The Archers

CW: This episode includes a lot of talk of child neglect and abuse as well as suicide, so please take care in listening. We recorded this episode on August 19th, 2022 for our Patreon feed, where we read chapters 11-14 from the Rebekah Harkness biography by Craig Unger,  Blue Blood. We’ve recapped our notes and thoughts over on Patreon for the last year. Now, we've edited them down and we'll be releasing each Book Club episode for y'all on the main feed to join us on this rollercoaster journey of a book! **Keep in mind we learned more about all of these people in the book later on, so not everything we say here is with context from later chapters** After a brief discussion of Taylor Jenkins Reid's underwhelming follow-up to Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, we go over some pretty intense chapters concerning the Harknesses and Rebekah's treatment of her children and grandchildren. We also discuss the parallels between Edith Harkness and Taylor; And Edith’s psych hospitalization after her suicide attempt at Holiday House… or as she calls it “her Peter Pan episode”… At the end, we discuss a mysterious virtual memorial for Edith Harkness, which you can find here.  Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Read this insane scanned copy of Blue Blood with us: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15rQyfynoG81rb7trUACZDN3-i1aVFqXb/view?usp=embed_facebook More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

We recorded this second installment of our Blue Blood Book Club on June 14th, 2022 for our Patreon feed, where we read chapters 6-11 from the Rebekah Harkness by Craig Unger biography, Blue Blood. We’ve recapped our notes and thoughts over on Patreon for the last year. Now, we've edited them down and we'll be releasing each Book Club episode for y'all on the main feed to join us on this rollercoaster journey of a book! **Keep in mind we learned more about all of these people in the book later on, so not everything we say here is with context from later chapters** In this episode, chapters we cover in this episode include "Strange Bedfellows" "Sexual Politics" and "The Go-Go Years". We arrive at the infamous story that inspired Taylor's line "And in a feud with her neighbor/She stole his dog and dyed it key lime green." You may know that the dog in question was really a cat, but did you also know that "the neighbor" was actually not a neighbor at all, but Rebekah's psychic and potential lover Eva (we ship)? Bearded pronouns indeed! Get ready for a lot of gender talk! Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Read this insane scanned copy of Blue Blood with us: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15rQyfynoG81rb7trUACZDN3-i1aVFqXb/view?usp=embed_facebook More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

We recorded this very first episode of our Blue Blood Book Club on May 14th, 2022 for our Patreon feed, where we have since committed to reading Blue Blood by Craig Unger AKA the very long Rebekah Harkness biography that The Last Great American Dynasty is based off of. Since then, we've read five chapters for each Blue Blood Book Club episode and recapped our notes and thoughts over on Patreon. Now, we've edited them down and we'll be releasing each Book Club episode for y'all on the main feed to join us on this rollercoaster journey of a book! **Keep in mind we learned more about all of these people in the book later on, so not everything we say here is with context from later chapters** In this episode, we recap the first five chapters including the infamous chapter one "Betty and the Bitch Pack" and chapter five titled "The Golden Cage". Join us as we go back in time to when we recorded this episode nearly a year ago, just before Taylor's NYU commencement and long before Midnights' release, and read about the loudest woman this town has ever seen. THANK YOU for the love and well wishes for Katie<3 We love you all so so much. Read this insane scanned copy of Blue Blood with us: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15rQyfynoG81rb7trUACZDN3-i1aVFqXb/view?usp=embed_facebook Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

