#larry stunts

[bciwasinlove]

I saw an anon about how this stunt is making them want to leave [after being around for many, many years]. I don't know if I'm just an emotional-less ahole when it comes to this stuff [probably], but how is this what makes someone want to leave?

Honestly, how does random walking through the streets of LA pics make one want to leave but Haylor NY "romantic kiss", Hendall yacht "icloud leak", Holivia yacht "love fest", Danis yacht "oh la la" pics, Elounor yacht and Italy outing didn't?

But either way, if it does make one want to leave, why do people make a big stink about it sending out anons to others complaining about everything when they could just delete their acc and go instead?

The way I see it, L&H are just two closeted people doing the best they can to exist in an industry run by homophobic people. This is part of the reality they [and I] must accept [not like but accept]. Once you learn to accept that things are a lot easier and if they don't get easier for you, then just leave instead of sticking around and constantly being miserable.

[nekilarry]

The bua has been seeded.

Let's prepare ourself for the rest.

[savebylou]

Louis about the theory of him dating Harry.

Sharing this because is a matter of time everyone will see the video [São Paulo, g1, posted 08.04.24]

[larrylimericks]

23Mar23

We’re feeling some internal friction At silver screen Louis’ depiction; All the world is a stage But it’s hard to engage When plot lines combine fact and fiction.

I get really rambly below the fold. Proceed with caution if you’re over the discourse already.

I debated seeing All of Those Voices in theaters. I didn’t see either of Harry’s films in theaters — Harries are too much of a wildcard, and I refused to sit through hours of squeals and gasps and reactions, not to the movie but to “omg! Harry’s going down on someone! omg, Harry’s bum!” So I was already tentative about seeing Louis’ film in a shared space, outside the protective silos of tumblr. But I bought a ticket, because I want to support him and because I was genuinely curious what story would be told. Then we got the trailer and I hesitated again, not wanting to watch a propaganda film. But, I’ve lived through all the other Bullshit moments, so I figured I could live through Bullshit on the big screen.

My theater crowd was great — pretty neutral aside from an amusing row of politely excitable Larries I was in secret solidarity with. And I pretty much loved the film. Well, 92% of it. I look forward to watching it again when it streams. I mean, it was an hour and a half of content featuring this fascinating creature we’re all obsessed with. I didn’t want to blink. I hung on his every word (when I could understand them). How cool to get, essentially, a long-form interview, where he’s not promoting an album and we’re not getting the same sound bytes. Louis is wonderfully open and vulnerable, and the story of his life (heh) is inherently compelling. The cinematography is beautiful. The behind-the-scenes are delightful and delicious. I can’t wait for the AOTV gif sets once we have it in high-def.

But it has some plot holes as wide and deep as the ones in Don’t Worry Darling.

First, there’s the confusing (to the uninformed) absence of a love interest. Louis is asexual, as far as the film goes. There’s not even a ghost of Eleanor, with whom he’s cumulatively spent a decade and who is supposed to have inspired so many great love songs and with whom he is supposed to have survived a pandemic. Props to E for living her best life now: going to see Scream on AOTV opening day, enjoying full custody of the pups, publicly supporting her assumed partner — sorry you got Kiki Layned from the film, but I’m guessing you weren’t even written into the script. (It’s not like the film was conveniently re-edited in the months since their break-up. Her stunt tapering was intentional.)

Then there’s the glaring absence of a baby mama (thank god; that family would have been even more insufferable). We’re cruising along for 45 minutes or so and then, wham, Dad!Louis enters the chat with a fully formed 6-year-old child. The kid just magically appears with no backstory — just like in real life ... twice (the first time with the pregnancy announcement and the second time with the revival of Dad!Louis after several years of dormancy, right in time for documentary filming. Just like Harry stunted with his co-star during filming and production, Louis stunted with his.)

The kid is cute, and faultless in this. The scenes are objectively sweet (as they were designed to be). But Louis, who normally keeps things very close to the vest, is all of a sudden an emotional spigot you can’t turn off when it comes to these scenes. It seems quite out of character. Which brings back to mind that this Louis *is* a character. The Freddie scenes just didn’t seem to have a point in the plot other than: Louis is a dad. And that role isn’t integral to the film’s story.

