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harrystyles Robin Buckley says that she’s delighted to have YN and Harry to perform at Coachella this week. Are you?

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harrystyles Coachella, April 2022.

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thisweekinfandomhistory · 8 months

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Protect teenage girls at all costs! This week -- because it IS still this week, we got it in under the wire! -- V and Emily return to the scorched earth battleground of One Direction fandom, but this time, the missiles were launched by the national media of Great Britain. After an offensive, heinous "documentary" about One Direction fans aired on shock-doc specialist Channel 4, even fandoms dedicated to hating 1D (like Justin Bieber fans) backed up Directioners in trying to reclaim their dignity. Yes, it's another episode where V has big feelings about letting teenage girls love stuff messily, but this time we've got QUOTES and SOURCES and DOCTORAL THESIS ABSTRACTS to back up the rage. Do you think mainstream media can ever accurately portray fandom? Have you respected the fourth wall today?

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

#one direction #fandom #fanfiction #crazy about 1d #harry styles #louis tomlinson #liam payne #niall horan #zayn malik #1d fandom #Spotify

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alphaman99 · 4 months

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FORGOTTEN HISTORY

A Daily Dose of History

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In 1920 the yacht building business that Bill McCoy operated with his brother Ben was struggling. So, Bill assessed the situation. He knew that he was a good sailor who knew how to make fast boats. And he knew that Prohibition had created a huge demand for liquor in the American northeast. Recognizing the business opportunity that presented itself, Bill McCoy seized it, becoming the king of the rumrunners, one of America’s most celebrated and notorious bootleggers.

McCoy bought a 127-foot fishing schooner capable of carrying 6,000 cases of alcohol and retrofitted it to make it one of the fastest commercial sailing vessels on the Atlantic coast. He registered his ship in Great Britain and renamed it “Tomoka.” He was in business.

He would load his cargo of spirits in Nassau in the Bahamas, then sail to the Jersey shore, anchoring between Sandy Hook and Atlantic City, just outside the three-mile boundary of international waters. Customers would come out to him in small boats that could evade the Coast Guard, and McCoy would sell them the booze in sacks that held nine bottles each. Ben McCoy would bring out supplies to the Tomoka, so that she never had to port.

McCoy made no effort to hide what he was doing. In fact, he welcomed the publicity. He boasted that he never diluted his product (as many bootleggers did), and that he never paid a dime to organized crime or to bribe law enforcement. And no law prohibited him from selling liquor in international waters. His enterprise was so successful that he soon added four more boats. In a little more than two years he sold an estimated two million bottles.

McCoy’s brazenness and his celebrity status infuriated government authorities, however, and they were determined to shut him down. In 1923, after first getting the tacit consent of British authorities, the Coast Guard was ordered to arrest McCoy, and to sink the Tomoka if he resisted.

On November 25 the Coast Guard cutter Senaca steamed out to the Tomoka and sent over a 15-man boarding party. When they were aboard, the commanding officer ordered McCoy to bring his ship into port. Instead, he set sail and raced away, with the boarding party still on board. The Seneca opened fire with her four-inch deck guns and the Tomoka’s crew answered with a machine gun set up on her forward deck. But as the shells from the Seneca started dropping closer to his ship, McCoy realized the game was up. He lowered his jib and surrendered. On board the Coast Guard found $60,000 in cash (about a million dollars in today’s money) and only 400 cases of the original 4,200 case cargo.

Once brought ashore reporters asked McCoy how he intended to defend himself against the charges. He answered with a smile, “I was outside the three-mile limit, selling whisky, and good whisky, to anyone and everyone who wanted to buy.”

But after two years of legal wrangling, McCoy ultimately decided to accept a plea bargain. He pled guilty to violating the Volstead Act and was sentenced to nine months in jail.

After serving his time, McCoy retired from rumrunning, returning instead to the boat building business. He also became a successful real estate investor and when Prohibition ended he cashed in on his notoriety by putting out his own brand of whisky, called “The Real McCoy” and featuring the Tomoka on the label.

William Frederick “Bill” McCoy, the King of the Rumrunners, died in Florida at age 71 on December 30, 1948, seventy-five years ago today.

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Wait I just saw that you started being a fan of Louis fan because you saw in on XF2018 as a judge now I wanna know more 😭

