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And If My Wishes Came True (It Would’ve Been You) by redkrakenink
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), Teenage Love Triangle Series - Taylor Swift (Song Cycle)
06 Nov 2025
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James, Betty, and Augustine’s perspectives of their fateful love triangle which took place the summer before their senior year. Told in three acts; also featuring Betty’s epilogue some decades later.
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August slipped away by Mrs_Tanease
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), Teenage Love Triangle Series - Taylor Swift (Song Cycle)
14 Sep 2025
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Taylor swift and her girlfriend August see a guy named James on their schools instagram page one day. August falls in love with James and James falls in love with August, everything seems perfect until James' secret relationship gets revealed. Taylor decides to write three songs about the situation, while August is still getting over her heartbreak(s).
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- English
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- 1,740
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 7
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That time August hooked up with James at his beachhouse knowing James was never his to begin with. Adapted from the Folklore Love Triangle except August and Betty(now Barty) are male in this version, so everyone's gay. Yay!
also, this is my first fic. i was looking for some August fic and then thought, are there some gay ones with genderbent August and Betty?... so here we are, me writing the story i would have liked to find and read. there aren't too many folklore triangle stories according to what i've seen, but we have enough straight girlies to write those, so i had to do what ihad to do!
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written by an author who has listened to half of folklore
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Just a short snippet of when James meets August for the first time.
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The Last Great American Tragedy by orphan_account
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), Taylor Swift (Musician)
27 May 2025
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James disappears for two days. Betty and Augustine sneak into his house to find him. What they discover in the crawlspace will mark all three of them forever. Childhood ends, not with a scream, but with a silence too heavy to carry.
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The Autumn Chill That Wakes Me Up by XingYukun
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), betty - Taylor Swift (Song), cardigan - Taylor Swift (Song), august - Taylor Swift (Song), Taylor Swift (Musician)
12 Apr 2025
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Old wounds might heal with years...until you realize some were merely buried, not forgotten.
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Will It Patch Your Broken Wings? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), Original Work
03 Mar 2025
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In which the story of Betty and James is told in a series of letters, emails, texts and notes. From childhood to the adult James showing up on Betty's doorstep.
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- English
- Words:
- 93
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 25
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Folklore by Daylight1312
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), folklore - Taylor Swift (Album)
28 Feb 2025
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It scared her when her dad was like this. So much more than she would ever admit. She felt like she was worthless. Broken. Like something to be discarded under the bed and never looked at again. The walk felt long and the stars that covered the sky above her did nothing to settle her nerves like they usually would. Even the silver glow of the moon against her golden hair felt erie that night.
The story of Folklore, but James is a girl.
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Betty, I know where it all went wrong (Your favorite song was playin') by Folklorevermore
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), Teenage Love Triangle Series - Taylor Swift (Song Cycle), cardigan - Taylor Swift (Song), august - Taylor Swift (Song), betty - Taylor Swift (Song)
19 Feb 2025
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I was popular, had friends, and had a perfect boyfriend. life was amazing. I was eager to start a new school year, it was my junior year and I had everything a girl could want.
but why was I falling for the new girl at school, James. there is no way I could be a homosexual right?
(Based on the folklore love triangle if it was set in the 50s, and James was a girl, and it was gay)
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Dear diary,
Betty and James are so cute together! But it's not Augusta's fault that she developed feelings for the both of them. She wasn't even going to do anything about it! But then she saw poor little James moping all alone and couldn't help but want to make him feel better. It wasn't like they did much— just held hands and kissed (it was more of a peck) once, then fell asleep together. But that still counts as betrayal. To Betty atleast.
Not every story has a villain. Sometimes it's just some kids trying to figure stuff out and messing up. What matters is learning from those mistakes...
The question is, did James and Augusta learn?
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Baby, Kiss It Better by es_taylors_version
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), betty - Taylor Swift (Song), cardigan - Taylor Swift (Song), august - Taylor Swift (Song), Teenage Love Triangle Series - Taylor Swift (Song Cycle), Love triangle - Fandom
23 Jan 2025
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Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.
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James describes what he has done through the lyrics of Betty.
Will she forgive him, or is it too late?
In which James is (not so secretly), hopelessly devoted to Betty.
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- English
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- 2,582
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 30
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A temporary reunion with company.
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- Part 2 of Everlore Dept.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,487
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 36
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Tis the Damn Windows by yeaka
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), 'tis the damn season - Taylor Swift (Song), I Look in People's Windows - Taylor Swift (Song)
30 Nov 2024
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Augustine’s back for judgment and misery.
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- Part 1 of Everlore Dept.
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Prompt: Do you remember?
Día veintitrés del Writober 2024.
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- Part 23 of Writober 2024
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augustine by akirasgrl
Fandoms: betty - Taylor Swift (Song), Taylor Swift (Musician), folklore - Taylor Swift (Album)
20 Sep 2024
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the worst thing that i ever did is what i did to you.” it came out as no more than a broken whisper– words that james had thought time and time again but had never wanted, nor did he have the courage to say out loud.
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aka a telling of the betty/james/august love triangle from taylor swifts song, “betty”.
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losing you (a folklore love triangle story) by orphan_account
Fandoms: folklore - Taylor Swift (Album), betty - Taylor Swift (Song), august - Taylor Swift (Song), cardigan - Taylor Swift (Song), Teenage Love Triangle Series - Taylor Swift (Song Cycle)
19 Sep 2024
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The Affair-
James is confused. He's only 17, doesn't know anything, and loves two girls.
Betty is hurt. She's also 17, but she knows everything.
Augustine was left, but she continues hoping that he will call. -
Fall - a folklore novella by artsze
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), betty - Taylor Swift (Song), cardigan - Taylor Swift (Song), august - Taylor Swift (Song)
16 Sep 2024
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Betty Green isn't very excited to start working on her final English assignment with James Wolfe. He's lazy. He's always late. He hates school. But once she decides to give him a chance, things don't turn out as planned.
Augustine Thomas once found a boy inside her father's studio. It's been three years since that winter morning and she hasn't thought about that boy since (not once), until one fateful day, when she bumps into a pair of green-yellow eyes across the room. -
Lyrical Analysis of Taylor Swift's folklore by Ketchup_onmysocks
Fandoms: Taylor Swift (Musician), folklore - Taylor Swift (Album)
06 Sep 2024
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I used to have a Taylor Swift Instagram and one of the things I used to post were English class-style analysis of Taylor's lyrics and I had a lot of fun doing them. And I still have a bunch of them, but I'm kind of wanting to go back and do all of the songs and it seems like AO3 is as good a place as any to post them. So... folklore!
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- Part 2 of Lyrical Analysis of Taylor Swift Songs