Beth Baty

26 | she/her | 💍10.19.18💍

[Beth Baty @beth_baty13]

How convenient for me that I finally learned how to apply the most basic makeup after 23 years of life

[levi 🧣 @leviscardigan]

taylor swift is actually for the girls who were known but never popular, fit in with many friends group but never in group chats, talked to at school but never invited to the parties, for the girls who have friends but never be bf's favorite, for the girls who were always outcast

[Taylor Swift Updates 💎 @swifferupdates]

🚨 | Brazil's legislature has just passed the "Taylor Swift Law/Lei Taylor Swift" which criminalizes the activity of scalpers.

[Beth Baty @beth_baty13]

@actualunschool @seattleXm0m Wait is this for everyone or just babies? Cuz I take it any time I’ve been around animals (which is common because everyone loves pets), otherwise I can’t breathe for the next 2 days 😬🙃

[Taylor Crave @mainpopgirI]

“Why Is Taylor Re-recording Her First Six Albums?” — A Much-Needed Refresher.

1. The masters of her music were sold — NOT JUST to anyone, but to her NEMESIS.

This isn’t a simple “she should’ve read her contract” (when she was 15 y/o) scenario. And this isn’t even some “many artists don’t own their master rights anyway, she isn’t special” thing. We and Taylor are perfectly aware of that. That’s why she had, FOR THE LONGEST TIME, offered to buy the master rights of her first 6 albums from her former label, Big Machine Records (BMR), at reasonable price and conditions.

However, BMR repeatedly refused, with their latest “offer” in 2018 requiring her to renew her contract — and with each new album UNDER THEM (i.e., BMR would’ve owned those new albums), only by then would each of her old albums be “set free” (allowed to be bought by Taylor) in exchange.

BMR essentially wanted Taylor and her music to be HELD HOSTAGE, with her new albums being the “ransom” — for merely a CHANCE to buy her old albums (something that should’ve been allowed unconditionally) — and thus WOULD’VE chained Taylor into an ENDLESS LOOP/CYCLE.

Taylor, like any sane person (especially someone who write every single song in her discography), refused.

2. It was later exposed that, BEHIND HER BACK, her former record label sold her masters (as well as the company) NOT JUST to anyone, but to her absolute nemesis — Scooter Braun (with the notorious Carlyle Group as one of Scooter’s financiers). The man who orchestrated the entire 2016 KimYe debacle, having been Kanye’s former manager (reportedly fired by A.G., D.L., and J.B. very recently). The person who paid countless tabloids before, during, and way after 2016 in an elaborate demolition job to tarnish Taylor’s reputation.

3. Despite Scooter’s lies (of him “offering to sell” Taylor’s masters back to her), it was later exposed that the said offer was ONLY to be allowed to look at BMLG (the record label company)’s financial records, merely the first step in a purchase of this nature — and what did Scooter want in exchange JUST FOR THIS? He wanted *the* Taylor Swift to sign an ironclad NDA stating she would never say another word about Scooter unless it was positive. LMFAO. He really wanted to bind, trap, and silence Taylor forever before even giving her a CHANCE to bid on (not buy) her own work. The songs and albums SHE put her sweat and tears into for over a decade. Her legacy. Her life’s work.

Taylor’s high-profile legal team advised that this was NOT normal (and that they’d never seen an NDA like this presented unless it was to silence an assault accuser by paying them off). That NDA that Scooter was demanding (just for Taylor to be given a chance) was THAT vile. Such an exploitative move on so many levels. This, on top of the fact that Scooter wouldn’t even quote Taylor’s team an actual price.

4. Upon seething from the unexpected, unprecedented, against-all-odds success of Taylor’s 1st re-recording, Scooter then “sold” Taylor’s old masters to ANOTHER entity — but NOT fully, though, since he insisted a clause where he would STILL continue to profit from Taylor’s old albums despite him having already sold off the masters. The said new entity/company tried to be in talks with Taylor (again, still NOT to outright sell her the masters nor anything actually good), which she respectfully declined since she couldn’t, in good conscience, agree to something that would indefinitely benefit Scooter — the man who actively and continuously attempted to destroy her character, her reputation, and everything she has worked for (years before, during, and even after this entire issue).

5. EVEN TODAY, Scooter is slowly creeping in, curating and planting seeds of misinformation in his staple tabloids, waiting for the perfect opportunity to claw his way back to the top, reverse the narrative to his favor, and bury the woman who he THOUGHT he could subjugate but then ultimately prevailed over him, as evident now more than ever.

[Beth Baty @beth_baty13]

@ainnemiggue @alefvernon I love seeing the different ways people envision them. I def associate august with sunshine vibes and lighter hair (maybe a little red? But def on the blonde spectrum), while Betty I think of earthy tones (the garden, the cobblestones, etc.) so I picture a brunette.

[sal 🫐 @ghostinmypocket]

Love was meant to be discovered on a park bench or a coffee shop not on a dating app filled with pathological horny liars

[Beth Baty @beth_baty13]

@apricot_snaps @kushkrossing Maybe this is just what I’ve always thought, but I’m deathly allergic to all animals with hair/fur/feathers. A lot of people are allergic to some degree. So I figured it was so they could always rent to anyone in the future without worrying about allergies.

[hi hello ✨️ @JasmineAGolphin]

Absolutely no shade to op but I didn't fully believe this absolute fuckery so I not only read the article but I read the abstract and then then downloaded the pdf of the study itself and y'all

Y'all

They were using saline and water.

[alana. @alanaauston]

um? I assumed those commercials used water because they couldn’t show blood but it’s really because no one…thought to test actual blood?

[kay 📺 @SUPERSAPPHlC]

i'm sorry but i'm just remembering that taylor swift wrote the fucking words
"falling feels like flying till the bones crush"
and how do people not talk about that more like ma'am WTF

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

I so throughly deluded myself into thinking we were actually getting a south asian rapunzel that I was genuinely shocked by this news

[ami. @feathersmodel]

RUH ROH RAGGY #HSMTMTS

[Beth Baty @beth_baty13]

@rinasparker @spadesbassett Literallyyyy and like why do their voices sound so much better together like this music was written for THEM

[temi. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @gwetcrfilms]

one day people will look past the mouse logo and realise that hsmtmts is actually real television like pride is really stopping so many people from having a good time and discovering a new comfort show idk!

[marg ⸆⸉ @BetttysCardigan]

“wErE CoMmiTtEd tO gEtTiNg TiCkeTs iN ThE hAnDs oF fAns”

[akh @nervouspearl]

started season 3 #OnlyMurdersintheBuilding

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

There are people saying Thanos was right even though:

1) He could have just used the Infinity Gauntlet's reality-altering powers to increase the amount of resources in the universe, thereby rendering overpopulation a non-issue.

2) If he couldn't do that for some reason, he could have just used the Infinity Gauntlet to stop people from reproducing more than the replacement level. The morality of this option is still questionable, but far less so than killing half of all life in the universe.

3) Considering the rate at which human (and presumably human-like alien) populations grow, the population of the universe would have just been right back to where it was a few decades later and he would have to kill half of all people again since he apparently didn't consider the first two options.

4) Killing half of all life in the universe means killing half of all plants and animals, thereby destroying ecosystems and compounding the issue of resource scarcity, thus defeating the supposed purpose of the Snap.

So not only was Thanos wrong and evil, he was also stupid.

[Academics Write @academicswrite]

I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.