Hi! Funny that you ask that bc i was just thinking about it earlier today. I had a phase where watching talent shows was my guilty pleasure 😭, i used to watch them every weekend. And one day i stumbled upon the X-factor UK and decided to watch it (especially that it was the one talent show where all those famous bands rose to fame). I watched it till the end, i was rooting for Anthony and after he went home for Dalton (both contestants had Louis as a judge. Huh! What a surprise 😀) and idk how but Louis made his way to my heart without me even noticing it 😭 bc two weeks after the show ended, i found myself still missing the perfectionist blue eyed boybander (sorry for the lame description but that's what the show labeled him as: a memeber of the world famous boyband that came from this very show 😮‍💨). Anyway, you know when they jokingly say someone or something lives in your mind rent free, it was exactly that. Idk but his picture especially his eyes from the initial auditions (with that black shirt and THAT haircut) kept popping in my head at random times during the day. Something about him just kept haunting me i was actually so annoyed at the time 😭 bc ok the man is gorgeous and i found the contrast between that guarded serious look he wore most of the time at the show and that crinkly eyed smile (he has the most beautiful smile i swear 😩) he shows up with at rehearsals interesting but that was it, why did i feel the need to actively look him up and check his music? I watched tens of these shows before and not once did i ever have any urge or interest to know more about any of the judges, so what's so special about this Louis 😭 (a stupid cow i know) so i resisted at first but about two weeks later i've had enough and decided to check him/ his music out and the rest is history. I listened to his solo songs and the ones he wrote for 1D and i remmember really liking them, they got me hooked for future releases from him. Love me a good lyricist 😌 especially a male one bc since i was a teenager i had a hard time finding music that i like since i don't enjoy music with bad lyrics about eating p*ssy . Then two of us happened and it was just so beautiful ❤️‍🩹, it was then that i became a Louis "stan" not just a casual fan. Ngl i wasn't the biggest fan of Kmm when it was first released but i enjoyed it still. When he did that ccmf and performed all those unreleased songs, i knew then and there that this man will never write a bad song and i'll be a fan of his music for a long time. And after the first listen of walls (the album) i knew i'll always be his fan 🫶🏽.

#that was very long and definetely too much for your ask anon #sorry i just love him sm 🥺 and i rent about it all the time

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Two of Us leaves a bad taste in my mouth these days. The more the other writers talk about the development process the clearer it becomes that they were complicit with Sony in pushing Louis to release a song he wasn’t lyrically or sonically up for writing. All so Sony could milk tearjerker dollars from 1D fans. I know the music industry is a shitty business but I can’t wrap my head around how cold you would have to be to add to the burden of someone you knew was already struggling.

That’s not how I took it, tbh.

It felt to me, at the time, that Louis did have some insecurity or anxiety about continuing his career without his mother. Jay had been Louis’ bedrock who guided his life in every aspect, up until she became ill and subsequently passed away. Jay was 100% in Louis’ corner. Her confidence in Louis’ ability never wavered. In difficult times, under difficult conditions, Louis could always consult her to help him make the right choice.

When we look at the entirety of Louis’ career and life, we realize that there is really no one else with the loyalty and wisdom that Jay had. No matter what One Direction or the media or fans were doing, and no matter the vicissitudes of pop culture, Louis could count on Jay’s steady, supportive, and astute nature to love him unconditionally and give him an honest yet fair opinion. Suddenly she wasn’t there anymore, and Louis had to both process his own grief, and to be the head of his family, the spokesperson and the role model.

Even today, you can see the conflict in Louis’ nature. He is the leader in so many ways (“I was always the boss,” as he said), the decision-maker of expensive, risky, high profile projects, the face of fame for his sisters’ careers, the father who must protect his son from the dangers of fame and keep his own name out of rude headlines. Yet Louis is also a man who never really lived a normal late-adolescence. He “skipped” the freedom of being able to do stupid things out of the limelight, to form normal young adult friendships and romances, to educate himself on relationships, culture, and history, to have a loose day or two online just shit-texting. He tries to have a normal life, but friends and family can also be young, immature, or plain unreliable. Sometimes (nowadays) Louis does stuff just for the adrenaline and you can understand why.

Writing a song about Jay seemed to me (at the time) like a gate that Louis had to pass through, to process what was happening to him mentally and emotionally, and it was seriously challenging for him. He didn’t feel up to doing it for many reasons.

Also, as the rest of the songs from Walls demonstrated, Louis felt like the album had to tell his entire life story up to that point (he even said he had envisioned the songs in chronological order), and Two Of Us was the touchstone in his story that he could not allow himself to get wrong. During the lead-up to the album, Louis had a habit of saying he was “a perfectionist,” which I interpreted to mean that he had both very high expectations of the creative work but also an anxiety about getting the details right.

I think it’s pretty tough to read a few lines from Bryn Christopher about the songwriting on Two Of Us and understand it from Louis’ perspective, his motivation. The music videos— the performance video and the video with Richard Green— give us a better idea of what Louis aimed to do with that song. He has almost a compulsion to share his compassion and generosity with the world; this is the other side of the coin of his private, intense sadness. I think this duality allows him to be a steadier person, and it’s also something he learned from Jay.

