#there are no words for angela

[thisiskatsblog]

who was angela? 🌼

Oh anon, this question almost broke my heart! I'll explain why

Angela is the beautiful, crazy intelligent, most warmhearted and kind lesbian woman who ran a Tumblr blog that can now be found at lapelosa-blog.tumblr.com.

When I stumbled upon the Tumblr Larry fandom after reading a blind that was reportedly about them in February or March 2013, her blog was THE discussion place for all things Louis, Harry and LGBTQ+ . Her insights and analysis were spot on and she was a person a lot of LGBTQ+ fans struggling with their sexuality could talk to. It was a fandom hotspot for the LGBTQ+ young people who felt both inspired by Louis and Harry and hurt by what was happening to them.

She was a huge fan of Louis and she started the original Lesbians Love Louis club, LLL club for short. (Might be confusing as this is a name that Amy, who was then still called gossip-candy, later took on, but it was definitely Angela who came up with it).

My first interaction with this fandom was a request to join the LLL club. I sent her an ask hoping she'd accept me even though I was bi, not lesbian, and I signed off on the ask as Kat, which is not my real name, but short for my middle name, as I wasn’t out at the time. My ask to Angela/lapelosa to be allowed, as a bi person, to join the Lesbians Love Louis club, and her reaction to it changed my life, and ultimately also this entire fandom.

She said yes, and was extremely welcoming about my bisexuality, with some excellent analysis about the nefarious power of heteronormativity, bi erasure and monosexual bias. It was the first time I'd come out to someone, gay or straight, who made me feel better rather than worse about my sexuality with their reaction to it.

In the months that followed, Angela and I talked loads - she was an amazing person to share ideas and analysis with, and to discuss LGBTQ+ politics with. Eventually those conversations inspired me to set up a blog to combat homophobia in the fandom at takemehomefromnarnia.tumblr.com - It's through that blog that I met the people with whom I started Rainbow Direction. Without Angela's Lesbians Love Louis club there would have been no TMHFN, no Rainbow Direction, no Harry waving flags, no rainbow lights actions during SOTT, TPWK, Matilda or Lights Up, and no flags for Only the Brave.

But that's just my experience with Angela - she was so important to very many LGBTQ+ people in this community, her blog was really the "place to be" for the LGBTQ+ crowd. So many people shared their experiences there, and talked about what Louis and Harry meant to them on that blog.

It is Angela’s blog to which the anon “receipt" about Louis' encounter with an LGBTQ+ fan was submitted in July 2013, and while that fan may have been the direct inspiration for "Saved by a Stranger", because she was able to let Louis know what he meant to her directly, I would say that Angela's blog was full of such accounts and it could very well have been the broader inspiration behind the song. Her blog was a testimony to what Louis and Harry meant to LGBTQ+ fans, including herself and myself. And I think that is why she would have been very important to Louis and Harry. I am 99% certain they would have known about and read her blog, and that it meant a lot to them. Louis would have known her first name, but not her last. 

Angela left the fandom in 2017 for a combination of reasons. I cannot speak for her, but after 1D split the atmosphere became brutal around here, many fans left, and it wasn't an enjoyable place. I also suspect her professional commitments became much larger and more difficult to combine with a blog as intensive as hers. And I know that Jay's death affected her a great deal as well, it made her sad to be here and constantly be reminded of how dark Louis’ life was at the time. She is dearly missed. 

[flowerytale]

Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

[machineryangel]

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis

[shisasan]

October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy. Angela Carter

[luthienne]

Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

…we will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies.

[forgivenessbyparamore]

[Ethel Cain, “A House In Nebraska” / cowboyvamplikeme / Halloween by Bo Bartlett / Stand By Me (1986) / boygenius, “anti-curse” / Angela Dean Studio]

[thefrsers]

Angela Bassett the woman that you are💛

[halfnoiise]

I’ve gotta gay— go. I’ve gotta go 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[thoughtkick]

I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.

Angela Carter // The Magic Toyshop

[tricoufamily]

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[hipsternumbertwo]

Nightmare Time Future Episode: Hailey and the World Worm

[thehopefulquotes]

I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.

Angela Carter // The Magic Toyshop

[flowerytale]

Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love", The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

[mezz000]

This part of the stream made me actually retract into myself

[alfazoings]

angela day!!!!

[luthienne]

Angela Davis, from Freedom is a Constant Struggle