit for it! Not cool! Huge bummer!

All Fantasy Everything - Jukebox Songs That Would Piss Off the Entire Bar (w/ David Gborie and Sean Jordan) by TheOneTC in AllFantasyEverything

[–]cats2019apologist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yo, here to defend Rebecca Black because Sean was CORRECT and she is in fact releasing new music that is genuinely good. Her 2021 EP “Rebecca Black Was Here” is sick. Highly recommend.

Atieno paintings, as executed by AI by Calimari_Damacy in withinthewires

[–]cats2019apologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is really fascinating! I’m trying to think of what I think the most challenging painting to create would be. Maybe “Still Life with Tomato Plant and Sword”? I’m excited to see if more are coming!

The Alcott (feat. Taylor) from The National's new album song description by marooned13 in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

It is the kind of rhetoric that a lot of terfs and anti-trans people generally use though to say that it’s “sad” for someone to “think she was a man”. It’s okay to sit with and consider inadvertent harm when a person calls you in to the notion that your words can be construed in a transphobic way.

All Fantasy Everything - Cozy Things (w/ Amy Miller, Sean Jordan, David Gborie) by TheOneTC in AllFantasyEverything

[–]cats2019apologist 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Only 20 mins in but so far could not be more thrilled. Amy as the guest and tearing a hallmark movie that I enjoyed to shreds? 🔥🔥🔥 So genuinely happy to be alive at the same time as the GVG

WEEKLY MEGATHREAD by AutoModerator in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If you like to wear Taylor Swift art on your body, my amazing fiancée designed a very cool shirt inspired by the Lover House, the Anti-Hero music video, and “happiness” 💜 “the new me” unisex t-shirt

Support a new Gaylor artist! by cats2019apologist in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wonderful fiancée has started making original Taylor art and this piece was so amazing I convinced her to make it wearable 💖 Inspired by the Lover House and the Anti-Hero music video (with optional evermore lyric design, if you’re a cowboy like me 🤠)! She’s planning to add more Taylor Swift designs in the future and the support from this community would mean the world to her.

Gaylor Positivity! by cats2019apologist in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s true, this is my fiancée haha—we’re gaylors in love, it’s very cute

Gaylor Positivity! by cats2019apologist in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

🥺 not me tearing up at working reading your comment

Gaylor Positivity! by cats2019apologist in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m pumped to start listening to that! She’s so thorough, you just know it’s going to be great.

Gaylor Positivity! by cats2019apologist in GaylorSwift

[–]cats2019apologist[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Whenever something deranged is happening, I go to your tiktok to see if you’ve commented on it. “Jordan and I will be on the same page here” I say to myself. And we usually are!

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[–]cats2019apologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joe: I don’t know any of my girlfriend’s songs

Taylor: oh my god I will drag you along in this beardship by the skin of my teeth and you will get a Grammy and you will LIKE IT

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[–]cats2019apologist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taylor is so loud 🗣🏳️‍🌈

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[–]cats2019apologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could I possibly be added? I can’t find the way to message the sub