He’s incredibly emotional with Freddie, but the movie doesn’t tell us why. The storytelling gets lazy here. The lad/dad plot seems wedged in. The movie would be perfectly complete without it. I felt like it could have been integrated a few different ways: Louis experienced tragedy after tragedy after tragedy — loses 1D, loses his mum, loses his sister ... and then impending fatherhood either becomes another trial he must reluctantly face (in the surprise pregnancy narrative) or it helps him navigate the grief of losing his sole parent, his closest confidante. OR, Louis, not wanting to be like the absentee father he had, shows up for his own oopsie baby despite the unexpected circumstances. But there’s no exposition or rising action. No footage or photos from the first few years of the kid’s life that we haven’t already seen. Just an immaculate conception.

I think the most compelling narratives of the film are these:

Louis’ overcoming adversity after adversity after adversity. Holy hell. I lived through 1D ending, through the devastating news about Jay (god, I remember the shock and sadness of that day — it was incomprehensible), through the heartbreaking news about Fizzy, and then when you think Louis is gonna get his moment of victory with his first solo world tour, coronavirus pulls the rug out. (That sequence was well done: where we keep seeing the dates get closer and closer to March 2020, and we all know the villain that’s coming, but it’s still such a blow.) I lived through all that in real time, but seeing it in such a concentrated sequence really highlights the shit he’s been dealt, and hearing him open up about so much of it ... that’s the character development relevant to the film’s denouement. And getting to see Louis get what he deserves, finally, and hearing him acknowledge that he deserves it, was a lovely ending.

Louis’ journey to find his footing and his confidence as a solo artist after unfathomable success as part of a group. But, in a sort of plot twist, he’s not really solo, is he? The film gives a lovely introduction to his band now — and in their own words, reveals that they’re not just a backing band, they’re a *band* band. Louis has let them in. He’s forged a new brotherhood. *That*, for me, was the heartwarming story. I loved those scenes, loved seeing Louis in his element, which is in a collective, where he is both king and jester at the same time. (Or perhaps Oli’s the jester. Thank fuck for him, man. Oli is the standout. The breakthrough performance. The comic relief. I want a spinoff series.) It’s easy to miss 1D and glorify those short years and think nothing will ever top it, but Charlie’s storytelling of the LT Band is remarkable. We’re left looking forward, not back.

I know Louis’ dedication to his fans and his fans’ dedication to him is a huge focus, but I don’t really enjoy watching commentaries on fandoms I’m a part of. I’m living it. I don’t need outsider context. And in a fandom as fractured as Louis’ (and 1D’s) there’s not a universal experience. The film depicts dedication as sleeping on streets for rail, hopping from country to country and draining bank accounts — because that’s the kind of “superfandom” that gets easily turned into a marketable freak show. Show me the documentary on the fans who organize the light projects, who run the fashion accounts, who curate livestream sources on show nights, who have turned giffing into an art and science, who help promote Louis in the absence of a competent marketing team, etc., etc. I also thought the interview with the American(?) girls talking about LATAM shows was shortsighted. And showing the rainbow factions but not addressing them? What a missed opportunity to talk about songs like Only the Brave becoming a queer anthem. Straight artists can have gay fans, you know.

But the film doesn’t make the kid relevant to any of those storylines. He could have been worked into the first, but wasn’t. It was like a standalone narrative, with footage from a narrow set of days. I was at both those L.A. shows. The energy was so different from night 1 to 2. And in retrospect it’s clear Louis was performing the first night so Charlie could get the right shots. More like a choreographed play than a rock concert. It makes sense now why the Clarks weren’t in the VIP box with Freddie — couldn’t have them cluttering the frame or distracting the actors. Just, everything about the Freddie scenes is heavy-handed. Make a sign for your dad! Draw his logo in the sand! Fly a kite at sunset! He’s the spitting image of Louis! (Len does all the heavy lifting.) And all the maneuvering it had to take to get all those shots from the L.A. show?! In the VIP box from behind (and from the front, and when he just happens to be mouthing along to Two Of Us), side stage watching Louis end the show, on-stage watching Louis approach Freddie after the show, on-stage catching the moment Louis gives the lad a shout-out ... Charlie had a shot list. But sure, nothing was set up, it was totally organic.

