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Laura: Recovering Goblin
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Queer, Cat mom, transplanted Nova Scotian, Union worker, Trombonist.
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Sorry to be all misandrist about it, but if you're a man and you follow me on here, 9 times outta 10 I'm gonna block you.
(Does not apply to long term oomfs from the other place.)
North America really needs to get with the programme re: capsule hotels. I would easily drop $100 right now for a tiny space to lie down and nap while I wait for the next leg of my journey.
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I cannot begin to describe the nervous system horror that is not feeling safe anywhere. I'm still in travel limbo anyway, but going "home" doesn't hold much promise when the physical building is owned by the family member who has already sent me into an emotional tailspin.
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I am not American and am not celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, but I AM being subjected to some close quarters family trauma with my in-laws this weekend anyway.

Can confirm the new FATM album is very healing to listen to, to escape all the shit.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Is Third Eye Blind's titular album the most quintessential 90s album ever? Experts at this bluesky account say yes.
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Young Bob Dylan is such a hot lesbian, and I will not be elaborating.
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A long while ago I started an album listening project, listening to the top 10 (or so) albums from each year of my life, starting in 1982. Which led me to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.

(Side note, I should really get back to that project)
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Saying "the guy only had one good song" about BRUCE FUCKING SPRINGSTEEN is an absolutely insane take.
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
💙 Hits Different
💙 Maroon
💙 Would've Could've Should've
💙 Midnight Rain
💙 Vigilante Shit
if you see this tell me your top 5 on midnights!

i’ll go first
💙 mastermind
💙 would’ve could’ve should’ve
💙 hits different
💙 lavender haze
💙 dear reader
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October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@b0xingthestars.bsky.social I love your display name!!
October 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here's my Actually Romantic hot takes:

- fave on the album
- love me some rock Taylor so much
- distorted guitars is just a production style. She didn't interpolate any of the 100 songs everyone thinks it sounds like
- it's not exclusively about Charli xcx, nor is it a 'diss track'
October 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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To my Gen-x women friends, a word of warning. DO NOT watch the new Lilith Fair documentary if you are experiencing perimenopausal PMS. Would you like to feel ALL THE FEELINGS ALL AT ONCE TURNED UP TO ELVEN BILLIONTY?
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September 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Opalite:
Very 1950’s vibes. How many couples who say “when you know, you know” get divorced? 20/20 is always hindsight. She described this about happiness is man made. But why insinuate it’s someone who makes the happiness? It’s fun but do I get slightly dumber when I listen to it? JK (kinda)
October 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
ONE!!!

Lavender Haze
...Ready For It?
Fearless
Welcome To New York
Willow
State of Grace
The 1
Fortnight
I Forgot That You Existed
Tim McGraw
Mine
We’re less than 24 hours away to meet Tloas, it’s time to rank tracks 1

1. "Tim McGraw"
1. "Fearless"
1. "Mine"
1. "State of Grace"
1. "Welcome to New York"
1. "…Ready for It?"
1. "I Forgot That You Existed"
1. "The 1"
1. "Willow"
1. "Lavender Haze"
1. "Fortnight"
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Omg twoooo more days!

Cruel Summer
Maroon
Champagne Problems
Blank Space
Picture to Burn
Sparks Fly
End Game
Fifteen
Cardigan
TTPD
Red
To celebrate 2 days until tloas, let’s rank taylor swift’s tracks 2

2. "Picture to Burn"
2. "Fifteen"
2. "Sparks Fly"
2. "Red"
2. "Blank Space"
2. "End Game"
2. "Cruel Summer"
2. "Cardigan"
2. "Champagne Problems"
2. "Maroon"
2. "The Tortured Poets Department"
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Threeeeeees:

Style
The Last Great American Dynasty
Lover
I Did Something Bad
Treacherous
Love Story
Anti-Hero
Back to December
Gold Rush
My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys
Teardrops on My Guitar
To celebrate 3 days until TLOAS, let’s rank Taylor swift’s tracks 3:

3. Teardrops on My Guitar
3. Love Story
3. Back to December
3. Treacherous
3. Style
3. I Did Something Bad
3. Lover
3. The Last Great American Dynasty
3. "Gold Rush
3. Anti-Hero"
3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Caught up! Track 4s are legends!