#two of us #louis tomlinson

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ialwaysknewyouwerepunk · 1 year

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AAAA i also went to see AOTV today!!! What did u think of it ? (Love your vibe btw 💕💕)

i LOVED IT!!! where to begin??? it exceeded my expectations (and typical to me i didn't have insane specific ones anyway but).

i cried within the first ten minutes, so hit in the chest by the last 1d performance bts footage... the boys looking at him like shit louis is having a hard time fuck error what do we do. hélène being his tour mom, just the exact same way they interact still to this day was just so !!! and ofc the family history, the way it was put into perspective by them. the way they talk about dealing with it all, moving on... but the grandpa....... and we know how louis struggled to find his voice after 1d but this just showed it in such detail and with nuance, and how the blow after blow was literally every fucking year. and he doesn't feel sorry for himself as much as is warranted, as always, and it again shows how strong he is and how his family and friends recognize that. bc he is and always has been this person who makes other ppl's lives better, whether it's helping his mom/being her best friend, protecting his sisters, taking his friends and band mates along for the full ride of tour life..... so i'm just always so fucking happy to see he is surrounded by ppl who return the favor and make him happy. the band and oli and everyone. they're just great. and how he describes his role in 1d as well. "if i can't sing, then what can i do for this band?" and obvs the doc didn't mention this, but thanks to his writing credits he completely changed the course of the band. but before that, even, he formed the entire dynamic 1d had. which he now shows with his solo career. he's down to earth, accessible (as far as a celeb musician can be), and he has a firm hand in what his image and the music he puts out are. and that's how he attracted the part of the 1d fanbase that came for the personality and good times.

i am always impressed by louis, and none of this is a huge shock or surprise or brand new information, but i still managed to be fucking impressed yk?! the power

and the experience of being there in the cinema with two of my closest mutuals i love to fuck around with @bluewinnerangel @swimmingleo like reacting with lil shrieks trying not to bother the others and nudging each other every time something remotely moldy or even simply funny happened. quietly sobbing in unison. melting off our chairs by the end. yeah 10/10 would do again in a heartbeat when is the next doc coming out

#aotv #kind anon #aotv spoilers #IM SO EXCITED I SAW ITTTTTT #we were in the theatre giggling like kids

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writteninthesewalls28 · 3 months

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Family

A story about a girl wanting to find out the truth

A/n: chapter seven!

Warnings: mentions of death

Milly’s POV:

After a full night of sleep with Calum next to me, I woke up the next morning, pretty relaxed. With the soft smell of vanilla, probably still from the scented candles we put on yesterday, I got out of the cuddly bed after noticing that Calum wasn’t next to me anymore. Every once a week, he gets up before me, carefully, so he doesn’t wake me up, and prepares breakfast with the things I love the most: pancakes, breakfast tea (yes, I am a full brit when it’s about that), honey, peanut butter and fresh fruits. It is a tradition we picked up from Calums mum, who did it for him and his sister when they were little. I, sadly, never got to experience that since my mum had to work a lot during mine, Louis' and Félicité's childhood. When we were older, we sometimes tried doing it for the younger kids, but 3 to 4 teenagers (ages 14-17) in a kitchen is not working out in the slightest. You simply couldn’t call the pancakes pancakes because they were burnt half of the time. But we had fun doing it and it helped keeping the mood up in the rainy Doncaster.

As soon as I stepped out of the bedroom door, I already heard Calum moving and working in the kitchen. When he saw me entering the room, he gave me a sweet smile and I myself felt like the honey he put on the table at that moment. How can someone be that perfect?

"Good morning beautiful!" He greeted me and gave a quick kiss on the cheek while carefully turning around the delicious looking pancakes in the pan.

"Morning, thanks for doing all this." I said, not really knowing how to thank him for all the extra work he does, just for me.

"Oh, no need to thank me, I love making you happy!" My Calum. He’s simply the best. "Come on, sit down princess, I'll do the work today!"

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After the long but definitely good breakfast, me and Cal spent some time talking about upcoming events.

"We’re putting together a tour list at the moment. Should I show it to you, so you can think about coming to some of them?" Calum knew, I‘d love to just come with the boys on tour, but my job of course didn’t allow me a break of 6 months, so I‘m always very involved in the tour planning with the boys, to get to see them at least 3 times.

"Yes, I'd love that. By the way, how’s the album, how many songs do you have?" Calum and I are both very introverted and private about our job life, so even though we understand each other blind, we mostly don’t really have that much knowledge about one another’s job.

"We got around 5 songs where we are pretty sure, we’re gonna put them on the album they’re simply amazing." He sighed. "But other than that, we seem to have a lack of inspiration at the moment. All of us." It felt good to have a complete platonic talk with him, not even wasting a single thought about the whole googling-the-names thing because if I'm being honest I am kind of scared about that. I'd rather just not do it and pretend it isn’t even there.

Before I could answer Calum, we heard the doorbell ring. We looked at each other. "Did the boys say, they want to come today?" I whispered at Calum. He just shook his head as a response.

Slowly making my way to the door, I wondered who'd have the idea to visit us at a Tuesday morning at 10 am. Opening the door, the familiar face of an irish person, wearing one of his beloved cardigans in a soft baby blue and his strong accent when he said:

"Missed me?" Made me jump into his arms, screaming because of how happy I was to finally get the chance to see my best friend again.