After literal years of discussing Taylor's persistent use of birdcages and bird imagery, Katie and Madyson have gathered every single birdcage reference to unpack the Queer symbolism behind it all. To kick off the episode, the Archers revel in the assumption that Taylor debuted her brand new green dress in Tampa on a Thursday as a reference to S3 E3's hairpin drop from Sappho Speaks. Then, they review all of Taylor's cage-related lyrics in her discography and establish their interpretations of its meaning in her work. Aside from her lyrics, they also look at an extensive timeline of Taylor's relationship to birdcages in her life; They read excerpts from the Lover Diaries, fawn over her human sized birdcage in her Nashville condo, and review all the birdcage imagery from Speak Now's promotional shoots. Finally, the Archers connect all of Taylor's birdcage references to the very established Queer history of birdcages ranging from Maya Angelou to Dali to Rebekah Harkness to Alice in Wonderland to British art from the 19th century.... Check out or Twitter page (linked below) to see photos of what we reference in this episode! Link to support Katie & Lizzy: https://www.giftster.com/gift/XXHd2/ Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Hairpin Drop: Sappho Speaks Zine This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Link to support Katie & Lizzy: https://www.giftster.com/gift/XXHd2/ Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Hairpin Drop: stay tuned for next week hehe.... This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Donate to Ember's Surgery Fund!: https://gofund.me/728f756e Follow Ember on TikTok: @emberk39 Hairpin Drop: ⁠https://one.usc.edu/archive-location/ladder⁠ Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Camp Gaylore + Gaylorefest '23 info: https://www.gaylorswift.com/gaylorefest Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Hairpin Drop: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb3006593b/_1.pdf Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Hairpin Drop: https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/taylor-swift-never-erases-her-chalkboard.html Dickinson Poems: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/115/the-poems-of-emily-dickinson-series-two/4444/nature-poem-16-secrets/ https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/the-secret-by-emily-dickinson/ In a packed episode, Katie and Madyson open up with a breaking news report and a hairpin drop written on Taylor's chalkboard during her 1989 era. Katie points out how the parallels of Zelda Fitzgerald's similar battles to Taylor's as a female writer, and their shared ghostwriting experiences. Sticking with the American Lit theme of Taylor's F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, the archers revisit the incredible sapphic poet that inspires Taylor's quill pen, Emily Dickinson. They compare Taylor's writing in the folklore prologue to two poems about secrets by Dickinson and find that they sing about the same skies full of secrets. Finally, they go through *all* of Taylor's lyrics about hiding, sneaking around, secrets, whispering, covering things up, and lying... Which go back to the beginning of her career. This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

In their LONG awaited return, The Archers explore one of the most reoccurring themes in Taylor Swift's music: f*ck the institution of marriage. First, they rave about the 2023 Grammy's and Taylor's L Word themed after party at the Chateau. Then, they rediscover and dive deeper into Taylor's passion for freedom and her Sagittarian nature to rebel, progress, and push limits in these three songs. The Archers use this season 3 premiere to celebrate Taylor's boldness for writing Speak Now, the fight or flight response of Sagittarius in Peace, and her perfect capturing of comphet, cis-heteronormativity in Midnight Rain. Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers More info about GayloreFest ‘23 and Camp Gaylore: gaylorswift.com Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Hairpin Drop: https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/new-chateau-marmont-book-celebrity-stories.html This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Meet us on Sunday 2/12 @ 10am EST for episode one..... hehehehe Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

The Archers went live on Youtube on 11/20 to celebrate a year of the podcast and shoot the shit with listeners!!! Listen to them celebrate by going unfiltered and unedited on the main feed, Patreon after dark style. They chat about how the past year has changed their relationship to Taylor's music and the Gaylor community, The Eras Tour predictions/hopes, Midnights interpretations, and some Swiftgron, Kaylor, and Toë tea... Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy Lavender Hays TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxj6QxW/ Marsha Stonewall Font on Lavender Haze merch: https://twitter.com/gaylorsupremecy/status/1584958853736976386 The Celluloide Closet movie: https://g.co/kgs/NP6PWr Dear Reader two letters TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxj2DYC/ This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy

Join us for a Midnights release virtual listening party: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqf-CqrzgpHdcYRVVayZ80Ca-hox0AISFZ Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy References this episode: 1. "Made Me Gay" by Margaret Mead (I named the wrong author in the episode! Oops!): https://faculty.uml.edu//kluis/42.101/Newton_HighSchoolCrackUp.pdf 2. Niceboy Ed Reddit Posts: -https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/xg9h5v/nice_boy_ed_in_an_essay_about_homophobia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf -https://www.reddit.com/r/GaylorSwift/comments/xg5bxp/when_i_google_niceboy_ed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Katie and Madyson start off the episode by revisiting their values as Gaylors and as The Archers (this episode was recorded before the release of Lavender Haze & the rest of the track list). Then, they discuss the hairpin drop of the week: niceboyed and the Queer essay that Taylor could be linking herself to. Before getting into their analysis of Taylor’s Track Fives, they quickly share their eagerness for Karma and the rest of the Midnights album. Taylor’s Track Fives include Cold As You, White Horse, Dear John, All Too Well, All You Had To Do Was Stay, Delicate, My Tears Ricochet, Tolerate It, and now You’re On Your Own, Kid… They unpack the invisible thread of themes of anxiety and battles, and ponder what the newest Track Five will be about. This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy This week, we're sharing a Patreon exclusive episode from June! With the approach of Midnights, we wanted to give Taylor Swift's poetry the recognition it deserves by revisiting poems she wrote as a child: A Monster In My Closet and Lindsey Claire, as well as the three poems she wrote during the reputation era: The Trick To Holding On, Why She Disappeared, and If You're Anything Like Me. Along with doing queer analysis of each poem, we discuss the reincarnation of Emily Dickinson through Taylor and her flower-decorated pages. 

