My name is Brad and this is a sideblog/secret identity for my Larry/Non-Larry thoughts. I USED to be a hardcore Larry, but now I'm more of a casual observer of the shit show that the Larry discourse has become.
I know nobody reads posts from this account anymore, but I think it’s fascinating how similar Larries are to the Trump supporters. Even down to the language they use like “things are happening soon!” and the pivots they’re forced to use when things ultimately don’t happen the way they “knew” they would.
gays and neurodivergent ppl are obsessed with cryptids, the fae, liminal spaces, etc because we often exist on the fringe of society and lack well-defined social identities, feeling such acute isolation from the “normal” world that we align ourselves more with things that are literally not of this world. in this essay i will
I don’t think you can say anybody who doesn’t know is homophobic. that seems like a grand statement. maybe they just don’t know.
I can and I did. if you’re involved in harry’s fandom and you still believe he’s straight, you’re a homophobe. I have had enough arguments with homophobic het harries to say, definitively, they are homophobes. I had one say to my face, “he isn’t gay, he’s open.” after I presented her with the years of outings, articles, and shows of solidarity. like miss me with that homophobic bs. if you’re in fandom, there’s no way you missed his signaling. he’s been doing it for years, and only getting bolder. if you’re a fan, there’s most likely no way you haven’t heard medicine, or seen one of the articles about his pride flags, GLSEN, or like, i dunno…medicine. if you saw him in concert you know of the pride flags and … medicine. if you’ve looked him up on spotify you’ve heard girl crush. if you’ve googled him in the last six months you’ve seen the articles about his sexuality. it’s willful homophobia. if you want to pull up to my house and say, “I just thought he was open.” I WILL fight you and I WILL win because you’re an idiot and I could take you in hand to hand combat. like you guys need to stop coming up with other ways to justify your homophobia. he’s not “open”. he’s fucking gay. and he was never gonna date you anyway, so like…get over it.
remember what larries used to say about “NT”? Remember when Freddie was a month old and 2,000 larries said Irving Azoff was only delaying taking control because he wanted to give time for people to hate Briana and her family?
It’s not “the defendant didn’t believe the victim was real and so he poofed out of existence.”
It’s “they didn’t believe the victim was real, and encouraged others not to believe the victim was real, so people did not treat the victim as a real person, made belittling comments about the victim, the victim’s parents, the victim’s relationship with this father, the victim’s entire family - including wishing violence against them.”
also, the definition is pretty friggin literal. like there are lots of ways to dehumanize someone, but saying they literally don’t exist is in there. like how only ever treating native americans as part of history instead of real people who exist and are struggling today is erasing them and hurts them? not intending to say that Larries are doing a similar type of damage, just be clear. obviously a much less important issue!!! but it’s not just perpetuating stereotypes that cause people to look at others as less than human, although that is often a big part of it. But literally saying someone does not exist is dehumanization and it has an impact.
Larries have to work so, so hard so they can pretend their behavior hasn’t been wildly inappropriate and harmful. But guess fucking what? When you call a child a doll, say he doesn’t exist, say his parents aren’t his real parents, and demonize his entire family in every possible way based on no evidence whatsoever, there’s actually gonna be consequences.
Telling people that a baby is a doll and using that as an excuse to mock the baby’s appearance or make jokes about the baby getting hurt, that’s… that’s dehumanization.
Insisting that Freddie’s family and life are not real and not as they seem are also a way Larries separate themselves from his personhood, so they can feel ok about making comments such as:
This post sums up the results of the way Larries and Ziams talk about the people who get in the way of their ships. This post shows how Briana and her family have been talked about by Larries. Here are some more examples of dehumanizing Larrie behavior. So much of their disrespectful behavior arises from the unquestioned assumption that Freddie does not exist. Their entire fandom is waiting for Freddie’s existence to be denied, for Louis to just drop him, which they think will have no consequences because they think he isn’t real. They think they can pick apart every aspect of Freddie’s life because they don’t think it’s real. And here’s lawyerlarrie, basically joking that they can’t be dehumanizing Freddie because… he isn’t a human because he doesn’t exist. And they don’t see how fucked up their position here is.
And you know what? Larries who don’t say these things, if you don’t like it when we point out that the way the Larrie community talks about Briana and her entire family dehumanizes them to encourage harassment and hate, if you don’t like the way people mocked and continue to mock and dehumanize Freddie to separate themselves from the reality of what they’re saying about him and his family, then maybe you should have tried publicly distancing yourself from these bloggers. Maybe you should speak out against this, instead of reblogging them and explicitly voicing your support for them.
This is probably the most embarrassing thing I've seen on this site in awhile. Like are you for fucking real?
so at first you look at this gif and think ah that’s cute
and then you think about the fact that james had to TELL HIM to sit sideways, because his first instinct was to sit on his lap dick to ass and i for one am not ok
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