I’m still unsettled by how heavily Charlie laid it on at the first premiere press conference — *he* was the one to bring up the kid, and was weirdly emphatic that nothing was staged, nothing was forced. It had the same energy of the “It’s. Not. Real” thrown baby doll moment, only it’s Charlie insisting that It. Is. Real. Thou dost protest too much, me thinks.

And of course, the lack of interaction between Louis and Harry remains, as ever, the biggest tell. We get poignant post-1D Nouis and Lilo moments in the film, but no Larry. We’re spoon-fed these Very Emotional Moments between father and son (“love you,” “Darling,” mouth kisses), when the real story, the real emotion, the real connection is in just a few seconds of furtive glances between Harry and Louis in the backstage footage of the last 1D performance. Christ, the way Harry’s eyes bore into Louis — chin tilted down, eyes glancing up from beneath a furrowed brow, lips tight, disguising his attentiveness with a hair flip ... they mastered so many forms of silent communication. The quiet call and response, the depths of love and care and concern and protection contained in micro-expressions. Fuck, give me 90 minutes of that. Just a silent film of Louis and Harry looking at each other.

Anyway. Sorry this sounds so grumpy. I did really love most of the movie. But I haven’t made sense of why this film was made. I don’t know its purpose. Maybe the introspection forced by the pandemic lockdown is to credit for this glut of music docs (“docs”) lately. Maybe nine minutes frees him up for nine more months or nine more years. I dunno. He obviously wanted this story told in this way.

Seeing a movie requires the willing suspension of disbelief. You have to ignore critical thinking in order to enjoy the story you’re being told. You tune out your knowledge that everything is fake for the sake of being entertained. We know that Superman can’t actually fly, but we still buy tickets to the cinema. But, a documentary shouldn’t require us to employ this semi-conscious perceiving mode. Yet here we are. I’m just not sure how much more or how much longer we can suspend our disbelief to enjoy fandom.

[tobethemselves]

Larry Timeline

March 2024

01.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

02.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

03.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

04.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

05.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

06.03.2024 Harry is MIA [Rumor of Harry in London] / Louis is MIA

07.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

08.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

09.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

10.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

11.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

12.03.2024 Harry is MIA [Rumors of Harry in Georgia] / Louis is MIA

13.03.2024 Harry is MIA [Rumors of Harry in New York (stunt mention)] / Louis is MIA

14.03.2024 Harry is in New York (stunt mention) / Louis is MIA

15.03.2024 Harry is in New York (stunt mention) [more here] / Louis is MIA

16.03.2024 Harry is MIA [Rumors of Harry in New York (stunt mention)] / Louis is MIA

17.03.2024 Pap pics of Harry in New York (x) (stunt mention) / Louis is MIA

18.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

19.03.2024 Harry is in New York flying to London / Louis is in London [more here]

20.03.2024 Harry is in London / Louis is MIA

21.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is in London

22.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

23.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

24.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

25.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

26.03.2024 Pap pics of Harry in London / Louis is MIA

27.03.2024 Harry is in London (pap pics: x/x) / Louis is MIA

28.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

29.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is in Monterrey [more here]

30.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is in Monterrey [more here]

31.03.2024 Harry is MIA / Louis is flying from Monterrey to Dallas [more here]

[twopoppies]

https://x.com/greenblulight28/status/1762785864852152648?s=46

Am gonna cry.. is this true?? Harry really did that in the 1D book for song olivia?! 🥹🥹

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. Did he do what in the book? The photo of Louis was in the book on the opposite page of the song lyrics. Whether Harry had anything to do with it (he did), we’ll never know. But yes, everything else happened just as the tweet said.

The only part they left out was that right after he tweeted “Always” Louis posted “You” on Instagram and included the most broken photo of him I think I’ve ever seen. That was the night that phone call between him and fans was recorded where he (once again) denied Larry.

[sainz5516]

Like people STILL believe any of this is real??