Make an account through Google on GaylorSwift.com to attend Katie’s Gaylore Group on 10/13! Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy The Gaylor Rolling Stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/gaylor-taylor-swift-gay-rumor-midnights-1234585574/ After an INSANELY EVENTFUL two weeks, Madyson and Katie react to all of the major Taylor news: the VMA’s, Midnights, the Gaylor (and Archers-coded?) Rolling Stone article, the Evelyn Hugo-ness of it all, and manifestations for the Gaylor community. They read the prologue for Midnights and discuss the heartbreaking lines (i.e.: “self made cages”). They reflect on the meaning of Daylight, and the Lover album’s original title track in contrast to Midnights. Finally, they take a look at every lyric of Taylor’s about midnight(s) and nighttime in general, and dream up possibilities for the album. This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod Check out www.GaylorSwift.com! In The Archers' third song deep-dive episode (following The Archer and New Romantics' Queer analyses), Katie and Madyson read the haunting and cold lyrics to Cowboy Like Me line by line and discuss a mosaic of Queer interpretations of the story. They mention how the lyrics connect to other Queer songs referencing cowboys, and connect the song's first line to Lorde's "Tennis Court". They connect the song to Taylor's themes of bearding and closeting, and prove why the song is one of her most Queer songs in her discography. What is a Sagittarius if not a Cowboy on a horse? "Hairpin Drop" Reddit Post about Centennial Park's Queer history Willie Nelson’s “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other” Shania Twain's “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” Kesha’s “Cowboy Blues” The Lesbian Cowboy Joke Clip: https://youtu.be/1vm2jPM4ee8 This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own.

When Taylor wrote Folklore & Evermore she crafted a world where girls fall in love with each other everyday; a world with purple pink skies, salt air, flushed cheeks, the golden sun & sweet tea. In this hour, we will dive into the imagined world of Taylor’s Folkmore, drawing connections and making sweet speculations, and hopefully discover together why the stars in Dorothea’s eyes seem to shine so much brighter in Tupelo. Check out GaylorSwift.com to access recordings of all of the presentations! Shoutout to our INCREDIBLE team of volunteers and presenters. We love yall. Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own.

Theylor Interpretations explores the ways Taylor has blurred the gender binary in her work using intentional pronoun changes, gender perspectives, non-binary themes, gendered language, and Queer codes that extend further than relational and sexual Queerness. It will also question the progression of cisheterosexual normativity in Taylor's career, and the possibility of her being gender non-conforming. Follow Ember on TikTok: @emberk39! Check out GaylorSwift.com to access recordings of all of the presentations! Shoutout to our INCREDIBLE team of volunteers and presenters. We love yall. Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own.

P.S. This episode was recorded a month ago, right after Carolina’s release! Thank you for being patient with us as we stepped away to focus on GaylorFest/mental health… GaylorFest was SO MUCH FUN and we’re so excited to start planning for next year :,) Check out GaylorSwift.com to access recordings of the presentations! Shoutout to our INCREDIBLE team of volunteers and presenters. We love yall. Support us on Patreon ($5 monthly) for two bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/thearchers Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/TheArchersPod In Season 1, Katie and Madyson realized how crucial the folklore and evermore prologues were for their understanding of both albums. So in this episode, they read through the prologues/forewords of each of Taylor’s albums AND included her foreword for Carolina. Breaking down these forewords in retrospect, they notice references to tolerate it, mirrorball, daylight, and many more prolific moments (as per usual). At the end of the episode, they discuss their favorite lyrics from Carolina. Debut-Reputation Forewords: https://godforbidfate.tumblr.com/post/168050757849/forewords-prologues-and-album-explanations-here Lover Foreword: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/606086062337787577/ Folklore Foreword: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdqdQx5WkAIt-dj?format=jpg&name=large Evermore Foreword: https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-evermore-liner-notes-annotated This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own.