I have been waiting to get home from work for this! Disclaimer: This baby is eating away at my brain so my IQ is dropping fast, this is all conjecture and I could never support a policy paper with these assumptions, but here goes:
I've been making my way through theoanons back catalogue because it was mentioned here. She was churning out a lot when I was in Libya and doing the whole 'real life' thing. I read about the tiny brunette spotted with him in May (was that mentioned here? I haven't gone back over the posts I missed) and dismissed it because he's always spotted with brunettes.
Yesterday an anon was posted about seeing this same brunette in his local pub. Theoanons published it, joked about her waiting around when TH was in Rhode Island and left it at that http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146724703241/tiny-phd-girl-spotted-at-his-local-pub-alone. A few hours later this post went up http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146726696146/to-submission-anon No other posts were published between the two. Maybe it's just me but that note seems to be directed at someone who wrote in, asked for the previous post to be taken down and for no more 'brunette PhD student' anons to be published. Is this crazy? Am I going to strain my arm with the reaching?
But wait...this morning I was looking at the blog on the train. She posted another message to 'submission anon.' http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146749503261/submission-anon-all-the-best-and-i-mean-that And this is where you need to trust me - she posted one message, which I saw, but then edited it. When I refreshed the browser after looking in the archive, the message had changed. The first message had exactly the same start and ending but some lines in the middle were missing. To paraphrase the missing lines: I know how hard it is to be in graduate school while trying to maintain a relationship, especially when your life/home is in another country.
The ending of the message, mentioning a line and using it, sent me to the archive. I don't know if I missed any posts, but the only post where theoanons gives a 'line' to this brunette is here http://theoanons.tumblr.com/post/146154470436/tiny-brunette-in-a-restaurant-anons
It's a line about enjoying TH's dick but not enough to give up her studies.
Now it could be that someone - maybe a Swift fan or someone who wants to pretend she was in a relationship with TH (although that number is dwindling) - is fucking with the blog and writing in messages pretending to be this PhD student. Or maybe those anons about PhD student are real, and PhD student wrote in to the blog. Did PhD student break TH's heart in May (he lost out to a dissertation!)...sending him into the arms of a pop princess? Because what lies on the other end of the spectrum from small, dark, PhD student? Yeah, that one.
That's my addition to our collection of conspiracy theories.