[straightguysdont2]

He’s in bloody Trafalgar Square, THE most touristy area of London. As if roaming around Oxford & Picadilly Circuses wasn’t enough, they decided to amp it up 🤣🤣🤣 I’m literally screeching

[hl-obsessed]

Mortal enemies need to coordinate their locations a bit better, it’s a bit embarrassing that they are on the same continent

true that 🤣

Harry getting paped in London on day of Tomlinson family celebrations, when he was just seen with his girlfriend across the ocean... noooo... not suspicious at all...

[awesomefringey]

https://x.com/lacs8607/status/1743703667679563888?s=46&t=X4NasoqjAwytpOOr431OOw

LMAOOO 🤣

[bciwasinlove]

I don’t think its as simple as you put it.after being here for so many years its just a pile of bullshit with louis and even the smallest things like this stunt (which is small compared to other shit)could be breaking point.i think the problem is that we saw how louis was able to be for four years without seeing the kid or bringing him to uk,he was able to have low key beard as eleanor. So why sudden change?people are confused and tired. there really is no point of bringing new girl in just few weeks after “break up”that is basically nobody and wont to anything for him publicity wise. So why do it?is it that bad that he is “single” for more then two minutes?like what is the point of this stunt?I am genuinely asking.so its not that simple as poeple being mad at him just for strolling LA with her but everything combined and just a bad timinig after years of constant bullshit

There are alot of things that have been done over the years that have made no sense. Holivia happening [at all] made no sense, Dani happening right after Elounor 1.0 of 5 years made no sense, Elounor 2.0 being seeded only a few weeks after Dani was gone made no sense and most of Elounor 2.0 nothing happened so why did they bring Eleanor back at all ?? Random BG mentions didn't make sense, seeding rumors of a 17 year old kid moving in with/fucking a 32 year old grown ass woman didn't make any more sense than this did!When has anything their labels done ever made sense?

This is nowhere near the worst thing we have ever seen, so it's my personal opinion to wonder how this could be what makes someone want to nope out. 2015/16 BG or the "leaked" Hendall yacht pics makes more sense to me but why this why now?

My biggest deal isn't even why would one leave bc of this but it's that there are people who are miserable and stick around just to complain. Bc the people complaining, it's not just a one-time thing. These are the same people who have been complaining about nearly everything L and H have been doing for like 3 years. With louis, as of late they constantly have been complaining about ALL of louis FITF promo interviews and what he says in them. It's just exhausting if you're that miserable just leave why stay and make this fandom worse for everyone else?

[nekilarry]

I need to know if anybody has ever thought about the fact that Louis could be the father, but in a non-conventional way: a friend of mine drove me inside the hypotesis that they may have forced him to "donate" his semen. It would explain the recemblance between louis and the kid.

I KNOW IT IS SOMETHING ABSURD TO THINK.

But I also know how that enviroment is rotten, and they knew which were L's wicknesses. How to blackmail.

[larrywerelastseeninthesameroom]

How long has it been since Louis and Harry were last seen in the same place at the same time?

Two thousand, five hundred (that’s 2,500!) days

[larrylimericks]

10Aug23

New actress, same script: Harry’s coupled. The effect is publicity doubled: He gets post-tour mentions, Her name gets attention From an audience easily hustled.

[tobethemselves]

Larry Timeline

December 2023

01.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

02.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

03.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

04.12.2023 Harry is MIA [Rumors of Harry in Rome, (x) (stunt mention)] / Louis is MIA

05.12.2023 Harry is MIA [Rumor of Harry in London (stunt mention)] / Louis is MIA

06.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

07.12.2023 Allegedly Harry is in Citiva, Italy (stunt mention) / Louis is MIA

08.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

09.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

10.12.2023 Harry is MIA [Rumor of Harry in Rome] / Louis is MIA

11.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

12.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

13.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

14.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

15.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

16.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis in Las Vegas (x)

17.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

18.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

19.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

20.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

21.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

22.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

23.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

24.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis seems to be in Doncaster (x)

25.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is in Doncaster (stunt mention)

26.12.2023 Harry is in London (stunt mention) / Louis is MIA

27.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

28.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

29.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is MIA

30.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is in London

31.12.2023 Harry is MIA / Louis is in Doncaster

[twopoppies]

hahaha whaat...

Last part of this article

What? 🤣🤣🤣 WHAT??? Am I missing some context? They have to be talking about choosing him for something other than marriage. That’s so funny 🤣🤣🤣