"Nialler!! I missed you so much!"

Me and Niall definitely do have some history. As soon as Louis got put into 1D and the five lads started to hang out more, I of course also met them, shortly before I went to Australia for the exchange year, and immediately became best friend with Niall. You know, these weird people where you think, they have to be dating because they act so couple-like, but are actually just best friends? Yeah, that’s us. I remember having a very exhausting 30-minutes talk with Louis just because he was convinced I was hiding the fact from him that I was dating his friend Niall (which I‘d never even dare to do, he would’ve killed me) and then couldn’t believe we literally were JUST friends.

I really hope no one ever finds these chaotic photos from 2013 on my phone where I was on tour with them. Me and Niall used to cause so many problems and make the most chaotic things ever, but it was the best time of my life, even now.

"Why are you here though?" I asked after letting go of him. He looked at me with a huge grin on his face, showing he loves being with me as much as I do.

"I haven’t seen y'all in too long and since I do not have anything to do at the moment, I thought why not visit my bestie and her Australian boyfriend in this little city called Adelaide." Calum approached us from behind laying his arm around my shoulder.

"Not to mention that we just talked yesterday." He said, earning a confused look from me.

"I sent him songs." Calum informed me. I pouted.

"I didn’t even got to hear them, but you are showing them to my bestie?“ I asked. Niall simply couldn’t stop laughing, he wasn’t used to the daily banter me and Calum had whenever other people were around since he wasn’t visiting us that often, mostly also busy with touring, songwriting and promoting new stuff.

But that only made me even happier he was there right now.

"Come inside!“ I said to him, stepping away from the doorstep, to let him in our house.

The break I took from work, originally for other reasons, was the best idea ever. I got to catch up with Niall and we talked about the last year that we haven’t seen each other. Currently, all of my musician friends - which are basically all of my friends - are working on albums and preparing a world tour, also including Niall. He’s writing songs, already played some for me, and is gonna call his second album 'Heartbreak Weather' because of his breakup last summer, his songs representing his feelings to different times during the relationship.

"And how are you?" He asked me, after he literally talked for over 1 and a half hours about himself and how he’s doing. But I totally appreciated it, catching up with my friends, especially with him, was something I always enjoyed.

"I'm… good." I said, not sure, if I'd upset another important person in my life with breaking the current news to him. So that sentence seemed to describe my current state pretty perfectly.

Niall raised his eyebrows, immediately seeing through my lie, simply debating if he should say something about it. He decided to just let me go with it right now.

"Okay, that’s amazing!" In this moment, Calum entered the living room again, sitting down exactly in the same spot as yesterday when I came home and had that horrible conversation with Lou. For a moment, I couldn’t focus on what the two of them were talking about. I got lost in my thoughts, having a flashback from yesterday, how Cal comforted me, understanding how much Louis words hurt me. Is Louis okay now? Is he still angry? I stared at the spot on the comfy couch and stopped breathing for a second.

"Milly?" Calum said, waving both of his hands in front of my face.

"Sorry, what were you saying?" I responded, snapping out of the weird situation I was in seconds ago. I was completely unsure and also scared what just happened, it felt like, someone held me underwater and I couldn’t break out of it.

Both of the men looked at me with a both worried and concerned look in their face.

"Are you okay? You are really pale." Calum said, softly placing his warm hand on my shoulder. Was there fear in his eyes?

"I'm not feeling so good right now, I’m gonna go upstairs for a bit." Seeing the worried look Calum gave me as he let me go, I added: "Don’t worry, I just forgot to take my medicine this morning." Which was the truth, I indeed forgot to take my pills to make sure my blood pressure stays okay and I don’t faint all of a sudden, but I never got this weird feeling from not taking them.

Cal's POV:

Of course he was worried when he saw her go up the stairs in a very slow pace, also scared she’s gonna faint on the stairs. But Niall asked him a way more important question in the mean time, he couldn’t seem to ignore.

"Why are both of you acting so strange? Please don’t tell me it’s nothing, I know there is something going on."

As much as he felt like ignoring this would be the best idea, his inner voice didn’t stop telling him that if he’d talk to Niall about Milly’s father’s death, everything will get a little easier, he won’t have to handle the whole situation and his knowledge completely on his own. Someone else would know.

"Milly is searching for her biological parents." All of the color in Nialls face who was sitting right beside him, suddenly vanished and he nearly got as pale as Milly was before she went upstairs.

"Oh no…. How is Louis?" Niall seemed to know that he doesn’t have to worry about his best friend, Calum would take care of her. But he knew Louis better than anyone else, he’s too protective to just not care.

