You Know What, If Larry Isn’t Real, I Wanna Ask Louis Why He Got The Dagger Tattoo That Is Perfectly

I CANT BUY TICKETS OMG THE SITE CRASHED DUDE WTF

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Louis Tomlinson World Tour: Cincinnati. (19 February 2022)

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I can feel your energy from three planets away. He looks so happy

Through the Dark x

Louis didn’t write NO CONTROL for nothing

Full video of Harry talking to a fan with a „should I give him a second chance“ sign in Portland - 08/11

I showed up a year ago and figured out everything. A normal person will SEE all the LARRY RELATED EVIDENCE and would BELIEVE IT simply bc THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION THAN IT BEING REAL.

ANTIS CAN FUCK THEIR BRAINS OUT WHEN LOUIS AND HARRY COMES OUT

Are you implying that Louis Tomlinson’s son is a lie? I’m just curious what your POV is?

Is this for real? Love, I’m a larrie. An OG larrie — not one of these fake Twitter larries who showed up 2 years ago and believe the beards are real and Louis has a son. That child is not Louis’. Briana was never pregnant. I don’t post about babygate much, but you can look through my tags for BABYGATE and BOOBGATE. I’m pretty sure I have a masterpost and a timeline in there.

Straight people can still chill here too right

I fucking hate everything about the vol 2

The good ones aren’t worth eddie and max’s life and will thinking he was a mistake. Nope. Not accepted. !

also, i love how we're all collectively chilling on tumblr rn in order to cope with the mess that is vol. 2 of stranger things bc where else would all the tired and disappointed queer people be if not on this platform

Another 🤯

i love that ‘away from home’ is yet another example of louis and plausible deniability. like is it a play on like the ‘stay at home’ orders that kept us from live music, sure. but is it also VERY obviously a nod to his true home (harry) ABSOLUTELY. he’s so smart and i love him so much.

I think the "stay at home" <--> "away from home" is definitely a play on words here. And you know, gonna state the obvious, considering all of us having been/still being stuck in our homes and everything including festivals being off the menu for a long time I think the choice of calling a festival "the away from home festival" at a stage where being away from your home should still be a rare occasion is very fitting.

Also there will be a livestream a couple of days after? So people will be able to enjoy this festival that's away from their home?

And when we think of just him it's very fitting too; he was supposed to be away from home, he had just started to travel, be on tour, but then the pandemic hit and he had to go home basically the second it started. This is the first time he's back on stage with a live audience, the first time he's "away from home" in that sense, all in all it's just perfect.

But then again we got this crisp coincidoink pattern where this was probably definitely meant in some of those ^ways or something along the lines of it, still, he had all the words in the world to choose from and what did he decide to call this? home. We know he knows we know he knows we know what home means here in this 🏡. As if Home, the song, wasn't enough, as if the songs that would follow weren't enough, as if that dude being loud with a "tomorrow I'll find my way home" tweet when said tomorrow would be someone's birthday just earlier this year wasn't enough, I mean come on. This man eats double entendres for breakfast everyday.

This also gives me the-fish-is-traveling-right-now-vibes, as this festival is happening just (and I'm talking kicking off that same week just) before a tour is ~planned~, it's not Louis who is or is going to be away from home here, at least not as far as we know.

I do think it's 92.8% a ~these times amirite~ stay-at-home nod more than anything, it's just yaknow, son went ghuh that works in so many ways, yep nope that's perfect I want that.

(Also I like how both @ialwaysknewyouwerepunk and I went off about some of these home songs yesterday and the day before - Sweet Creature and that whole Canyon Moon x Home chaos so I'm just gonna link these here as relevant readings because I can)

I feel like it’s time for me to share my theory about 1D’s formation (and why it had been planned well before this X-factor video was shot - though this video did very well at making it seem organic)

A lot of this theory comes from reading stuff from @verily-i-say who, if you weren’t around when she was, worked with reality television and talked about how casting for reality shows works (ie everyone is assigned a role before they are even cast and you just try to find someone who can fit the roles that you need)

Liam giving that talk a couple months back about how 1D was something he believed Simon made for him because of their talk only solidified this theory for me. So lets get into it.

Let’s start with what was going on in pop culture in the start of 2010, and what 1D was originally supposed to be. Because remember, 1D was never supposed to be as big as they ended up being! By 2010 boy bands still weren’t as big as they had been in the late 90s and early 00s. There were the Jonas Brothers who were starting to wind down their activities just by the nature of how long they had been. The producers of X-factor would have known this without any sort of inside knowledge it’s just how pop bands are. They have shelf lives. K-pop was trying hard to pierce the western market but so far nothing had stuck and there was a feeling at the time that kpop would never make it big in the west because of how their bands were crafted/promoted.

What that means is there was room for a boy band. I think Simon and the people in the X-factor knew it was a good time to make a boyband. There was a market for it, and something that needed filled. So they start crafting their story. No group had ever won the X-factor because pre-made groups kinda sucked/weren’t fully crafted the same way they used to be. Clearly this meant they would have more success making a group than anything else.

We know the producers knew of Liam and Louis. I think they started with Liam - and again this is all before we even got to the filmed auditions. I think they had the idea to make the band with these 5 boys from the original auditions and it was ALWAYS going to be them.

Niall filled the Irish niche. They had just opened auditions to Ireland. This was an easy way to gain success in Ireland.

Zayn filled the “ethnic” niche. How else is the group supposed to be “diverse” if they don’t have a POC?

Liam filled the group leader. The band was originally crafted around Liam and I will die by this.

Harry filled the “baby” role. He was the youngest. You think it was coincidence his age was brought up during his filmed audition? No it was meant to cast him as the “baby”. It’s not as intense a role as the “maknae” in kpop groups but it’s a role to fill. It also leads into him being marketed as “adorably slow”. He’s baby.

And Louis? Well Louis filled the “gay” role. Vee has talked about how obvious it is to anyone with eyes that 18 year old Louis was gay. I’ll get into why they needed a gay member in a moment.

So that was their initial set up: Irish, POC, Leader, Baby, Gay. Those are the roles the X-factor deemed they needed for a boyband in early 2010 and then they went about looking for people who fit those roles.

Now, like with any casting, it doesn’t always work out perfectly. You see it constantly in tv shows and reality shows. Audience reaction to people and also just general “character development” changes where people fall. Liam’s role of “leader” and “face” of the band swiftly fell apart because Harry is SO FUCKING CHARISMATIC. If you rewatch any X-factor stuff you can see it happen almost in real time. I could go on a whole tangent about how this affected Liam and Harry’s relationship but that’s not exactly the point of this post and it’s already way too long lol.

But what happened to Louis being “gay” and why did they need a “gay” member to begin with? It goes back to the idea 1D was never meant to be as successful as they are. In 2010 being gay and coming out/or being outted was like… pop culture candy. It was trendy. It got you promo. I’m not saying it’s right but that’s how it was. So I think they always wanted a gay member so that way they guaranteed a 3 album commitment from the boys. Album 1 rides off the back of X-factor. If Album 2 wasn’t as successful you pull out the gay card and BOOM instant interest in album 3. Enough to get Simon’s money worth from the band before they’re allowed to fade into obscurity.

Obviously that didn’t happen. Why? Well for starters the band was INSANELY popular. And secondly 🤷🏼‍♀️ Larry? They got put in a position with Larry where they couldn’t out Louis even if they needed to without outting Harry and ruining his “role” in the band.

And there’s my theory ✌🏻

The other is overflowing with confidence.

The other is so nervous.

Opposites attract don’t they?

Unseen 1D video from 2012