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Elisa Doucette
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🧰 (Word) Fixer. Language lover.
😎 Most days I'm an editor. Some days I get around to writing as well.
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🗝️ Glossary of the Forgotten: Veridical

Ready for a word that calls out the truth without flinching, even when a lie would be more comfortable?

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A close-up photo of a person speaking into a silver microphone. Only the lower half of their face is visible, showing pink hair and bright red lipstick. Over the image is a dark translucent box with text that reads: “Veridical (adj.) truth-telling that refuses to be bent by wishful thinking.” In the bottom right corner is the logo, a red editor’s checkmark striking an anvil.
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I'm continuing this test to see how many people this is pushed out to. This is one of two identical posts but one has a link and one doesn't.

If you see this first, please like or comment?
A woman with curly brown-and-gray hair smiles at a café table with a laptop in front of her. She wears a black sweater and sits beside a vase of colorful flowers and a mug of coffee. In the upper left, a red comic-style burst reads “AVAILABLE NOW.” Text at the bottom says: “Become a Master Writer. Next session starts November 1st.” The setting feels warm and inviting.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I'm continuing this test to see how many people this is pushed out to. This is one of two identical posts but one has a link and one doesn't.

If you see this first, please like or comment?

www.becomeamasterwriter.com
A woman with curly brown-and-gray hair smiles at a café table with a laptop in front of her. She wears a black sweater and sits beside a vase of colorful flowers and a mug of coffee. In the upper left, a red comic-style burst reads “AVAILABLE NOW.” Text at the bottom says: “Become a Master Writer. Next session starts November 1st.” The setting feels warm and inviting.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Setting those final buttons to Cart Open on the (now live) course page...ahhhhhh!!!!!!

Want to join? www.becomeamasterwriter.com
A cozy scene with a striped coffee mug resting on a leather-bound journal with “Agenda 2021” embossed on the cover. A gold pen lies across the journal. A brown corduroy blanket drapes over the side of a white chair, and a stack of books is partially visible underneath the table. Overlaid text reads: “Become a Master Writer. Next session starts November 1st,” with a red checkmark logo in the bottom right corner.
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Ready for a word that celebrates creative vandalism in the name of readerly love?

🗝️ Glossary of the Forgotten: Grangerize

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A close-up of someone using yellow-handled scissors to cut images from a magazine, suggesting creative collage work. Overlaid text on a translucent dark background reads: “Grangerize (v.) — turning your reading into a collaborative art project.” In the bottom right corner, there’s a small red-and-white logo of a checkmark striking an anvil with sparks
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The daily urge I have to post this as a reply to the absolutely unhinged ridiculousness I see online.
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Taylor Swift gets it.

Capital letters, costume changes, numerology, lyric callbacks...every Era, every Easter egg: her own secret code.

Details that thrill the observant, it’s a language for the digital age, and Swifties are fluent speakers.

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Album cover: Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl (2025). Taylor Swift poses submerged in teal water wearing a jeweled, netted costume resembling pearls or scales. Red glitter text reads “The Life of a Showgirl.” The image evokes glamour, performance, and spectacle.
October 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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What if Ophelia wasn’t losing her mind...what if she was dropping Easter eggs? 🌸

She covered the stage in metaphors, handed out coded insults, and drowned wrapped in her own symbolism.

Dismissed as mad, she spoke the only way her world allowed: poetry that bit back.

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Painting “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais (1851–52). A young woman floats on her back in a stream, her ornate dress spread out in the water, surrounded by wildflowers. Her head is tilted back, eyes half-closed, arms extended upward, as if suspended between life and death.
October 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Stage 12 - Return with the Elixir (the hero(ine) returns from magical/tribulatory world to their home with all the knowledge/growth/rewards/happiness)
Album 12 - The Life of a Showgirl

What do you think? Any stage/album you see these connections on? What did I miss? Do we get an epilogue?

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Album cover for The Life of a Showgirl. Taylor Swift is shown submerged in turquoise water, wearing a sparkling jeweled bodysuit with silver beadwork and diamond bracelets. She gazes at the camera with her head tilted slightly and one arm raised. The title “The Life of a Showgirl” appears in bold red-orange text across the image.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Act III - The Return
Stage 10 - The Road Back (the return begins, but the hero(ine) needs to face the consequences of what they've done)
Album 10 - Midnights (hello Anti-Hero!)