"He and Milly had a fight on the phone yesterday, she was away for 8 hours and forgot to answer her phone while visiting the empty house of her biological parents." Calum explained the poor situation between the two siblings. He continued telling him about everything else Milly went through yesterday, not leaving out a single detail, and Niall got more and more uncomfortable on the sofa. When he finished a awkward silences stood between them, like a wall was built up in the middle of the sofa, Niall being the first to break it.

"And you? You seem to deal with something too." Calum definitely was surprised Niall also noticed that, since Calum tried hiding it pretty successfully in front of Milly, as much as he could tell.

"Well…" He tried thinking about a more gentle way of explaining his misery to Niall, but didn’t get a single idea. "I googled their names. I know I shouldn’t have done that since Milly basically forbid me to do anything without her consent, but I just need to protect her you know?" He took a deep breath before continuing.

"I found a obituary. And-" His voice cracked, he didn’t know how to finish this sentence, why he even started it in the first place.

Niall placed both of his hands on Calum shoulders.

"What happened?" Calum could easily spot the fear in Nialls tone.

"And it said that her father died right before her birth, that’s probably why she was adopted." He finally said it out loud. How relieved he felt. He finally got to say it.

But Niall obviously wasn’t very happy about that piece of information.

"He’s dead?" He asked one more time, getting a little nod from Calum. Milly really didn’t deserve this. She is such an amazing girl who is already dealing with so much in her life, death sadly being an important part of it. He'd love to just hide it from her for forever and make sure she never finds out, just to protect her.

"You have to tell her." Niall then said, much to Calum’s surprise.

"But Niall, do you understand this? He died, Milly maybe won't recover from another death in her family!" He tried explaining it to his old friend with a desperate tone in his voice.

"But what do you think will she do if she finds out, he boyfriend knew all along? Be happy that you tried 'protecting' her? She’s not gonna appreciate your concern for her, not this time Calum!" He got louder and louder, causing Calum to bring more space between them by sitting back a bit. He knew, Niall was right, he already felt it last night that his decision isn’t the best. But something in Calum still made him believe that this is the best way of dealing with the current situation.

#maddys fanfic

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harry is a mainstream artist tho so how is that just branding...? can someone's team fake sales and streams? Im not attacking you btw just genuinely curious I didnt get what u mean

he's a mainstream artist now

u need some backup history for this but basically hshq's strategy has been to sell him as a mega star before he became one and that was really the key, his first album was everywhere he had a week on LLS national TV ads snl etc that were already positioning way above the others. BUT even with all that he had less monthly listeners than zayn, liam AND LOUIS! at the start 2018 louis only had the pre walls singles (only 2 of them that actually got promo) and harry had all that and he was doing worse on Spotify! but do u think anyone is aware of that in the gp? hell even among fans? no! and it doesn't matter bc who was being described by rolling stone as the new Rockstar of the century? who was in every campaign ads and Victoria secret show? who won awards and was on red carpets? it wasn't liam or louis and zayn's moment was already dwindling down. meanwhile louis was being mocked by radio interviewers and being asked why didn't he just quit music.

thats what I mean when I say that branding is crucial, bc it was that approach that lead to the construction of the pedestal harry stands on today, the actual history is forgotten and unnecessary, the mega 1d star/only talented one out of 1d prophecy became reality and everyone is convinced that this was all organic and "meant to be" bc they made sure that it appeared that way, that's also why harry is trying to sell the underdog narrative even now (the Grammy speech was an attempt at that) bc it's important that this seems like an organic progression not something that he has been given on a silver platter and that was built from illusions and pr strategies

#ask #anon

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hi sam,

I need big sister advice...how do yoy stop yourself from liking something...and not just a person, just anything...celebrities, a fandom, a show, how do you stop the obsession before you go down the rabit hole

First and foremost 😭 big sister advice I'm 😭😭😭😭😭😭

AS ALWAYS--SORRY FOR THE LENGTH OF MY RESPONSE.

Okay, second, I am happy to give you my advice but I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask given my personal history with Twilight/1D/Harry.

HOWEVER. A little tangent: I am obsessed with iced coffee as well. Not sure I have mentioned that on here (you can probs tell from my stories, but anyway). I am constantly in a battle between "I should just make coffee at home" and "it's only $4" literally every day. I constantly here about how my $4 a day routine is attributing to my lack of a house in today's market. Not to toot my own horn but I do a lot for my family, my students, my friends, my boyfriend--pretty much anyone that enters my life, you get a piece of me that's yours to have. I don't do a whole lot for myself--self-care or otherwise. So I think life is short and I try to remind myself that $4 a day is not the worst thing in the world. (probably a bad mindset but if I don't do something for my mental well-being I think I'm going to explode).

The reason I say this is because I DO think life is short and you should allow yourself some indulgences. Otherwise, what's this all for? I'm not saying you should spend thousands on an obsession (see also: my Harry collection 🙃) but if you enjoy something, there's no reason you shouldn't as long as it's not causing you physical, mental, or financial harm (in my opinion).