Don't Blame Me
Exile
Down Bad
Out Of The Woods
I Knew You Were Trouble
'Tis the Damn Season
Speak Now
Snow On the Beach
A Place In This World
The Man
Hey Stephen
To celebrate 4 days until tloas, let’s rank taylor swift’s tracks 4

4. "A Place in This World"
4. "Hey Stephen"
4. "Speak Now"
4. "I Knew You Were Trouble"
4. "Out of the Woods"
4. "Don't Blame Me"
4. "The Man"
4. "Exile"
4. "'Tis the Damn Season"
4. "Snow on the Beach"
4. "Down Bad”
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Still behind, but who didn't need some extra time to try and rank these brilliant and emotionally devastating songs?(Plus Delicate😜)

5s:
My Tears Ricochet
So Long, London
All Too Well
White Horse
You're On Your Own Kid
All You Had To Do Was Stay
The Archer
Cold As You
Dear John
Tolerate It
Delicate
To celebrate 5 days until tloas, let’s rank taylor swift’s tracks 5

5. "Cold as You"
5. "White Horse"
5. "Dear John"
5. "All Too Well"
5. "All You Had to Do Was Stay"
5. "Delicate"
5. "The Archer"
5. "My Tears Ricochet"
5. "Tolerate It"
5. "You're on Your Own, Kid"
5. "So Long, London"
September 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm still behind.

Midnight Rain
Look What You Made Me Do
But Daddy I Love Him
Mirrorball
The Outside
Mean
I Think He Knows
Shake It Off
You Belong With Me
22
No Body No Crime
To celebrate 6 days until TLOAS, let's rank Taylor's tracks 6:

6. "The Outside"
6. "You Belong with Me"
6. "Mean"
6. "22"
6. "Shake It Off"
6. "Look What You Made Me Do"
6. "I Think He Knows"
6. "Mirrorball"
6. "No Body, No Crime"
6. "Midnight Rain"
6. "But Daddy I Love Him"
September 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm very behind. Here's my 7s:

So It Goes...
Seven
Breathe
MAATHBP
I Wish You Would
Fresh Out the Slammer
Tied Together With A Smile
Happiness
The Story of Us
I Almost Do
Question...?
To celebrate 7 days until TLOAS, let's rank Taylor's tracks 7:

7. "Tied Together with a Smile"
7. "Breathe"
7. "The Story of Us"
7. "I Almost Do"
7. "I Wish You Would"
7. "So It Goes..."
7. "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince"
7. "Seven"
7."Happiness"
7."Question...?"
7. Fresh Out the Slammer"
September 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Track 8s, not as hard.

Vigilante Shit
August
Florida!!!
Tell Me Why
Bad Blood
WANEGBT
Paper Rings
Dorothea
Gorgeous
Never Grow Up
Stay Beautiful
To celebrate 8 days until TLOAS, let's rank Taylor's tracks 8:

8. "Stay Beautiful"
8. "Tell Me Why"
8. "Never Grow Up"
8. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
8. "Bad Blood"
8. "Gorgeous"
8. "Paper Rings"
8. "August"
8. "Dorothea"
8. "Vigilante Shit"
8. "Florida!!!"
September 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Track nines, not easy.

Wildest Dreams
Getaway Car
Bejeweled
Should've Said No
Guilty As Sin?
This Is Me Trying
Coney Island
Cornelia Street
Enchanted
You're Not Sorry
Stay Stay Stay
To celebrate 9 days until TLOAS, let's rank Taylor's tracks 9:

9. "Should've Said No"
9. "You're Not Sorry"
9. "Enchanted"
9. "Stay Stay Stay"
9. "Wildest Dreams"
9. "Getaway Car"
9. "Cornelia Street"
9. "This Is Me Trying"
9. "Coney Island"
9. "Bejeweled"
9. "Guilty As Sin?"
September 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Track 10s are all pretty awesome, tbh.

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me
King of My Heart
The Last Time
The Way I Loved You
Ivy
Illicit Affairs
Better Than Revenge
Labyrinth
Death By a Thousand Cuts
How You Get The Girl
Mary's Song
To celebrate 10 days until TLOAS, if anyone wants to rank Taylor's track 10, here they are!

Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
The Way I Loved You
Better than Revenge
The Last Time
How You Get The Girl
King of My Heart
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Illicit Affairs
Ivy
Labyrinth
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Dancing With Our Hands Tied
Cowboy Like Me
This Love
Holy Ground
Forever & Always
Karma
London Boy
Invisible String
Our Song
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
Innocent
To celebrate 11 days until TLOAS, if anyone wants to rank TS track 11, here they are!

11. Our Song
11. Forever & Always
11. Innocent
11. Holy Ground
11. This Love
11. Dancing with Our Hands Tied
11. London Boy"
11. Invisible String
11. Cowboy like Me
11. Karma
11..I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Track 12s:

Dress
Mad Woman
I Know Places
Haunted
loml
Soon You'll Get Better
I'm Only Me When I'm With You
Sad Beautiful Tragic
Sweet Nothing
Long Story Short
The Best Day
so, to celebrate 12 days until tloas, if anyone wants to rank their fav taylor swift track 12, here they are!

I'm Only Me When I'm with You
The Best Day
Haunted
Sad Beautiful Tragic
I Know Places
Dress
Soon You'll Get Better
Mad Woman
Long Story Short
Sweet Nothing
Loml
September 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Seeing Riptide performed live today of all days is *incredibly* hilarious to me.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM