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While I cannot see the future, I did accurately predict Taylor Swift's new album when she started walking around NYC in the cutest academia outfits during the spring of 2023. It was giving college professor, it was giving Tumblr, and most importantly, it was giving The Tortured Poets Department. The album dropped on April 19, 2024, and while Swifties are busy whipping up Taylor Swift cocktailsand chai cookies, Taylor's been giving us a ton of Easter eggs I think are already pointing us to TS12. Here's everything you need to know about my musings!!
In case you don't know what Taylor Swift's Karma is, let me catch you up. Before we got "Karma" on Midnights, Swifties believe we were supposed to get a rock album after 1989 called Karma, whose color is orange. But when the drama with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West spiraled out of control, we got Reputation instead.
Taylor Swift has been teasing the theoretical album every since; She added the title into her "The Man" music video in 2020, and featured an orange door at the end of the Eras Tour. And on June 2, during her show in Lyon, France, she came onstage wearing a fully orange set for the first time, instead of mismatched colors.
After holding up a lot of number 3's throughout the Midnights era, Taylor Swift was intentionally referencing the number 2 during The Tortured Poets Department. She's played mashups of two different surprise songs, held up a two during her Grammys acceptance speech, and there was a countdown on her site that ended at 2PM EST ahead of the TTPD release. Mix in the peace sign & double book copies at the TTPD library installation AND one of her tweets, and it's clear that the number 2 and TTPD are now inseparable!
While Taylor Swift ended up giving us a second album, I do think this is all part of something even bigger. From the pocket watch in the "Bejeweled" music video promising "exile ends in 3...2...1..." to a new TTPD video showing Taylor's completed two out of three tallies (plus the viral "321" error message on Taylor's website), IMO, it's clear we're in the middle of a countdown.
If Midnights was 3 and The Tortured Poets Department is 2, then my guess is that TS12 will feature endless references to the number 1. And then Taylor will release the album that is arguably one of her most important: TS13.
Considering we're still in the Tortured Poets Department era, we don't have any official info on TS12 yet. But just like the shift from Midnights' 70s vibe to Taylor Swift's current Ralph Lauren-esque outfits signaled the beginning of TS11, any more aesthetic shakeups later this year or next year could signal a new era.
In addition to all the numbers, there's one other thing Taylor has referenced the last few years: planes. She's name-dropped everything from manifests and co-pilots to timetables (which charts departures and arrivals of planes, buses, and trains), and @heather.hypnotic on TikTok ties everything into the "Look What You Made Me Do?" music video.
At the end of the music video, a number of different Taylors from different eras stand in front of a plane with "Reputation" written across the side. "Call it the lost album, call it the Karma album, call it the original TS6, I think this is the one [in the countdown]," Heather says.
Mouse embryos can be staged according to a variety of criteria, the most general of which are those described by Theiler in "The House Mouse: Atlas of Mouse Development" (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989). Theiler's criteria are too broad to distinguish many of the important phases of early development and must therefore be supplemented by others, for example, cell number, somite number or those charcteristics used by Downs and Davies (1993) Development, 118, 1255. We have therefore combined these different criteria in the table which defines a new set of stages based on the numbered Theiler series, but with intermediate divisions indicated by non-integer stage numbers5. Embryos of the same gestational age may differ in their stage of development. We have therefore included in the table an indication of the expected range of gestational ages (days of gestation, dpc) over which each developmental stage may be found. Different mouse strains develop at different rates and, in some cases show differences in the relative rates of development of different organs. Strictly, the stages recognised by Downs and Davies apply to outbred mice of the PO strain. The data in the remainder of the table below refer to embryos of crosses between F1 hybrid (C57BL X CBA) mice.
General comment on timing (dpc): In judging the lower and upper ranges of dpc equivalent to a particular Theiler stage, we have generally followed Theiler's book and, in most cases, have given a wider range than Theiler, because the numbers of embryos he cites are small. We have given a larger range at the maximum than the minimum because, in general, embryos are more likely to be retarded by their environment or genetic constitution than made to proceed more quickly through development. In most cases, however, the resulting dpc range is an estimate that is consistent with the results of Theiler, but not based on additional evidence.
Comment on somite numbers: The range of somite numbers for each stage is given only as a guide to what might be expected of typical embryos. As can be seen from Theiler (1989)3 the true range can be much wider. Therefore, for all stages after TS12, the somite number should not be taken as a reliable global indicator of the overall embryo stage.
2. Somite Number The figure given refers to the number of the most caudal somite. No account is taken of somites partitioning into dermomyotomes and sclerotomes, nor of their subsequent differentiation.
3.(C57BLxCBA) F1 mice Adapted from Theiler (1989) [The House Mouse: Atlas of Embryonic Development. New York: Springer-Verlag] and Kaufman (1994); detailed staging for Theiler stages 9-12 courtesy of K. Lawson [personal communication].
Originally posted by ian senior
So what was TS18 and was it really down for 1976? Was it a car intended to be used in 1975, when they made do with an updated TS16, due presumably to lack of cash?
Originally posted by Peter Morley
Can't help with actual numbers but this might be useful!
Bob Egginton, who worked for Surtees, told me that some series did not start with chassis no.1 to give the impression that they had already sold some cars.
So you have to be careful about any information - the highest chassis number does not mean they made that many cars - in some cases the production runs may have been overstated (assuming you can actually find a figure for the production run).
Originally posted by Allen Brown
The TS5 was originally Team Surtees 5000, I believe. Only later did it acquire the "Surtees" bit on the front. So the JS1-4 stuff may have been dreamt up later.
Allen
Originally posted by sieb
I Always thought that TS stands for Terry / Surtees, for the first cars anyway, because they where designed by Len Terry. Only later they changed that in Team Surtees.......