For me? I have to limit myself. I used to watch EVERY interview, read EVERY article, watched EVERY Instagram story the entire 1D fandom had to offer and it became so overwhelming, so EXHAUSTING I had to stop. Like in my crazy teenage mind I thought that if I didn't watch EVERY piece of 1D things people would call me out for not being a real fan or that Harry/Niall would one day find out I didn't see their interview on Oct 12, 2013 and they would kick me out of the club.

It's part of why I had such a big hiatus on here. I am a huge planner so setting time for myself to do what I want to look at, watch, think about (albeit, it's very little time these days) is really important to me. Also, I have to decide if it's healthy or not for me to do so. I was staying up all hours a night to write stories and post and interact here on tumblr. It wasn't good for me.

I think just reframing the context is important too. I would like to believe I'm not really obsessed anymore. I have a great appreciation for shows and celebrities. I like to believe I know a LOT about Harry (but obviously I don't--para-social stuff ya know?). I know a great deal about How I Met Your Mother and The Princess Bride. I love potatoes, babies, math, reading, etc. I don't think these are obsessions they're just things I love.

Obsession often has a negative connotation and while I do like to tell people I have an obsession with Harry Styles for exaggeration/honestly what else am I supposed to call it? I don't think it's the right thing. Tbh, corny as it sounds I have the utmost respect for Harry. I think he's wonderful of course, and I wouldn't have known that without being so crazy for 1D for so many years.

So, I doubt any of this was helpful so I'll try to summarize:

I would really think if it's obsession or just something you really enjoy. I think there's a pretty significant difference. I also think it's okay to indulge in the things you love. Life is too short to not enjoy anything--especially something you're feeling passionate about. Moderation is important for this though. Your well-being is more important than knowing every detail about the thing you love. Not everything has to be an obsession.

If this wasn't helpful, let me know I'll try again 💕 Thank you for asking me for advice! This is like the sweetest, nicest thing 😭

xoxo

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snappyeagle · 2 years

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Massachusetts Transit Authority by snappyeagle and for the @1dcountryfest

Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson I Teen and Up Audiences

Niall speaking as an all knowing story teller in a dramatic voice:

These are the times that try man’s souls. In the course of human history, the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened. Today, a new crisis has arisen the Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the MTA, is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of a subway fare increase. Citizens, hear me out! This could happen to you!

Well let me tell you of a story of a man named Harry on a tragic and fateful day. He put $2.75 in his pocket, kissed his boyfriend and cat and went to ride the MTA.

Well did he ever return? No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (Actually Louis gave him the money eventually, but ignore that for the sake of listening to my awesome voice tell you their story).

Hey everyone! This fic is part of the 1D Country Fic Fest. You can read the other fics in this year's collection here, and find last year's fics here. You can also check out the Country Fest '22 Playlist on Spotify here. The playlist is updated with the release of each fic. The inspiration for this fic is based on the song MTA by the Kingston Trio, which is my mom's favorite song no matter how weird it is. I encourage everyone to read the lyrics of the song first because the fic will make more sense if you do. Also please ignore any discrepancies between this fic and the actual MTA.

Manip Credits to @devilinmybrain on Tumblr

#larry stylinson #ao3 feed larry #1dficvillage #hlficlibrary #thelarriefics #kingstontrio #larry fanfiction #songfic

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feeisamarshmallow · 11 months

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on becoming a one direction fan in the pandemic; or, life is love and loss and i can never be 17 again

Written late 2021.

I've spent most of the pandemic retreating into a hidey-hole of nostalgia. I spent two weeks watching Magic School Bus on Netflix in August. I cried last spring while listening to the VeggieTales Jonah Overboard Sing-Along Soundtrack. Throughout the fall, I revisited my favourite 2010s British YouTubers. I've been searching for anything to help me feel like the world was simpler and less scary and things were going to be okay.

It's been a double-whammy for me, because I'm also turning 25 this year. For the first time in my life, there is a generation of adults who are younger than me, and it's making me feel very nostalgic for my own teenagehood. Those experiences when you're between the ages of 16 and 20 are so intense and feel so singular and important and everlasting and unchanging. It's very weird to come to terms with the fact that people younger than me today will not be shaped by the same things that I was.

Enter my latest nostalgic rabbit-hole: One Direction.

I was certainly a fan of this British boy band back in their hey-day, but I was quiet about it and too embarrassed to even admit it to myself. (My friend and I went to see the 1D movie under the guise of "taking her little sister"). I was far too insecure to admit that I had a mainstream, "girly" interest as a teenager. I was focused on school and extracurriculars and I truly didn't think I could be someone who was smart and serious *and* liked One Direction. This was an immature perspective on my part, but I do think most of my insecurity was the result of the way society devalues things that young women like, but I digress.

