The Archers – Details, episodes & analysis

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. 

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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

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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.

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...

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own.