I am horrified by the children and maybe MORE horrified by people who I know are actually adults who are being asssholes about Harry and Louis and Eleanor. I just want to scream these are real people and point out that if they keep this shit up even Harry and Louis will probably stop being quite so adorably HarryandLouis all the time together. They are ruining their own fun. It's gross and it's ruined the pairing in fic for me because I can't read it without getting really really upset about other stupid people.
Blargh. Anyway.
One time I posted in my lj "Hey tumblr kids, can we stop referring to them as these faggots or these homosexuals" and got told I was oppressing them because Louis has never called himself straight. And then I wished everyone on the internet were dead. Dear Louis Tomlinson, I am really, really sorry about some aspects of your life. Stay strong.
I honestly can't even think about the fact that there are adults who act like this. How would you feel if approximately a zillion people were out there absolutely convinced and trying to convince YOU that you and your best friend were dating? And that your ACTUAL significant other was nothing but a joke? I can't imagine there are a whole lot of people who would think that was a fun or exciting experience. I just.... I mean you're just so right, they're going to feel like they CAN'T be themselves anymore and that really sucks, not only for us few who know how to respect them but even more importantly for THEM, because as a band they all go on about how their thing is being who they really are, being able to act like themselves all the time and how great that is for them, and the thought that their FANS, the people who are supposed to be so supportive of them, are the ones who are making it so that they can't be as touchy feely and adorable and close -- I can't really stomach it sometimes. People are horrible
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It absolutely kills me. I'm trying really hard not to get angry with all of fandom, but I have absolutely lost my ability to read or enjoy Harry/Louis in any format, and I WORRY about the real boys and their enjoyment of life and their jobs. The fact that Louis has said twice now by my count, explicitly, "I AM NOT DATING HARRY," and that otherwise sane people reply with "well, it's not DATING, is it?" or "he HAS to say that," or other bullshit makes me crazy. I run my school's gay-straight alliance and our #1 rule about making it a safe space is that NO ONE gets to decide anyone else's sexuality. We don't guess, we don't speculate. You are what you identify as end of story. Louis has a girlfriend and says he isn't dating Harry. The fucking end.
...sorry, that was a rant. It's just that you seem sane, and I'm so MAD and I'm trying not to feel >:( about a fandom that brings so much joy.
Rant away, dear! (Btw- I apologize if pet names aren't your thing! They're super natural to me, but I absolutely understand if that's not something you're interested in being called/if we aren't personally on a level where you're comfortable with that, please let me know!) I... I have had a LOT to say about this fandom today, which mockturtletale can attest to seeing as we've spent more or less all day ranting about fandom and this fandom and how these are really spectacularly not okay practices that are being practiced by the majority of fandom. I definitely share your anger
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Pet names don't bother me in the slightest! (Not when they're used affectionately, at least. I call most of my students "sweetheart" but it usually means I'm mad at them. "Sweetheart, I need you to stop hitting him, or we're gonna have to talk about this, honey
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"This fandom is just too horrible to feel guilt over that kind of thing." Ugh, you can say that again. I have never ever unfollowed somebody on Tumblr or defriended them on LJ before last week, but today alone it has happened four times. It is just too much to feel constantly ill at the level of terrible, no one decent could stomach it.
I am mostly just incredibly thankful that it seems like the boys haven't been too bothered by recent goings on. They are still adorable and affectionate and magical, and I had been incredibly terrified that the things happening recently would make them shy away from that a little. I'm just so, so glad that they haven't done that for a plethora of reasons. (They actually almost seem MORE affectionate in the past couple of days than they had for a while before that? Potentially I am projecting, here.)
Unfollowing or defriending is the only way to handle some of this fandom, honestly. Even Liam had a bit of a breakdown on twitter yesterday, so you know things are genuinely rough in the 1D camp right now. I feel like if you can push Liam to swearing -- even if he turned around and was adorable about it later, of course he was, he's Liam -- then you have gone so far past acceptable you can't even see the line anymore
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Blargh. Anyway.
One time I posted in my lj "Hey tumblr kids, can we stop referring to them as these faggots or these homosexuals" and got told I was oppressing them because Louis has never called himself straight. And then I wished everyone on the internet were dead. Dear Louis Tomlinson, I am really, really sorry about some aspects of your life. Stay strong.
Hey, but Harry has a great face!
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...sorry, that was a rant. It's just that you seem sane, and I'm so MAD and I'm trying not to feel >:( about a fandom that brings so much joy.
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"This fandom is just too horrible to feel guilt over that kind of thing." Ugh, you can say that again. I have never ever unfollowed somebody on Tumblr or defriended them on LJ before last week, but today alone it has happened four times. It is just too much to feel constantly ill at the level of terrible, no one decent could stomach it.
I am mostly just incredibly thankful that it seems like the boys haven't been too bothered by recent goings on. They are still adorable and affectionate and magical, and I had been incredibly terrified that the things happening recently would make them shy away from that a little. I'm just so, so glad that they haven't done that for a plethora of reasons. (They actually almost seem MORE affectionate in the past couple of days than they had for a while before that? Potentially I am projecting, here.)
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