When One Direction first formed in 2010, the members ranged in age from 16 to 19, which felt much older than me at age 14. But when I revisited the band as an adult, that two-to-five year age gap doesn't feel that big at all. They're like....my peers. In between being amused by the 2010s fashion and cringing at the terrible interviews and being fascinated by the fan-made compilations on YouTube, I just kept thinking about how they all came of age over the past ten years just like me. And although I didn't wake up one day and find myself in the most popular band in the world with millions of devoted (and over-devoted) fans, I think the period of late adolescence is intense for everyone.

I also feel the need to interject here and mention that I really like a lot of One Direction's music. They're great songs! They brought a rock-driven edge to pop music at a time when that was not the dominant sound at all. What Makes You Beautiful should go down in history as one of the best pop hits of all time. Perfect has this really beautiful subversion of the previously goofy lyrics and premise when Harry Styles delivers his quiet, heartfelt verse towards the end of the song. And Midnight Memories wouldn't sound out of place on Classic Rock radio (though I'm not sure the world is ready to have that conversation yet).

One Direction put out music and toured non-stop from their break-through at the X-factor in 2010 up until March 2015. Anyone who was slightly aware of the pop culture landscape will remember the outcry when Zayn Malik left the band at that time, although they would go on to tour without him and release one last album. Zayn would later talk about the anxiety and eating disorder he was experiencing that influenced his decision to leave, in addition to his growing unhappiness in the band.

In hindsight, I really can't believe 1D lasted with all the original members for as long as it did. They were five teenagers who were strangers to each other. Who weren't even sure they were going to make it onto the X-factor, who were made into a band by outside forces, caught the attention of a young female audience seemingly overnight and just...never went back to their previous lives. But then again, on a much, much smaller scale isn't that what happens to a lot of us? One day we move away from home and we can really never return to our childhood lives? Hasn't everyone formed strong friendships not so much from shared interests but shared proximity during the turmoil of young adulthood?

The fact that Zayn left the band, and not on great terms either, really adds to the nostalgia of watching early 1D videos. You can watch early videos of the band members joking around and the friendship between all five of them feels, if not deep, then at least genuine. And there's no way the band would've worked as well as it did for as long as it did if the members didn't genuinely get along, at least most of the time. There's a real pain in revisiting old One Direction videos and realizing that things will never be that way again.

Even if 1D has a reunion, I would be extremely surprised if Zayn were involved, and I'm not going to lie, there's something about that that makes me really sad. You just can’t unbreak what was broken over those five tumultuous years of One Direction. I guess it's such a tangible reminder that you can't return to the past. Whether it holds good or bad memories for you, whether or not I spend hours during a pandemic filling my brain with nostalgic media from my youth, I can never be 17 again.

There's a lot of focus on whether or not the 1D boys are still friends with one another. And I think a lot of fans, especially younger ones, take the limited interactions they have with each other as proof that the 1D guys aren't really friends anymore. And honestly? Some of them probably aren't close friends. But I think as you grow up, you realize that sometimes friendships fade not because you care less, but because growing up just makes that happen. It's one of the first lessons you learn as you reach adulthood, I think. As you move to new cities, new schools, new jobs, even new countries. There are people that have a profound impact on your life, who mean a lot to you, and you still have to let them go when life takes you separate ways.

Falling down a rabbit-hole of One Direction means having to let One Direction go. Having to accept that the band happened in the past, and cannot, and perhaps should not, be recreated in the future. And when I'm accepting that, I guess what I'm really accepting is that I have to let go of my life in the past, and I have to let myself move into the future, as scary as that may be.

#here's the thing i was talking about in the tags!#one direction #one direction meta #fee writes stuff

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random thing but okay so my daily ritual is rereading epilogue of ahb while listening to viva la vida by Coldplay and today my friend brought up the fact that ahb reg, as 1D stan, would approve if I read it while listening to that exact song BUT one direction cover.

(speaking of, nat my beloved I need your thoughts on Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix I love that painting SO MUCH it makes me feel so many things like I cannot describe the things it does to me)

aksjfhskaghg screaming!!

the one direction cover hahaha how are you gonna read that without seeing niall horan doing his little hand movements and smiling so big at the "aahhh ahh" part? i would cACKLE

liberty leading the people is one of the most famous paintings in all of art history with good reason! that painting makes me so emotional!! it's about freedom and revolution and the triumph of the human spirit and it's still so poignant and emotional and relatable in the modern day! there's so much feeling and momentum in the painting,, it feels like a call to action even now, which is extraordinarily remarkable after all this time (like i look at it an want revolution!)

I also think that this is such a perfect example of Romanticism in art!! like we're shifting during this time from the highly Neo-Classical forms of intellectualizing art (reason, order, rationality) to imbuing art with emotion and expression and feeling. this is the ultimate example of that i think.

#asks #ARH talks

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I have a genuine question, why is the solo Louie fandom so small? Before I knew anything about anything such as the inter fandom rivalry, I discovered the solo Louies on Twitter. They genuinely are the smartest, kindest most interesting people out of all the other groups. They seem to genuinely care about each other, are very friendly and welcoming. Why is it such a small community though?

