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THERE IS NO *IF* 

louis has 37 songwriting credits for 1D (contrasted with liam’s 34, harry’s 21, niall’s 16, zayn’s 11)

the sound changed significantly with MM, their third album, when savan got the boot….

…and who was responsible for savan getting the boot? who was butting heads with savan about their sound? that’s right, LOUIS.

john ryan who kept working with 1D described the third album (when louis and liam finally got to have a say) as a pivotal one that gained them credibility and compared it to the beatles being taken more seriously.

louis and liam being reported as the biggest 1d earners as of savan’s departure because they wrote the most songs on the album

i guess the band themselves were lying when they said louis wrote the most songs on Graham Norton

i guess liam was lying when he said louis was the voice for the band and his talent was in steering their sound?

“The elder statesman of the group, Louis Tomlinson, 20, is also known in inside circles as the defacto leader and resident perfectionist in One Direction. In our conversation about being named Billboard’s Top New Artist of 2012, Tomlinson doesn’t exactly dispute the labels. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I have to be kind of be on board with every minor detail and [I’m] quite opinionated,” he said. “It’s quite important for me personally to be involved with the whole project.” Billboard, 2012

“As one of One Direction’s most prolific songwriters — along with Liam Payne and 1D’s steady roster of songwriter-producer collaborators like Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan, and more — Louis Tomlinson plays a huge part in determining the band’s sound, one which has grown leaps and bounds since their debut album.“ EW, 2015

when will you anti-louies stop following me and actually follow the tpwk™ proverb instead of treating it like a fashion statement?

2020 Edit:

Liam in 2017, 

LINK TO GIF POST

Savan Kotecha in 2020: 

At this pivotal moment, One Direction made it clear that they wanted a greater say in their artistic future. Kotecha admits he was wary at first, but the band was determined.

And the songs 1D helped write (“Last First Kiss,” “Back for You,” and “Summer Love”) remain among the LP’s best.

“You saw that they caught the bug and were really good at it,” Kotecha says of their songwriting. “And moving forward, you got the impression that that was the way for them.”

But it was also time for a creative shift. Even Kotecha knew that from his boy-band history: Album three is, after all, when you start moving on. One Direction was ready, too. Kotecha credits Louis, the oldest member of the group, for “shepherding them into adulthood, away from the very poppy stuff of the first two albums. He was leading the charge to make sure that they had a more mature sound. And at the time, being in it, it was a little difficult for me, Rami and Carl to grasp — but hindsight, that was the right thing to do.” — Rolling Stone, 22 July 2020

Liam Payne in 2020,

He [Louis] was much more with One Direction behind the scenes steering the ship of which way the music [went]. Massively. And people don’t know enough about that to be honest with you. Several moves I would’ve made that we would fall out about, he was more right than I was.

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NEVE CAMPBELL in Wild Things (1998)

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Nap time

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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lthq really do be making it impossible to have an ounce of excitement for anything huh

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Louis leaving the Soho Hotel, London - April 23rd, 2015

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 06.06 - All the Way; shooting script description.

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don’t 4get to eat your greens :oP

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louis.jpg /// April 22, 2015

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for an 8 year old shirt it's held up pretty well despite its dust attraction

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Gael García Bernal & Natalia Verbeke in Dot The I (2003)