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By the way one direction inspired an entire generation of young teens to become artists, readers, writers, musicians, animators. 14 year olds were hacking into security cameras. Do you genuinely understand how hard that is? I literally have a tech degree and i still view hacking as too complicated. 14 year olds were in literal stem to watch one direction buy a bottle of shampoo. They have genuinely altered the courses of so many people's lives in terms of careers and long term hobbies. It was never just the music. I literally started reading by reading fanfiction. I am now a very active reader of many genres. I got a fucking tech degree because i wanted to see how it was done. Like its so unbelievably crazy. And they were massively bullied by the media and the rest of the world. They were ridiculed by the music industry. They were the biggest boyband on the planet and the only one that went as global as they did and they had them parody their own song 3 seperate times. They were never nominated for grammys as a group. They were genuinely never taken seriously and they changed the courses of young womens lives.

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1 month since you left us, Payno💔

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my children will absolutely know them and i'll tell them, "the boyband at my time, one direction, they just had fun. they were just normal guys but i really really loved them so much."

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a collection of gifs I found today whilst scrolling that have nearly made me cry (part 2)

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Early one direction was fantastic. NO stage presence. No dance moves. They’d just be up on stage like awkwardly bopping around and shoving each other and like fucking giving eachother smooches on the cheek. There was one show where Harry styles got pantsed during his solo??? They were the boyband that NEVER wanted to or intended to be in a boyband! They were totally in it for the fame and the money, but they became BROS !!!! They were FRIENDS!! And that’s the true beauty, the friends we made along the way!

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it’s not the end, I’ll see your face again

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Thank you for always making us laugh while watching your videos and making us happy with your music. You will always stay in our hearts and we will miss you forever.

Rest in peace, Liam 🕊️❤️

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You will be dearly missed Liam Payne At new years I will raise a glass to you Liam. The man who will never get to see another new years.

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sevdaliza !!

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Tell Me - Zayn Malik & Liam Payne (Duet)

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LISTENNN

Liam doing most of Zayn’s solos - Steal My Girl, Kiss You, Strong, Don’t Forget Where You Belong, Night Changes, One Thing, What Makes You Beautiful, Girl Almighty, Story of My Life, You and I, Little White Lies (!!!!!!!!) & Best Song Ever

Harry (x) | Louis (x) | Niall (x)

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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It's been over two weeks since Liam, and I'm...still not that OK. And I don't know if I will be. It hit me so much harder than I imagined. It still feels like we are in the wrong universe. This never should have happened. So this is just a rant about how I am feeling, in case you are feeling it too. Please, don't forget Liam. And don't let hangers-on steal his truth again.

I find relief and joy seeing videos and photos of Liam, or reading fanfiction about him. Thinking of him as joyful and silly and complex and loved and having challenges he can triumph over...we should never lose that. I never want him to be erased. I'm glad that wasn't stolen from us.

Seeing the fandom come back together, new people fall in love with Liam, and Directioners not let his entire life story be simplified or tragically recast or the bullshit narrative they tried to place on him, has been mixed.

On one hand, I'm deeply grateful Directioners were cultivated to analyze the shit out of PR-spun industry bullshit and know exactly how to undermine it LOUDLY. Without that, the sloppy, contradictory, false narrative about Liam would've been fully accepted. And now it never will be no matter how hard they try.

But I'm also sad because I would give anything for Liam to have had five minutes in a world that openly adored him as much as he deserved. See him bashful and glowing as people raved about his voice, dance moves, leadership, songwriting abilities...his warm eyes and cuddly affection and kindness to so. many. people.

I feel rage thinking about how Liam was FUCKING TELLING THE TRUTH about everything. He told the truth when he said the band was formed around him, that Simon promised him. He told the truth about leading the band - ten seconds of watching This Is Us shows that. He told the truth about Zayn's lack of parental support especially from his father, which must've impacted him severely. He told the truth about the industry and what he lived through. And people unfollowed and laughed at him, made him into a joke, but he was telling the truth the whole time.

And now, my biggest fear is that we could lose another member. I'm very worried about Zayn but almost afraid to not worry about the others as much. I know that all my worry isn't helping anyone and that feels worse, that there's nothing I can do.

And I fear that soon, people will stop paying attention and forget him all over again. Or let his story get swallowed up by people who never did anything but opportunistically live off of him.

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No you don’t understand, we’re all in the midst of grief but theres something so comforting about so many of us getting one direction tattoos. Cause at some point we were all made to believe loving 1d was silly even if we, ourselves, never felt that. One Direction shaped our adolescence and when the band stopped and we got older we never got closure on that part of our lives and maybe even ourselves thought it was silly to want a 1d tattoo. Now though, we’re all realizing just how much 1d meant to us, and made us into the people we are today, how we’ll carry that experience with us forever and we deserve to memorialize that part of our lives with a tattoo for the band we fucking loved more than anything. I’m getting my tattoo for the band tomorrow and I couldn’t be more excited!!

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bangtan’s music videos from 2016 to 2017

#2017BTSFESTA #4YearsWithBTS

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i’ll miss you forever, beautiful boy.

sleep well.🕊️🤍