I don’t know the full answer to that question, but I have speculations.

1. Being a solo Louie means dealing with literally years of trauma and tragedy and getting only albums and concerts and friendships as our rewards. There will never be radio play. There will never be major industry support. Being a UK Louie means almost never hearing Louis— an Englishman— on the radio, never seeing him in big festivals, never seeing him on television variety shows, never seeing a fashion spread or Rolling Stone cover. He will never play BBC Live Lounge. He will not be played on Capital FM or BBC Radio. He won’t be supported by Rolling Stone US or Pitchfork, let alone the major newspapers. He will never be on SNL, or the outdoor Today stage, or NY Rocking Eve, or Coachella. How does one be a good fan of a blacklisted musician? Solo Louies are the smartest bunch of fans, but the history of frustration has driven a lot of people underground, or simply away.

2. For years, being a Louie has meant being the target of attacks from the worst 1D fans— Harries, Larries, and now OT5, Niall, and Zayn fans. Just today, a crazy Harrie created another account to harass a solo Louie— @louisecalm— maybe the 300th account over 8 years? It doesn’t affect me that much anymore, but I’ve seen dozens of Louies leave the fandom over the years.

3. Louis’ team really doesn’t nurture solo Louies. Their industry interviews depicting Louis’ fanbase as crazy, hormonal teenage Directioners reflects how LTHQ/ Matt Vines/ BMG view Louis’ fanbase & how they market to the fanbase, and maybe how Louis himself is resigned to marketing One Direction first, before solo Louis Tomlinson. 1D is the priority.

4. With all of these factors combined, when Louis isn’t active, the fandom devolves into bickering with other fans. Harries are powerful trolls backed by the most powerful people in industry. Larries diminish Louis’ career accomplishments and creates a conspiratorial, toxic atmosphere that repulses new fans. Solo Louies are human beings, too, no matter how smart or resilient, and years of this kind of damage takes a toll.

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Speaking of celebrity culture & the literary buzz lately on twitter… youtu.be/hnP0DnCfuNU m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQsHyLRBUzo - some of these are TS selections. Hmm, now that I think of it, that literary reaction video made me wonder if the mysterious non fiction memoir rumored on twitter yesterday could be about Marjorie. That’s be cool, especially since that time period has drawn compelling comparisons to today and its ripples effect- 50s,60s,70s- like Elvis & Marilyn biopics. Her grandparents had to leave Cuba during that time. Jack Antonoff is a Kennedy collector - he wore vintage pin at Grammys. Marjorie song mentions of wishing she kept receipts & was left closet of backlogged dreams. She has a lot of resources -people & access- it is like a puzzle or whodunit- Agatha Christie (Angela Landsbury tales as old as time- weird how it is like an homage- she passed away around release). She likes that type of stuff, CSI, L&O:SVU, Criminal minds, Oz, etc- Shondra Rimes has definitely been an influence. Lol, Olivia H show was spotted in NY recently & was at concert last night. For example- the politics & celebrity culture (Kennedy & Cuba crisis in that era made me think of the Windsor royal family). The Crown or even celebrity involvement with the Ukraine/Russia war. Coincidentally TS ex secretly fought in it- news came out around TS latest album. The sections & stories on evermore & folklore reminded me of TS library (books, TV, film & music) tastes. Like the Taylor & Burton equivalevent of cancel culture. She has always been fascinated & influenced by history, visited museums & sites, picked up vintage items & exposed herself to various cultures. Lol, on the other hand- I think HS could do this too- or maybe they do already. It’s a creative way to work, express themselves but maintain privacy. Revealing their sources without exposing their life fully, yet educate others- relatable & applicable life lessons. Exploitation of kids for sport (Hunger games & Squid games)- reality TV, K-pop, Disney & nickelodeon- topics- cancel culture. History repeats in a way- we don’t always learn from the past… ‘ghosts.’ It’s true that internet like social media has spread things faster & influenced decisions that impact society. In their own way celebrities like HS/1D & TS for example, have utilized their influence and popularity to make their mark on today’s culture. Innovators & trendsetters- they tap into the pulse of society’s interests. They have a special gift/knack/skill to utilize today’s tools to draw ideas from past & present to spin/twist with words/puns/idioms that help their projects go viral globally and influence the future. They are as SM posts have revealed- Scrabble players/ game players. Turnabout fairplay. It is something that those before them were unable to take advantage of- and well, why not? Lol.

Sorry for the scramble of random thoughs- my page refreshes & autocorrects, ugh. Lol. Jotting it down before I lose it like other posts.

I think this memoir is mostly gonna be about Taylor but I’m sure she’s gonna talk all about her grandmother. This book is going to be 544 pages long. It’s gonna have a lot in it. I’m really excited for it.

TS & HS are so well read. Harry is such a poet & Taylor such a storyteller. If they ever worked on something together it would have the power to change the world.

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