Stage 11 - Resurrection (the final climax, one last battle for the hero(ine))
Stage 11 - Tortured Poet's Department

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Album cover for Midnights. A close-up of Taylor Swift holding a lighter near her face. She wears blue eye shadow and red lipstick, looking down with a pensive expression. The word “Midnights” is printed at the top with a list of tracks on the left. Album cover for The Tortured Poets Department. A sepia-toned photo shows Taylor Swift lying on a bed in black undergarments, partially curled with one arm draped across her chest. White pillows surround her, and soft light streaks across the image. The title appears at the top.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Stage 8 - The Ordeal (the test that transforms the hero(ine))
Album 8 - Folklore

Stage 9 - The Reward (the hero(ine) finally holds the "prize" they have been journeying for)
Stage 9 - Evermore

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Album cover for Folklore. A black-and-white photo of Taylor Swift standing alone in the distance among tall trees in a foggy forest. She wears a long coat and looks small in contrast to the towering trunks. Album cover for Evermore. Taylor Swift is shown from behind in an autumn field, wearing a brown-and-orange plaid coat. Her hair is styled in a French braid. Bare trees fill the background.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Stage 5 - Crossing the Threshold (the hero(ine) moves into the action, leaving the familiar behind)
Album 5 - 1989

Act II: The Initiation
Stage 6 - Test, Allies, Enemies
Album 6 - Reputation

Stage 7 - Approach the Inmost Cave (introspective reflection on journey to this point)
Album 7 - Lover

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Album cover for 1989. A Polaroid-style photo cropped at the mouth shows Taylor Swift wearing a sweatshirt with seagulls printed across it. The text “T.S. 1989” is handwritten at the bottom. Album cover for Reputation. A grayscale portrait of Taylor Swift in a torn sweatshirt and choker necklace, looking directly at the camera. One side of her face blends into a background of newspaper clippings with her name repeated. The word “reputation” appears in Gothic font at the top. Album cover for Lover. Taylor Swift stands against a pastel sky of pink and blue clouds. She wears a white T-shirt, her hair tipped with blue, and has glittery heart-shaped makeup around one eye. The word “Lover” is written in pink script at the top.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Stage 3 - Refusing the Call to Adventure (doubt, fear, vulnerability)
Album 3 - Speak Now

Stage 4 - Meeting the Mentor (accepting the call and finding your north star person/people)
Album 4 - Red (first collabs with Max Martin & Shellback)

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Album cover for Speak Now (2010). Taylor Swift is turned slightly over her shoulder, wearing a dramatic flowing purple gown that swirls around her. Her curly blonde hair cascades down, and she gazes at the camera with a poised expression. The title “Speak Now” is written across the image in large white script, with “Taylor Swift” beneath it in gold. Album cover for Red. Taylor Swift wears a wide-brimmed hat and looks down, her long blonde hair over one shoulder and lips painted red. The word “RED” is in bold red text, with “Taylor Swift” in white beneath it.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Act 1: The Departure
Stage 1- The Ordinary World (an introduction to the hero(ine's) life & home)
Album 1 - Taylor Swift [Debut]

Stage 2 - The Call to Adventure (the inciting incident that disrupts the ordinary world and pulls the hero(ine) from their current life)
Album 2 - Fearless

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Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album cover shows her with long, curly blonde hair, looking directly at the camera with a soft, serious expression. Behind her is a textured, nature-inspired background with butterflies and foliage in shades of green and blue. Her name is written in white cursive script across the bottom. Album cover for Fearless. Taylor Swift is shown in profile with voluminous curly blonde hair blown outward, wearing a cream-colored tank top. The title “Fearless” is written in gold at the bottom, with her name in script above.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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2AM tangential thoughts on the third listen (insomnia has an upside?)

The modern Hero's Journey has 12 stages.
#TaylorSwift now has 12 albums.

👀

But WHAT DOES IT MEAN? What if none of this is accidental‽ I offer this rabbit hole for fellow literary geeks...

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A collage of Taylor Swift performing on her Eras Tour, arranged against a black background. She appears in dozens of different outfits, each representing a different album era, including sparkly bodysuits, flowing gowns, colorful dresses, and casual looks with guitars. The clothing spans a rainbow of colors — silver, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and black — capturing the theatrical costume changes from the concert series.
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🗝️ Glossary of the Forgotten: Eximious

Excellent is for microwave meals that don’t explode.
Eximious is for a soufflé that defies gravity.

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October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Tortured Poets wasn’t an aside. It was the penultimate act.

The love letter before The Life of a Showgirl takes its bow, and whatever encore will follow.

