is your British ass happy now?

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UGH YES OKAY I'VE FALLEN VICTIM TO ONE DIRECTION FANDOM. This is not surprising if you follow me on Tumblr, which is where I spend most of my days, chillin' out maxin' and relaxin' all cool and reblogging pictures of Harry Styles being a perfect human being etc. I really thought my Sherlock fannishness would stick around but it's hard to focus when

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Up until two weeks-ish ago, I actually had One Direction tumblr saviored, so I never saw posts about them, and then someone on my flist started posting about them, and how precious Louis and Harry were and I was like NO I WILL NOT BE DRAWN IN I REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO BANDOM I REFUSE and then the very next day my tumblr was all One Direction, all the time. I think the fannish equivalent of heroin is the perfect way to describe them tbh. It's -- well not nice, but comforting I guess, to know that there's someone else who was fannishly adrift after bandom. I still look back at that time in my fannish life as the best thing ever, and I miss it like crazy. I compare every fandom I'm in to bandom and they just come up wanting. The fic's not as good, the fans are terrible -- there's always something. I've been in media fandom for the most part since then and WOW has it been different to come back into an active RPS fandom. So much new canon all the time! I had forgotten what it was like to be afraid to go to sleep because WHAT IF I MISS SOMETHING??? SO MANY FEELINGS I'M DROWNING IN THEM AHHHHHH

Ugh I'm terrible at leaving coherent comments, I'm so sorry. In my defense it's two in the morning and no one's coherent at two in the morning.

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I had a friend who got into 1D a few months ago, and we had been friends in popslash and bandom so I was like okay, and I watched the One Thing video and I was like "eh no, boring, they're not that cute" so it's confusing to me that I watched it again last week and it was all I ever wanted to have in front of my eyes for eternity??? What? How? I've read on and off in media fandoms recently but god yes, bandom was really the thing, wasn't it? Christ, I loved Panic! At The Disco so much. I mean I love my TV shows and everything but nothing compares to RPF. It's like last week I woke up and there were new .gifs of Harry Styles in his underwear. YOUR MOVE, NEXT WEEK. LET'S DO THIS.

Coherence is for suckers! I'm following you on Tumblr and friending you here because one mustn't OD on 1D alone! \o/

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Oh my God you love Panic! too? NEW BEST FRIEND FOREVER. I'm trying to order my thoughts and you know, make sense, but all I can think is IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I'VE MET SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T JUDGE ME FOR MY UNDYING LOVE FOR THOSE RIDICULOUS BOYS. Brendon/Ryan will be my OTP until I die, I think.

YES hng omg shirtless Harry. And then like, a day ago there was a video of Harry and Louis being cuddley drunks in a bar in Wellington. Things happen so fast here! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

Oh, awesome! I don't post on LJ much myself, but I do love commenting on other people's posts, so I'll totally friend you back. I swear, I've gotten so many new followers on tumblr this week, just from starting to post One Direction. I didn't change anything else about my blog! The boys are magic.

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Hahahahaha oh my god seriously I was a huge Brendon/Ryan shipper for years, scroll back like not even a page on this LJ and it's all there, I wrote a good amount of fic. I am always such a sucker for the big obvious pairing. /o\ If you want a mindfuck, consider that in 2006/7 when most people got into the fandom and started writing fic, Brendon and Ryan were 19 and 20, same-ish as the 1D boys now. Auuuuugh.

THAT VIDEO. Oh my god, and all the drama with the guy who filmed it saying he saw them kiss? What's it even like to be Harry and Louis? This fandom is fucking bonkers, I mean I've been into RPF pairings where I could definitely see how they could be banging IRL, but this is the first fandom where I'm sort of grasping at straws trying to explain Harry and Louis withOUT reaching the conclusion that they're actually a couple? What? I don't know? I can't? What will tomorrow bring???

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Big obvious pairings are big and obvious for a reason! There is nothing wrong with liking big obvious pairings! Auuuuuugh omg they're all so ooooold now now I feel old! I'm the same age as Louis I can't be old!

I've thought the same thing! Like, I shipped Brendon and Ryan hardcore, and I could point to certain things as "They're sleeping together!" but I NEVER tinhatted for them like I do for Harry and Louis. It's really difficult to find ways to explain their behavior that don't boil down to the conclusion that they're fucking! Even when management (one would presume, anyway) tries to remind us that Harry is a ladies' man and Louis has a girlfriend, it makes more sense to look at it as them doing damage control! My friend Jenny (likecharity) started making a timeline of events in fandom, starting with this month, and it was INSANE seeing how many women Harry was linked to right after -- I think it was the video of him kissing Louis' cheek at a concert came out. Something like eight women in as many days.

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EDIT: I just looked at the fic recs bit, which I hadn't before now, and realized that you recced three of Jenny's fics and maybe me mentioning her would look like name dropping or something oh my god no I just want everyone to know how great she is frtgyhu I'm sorry I'm not namedropping ahhhhhh