the lyric is a reference to the original line from shakespeare’s romeo and juliet, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” which taylor subverts the line to show that a sapphic relationship is seen as a “scandal” while a heterosexual relationship is not.

oh my god that’s awful i’m so sorry

yeah! the crazy thing is that some people would still think she’s straight even if she was explicit about it

which could mean nothing.

also the line, “there’s a religion in our love,” reminds me of false god (“we’d still worship this love.”)

philips’s poem, “friendship’s mystery, to my dear lucasia,” reminds me of invisible string, especially with the stanza, “for though we were design’d t’ agree, fate no liberty destroyes, but our election is as free as angels, who with greedy choice, are yet determin’d to their joyes.”

thank you so much! 🥺🤍

and to be completely honest, college has been very stressful, and my part time job kind of sucks. i just want to move out and find an apartment where i have three cats and just write novels all day. but i need a decent job first to get to that point, if it ever happens.

happy birthday!!!

that’s horrible i’m so sorry

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