I wrote more about TTPD for its 1yr anniversary on @Medium → elisadoucette.medium.com/what-i-learn...

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Cover art for The Life of a Showgirl album. Taylor Swift lies submerged in shimmering water, wearing a bejeweled corset styled like sequins or rhinestones. The text “The Life of a Showgirl” appears in glittering orange font across the image, framing her as both performer and myth.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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It’s the kind of meta-analysis only possible while performing a three-hour show that drags you thru every era of your life as your current one spirals.

Past selves and tortured poet self, sitting in a tree. D-Y-I-N-G. A reckoning in real time.

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Four side-by-side photos of Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour, each in a different costume: a glittering leotard with high boots, a red sequined coat with black guitar, a flowing olive-green gown, and a white ballgown covered in handwritten lyrics. Each outfit symbolizes a different era of her music and storytelling.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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You don’t call an album The Tortured Poets Department if you’re aiming for subtlety.

Taylor Swift didn’t. She gave us Gothic performance art: dramatic, excessive, confessional. Vaults cracked open, and a body of work that refused to stay buried.

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Black-and-white still of Taylor Swift from the Fortnight music video in an ornate black ruffled blouse, seated at a typewriter. Behind her, a wall of white drawers evokes the aesthetic of an archive. Her direct gaze and vintage styling underline the gothic, confessional mood of The Tortured Poets Department.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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And then there’s the chaos.

Snail jousts. Sword-fighting rabbits. Cats waging war on mice. Whatever the guy in this image is "collecting."

Medieval margins weren’t always wise, sometimes they were weird little rebellions tucked between the lines..

Absurd, joyful, and completely unnecessary.

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Detail from a medieval illuminated manuscript showing a woman harvesting oversized phalluses from a tree. The marginal scene is humorous and absurd, with stylized medieval script above the image. Likely from the Roman de la Rose, the drawing is an example of the bizarre and bawdy illustrations sometimes found in the margins of sacred or scholarly texts.
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Writers did this too: Plath. Twain. Newton. Voltaire. DFW. They didn’t just read books, they conversed w them.

C.S. Lewis called it his “funny little reading-hobby.” Poe wrote a regular column called "Marginalia."

Maps, timelines, arrows, headlines, indexes...scribbled in like a second author.

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Two facing pages of Don DeLillo’s novel “Ratner’s Star” covered in handwritten marginalia from David Foster Wallace. Notes in red, blue, green, and black ink fill every margin and blank space, with underlines, arrows, comments, and question marks reacting to the printed text. The notes include page references, thematic connections, and personal reflections, showcasing deep, layered engagement with the book.
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Your books are too clean. It’s a problem.

Margins are made for mutiny...and history agrees. 📚✍️

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A close-up of a woman’s hand resting on an open notebook. She wears several ornate rings and has glossy, red, almond-shaped nails. She holds a pen as if pausing mid-note, and the notebook pages contain faint cursive writing and bright sticky tabs marking different sections. The image evokes tactile, personal engagement with writing.
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🗝️ Glossary of the Forgotten: Coigne
Forget the corner office, the real power is in the cornerstone.

KOYN (n.) — A hidden spot that's the perfect place to perch

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Photograph of a hilltop fortress in Georgia, with tiled terracotta rooftops in the foreground and a conical silver spire rising behind them. A blue river winds between lush green hills in the background. Overlaid text reads: “Coigne (n.) — a hidden spot that’s the perfect place to perch.” In the bottom right is a red and white logo of an anvil struck by a checkmark.
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In 2009, I drew a childlike family portrait for my mum’s office. My stick figure? She was wearing a dress.

With no fabric below the midriff. 🤦‍♀️

Top comment:
“Geez Elisa, put some pants on.”

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A childlike crayon drawing labeled “Our Family.” Four smiling stick-figure people are drawn in bright colors and labeled “Daddy,” “Mommy,” “Elisa,” and “Amy.” Beside them is a small red-roofed house with a smoking chimney, two cats in the window, and a sun wearing sunglasses in the corner.
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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In 1940, a dog named Robot fell in a hole.

Four teenage boys followed, but they didn’t find treasure. They found a 17,000-year-old masterpiece gallery.

Because of course they did.

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(Image Credit: The Center for Public Art History)
A narrow limestone cave passage with a low ceiling covered in prehistoric red, black, and yellow animal paintings. The figures stretch across the rock in sweeping outlines, some appearing like bulls or horses, faded but still visible after thousands of years. Hall of Bulls, Lascaux II
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM